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Div. I LAND-BIRDS.
GiGi 1k APA CLOU-S Genusl. VULTURE.
N°-1, Condur V. Var. A. 2. Californian V. N° 8. Arabian V. 3. Cinereous V. g. Secretary V. 4. Alpine V. 10. Bold V. 5. Ath-coloured V. 11. Sociable V. 6. Bearded V. ML tle, molben'si Vy 4. King V. 13. Chagoun V.
Vultur Gryphus, Zzd. Orn. i. p. 1.
Vultur Gryphus, Excyclop. Brit. v. xvitl. p. 695. uh px. Mas, —— Magellanicus, Lever. Mu/. v.1- pl. 1. fem.
Vautour Condor, Daudin. Trait. d’Ornithol, ii. p. 8.
Condur Vulture, Gen. Syz.i. p, 4.—Jd. Sup. p.1.
W © of thefe (fuppofed to be male and female) are in the Leverian Mufeum, collected by Mr. Parkinfon. ‘The Sirft is in breadth from the tip of one wing to that of the other, at leaft ten feet. The head and neck are covered with cinereous down; on the crown of the head is a long carunculated membrane, like that of Super. II. B a cock,
I. CONDUR V.
DesGRIPTION.
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a cock, which is irregularly indented at top; part of the throat is alfo bare, and a kind of pendulous pear-fhaped fubftance on the breaft, in the manner of the King Vulture: the general colour of the plumage is black, but the lower part of the neck is furrounded with a white ruff, of a fine hairy fubftance: the leffer wing coverts are wholly black; the middle ones have greyifh white ends, forming a bar when clofed; the greater ones are half black half white, divided obliquely; the three firft quills are quite black, the fecond quills greyifh white, tipped with black : tail even, thirteen or fourteen inches long: thighs covered with longifh feathers: legs ftout, brown ; claws blunt, black : bill ftrong, moderately hooked; colour black, with a white tip; and noftrils placed in a depreffiun at the bafe. When the wings are at reft on the body, the middle of the back ap- pears white; which circumftance is obferved by Molina, in his Na- tural Hiftory of Chii*. He alfo fays, the irides are of a red brown, and that the female is rather fmaller than the male. Thefe birds make their nefts among the moft inacceffible rocks, and lay two white eggs bigger than thofe cf a turkey; they feed on dead car- cafes; and as there are no wolves in Céili, thefe birds ‘fupply the place of them, and at times prey on fheep and goats, and even young calves, when they {tray far from their dams; and thefe laft they fall upon in flocks, firft plucking out their eyes, and foon afterwards tearing them in pieces. ‘The country people ufe every means to de- ftroy this bird, fometimes by a perfon covering himfelf with the hide of a newly fkinned animal, and fo managing, that when the Condur attempts to attack the hide, other perfons lying in readinefs coine to the affiftance of the firft, and failing on the bird all at once, overcome the cnemy; at other times, a dead carcafe is put within a place en- clofed with rails, and when the Condur has fatiated himfelf with the flefh, and unable to rife ireely, perfons are in readineis to fubdue him
* Fr. ed. p. 247. by
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by blows and every other means poffible. The bird, however in- aétive on fuch occafions, is at other times of very quick flight, info- much as not unfrequently to foar to fuch an height as to be out of the reach @f human vifion. It is called by the inhabitants of Chili by the name of Manque ; the biggeft hitherto obferved, meafured full fourteen feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other when ex- tended,
Californian Vulture, Nat. Mic. v. 9. pl. 301.
| ey fize, this bird nearly equals the Condur. The general colour
of the plumage is black ; but the fecond quills have whitifh tips, and the wing coverts incline to brown: the wings when folded, reach beyond the tail: the head and neck are entirely bare of feathers, quite fmooth, and of a dufky reddifh colour: acrofs the front is a bar of dufky, and two others of the fame on the hind head: the bill is of a pale colour: the lower part of the neck is furrounded with a ruff, compofed of flender black feathers, of the ftructure ufually feen in many of the genus: the under part of the body is covered with loofe downy feathers; the tail is even at the end: the legs black.
This bird was brought from California, by Mr. Mexzies, and is now in the Britifh Mufeum: it feems to have fome affinity to the Condur.
Vultur cinereus, Izd. Orn. i. p. 1. N° 2.—Hi?. Prov. i. p. 337. Vautour commun, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 16. x1.—Id. p. 18. 15.
Der Arrian Geyer, Allg. Uch. d. Vog. I. i. p. 654. 24? Cinereous or afh-coloured Vulture, Ge. Syz.i. p. 14.
T has been obferved to frequent the mountainous parts of Ger- many, defcending into the plain in winter. ‘The huntfman expects
to be paid well for fhooting thefe, as they attack fheep, hares, goats, and even deer, being very troublefome to the farmer, in picking out B 2 the
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DESCRIPTION.
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3. ia CINEREOUS Vv.
40 ALFINE Vv.
Ge ASH- -COLOURED Vie
DeEscrirTion.
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the eyes of lambs, &c.: it is more tame than other birds of prey, and in courle more eafily defroyed *. — Vultur Perenopterus, Jd. Orz. i. p, 2.
Percnoptere, Lewaill, Vey (8v0.) i, p- 48.—Daudin, Orn ii. ip 13. Vii.
Alpine Valture, Gex. Syn. i. p, 12,—Id, Sup. P» 3. © AID to be two feet in length; and fome much larger: and that
it is common in the Pyrenzan mountains ; alfo in Eg vpt according
to Senninit. Mr. Levaillant obferves, that they refort to Pabie Bay, at the Cape of Good Hope; and not unfrequently a furious fouth-eaft wind cbliges them to quit the mounteins, and fometimes beats them down ioto the ftreets at the Cape, where they are knocked on the head with flicks. M. de la Peironfe+ obferves, that the male and fe- male are different in cclour; the firft wholly white, the other brown, but only fo in the adult ftate; for when young and incomplete in plursage, they are often of a pale colour; above {potted yellow and brown, with the under parts yellow, and differing fo materially from the old ones in external appearance, as to deceive the lefs experienced naturalift. :
V. Leucocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 2. N° 4.
V. Angolenfis, 7d. i. p. 7. 17 ?—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 27. tli.—-Lev, Muf. N° iv. Rachamah, Bruce’s Trav. v.5.t. in p. 163.
L’ourigourap, Lewaill. Oif, p. 62. pl. 14.—-Daudin, Orn. ii. p. 21. Xviil. Ath-coloured Vulture, Gew. Syz.i. p. 13.
Angola Vulture, Gen. Syn. icp. 18.14.
HIS has been before deferibed under’ feveral of the refpective heads above quoted ; but I think it not amifs to add here, Mr. Levaillant’s account of it, who fays, that it is about the fize of a fe- male Turkey ; the whole front of the head much beyond the eyes, and
* Bechfl. Mufi. p. 55~
+ Neu. Abb. der Schw. Ac. der Wifs, 8. 99. ; taking
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taking in the threat, is bare, and of a faffron colour: the bill long and flender, of a rather deeper colour, but blackifh towards the point: the reft of the neck, an the fides, and behind, 1s covered with long flender feathers, but before, as -far as the crop, it is fcarcely more than downy; and the crop itleif bare, and orange brown: the ges neral colour of the plumage and tail, 1s dirty safes white, rather pale; the gus are moftly black, but the fecondaries are outwardly
the colour of the reft pf the plumage : tail rather rounded in inept: : legs yellowifh brown.
The femele exceeds the male in fize, and differs diene in being lefg tinged with redilith ; and the young birds have the whole of the naked parts about the head covered with a greyifh down.
This fpecies is generally feen in pairs, but does not unite in large flocks, like many of the vultures; indeed ten or twelve are often feen together about one carcafe, but they have been broueht there by common attraction, allured thereto by the fmell, which though unperceivable to human fenfation, attraéts their infinitely more deli- cate organs at inconceivable diftances. Said to build among the rocks, laying four eggs: are moft frequent among the fterile lands of Kerow and Camdeboo; alfo in the Country of Hottniqua, though more rare; the fame in refpect to the neighbourhood of the Cape: 1s capable-of being made tame; and there are few of the hordes in which one does not fee a pair; and the natives feemed pleafed with their company, as they ferved to free them from every ftinking thing which might otherwife annoy them. This natural tamenefs occafions their being eafy to fhoot at, though, unlefs with a large ball, they are not eafily killed. Their food feems general, all manner of carrion. Liz-
rds, fhakes, frogs, and even the excrements of beafts do not efcape
them. ‘This feems to be the 7 de Norvege of Buffor*, and in courfe his
* Hifi. Of—Pl, Enl. 449. Petit
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Petit Vautour +, as alfo the Sacre d’Egypte of the fame author}, to which I may add, the probability of its proving the dugola Vulture of Pennant, and the Rachamab of Bruce, which is common near Cairo, and if it fhould not prove likewife a variety of the V. de Malrhe§, it at leaft correfponds with it in the fhape of the bill,in which part the whole of the laft-mentioned differ from other vultures. When, however, the decifion of the Vulture genus into real fpecies may take place, is not for us to determine; the variety among individuals, from different periods of life, as well as the different appearances of thofe in a ftate of confinement, to what the plumage has when at large, cannot fail to create no {mall difficulty; added to that, very few travellers are na- turalifts in a fufficient degree to difcriminate one part of nature from another; befides, the fubjects in queftion being moftly extra-Euro- pean, we cannot wonder at being fo long in the dark: let us how- ever attempt all we can, with the hopes of {ome future day being able to arrive at greater precifion; nor let any writer be afhamed of cor- recting his miftakes the moment he may be poffeffed of better infor- mation.
Bruce obferved thefe birds near Cairo in abundance, where it is a great breach of the police to kill one of them. Acording to Dr. Shaw it is a very tame fpecies; and the Bafhaw is faid daily to diftribute two bullocks among them, being efteemed facred birds.
6 Valtur Barbatus, Jud. Orn. i. p. 9. N° 5. BEARDED ~ Blayiaig, ———— + (58 V. Gypzete des Alpes, Daudin. Orn. ii, p. 25. pl. x.
Niffer Werk, Bruce Trav. App. tab. p. 155.—Rebert Fc. pl. 2? Bearded Vulture, Laemmergeyer, Gen. Syn. i. p. 11.—-Cox’s Travels in Sewitzer- land (8vo. vol. ii. p. 280.) a figure of the head. DescriPTIoN. TT HE bird quoted above, as defcribed by Mr. Bruce, extends from wing to wing eight feet four inches, weighs twenty-two pounds, and is in length four feet feven inches. The crown and front are
+ Y.i, p. 164. t 167. § Pl. Enl, 427. bare
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bare and bald; a ftrong forked buhh of hair, divided into two at the point, arifes from the lower jaw on each fide: the thicknefs of the thigh lictle lefs than four inches: the legs remarkably fhort, only four inches in length; and the thigh joint only fix inches. The colour of the feathers of the back brown; of the belly gold colour.
From Mr. Brace’s defcription, although too concile by far, I am led to conclude that it is no other than our Bearded Vulture, or at lealt a. flight variety, which this author met with on the higheft part of the
mountains Lamalmon, not far diftant from Gonder, the capital of
Abyfinia. It was a bold fpecies, as it went fo far as to take away parc of the provifion which Mr. race and his company were re- galing themfelves with oa that fpot. On moving the body of one of thefe after being fhot, a duit correfponding with the colour of the: feathers both above and below, flew out in pretty large quantity s, but this is not peculiar to this fpecies: we have obierved it in the King Vulture and fome others, as alfo in the White Cockatoo.
- Vultur Papa, Ind. Ora. 1. p. 4.—Spalow/k. Vog.i. t. 2.—Daudin. Ora. ii, p. 6. pl. ix. V. Sacra, or white-tailed Vulture, Bariram’s Trav. p. 285.—Damp. Voy. ii. patt ii p- 67. King Vulture, Gen. Syx.i. p. 7. N° 3.
TJEITHER this nor the Carrion Vulture are fhy, for on one of the firft being fhot and winged, in feven or eight days it fed. freely, and became tame. I experienced this myfelf, in refpect to the laft ; I have had one which was brought from Jamaica, running about: my garden, perfectly tame, where it lived throughout the whole: fummer, and was killed by a cold frofty night, which came on unex-- pectedly,
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8. ARABIAN V.
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Le Roi des Vautours varié, Levaill. Oif 1. pl. 13.
HIS feems a variety from age, having many black feathers
mixed among the white ones on the neck and upper parts: hence Mr. Levaillant fuppofes, that thefe birds are black or dufky whilft young, and change to the pure white or cream-colour, as they approach the adult ftate; and indeed Dampier mentions, that fome are all over white, but the feathers look as if they were fullied, with bald heads and necks like the reft, and adds, we never fee above one or two of thefe together; and feldom a great number of black ones without a white one among them*.
Vultur Monachus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 5. N° 9
Le Chincou, Lewaill. Oi/: p. 53. N° 12. Ea lon lip. 12. Vi. Der Binfiedlergeyer, Allg. Ueb. d. Vog. i. 5.655. 25.
Vautour Moine, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 15. ix
Arabian Vulture, Gez. Syx.i. p. 8.
HIS bird is nearly of the fize of the Sociable Vulture. "The bill is ftout; the bafe half pale, the reft dufky black : the whole face beyond the eyes, chin, and hind head, covered with a black down : on the crown behind, is an elevated tuft of a grey brown colour, in fhape like a fwan-down puff; below this, the neck is naked and white, giving the appearance of a white rine; the reft of the neck
‘is cloathed with feathers, the upper ones of which are long and
narrow, forming a kind of ruff; but the whole of the neck is bare on the fore part, as alfo the crop, which at times is large and round: irides whitifh: the plumage of the body for the moft part is plain brown; but the quills and tail are nearly black: legs whitifh; claws black: fuppofed to meafure from the tip of one wing to the other,
= J fufpect that the Vultur Sacra, or White-tailed Vulture of Bartram, i is the above fpecies, and his Black Vulture the Carrion Vulture. ; nine
Ve) bod a,
nine feet. Ina_ftate of reft, efpecially after a full meal, it draws its head into the ruff, with the bill refting on the crop, in which ftate it appears a fhapelefs mafs of feathers. It was alfo obferved, that this _bird never folded its wings on the tail, but always fuffered them to hang down carelefsly on each fide. Mr. Levaillant fays, that this bird comes from China; however, we have little doubt of its proving no
other than the Vultur Monachus of Linneus, our Arabian Vulture*, ex-)
ceedingly well expreffed in Edw. pl. 290; alfo fufficiently characte- rized in Gerini, under the name of Vultur Leporarius +.
M. de la Peiroufet obferves, that it is found in the fame places with his Arrzan, which I take to be the Civereous Vulture; but is more fcarce: the colours of the plumage are not far different, being brown for the moft part, but the neck lefs naked: and it differs like- wife in the head being elevated on the top: the cere and feet incline
-to red.
~ Voultur ferpentarius, Ind. Orz. i. p. 8. N° 21. Le Mangeur de Serpens, Lewaill. Oi/. i. p. 103. pl. 25. Meffager reptilivore, Dazdin. Orn. ii. p. 30.1. Secretair, Buf. Of vil. p. 328. t. 17. Ibis, Gent. Mag. xxxix. t. p. 568. Snake-eater, Phil. Tranf. v. Ixi. p. 55. t. 2. Secretary Vulture, Gez. Syn. i. p. 20. pl. 2.—=Id. Sup. p. 4
EVAILLANT obferves, that the creft feathers are ten in number, the loweft the longeft ; the fhorteft four inches only, and that this bird not only preys on fnakes, &c. but all oviparous quadrupeds : its claws, on account of its being oftener on the ground than other birds of prey, become lefs fharp than is commonly feen, and will not ferve to
* Syn. i. p. 8. N° 4. + Vol. i. pl. ix.
TN. Schw. Abh. B. 3. S. 100.—Another is alfo mentioned, called Der Mifgeyer, which is whitifh: head with the knob and cere faffron-colour: legs blueifh and naked, known by the name of A/mock.
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DESCRIPTION.
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erafp its victim; on which account it makes ufe of its wings, with which it beats whatever it attacks with great violence ; this it has the power to do, by means of a bony protuberance at the bend of the wing, enabling the bird to ftrike moft deftructive blows with that part; and it is with their wings that they defend themfelves againft venomous fnakes, by fometimes oppofing one wing and fometimes the other, whereby they evade the bites of thofe which might other- wife prove mortal, till the enemy being tired with its efforts, or - bruifed nearly to death with blows, becomes an eafy prey. Young turtles and lizards alfo bear part in the food of the Secretary Vulture ; and even grafshoppers and other infects are at times not rejected by it. Thefe birds are not unfrequently kept tame, and in this ftate no food comes amifs to them: if young birds are offered, they take them by the bill foremoft, and {wallow them whole. One of thofe which M. Levaillant killed, had twenty-one young turtles, eleyen {mall lizards, and three {nakes in his ftomach: like other birds of prey, it is obferved to bring up the undigefted parts of its food, in the fhape of round pellets. In pairing time, two males will often be found fighting for a female in a violent manner. Thefe birds make a flat kind of neft, like that of an eagle, full three feet in diameter, lined with wool and feathers, in fome high tuft of trees, and often conceal it fo effectually as not eafily to be found. The female differs in that fhe inclines more to grey, with a fhorter creft, and the two middle ‘tail feathers fhorter than thofe of the male.
HE fize of this bird is uncertain: the bill is pale yellow, with the tip black: the plumage wholly of a deep brown; but the fides of the head are bare as far as the eyes, and fomewhat beneath them, and the colour of thefe parts very pale: the quills and tail are of a darker colour than the reft of the body, being nearly black: the fhins are covered with feathers quite to the toes; Ach colour
dotted with black. This
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This is a native of New Holland; but although the fize of it is uncertain, we may fuppofe it not to be one of the {malleft, and cer- tainly is a fierce {pecies, as it is faid to kill the Pottegorang, and even to attack the natives themfelves; who know it by the name of Boora-morang.
L’Oricou, Levaill. Oi/. i. p. 36. pl. 9.—Daudin. Orn. i. p. 10. iii.
HIS is a very large fpecies of vulture, and meafures ten feet
from wing to wing extended: the bill is moderately hooked, and of a pale brown; cere horn colour: irides chefnut brown: head and neck naked, of a flefh colour, befet with a few ftrageling brownifh hairs; throat blackifh: the general colour of the plumage is dark brown on the upper parts, the feathers with paler edges ; at the back of the neck a ruff of pale brown; fome long loofe feathers of the fame colour mixed with white, hang over the breaft, and continue to the vent; into thefe the bird frequently draws down his head in a ftate of indolence or reft: the thighs are covered below the knees with foft whitish down, as are all the under parts of the body: the tail is fomewhat cuneiform: legs covered with brown fcales; claws very moderately hooked; and black.
It frequents the mountainous parts of the interior of the Cape of Good Hope; never feen near the Cape itfelf, but particularly in the Namaqua Land, as well as another fpecies, and chiefly among the European plantations.
Builds among the rocks; lays two, feldom three, white eggs; pair in O€tober, and hatch in January ; never builds in a tree, nor indeed does any other true Vulture. The pairs feem to be in amity one with another, as three or four nefts have been found by the fide of each other, in an hollow of a rock: the eges are not ill favoured when eaten. The Natives moftly call this bird Ghaip, The Dutch
C2 colonifts
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11. SOCIABLE V. DESCRIPTION.
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DESCRIPTION.
Place.
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colonifts call it black Carrion Bird; to diftinguifh it ‘from the next fpecies, which is of a pale colour, and which they call Stront- jager, by which name, as allo Stront-vogel, or Aas-vogel, the colonifts call all kinds of Vultures; faid only to be found about the confines of European plantations.
Le Chaffe-fiente, Levaill. Oj/: i. p. 44. pl. 10. Dandin Ori, ip. 15. X.
HIS is not quite fo big as the laft, but is greatly more common: the bill is pale lead colour; irides deep brown: the head and neck bare of feathers, or covered with a few fcattered hairs, and of a pale dirty yellow: round the lower part of the neck is a pale coloured ruff of loofe feathers, common to many of the genus: the plumage for the moft part is a pale tawny yellowifh or [fabella colour: the quills and tail black ; and the quills reach almoft to the end of the tail: the male is fmaller than the female. If we compare this with the A/pine Vulture, the colour is greatly different, and the wings are fhorter in proportion in this laft bird, nor has it the heart- fhaped fpot on the breaft, feen in the pine Vulture; befides, a bare infpection of the two figures will detect the difference.
This fpecies is found in every part of Africa through which Mr. Levaillant traverfed, on the contrary, the Sociable Vulture is only met with in the confines of the European plantations. Both of them, however, pafs under the name of Stront jager. This fpeci-s frequents the rocks or the high mountains, which cover the point of <frica, from the Cape Town to Falfe Bay, from thence it fpreads itlelf all around wherever food is to be found, feafting on every kind of offal, and approaching near to habitations, and even the {treets of the Cape, in queft of it, as well as crabs and other fhell-fifh; and not unfre- quently on land turtles, which it fwallows whole, alfo locufts, &c.
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Le Chaugoun, Zevazll. Oi/. p. 50. pl. 11. Daudin. Orn. i. p. 14. viii. Bengal Vulture, Gen. Syz. 1. p. tg. pl. 1. Ld. Su). p. 3. 16.
HIS is a fmall fpecies, fearcely fo large as our King Vulture: Bill dufky horn colour, but yellowifh at the bend: the head
and neck can fearcely be called bare, but they are on'y covered wich fcattered hairs, and are of a blueith flefh colour: the crop is prominent, and-covered with fine filky black feathers: the plumage in general dufky brown, but the feathers of the under parts have a white line, as well as thofe on the thighs: a large white fpot appears on each fide the breaft, but unlefs the wings are lifted up, cannot be feen: the head and hind part of the neck are covered with gloffy, dufky-white feathers, but the lower part blending with a ruff of a foft downy ftruéture: the greater quills and tail are black, but the fecondaries are bordered with rufous brown: wings and tail nearly of equal length when clofed: the legs are pale brown, or flefh colour ; and the middle toe nearly double the length of the others.
This inhabits Bengal, where it goes by the name of Chaugoun.
This feems clearly to be a variety of my Bengal Vulture, if not the fame-bird.
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. Vulturine Eagle. . Martial EF.
. Occipital E.
. Cinereous E.
Tharu F.
. Tiger Falcon. - . Courland F.
. Glaucous F.
. Deftructive E. . Noify E.
. Short-tailed F. . Bacha F.
. Maritime F.
- Booted F.
. Sclavonian F. . Margined F.
. Tachard F.
. Crefled Indian F. . Chicquera F. . Iceland F.
Var. A.
. Notched F.
. Swallow-tailed F. . Black-winged F. peices
. Parafite P.
. Hobby Buzzard.
FALCON.
N° 27. 28. 29. 30. Bike
. Honey Buzzard.
. Raniverous F.
. Rufty F.
. Teftaceous F.
. Javan F.
. Gofhawk.
49. 50.
Buzzaret. Pondicherry E. Pifcivorous E. Blagre E. American Buzzard.
Wels 183.
. Crefted Gofhawk.
. Mauduit’s F.
. Guiana Gofhawk.
. Rufous-bellied F.
. Northern F.
. Black and White Indian F. . Chanting F.
. Long-legged Henharrier. . Axillary F.
- Bohemian F.
. Kettril.
Var. C.
Var. D.
Rufous-backed K.
Orange-legged Hobby. 51. Greater
BRA Ly CaO) IN:
N° sr. Greater Hobby. N° Sg. Sonnini’s F. 52. Red-legged H. 60. Black-eyed F. 53. Dwarf F. 61. Radiated F. 54. Black-thighed F. 62. Winking F. Reepijackalphe 63. Rufty and Grey F. 56. Defert F. 64. Pacific F. 57. New HollandSparrowhawk. 65. Lunated F. 58. Speckled Sp. 66.-Fair F.
Le Caffre, Lewvaill. Oi/ 1. p. 28. pl. 6. Aigle Vautourin, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 53. xxi.—Lewvaill. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8v0.) i.
2 255 Niffer ae Black Eagle, Bruce’s Trav. App. t. p. 159? IZE of the Golden Eagle, but has the bill very ftrong; the claws are moderate, and not greatly curved, in this approaching to the
Vulture genus: the general colour is deep black ; but the head is cloathed with feathers: the wings when clofed, reach eight inches beyond the end of the tail; the end of which is ufually damaged from rubbing on the rocks on which it perches: the fhape of the tail is rounded, the outer feathers being much fhorter than the others: the legs are covered three-fourths ef the length with feathers, and are of a dirty yellow: the bill pale yellow, with a dufky blueifh bafe: irides chefnut brown.
This fpecies inhabits Cafrariaz, but is rare, and feeds principally on dead carcafes, which caufes it to {mell horridly offenfive: from the length of wing, it rifes from the ground with difficulty : faid to build among the rocks; will attack fheep, and devour them on the {pot, except it has occafion to bring any part to its young, in which cafe it carries it in the claws; in this differing from the true Vulture, which difgorges the nutriment it fupplies to the young from the throat, The natives of the Cape of Good Hope cali it Stront Vogel, (dung-bird), or as Vogel (carrion bird).
I greatly
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D5SCRIPTION.
PLACE.
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I greatly fufpect this bird to be the fame with the Black Eagle of Mr. Bruce, alluded to above, the chief difference of which, is the latter having the feathers of the head elongated into a creft of a con- fiderable length, which it carries erect. Mr. Bruce’s bird is alfo bare from the bill quite to the eyes, and yellow, in this greatly approach- ing to the Vulture genus, and may fairly be faid to form a link be- tween the two. It was met with in the year 1770 at Dinglevor, among a cloud of Vultures and other birds of prey, which follow the army in Abyfinia, and was ftruck down by fome of thefe, by which means it came under Mr. Bruce’s infpection.
Le Griffard, Levaill. O:/. 1. pl. 1. Aigle Griffard, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 38. il.
HIS is the fize of an Eagle, and weighs from twenty-five to -
thirty pounds: the male meafures from the tip to tip of the wings extended, feven fcet and an half, and the female one foot more. The bill is moderately curved, and of a pale colour: irides bright hazel: the general colour of the plumage is brown; the edges of the feathers paler, with the fame mixture of white about the nape of the neck; the under parts nearly white: quills black, reaching three- fourths of the way on the tail at leaft ; fome of the leffer ones are barred with black and whitifh: tail even at the end, marked as the fecond quills : legs feathered to the claws, which are pale as the bill.
This is an inhabitant of -dfrica, frequenting the Great Namaqua, about the twenty-eighth degree of latitude, chiefly the parts uninha- bited by whites: is a courageous bird, preying on antelopes, hares, &c. is in its turn attacked by crows and vultures, in order to deprive it of its prey, though feldom with fuccefs: moftly feen in company with its mate, and builds a large flat neft, of large fticks and twigs, on the tops of high trees, of fo compact a ftruClure, as to enable any one to ftand upon it firm, without breaking through, fuch an one
5 ferving
BOA. a (O'VOUN. 7
ferving for feveral years; it is lined with dried leaves, mofs, and other foft materials: it alfo has been obferved to make the neft on an appropriate rock, but when any tree of a proper fize, ftands finely in its neighbourhood, it is always preferred: the female lays two white eggs. This bird may be heard very far off, making a very fharp cry, mixed at times with rough and mournful tones. It is an high flier, mounting fometimes to fuch an height as {carcely to be feen.
Le Huppard, Lewaill. Oif. 1. pl. z. Ef Aigle Huppard, Daudin. Ora. ii. p. 40. iii. ie a
HIS is lefs in fize than the laft: the bill is pale blue: the Descrrerion. general colour of the plumage dufky reddifh brown, the under parts paler: the middle of the outer webs of the greater quills is white, forming a patch on the wing: the bafe of the tail mixed brown and white, but the end is plain dark brown, and rounded in fhape: quills black, reaching to near the end of the tail: on the hind head is a creft of feathers fix or feven inches in length, hanging down behind in a graccful manner. The legs are covered with pale yellow fhort down, quite to the toes, which are yellow. This is found in Cafraria and Hottnigua Land; is content with Pace. fmaller game than the laft, fuch as hares and partridges ; flies with rapidity, the male and female moftly together; makes the neft on trees, lining it with wool and feathers, and lays two eggs, fpotted with red brown: it is fierce towards its prey, but is fometimes attacked by troops of crows, which not only drive it from the neft, but even deftroy the egos, or the young it contains: it has a plaintive Cry, which it utters at intervals. ‘Che female differs from the male in being bigger, in having a fimaller creft, more white on the thighs, and fome {pots of white about the eyes, and top of the head.
Surp. II. D Falco
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DESCRIPTION,
PLACE.
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DESCRIPTION.
Place.
FA, b&b CO ON.
Falco Albicilla, Ind. Orz. i. p..g. 2. Var.? Cinereous Eagle, Lath. Syn. i. p. 33. 8.—Id. Sup. p. 21?
HiS is of a large fize: the bill is large and black: legs the fame: the general colour of the plumage deep brown, but the under parts are much paler, and the wings much darker than the reft: the rump and tail are very pale afh-colour, nearly white. This inhabits New Holland, and from its make and fhape feems nearly allied to the Cincreous Eagle.
Falco Tharus, Ind. Oru. 1. p. 16. N° 24.—Molin, H. Nat. Chil. p. 234.—Id. (Fr. ed.) p. 244.—Daudin. Orn. i. ps 43. Ve
HIS is the fize of a large fowl: the bill whitith, in form like
that of the common eagle: the plumage of the male is whitifh, marked with black fpots: on the head is a fort of crown compofed of long black feathers, of which thofe fituated outwardly are longeft : the quills and tail are black: legs yellow and fcaly, and the claws hooked.
The female is {maller than the male, of a grey colour, with only a fmall creft on her head. This fpecies inhabits Chili; makes a neft in the higheft trees, compofing it of fticks twined together, on which it heaps up a confiderable bed of wool, feathers, &c. The eggs are five in number, white, fpotted with brown. It feeds on living as well as dead animals, although it is not feen to purfue after its living prey, but feizing them by lurking and catching them unawares. The male advances with a ftiff neck and an air of gravity, and when it cries, which it often does very forcibly, it draws its head back towards the rump, with the bill upright. The name at Cifi is Tharu,
F. tigrinus,
Biv A) Te Cl GaN,
F. tigrinus, Beek. Vog. Karl. S. 10. 11. —=1 Taf. 2. Der getiegerte Falke, Alle. Ueb. d. Vog.i. S. 676.
TH! S is the fize of the Golden Eagle, if not bigger: the cere is
blue: irides and legs yellow: head, neck, and breaft pale brown,
but the upper part of both are black; the crown appearing in fine
ftreaks: the reft of the upper parts are dull brown: quills black: greater
wing coverts black brown, paler: tail dull brown, croffed with three
“narrow diftinét bands: beneath, from the breaft, white, marked with
Jome light brown {pots on the thighs, and under part of the wings, in
; Manner ofa tiger. This wasa male. It feems like one figured by
* Frifch, t. 76.
Inhabits Cour/and, whereabouts it breeds; and is a fpecies equally .
fierce, agile, and beautiful ; it approaches farm houfes, and is a dread- ful enemy to the grous tribe, and hares, on which it feeds.
Der Rothlichweiffe Falke, Allg. Usb. d. Vog. 1. Zufa/s. 8.676. 120.—Befek. Vog. Kurl. §. 10. 12. a. und 13. b.
‘THis is fomewhat fmaller than the laft: cere, irides, and legs
yellow: general colour of the plumage reddifh fmutty white: but the back, wings and tail, are dull brown; and the ends of the wings paler: the head, neck and breaft, are marked with longifh dull brown fpots: the feathers which hang over the thighs rufty brown, for the ends of each feather having an oval fpot of that colour, and being confufedly mixed together, give that appearance: the tail croffed with four paler bands: this is the female: the male agrees nearly in colouring, but is one-fourth fmaller in fize.
Inhabits Courland,
D 2 i Falco
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6. TIGER F,
DsscriPrion,
Plage.
yee COURLAND Eis
DescriPTion.
PLace,
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8. GLAUCOUS E;
DESCRIPTION.
PLacks
9: DESTRUCTIVE E.
Dascrirrion.
‘PLACE.
BrgANe TiC) Oo ING
Falco Glaucopis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 26. N° 25.—Merrem. Ic. Av. ii. p. 25. t. 7° Aigle de Gottingue, Daud. Orz. ii. p. 5¢. xxix.
"T HE length of this fpecies is twenty-one inches and a quarter:
the bill is glaucous: infide of the mouth and tongue rofe colour: irides yellowifh; cere the fame: the general colour of the plumage is brown, but the head and nape are of a yellowifh white, ftreaked with brown, and the forehead marked with crefcents of brown; and the breaft wholly of that colour: the thighs are fhort, covered with downy feathers, and the fhins half cloathed with yellowifh feathers :
the quills are black: the tail reddifh brown above, dirty white
beneath, croffed with fix black bands. Inhabits the mountain Dran/berg, near Gottingen, in Germany.
Aigle Deftruteur, Dah Orn. ii, p. 60. XXxil. Grand Aigle de la Guiane, Mauduit Encyc. Meth. HIS isa large fpecies, being in length three feet two inches: the bill is pretty much curved, but chiefly fo at the end, and of a horn colour: the top and fides of the head are dufky grey; the feathers of the hind head are grey, very long, and of different lengths, forming a creft; the tip of the longeft grey: neck grey: the body is black, banded above with greyifh: the fhoulders grey and black mixed: breaft and belly greyifh white: quills black, reaching two thirds on the tail, which is alfo black mixed with grey on the upper part, but nearly white on the under, with a dufky bar at the tip: the fhins are covered with white feathers tranfverfely banded with black: toes naked yellow. The male is fmaller, and of more lively colours. Inhabits Guiana, and is a powerful fpecies, faid to prey on the floth, and other quadrupeds, as well as pheafants,
Le
B, Ay) Ln Cy Goi
Le Blanchard, Lewaill, O2/. i. pl. iii. Aigle Blanchard, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 45. xi.
HIS is about one-third as big as the Martial Eagle, being fmaller
in fize than moft eagles, and more elongated: the plumage is white, foft, and fpotted with black brown: the tail barred with black ; but the female is more mixed with brownifh yellow, efpe- cially on the wing coverts: the male has the feathers on the hind head elongated into a creft, in which the female is not deficient, though confiderably fmaller; but in bulk, fhe exceeds the male by one-third: the irides and legs are yellow: the bill is pale; the claws black: the tail is rather long, and the wings reach about one half way thereon.
It flies well, and its chief prey is wood pigeon, from which it firft tears the feathers ; »it frequents forefts, and prefers the largefl trees: it likewife feeds on a fmall {pecies of antelope, called by the Hottentots Nometjes. Its cry confifts of feveral fiarp founds, quickly repeated, fomewhat fimilar.to Cri-qui-qui-qui-qui, and when perched ona tree, will fpend whole hours in repeating this, though in a tone of voice feemingly weak in proportion to the fize of the bird: it builds on high trees: the female lays two white eggs, about as big as thofe of a turkey, but more round: the male and female fit by turns. It has only been found in the country of the Hottniquas.
Le Bateleur, Lewaill, Oi/-1. p. 31. pl. 7 and 8. Aigle ecaudé, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 54. xxii.
HIS is the middle fize between the Sea Eagle and O/prey: the head, .neck, and all beneath, are of a deep black: back and tail deep rufous: fcapulars dufky, varying with the light to blue grey ;
leffer wing coverts pale Ifabella colour: quills black within, edged -
outwardly
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10. NOISY E.
DescrRirrTion.
Manners
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DEsCRIPTIONe
MANNERS.
PLace.
12. BACHA F
DESCRIPTION.
Rr Ce Grn,
outwardly with filvery grey: the bill and legs are dufky; bafe of the bill yellowifh, cere large: the tail in this bird is characteriftically fhort, and half hidden by its coverts ; irides deep brown: while young, the general colour is brown, paleft on the head and neck, with the edges of all the feathers light coloured : the female is one-fourth bigger than the male. It builds in trees, lays three or four white eggs: The young are fo unlike the old one, that were it not for the fhort tail, they might be miftaken for a different fpecies, and are more like the female in every ftage: the male is not complete in its plumage till the third year’s moult.
Thefe feed on all forts of carrion, yet will attack young antelopes, alfo lurk about inhabited places, for the fake of attacking any fick fheep. It is moft common about Queer Boom, near Lagoa Bay; very common in all the country of Hottniquas and Natal, quite to Caffraria. The male and female always feen in company; rarely in troops, except many pairs are invited to the fame repaft. “The name given this bird by Mr. Zevaillant, arofe from its flapping the wings in 4 fingular manner while in the air, fo as to be heard at a ereat diftance, and this repeated from one to the other as if at play, or rather as if to amufe the fpectators below, as buffoons do on a ftage. , It is known to the inhabitants by the name of Berg-baan (mountain cock) but perhaps not fufficiently diftinguifhable, as they call fo all birds of prey, particularly eagles.
Le Bacha, Lewvaillant, Oif-i. p. 68. pl. 15.—Daudin. Orx. ii. p. 43. ix.
HIS in fize and refemblance is not unlike our common Buzzard,
~ but rather more elongated: the general colour dirty brown, the wings and tail deepeft: the bill is lead colour; cere yellow : the crown of the head black, and the feathers at the back part of it elongated into a creft, of which the feathers are half black half white, the ends
FAL C O N. ends being black, and at times is fpread out horizontally like a tail: at the bend of the wing, and beneath it on the fides, the feathers are marked with roundifh white fpots: the tail is dufky, croffed in the middle with a broad rufous white band; the very tip almoft white: the legs are oker yellow; claws black. The female as ufual is larger than the male.
It frequents only the barren and fultry parts of the country of the Grand Nemaquas, and from thence to the tropic of Capricorn; it preys chiefly on the Kiipdas, or Cape Cavy*, though it is obliged at times to take up with lizards, &c. It is obferved to watch the
’ Cavy for three hours together, with the head between the fhoulders, in an immoveable pofture, and the moment it obferves the animal iffue from its retreat, fprings fuddenly upon it, and devours it with great apparent ferocity. It however fometimes miffes of its prey, in which cafe it utters a kind of lamentation, fomewhat fimilar to the words houi-bi-bi, thrice repeated, and immediately afterwards changes its place, in order to watch as before ; this feems abfolutely neceffary, for the plaintive cry of this bird, added to its fruitlefs attempt to feize on its prey, does not fail to alarm and frighten all the cavies into their lurking places, not to appear again for fome hours.
It is a folitary bird, except in the breeding feafon, and then only »feen in pairs; this is about the month of December, and after rearing two or three young ones, they again return to a folitary life: the neft is among the rocks, compofed of a bed of mofs and leaves, ill put together: it is a very fhy and fierce fpecies.
Falco maritimus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 20. 35.—=Lichtenb. Mag. fur das neuofte auf der Phy/. iv. 2. 6.
HE fhort account we can obtain of this bird, informs us, that it is four feet two inches in breadth, and feventeen inches
* Hyrax Capenfis. Cavia Capenfis Lin, in
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13, MARITIME FB.
DEscriPrion,
PLACE.
14. BOOTED F.
DeEScRIPTION.
15. SCLAVONIAN 15
DESCRIPTION.
16, MARGINED FE
DESCRIPTION.
RAY ECHO HAN,
in length; that the bill is yellow, as well as the cere: the body and end of the tail white: iegs of a reddifh and whitith colour
* mixed.
Inhabits the fea coaft of fava, feeding on carcafes and fifh.
F. pennatus, Jud. Orn. p. 19. 34+
La Bufe Gantée, Lewail/. Oif i. p. 79. pl. 18.—Daud. Orn. ii. p. 163. Cxxxv.
Booted Falcon, Gev. Syz. i. p. 75. Var.
HIS feems to vary very little from our Booted Falcon, met with in
the territory about the Cape of Good Hope, particularly inhabiting the forefts of the Hoftniquas. his variety feems to have a lefs mixture: of white in the plumage : it frequents the woody parts, diftant from habitations, and lives finely; is a bold bird, more fo than fome others; is quick in flight, and often feizes partridges. Mr. Levaillant likens it to a fpecies he has feen in Lorraine, in France, which is very pro- bable, as we alfo have the bird in fome of the counties of England.
F. Sclavonicus, Jvd. Orn. i. p. 26, 54.—Tt. Pcfegan, p. 29. Bofard Efclavon, Daudin. Orn. i. p. 166. cxxxvili. NHABITS Sclavonia, and is of the fize of a fowl: the bill is blue black; cere and legs yellow: plumage teftaceous, marked with black fpots: head and neck moft inclined to white: legs woolly, quite as far as the toes, of a dull yellow colour, fpotted with dufly : the rump and vent are whitifh, marked with fcattered {pots of brown and dull yellow: the tail white from the bafe to the middle, towards the end brown; in fome croffed with five dufky bands. I fufpect that this may poflibly prove a variety of our Booted Falcon.
F. Marginatus, Ind. Orz. 1. p. 26 (55.—It. per Pofegan. p. 28.
HIS inhabits Sclavonia, and is of the fize of the laft: the cere is blue; the legs yellow: the plumage mixed brown and ferru-
sinous above, and ferruginous with oval brown fpots beneath: tail feathers
Be gar Gr iO} Ins
feathers marked on both fides of the fhaft with dufky and white bands: guills brown, croffed with dull bands: the tip ferruginous Whiteruy
Le Tachard, Lewaill. Oxf. i. p. 82. pl. 19.
Bufe Tacharde, Daudiz. Orz. il. p. 104. cxxxvi. FA FIIS is the leaft of the buzzard kind, as far as relates to bulk of
body, but has a longer tail in proportion: bill dufky; cere
brown: irides deep reddifh brown: the head is greyith brown, with here and there fome irregular whitifi ftreaks: the under parts are greyifh yellow, with a mixture of brown blotches: the upper parts of the plumage are deep brown, with the edge of each feather paler : the tail is deep brown, banded with black, beneath greyifh white, with obfcure bands; the feathers of it equal in length: the feathers of the thighs reach below the knees, but not at all to the toes, as in the Booted Falcon: the legs are mottled brown; toes: dull ferru- gineus.
This was fhot on the banks of the river of Lions, in the Giraffe country, in Africa, among the Kaminiquas, who did not know the bird, and as Mr. Levaillant never faw another, he fuppofes it to be a rare fpecies.
F, cirrhatus, Izd. Orn. 1. p. 36. Var. A. Le Faucon huppé, Levail. Os/. i. p. 121. 28, Faucon huppé, Daudin. Orn. Ui. p. 118. XCi.
HIS, were it not for fize, feems to be coloured moft like the Peregrine Falcon; but the male is no bigger than a common pigeon, and the female one-fourth larger: the general colour of the plumage is flate colour, or greyifh blue: the top of the head fur- nifhed with long feathers, which are confiderably darker, inclining to brown, alfo the hind part of the neck, and a long patch of the Supp. Il, E _ fame
as
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. DEscrirTion.
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fame over each jaw, as in the Peregrine: the under parts from the chingyand reft of the fides of the neck, are dirty white, but the belly and thighs are marked with tranfverfe black ftreaks: the quills are dufky brown, and reach beyond the tail, which is croffed with feven or eight ftreaks of the fame; the extreme points of the feathers white: the bill is pale, with the tip dufky; the under mandible is not only fingularly notched, but is as it were cut off {quare at the end: the legs are yellow.
This fpecies inhabits the lakes and borders of the fea, and rivers, which abound in fifh, on which it feeds, as well as crabs and fhell fith,. which it eafily breaks to pieces in the bill: it is feen too to fly after gulls, terns, and even the albatros’s, all of which give way to him; and it is probable that the true reafon is to oblige thofe birds to refign up the prey they have taken. This bird makes the neft on the rocks, when it frequents the neighbourhood of the fea, other- wife on the trees neat the rivers: lays four rufous white eggs. The male and female fit in turns, and the young brood often remains with the parents. till they have occafion to breed in their turn.
Mr. Levaillant fuppofes this to have fome relation to the Tanas of the Senegal negroes, according to Adanfon; but it is much fmaller, be- fides, the fingularity of the under mandible being cut off fquare, is not noticed by him, and which could not furely have efcaped his obfer- vation had he feen it, therefore probably is not precifely the fame; nor can it be the Zavas of Buffon*, as it neither correfponds in colour nor creft, only in manners, as being fond of fifth, whichis. not uncom-
amon to many other {pecies.
% Pl, Enl. 476,
POA Eh eo! NL
Le Chiequera, Lewail. Oif. i. p. 128. pl. 30. Faucon Chicquera, Daudiz, Orn. ii, p. 121. xCill. "THIS is probably a further variety of the laft, as it correfponds as to the general diftribution of colour, though it has not the leaft appearance of a creft: the bill, however, in fingularity, exactly correfponds with it as to formation, and nearly fo in colour; the ~-upper mandible has a double notch, and the under truncated before : the top of the head and hind part of the neck are rufous, and a tinge of the fame appear about the bafe of the bill, and bend of the wing ; but the upper parts of the body and wings in general are blue’ grey, mottled with darker fpots: the tail much the fame as to colour, and. croffed near the end with a broad band of dufky black: the tips of all the feathers very pale, nearly white: legs and irides yellow : the under parts in general are white, but the breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, are croffed with fmall dufky ftreaks: the quills when clofed reach two-thirds on the tail, the end of which is rounded. . This Mr. Levaillant fuppofes has not been figured before. He bought it in a collection from Bengal, where it is faid to be called Chicquera.
F. Gyrfalco, Ind. Ora. i. p. 32. 68. Iceland Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 71. 51. B. dee. 2.
BOUT Cojam, are caught the beft and largeft falcons in the world, which are purchafed by the Turks and Perfians. The Tartars alfo fly them at antelopes and hares *.
F, incertus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 32. 70——Mu/. Garlf.ii. tab. 26. HIS. is probably a variety of the Gyrfalcon, and is found in Sweden, where it is not very common: the bill is black: irides
* Sce Bell's Trav, i. p. 18,—Ara. Zool. 2. p. 16. & fog. E 2 ycllow
27 10. CHICQUERA F.
Dascrisrione
Plata.
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Varn. As
DESCRIPTION?
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21. NOTCHED F, DESCRIPTION,
22. SWALLOW- TAILED 196
DsscRIPTION.
23. BLACK- WINGED
F.
DascrivtTion
1 a Wale tl Bro Geb OMe IN
yellow : legs faffron colour ; the head, back, and wing coverts cinereous brown, each feather ferruginous on the outer margin: the chin, throat, and breaft ferruginous ; the fhafts of the feathers black : tail cinereous, with a dufky tip; near the bafe three bands of brown.
F. bidentatus, Fzd. Orn.1. p. 38. go. Notched Falcon, Gen. Sya. Sup. p. 34. 110.
N a fpecimen which lately paffed under my obfervation, the pale
bars of the tail are narrow; the tail rounded in fhape: under wing coverts plain white: the wings reach more than two-thirds on the tail: the firft quill feather fhorter by ‘an inch and a half than the fecond, but the third is the longeft of all.
F. furcatus, Ind. Ora. i. p. 22. 41.
Milan de la Caroline, Daudin. Ora. il. p. 152. Cxxiil.
Forked-tailed Hawk.or Kite, Bartram. Trav. p. 286. . Swallow-tailed Falcon, Gen. Sy. i. p. 60, 42.—Nat. Mife. vol. vi. pl. 204,
HIS fpecies comes into Georgia in fummer, feeds on fnakes, the larvae’ of wafps, and other infects; is much on the wing, and tears
off the nefts of wafps, which are found hanging on the branches of trees, as it flies; it ftays during the breeding time, departing in autumn. I obferve in a drawing fent to me from Georgia, that the cere is blue; irides reddifh orange: it varies in having the under parts of the body inclining to dirty yellow, and the white on the wing
lefs confpicuous, or wholly wanting.
Le Blac, Dental: O:/. i. p. 147. pl. 36 and 37. Milan Blac, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 152. CXXIV.
Ss IZE of the female Kefril: top of the head, back of the neck, body, wings, and tail, more or lefs pale afh colour: wing feathers
fringed round the ends with white; the tail hasa flight tinge of rufous, 1s a trifle
Ft AWE CO Ne
a trifle forked in fhape, and the feathers fringed at the ends with white ; the under part of it white: fides of the head, and all beneath white : the feathers of the thighs are filky and delicate, and reach almoft to the toes: the eye is fituated in a bed of blackifh, which: continues betwixt it and the noftrils: irides orange: bill black: legs fhort and yellow: the wing coverts are wholly black; but. the quills are the fame colour with the back. j
“The female chiefly differs in being bigger, and the colour of the plumage leis diftiné. The young birds have fuch parts as are white in the adult inclined to rufous, efpecially on the back feathers, with a large portion of rufous in- the middle of the breaft, and the top of the Tae
Thefe birds build between the forks of trees, lining the neft with mofs and feathers, and lay four or five white eggs.
This fpecies is found throughout all the 4frican coaft, from Duyven-
Hoek to. Caffraria, and in the interior in Camdeboo, and the borders.
of Swarte-Kop and Sondag; is always perched on high bufhes, where
it may be feen afar off by its pure white under fide. Its cry is,
piercing, and it repeats it often, efpecially in flying. It feems to feed principally on infects, fuch as grafhoppers and mantes; but Mr.
Levaillant has not feen it kill fmall birds, however, it attacks crows,.
kites, and fhrikes, and drives them ae its haunts. It is a wild bird, and difficult to be fhot. It is obferved to fmell of mufk, which:
its fkin retains, even after prepared for the cabinet. It is faid alfo.
to have been killed in Barbary, as alfo in India.
Mr. Levaillant thinks this has fome affinity with the Swallow-tailed’
Falcon, which makes its chief food infects;
} F, Milyus,.
29;
Manners.
PLAcE,
jo
a4. KITE.
25. PARASITE F.
DESCRIPTION.
By AGL O10 sd
F. Milvus, Ind. Orx. i. p. 20. Kite, Geu. Syx. i. p. 61. 43.—Id. Sup. p. 172
HIS is faid to be moft frequent in the temperate and well in-
habited parts of Ruffia, more f{earce in Sidivia, but does not ven- ture far to the north; about Lake Baikal not uncommon, but none beyond the Leva. ‘This bird frequents fheep downs in the breeding feafon, efpecially thofe which are fkirted with wood, but in winter delights in the neighbourhood of towns watered by rivers, where it has been sbeme: to {weep off dexteroufly any offal floating on the furface: will lay as far as four eggs, fome of which are of a pure white, and others much fpeckled, This bird, as well as other birds of prey, drives away the young as foon as they are able to fhift for themfelves. It has been obferved to me, that a female kite will weigh two pounds and ten ounces, and the egg two ounces and a half, fo that feventeen eggs would but juft exceed the weight of the bird; but the raven is fo difproportionate as to require forty-eight to anfwer the fame purpofe *.
Le Parafite, Levaill. Oi/ i. p. 88. pl. 22. Milan Parafite, Daudin. Oru. ii. p. 150. CXxil.
HIS by many may be efteemed only a variety of our Kite, but Mr. Levaillant affures us, that it differs materially in having the -
tail lefs forked, and in being of fmaller fize: the bill yellow inftead of
black, which the common kite has, and the cere blueifh inftead of
yellow; however the legs in both are yellow: irides brown hazel:
the general colour is that of tanned leather: the middle of each fea-
ther darkifh; the under parts more inclined to cinnamon colour :
© Col. Montagu. cheeks
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cheeks and throat whitifh : moft of the feathers have a blackifh line down the fhaft : tail brown, banded with deeper brown.
This is common throughout Africa, efpecially in Caffraria and Grand Namaquas ; called at the Cape Kuykendief, which alfo is the name the Dutch give the common Kife. It builds both in trees and rocks, lays four eggs, fpotted with rufous: the young have the end of the tail nearly even, which alfo takes place with the European fpecies, and Mr. Levaillant fuppofes the Black Kite* to be no other than a young bird. This is a very bold {pecies.
Le Buzon, Levaill. Oi/. i. p. 86. pl. 21. Bofard Bufon, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 168. cxlit,
IZE of the Hobdy: the bill is horn colour, covered at the bafe
with a deep yellow cere: the legs are alfo yellow: the head and neck are dufky to appearance; but the bafes of the feathers are
white: the upper parts of the body and wings are rufous and black, _ irregularly mixed: the greater quills dufky; the fecondaries the fame, outwardly rufous: the tail is even at the end, black, having.
a narrow band of white about the middle of it, which according to the figure, feems compofed of white fpots; the very tip alfo white: all the under parts are pale rufous, croffed. with dark markings: thighs the fame, but not feathered beyond the knees: this differs from the Buzzaret, in not having the quills reach beyond one-third of the tail, whereas in the Buzzaret the wings and tail are equal: the bill is by much more broad and fhort than in that bird. Inhabits Cayenne, and feems in many things greatly allied to my
Spotted-tailed Hobby +. :
@ Pl. En. 472.
} Gen, Syn. i, p. 106.
Le-
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26. HOBBY BUZZARD:
DeEscRiIPTio0Ns. -
PLace.
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ee BUZZARET.
DeEscRIPTION. PLack 28. PONDICHERRY E.
PLacs.
Degscriprion.
Hog Ah Ei Ga Onan.
Le Buferay, Lewvaill. Oif-i. p. 84- pl. 20. Bufard Buferai, Daudix. Orn. ii. p. 168. cxli. IZE of the Marfh Buzzard: the bill black ; cere lead colour : the head and neck rufous white, mixed with brown, the laft deepeft on the back part of the neck: the back and wings are rufous brown, or chefnut, more or Jefs {potted or ftreaked acrofs with dufky blaelk: the tail barred with the fame, but the bafe of it inclines to rufous yellow, towards the end dufky; the wings when clofed reach to the end of it: the belly and thighs are light rufous, marked with tranfverfe bands of black brown: quills black 4 Inhabits Cayeyne, and is fuppofed to be the fame bird which M. Mauduit mentions in the Eneyclopedie Methodique, by the name of Bufard Roux de Cayenne. |
F. ponticerianus, Ind. Orz. i. p..23. 46. Qifeau Brame, Ef Philof. p. 55. Aigle de Pondichéry, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 55. XXiil. Pondicherry Eagle, Gen, Syz.1. p. 41. HIS is not unfrequent on the coaft of Malabar and Coromandel, where it is called Tchil and Kuereuden, but not of fo generous
_anature as to be trained for falconry. The figure of the Garroora,
is a bird, which is frequently found in the temples of the God Vi/bnou, immediately in front of his image, and fometimes fitting on a ferpent with feveral heads: this is a large brown kite, with a white head : the Brachmans at fome of the temples of /i/bnou, accuftom birds of this fpecies to come at ftated times to be fed, and call them to their meals by ftriking a brafs plate *.
A bird feemingly of this laft kind is found in New Holland, j in
& Sketches of the Hindoos, 8v0. 1790, ; as which
AEC IES IO) 2 IN:
which the head, neck, and belly are pure white, without any ftreaks : the reft of the body of a dull ruft colour. It is called: Girrenera: part of its food confifts of eggs, as the f{tomach of one was found full
of egg fhells.
Le Vocifer, Levaill. Oi/, i. p. 17. pl. 4. Aigle Vocifer, Daudin, Orn. ii. p. 65. XXXv. — Nonette, Gaby, Voy. in Nigritie.
HIS bird is the fize and make of the O/prey, and greatly re-
fembles it in manners: extends from wing to wing eight feet: the bill is lead colour: the legs yellow: irides red brown: the head, neck, breaft, and f{capulars, are pure white edged with brown; on the breaft a few black brown fpots: the tail of a pure white: the reft of the plumage is rufty brown, ftreaked with dingy black ; the leffer wing coverts more inclining to ruft colour: quills black, croffed on the outer webs with fine rufous and black lines: lower part of the back and rump, mixed black and dirty white: between the bill and eye, a yellow fkin barely covered with hairs: the lower part of the belly and thighs deep rufous, feathered only to the knees: the wings when clofed reach ‘to the end. of the tail. The female is more dull in colour.
This fpecies inhabits the more inward parts of the Cape of Good Hope, about fixty or eighty leagues up the country ; moft common about Lagoa Bay. The colonifts at the Cape, call it Groote Vi/-vanger, or Witte Vif-vanger, as it feeds on fifh, defcending upon them into the water after the manner of the O/prey, retiring to a rock to eat it; fuppofed alfo now and then to feed on young antelopes, as the bones of one have been found in the neft; alfo on the great lizard, common in the African rivers. The male and female are rarely {een apart; they build’ on the tops of trees, or on the rocks, and Jay two
Supp. Il. F or
29. PISCIVOROUS E.
DascRipTion,
PLACE.
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30. BLAGRE E.
DeEscRipPT10ON.
Piacr,
31. AMERICAN : B.
Dyscaiprion.
FAL Je 10. ANe i
or three white egos, bigger than thofe of a turkey. By fome it is called the Crying Eagle, as it flies high, and frequently utters loud cries, and may be heard far off; is very watchful, and difficult to fhoot, and it has been known that to obtain one, a fportfman has been obliged to remain concealed for three days under a turf covering, before he could obtain a fhot. It feems to be a variety of the Pon- dicherry Eagle. ‘Le Blagre, Lewaill. Oi/. i. p. 23. pl. 5. Aigle Blagre, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 70. Xxxvil. IZE and habit of our O/prey: the head, neck, and parts beneath, are glofly white, but the top of the head, and hind part of the neck incline to brown: leffer wing coverts and tail pale grey brown,. and the end of the laft white: the great quills are dufky: black ;. fecondaries are outwardly like the reft of the wing: the feathers for the moft part very rigid: bill brownifh: iris deep brown: legs. yellow ; claws black.
This fpecies is found in the dry internal parts of the Cape of Good Hope, but only on the borders of rivers, where it frequents for the fake of the fifh, which it takes in manner of the O/prey, by plunging in after them; its fight feems very piercing, as it will frequently deicend at once, from a height in the air where itis fcarcely vifible,. into the water after its prey.
F. borealis, End. Orn. 1. p. 25. 50. Falco aquilinus, cauda ferraginea, Great Eagle Hawk.—Bartram Trav. p. 286. American Buzzard, Ger. Syn. i. p. 506 ; HE iris of this bird is brownifh yellow: cere and legs yellow: thighs of a fulphur colour. Ic is called i Georgia, the great Red-tailed Hawk; is faid not to be very common; is much on the ‘wing, and yery thy, therefore very difficult to be thot. .
F. apivorss,
POR I Gs) 0) Ne
F. apivorus, Zid. Orn. i. p, 25. 52. Honey-Buzzard, Gen. Syz.i. p. 52 ——Jd. Sup. p. 14.
HIS is found in open countries, in Ruffe and Siliria, where
woods are near, and plenty cf fmall Lizards, which are com- monly met with in its gizzard on diffection; not only fo, but likewife Caterpillars, both fiooth and hairy: builds a large fhallow neft of twigs, lined with dead leaves, upon a tall flender beech, as obferved by. Mr. White*. The egg was {maller than that of the Common Buzzard, lefs round, dotted at each end with fmall red {pots, and furrounded
in. the middle with a broad bloody zone.
Le Grenouillard, Lewaill. O:/-i. p. gg. pl. 23. Bufard Grenouvillard, Daudin. Orz. ii, p. 170. cxliv. T firft fight it feems moft like the Moor Buzzard, being much of the fame fize and ftature, but differs in colour, for the upper part of the body is pale umber colour: the cheeks and throat are covered with whitifh tender feathers, each marked with a longitudinal brown band : the under part of the body light brown, flightly mixed - with white on the breaft and lower belly: on the upper part of the breaft, and leffer wing coverts, a few white fpots': thighs and under tail coverts ruft. colour: wings brown; tail, the fame, even at the end, but croffed with bars of deeper brown: the wings when clofed reach two-thirds on the tail: irides grey brown: legs flender, yellow.
Inhabits chiefly the marfhy parts of the Cape of Good Hope, where it preys on frogs, whence the name of Kzkvors-vanger, or froe-catcher, but it alfo preys on young water-fowl.
It makes the neft among the reeds, with ftalks and leaves of aquatic plants, and lays three or four eggs, which are quite white.
* Hip. Selb. p. 107. eva In
33° RAN1V GROUS dhe
DESCRIPTION.»
Peacz,
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34. RUSTY BY
DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE,
Sinn TEST ACEOUS F
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
36. JAVAN F
DESCRIPTION. +
Peay) Lee Br Oven,
In the fame places have been met with, another, which appeared ftill more like the Afoor Buzzard, as well as a third, quite black, with the rump entirely white.
Falco rubiginofus, fd. Orn. i. p. 27. 6.
HE bill is black: legs yellow: the head wholly of a whitifh yellow ; cheeks rufty: body above brown, beneath yellowifh white, with an irregulan rufty-coloured fpot on the breaft: quills brown, with the outer edges hoary, within brown, with feveral white bands: tail brown, croffed with four teftacecus bands. Inhabits Sclavonia.
Faucon teftacé, Daudin. Orn. i. p. 125. Ci.
IZE ofa Gofhawk: length twenty-one inches: bill blueith: cere,
- jrides, and legs yellow: the head, and all the upper parts of the bird, are teftaceous brown: the fhafts of the feathers blackifh: throat and fore part of the neck nearly white, inclining to teftaceous on the breaft; from thence to the vent reddifh brown: the vent itfelf white: quills dufky, fpotted on the inner webs with whice: tail btown above, and pale beneath, where it is croffed with five indifting& dufky bands.
Inhabits the ifland of Fava: it was firft obferved perched on a rock, feizing on fuch fimall birds as paffed by within reach of him, and was by chance killed by a ftone thrown at him. :
F, Javanicus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 27. §8.—Lichtemberg. Maga. iv. 2. 8,
HE cere is black, but the middle of it is yellow: the head, neck, and breaft chefnut: the back brown: legs yellow. In- habits Fava, and is found chiefly on the fea coafts, feeding on fp. The
ee Ass Tee CohiO. Ne
Fhe flight account which we are enabled to eive of this bird, wilh not enable us to fay whether it is the fame with the preceding fpecies, F, Palumbarius, Ind. Orz. i. p. 29 65. y Avtour commun, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 71. 39. Gothawk, Gez. Sym. i. p. 58.2. Sup. p. 16.
REEDS in Scotland: the young one is very different from the
adult, and it is not at all clear that the Fa/con Gentic of Br. Zool. N° 50, is not the Gofoawk in its firft feathers. In Germany, it is not an uncommon fpecies in the forefts, where it is ftationary, _ preying on various kinds of large and fmall game; among others geefe, hence perhaps has arifen the name of Goofe Hawk or Gofhawk: faid to be found in numbers on the 4zores iflands, and by fome fup-
pofed to have given a name thereto, as azor in the Spanifh tongue:
fignifies a Gofhawk. The American {pecies weighs three pounds and a quarter, and meafures twenty-one inches in length.
Var. A. Der Weiffe Stockfalke, Allg. U. d. Voz. Zufafs. S. 662.—Decouver. Ruff 3. Pp. 303. Falco Lathami, Autour blanc, Daudinx. Ora. ii. p. 73.39. Var. C. A Large white variety, mottled with brown and yellow, is fome- ‘times found about the Uralian mountains, and the eaft part of Siberia; and both in Germany as well as Kamt/chatka individuals are found of a pure white, without mixture; one of thefe, with a grey tinge on the back, was fhot in TAuringia, in the autumn,
L’autour huppé, Lewaill. Oi 1. p. 114. pl. 26.—Daxdin. Orn, ii. p. 77. xlv. Aigle moyen de la Guiane, Evxcycl. Meth. (Mauduit.) HIS and the Common Gofhawk, according to M. Levaillant, are the only two Gofhawks knowa: the prefent one is one third bigger than our European fpecies ; and independant of the difference of
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‘37s GOSHAWK.
Var. B.
DeEscriPTion..
38. CRESTED : GOSHAWK.
DiscRIPTION.
a
Be AY ie. FOO Ne
of colours, has a tuft of long black and white feathers fpringing from the hind head: the crown is black: hind part of the neck deep rufous : the upper part of the body and wings are brown, but deepeft on the wing coverts: chin and throat white: the reft of the under parts dirty rufous white, with irregular black fpots, and a line of black on each fide of the neck, between the rufous and white: thighs barred or chequered with black and white, and feathered almoft to the toes: the bili is pale blue, with a yellow cere: legs dull yellow : tail banded brown and black. ; Puace. This inhabits Cayenne.
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39. Autour de Mauduit, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 73. xl. eeu , Grand autour de Cayenne, Mauduit, Enc. Meth. ; ib HIS is two feet in lenoth: the bill and cere black: the eye-
lids, and fkin between the bill and eye covered with hairs: nape af colour: the feathers with black fhafts, and ftreaked with white: cheeks white ; from behind the eye to the hind head a black ftreak : the hind head furnifhed with a long creft: the upper part of the body. black brown: middle of the wing barred with cinereous grey: belly white, barred with rufous brown: fhins covered with feathers, rufous and whice, in rings: tail long, banded alternately with four bands of black and grey; the wings when clofed reaching about half way thereon: toes yellow.
The female is bigger, and wants the creft, and the colours in ge- neral more dilute. . ' PLacy. Inhabits Cayeune.
DEsCRIPTION:
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40. Autour dela Guiane, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 78. xlvi. SUIANA Petit Aigle de la Guiane, Mauduit, Exc. Meth. GOSHAWK. 3 i : j t Decne rion HIS is twenty-two inches in length, and the plumage in ce entirely white, except the quills and the tail: the feathers o
both of which are banded chequerwife with grey and black, fo that the - a colours
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colours on each fide the fhaft oppofe each other: the hind head is crefted ; one of the feathers, which is much longer than the reft, is marked with a fpot of black rear the end: the wing when clofed’ reaches two thirds on the tail.
This inhabits Guiana,
Epervier 4 yentre roux, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 86. liv.—Mauduit, Encycl. Mérh. 687. col .1. ;
IZE of the common Sparrowhawk, and has a bill as in that bird:
the head is cinereous brown, paler at the nape: throat whitifh in the middle, banded on each fide with rufous: the upper parts of the body deep brown, the under rufous: the vent feathers incliaing to white: legs yellow; claws black.
Inhabits. Cayenne.
Falco hyemalis, Jad. Orn. i. p35. 78. Var. Faucon a croupion blanc, Daudin. Orn. li. p. 110. 78» Northern Falcon, Gen. Syz.i. p. 79. Var. HIS is fixteen inches in length: bill brown; cere greenifh; irides yellow: head afh colour, each feather brownifh in the middle, and ferruginous on the fides, moft inclining to the laft at the hind head: cheeks pale afh colour: orbits and chin whitifh: neck afh colour, inclining to brown behind, and to ferruginous on the fore part: back cinereous brown: rump white: breaft ferrugi- nous, more or lefs mixed with whitifh: belly and thighs white, marked with ferruginous, each feather having two or three heart- fhaped fpots upon it: tail brown above, beneath pale, with dull dufky bars: legs yellow. This was killed in Carolina, by Mr, C, Bofe ; it feems clearly a Var. ef my Northern Falcon.
F, melanoleucus,
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41. RUFOUS BELLIED: F. DescRIPTIOM
Prack.. Acs NORTHERN,
DescriPriows
Prace,
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43. BLACK and WHITEINDIAN F,
Descriprion.
PLACE.
440 CHANTING F.
DESCRIPTION,
Fo As CLO. ae
F. melanoleucus, Znd. Orn. i. p. 36. 85. | Var.
Le Tchoug, Lewaill. Qi/: i. p. 133. pl. 32.
Epervier pie, Daudin. Ora. ii. p. 85. 51.
Black and White Indian Falcon, Gen. Syz. is ps 81.——Ld. Sup. p. 20.%-Young bird.
“HIS feems greatly allied to the Hen-harrier, forin fizeit correfponds as well as fhape: the bill is black: the head, neck, back, and wings are moftly of a deep brown; but the back part of the head inclines to black, with a mixture of white at the back part of the neck, and wing coverts: the greater quills are dufky, the feconda- ries partly dufky white: all the under parts from the breaft, the belly, thighs, vent, rump, and tail are white; but the tail, which is nearly even at the end, inclines a little to rufous grey, and the two middle feathers of it have a fort of brewn crefcent on the tips: the legs are long and yellow: this appears to be a bird not come to its adult plumage, on account of the mixture of white among the feathers. é This fpecimen came from Bengal, where it is known by the name of Tchoug; is thought alfo to be a native of the Cape of Good Hope, as Mr. Levaillant faw a bird of this kind pafs over his head, in which the head and neck were black, and rump and under parts were white: this was probably our Black and White Falcon in its perfect plumage. ;
Le Faucon chanteur, Levaill. Oi, i, p. 117. N° 27.—Daudin, Orn. ii. p. 116. Ixxxviii. ae eK
HIS beautiful fpecies is the fize of the Common Falcon, and the
plumage in general of a very pale lead or dove colour, but the
top of the head and fcapulars are much darker, inclining to brown ;
and
FON PCO N:
and the under parts from the breaft are pearly grey, crofled with numerous blueifh grey markings: the quills are black: the tail is greatly cuneiform, the outer feather being fhorter by one-third than the middle ones; it is of a dufky colour, but the very tip of the fea- thers are white, and all but the two middle ones are croffed with white bands: the bill and claws are black ; the legs and cere orange, and the iris deep red brown: the female is bigger than the male by one-third, but does not differ from that fex materially in colour, except in fome parts, efpecially the cere and legs, being paler.
This bird imitates the Hey-harrier in colour, but independent of other points in which it differs, I do not find that it has any appear- ance of the ruff-like collar round the lower part of the head. It is found chiefly in Caffraria, and the neighbouring country, as Karow and Camdeboo. Inbreeding time, the male is remarkable for its fone, which it makes every morning and evening, and like the Nightingale, not uncommonly even the night through; it fings in this loud tone for more than a minute, and after an interval begins anew ; during its fong, it is fo regardlefs of itfelf thatany one may approach; but in the intervals of quiet it is fo wary as to take flight at the leaft fufpicion ; fhould the markfman fhoot the male, the female will foon fall under his gun, asin the attachment to him, and calling every where with the moft plaintive voice, it is fo continually paffing within gun fhot, that it is no difficult matter to fhoot it; but in cafe the female fhould be fhot firft, the male does not teftify fo much attachment, for retiring to the top of fome diftant tree not eafily approached, it does not ceafeto fing, but becomes fo wary as to fly intirely away from that neighbourhood on the leaft alarm. The female is faid to make the neft between the forks of trees, or in bufhy groves, and to lay four white round eges: this fpecies preys on partridges, hares, quails, moles, rats, &c. and for its fize, feems a very deftructive fpecies,
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PLACE.
Manners.
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45. LONG.LEGGED HEN-HARRIER.
DescriPrion-
Pract.
46. AXILLARY F
Dsscriprion,
Fy - Ay LC +O. Ney :
L’acoli, Levaill. Oi. i. p. 130. pl. 31.
Sous-bufe acoli, Daudin. Oru. it. p: 176: cli. "T His bird, in refpect to fize and colour, raat, refembles the
Hen-barvier, but feems. to ftand higher on the legs: the undee
parts from the breaft, croffed with fine fees lines, or firipes, forne- what in the manner of the Chanting Falcon, though not-fo numerous or delicate ; one likewife at firk fight. might ippole j it to be the fame bird on a larger fcale, did not the great difproportion of length of legs at once fhew the difference: the tail 1s.pale grey, and Were pretty long, even at the end, and not graduated as in that fpecies : quills dufky black : reach two-thirds on the tail: the bill is, blueith ; cere red, as is the fkin round the eyes: irides and legs yellow. .
This frequents the cultivated parts of the Cape of Good Hope, and not unfrequently the fandy deferts ; many of them about places in, which the laft is never-feen. In the interior it is only obferved about the rivers Swarte-kop and Sondag; it is called Witte- Valk (White Falcon) and Leeuwerk-Vange (Lark Catcher.) The male and female are feen ufually together; make their neft in the bufhes; lay four dirty white eggs, oval in fhape, whereas thofe of the Chanting Falcou are nearly round.
IZE and fhape of the Hen-barrier, and not unlike it in colour,
but differs effentially, as the wreathed feathers round the lower part of the head are not confpicuous: the bill is black : legs pale yellow; claws black: the plumage on the upper parts is pale cine- reous blue; the under whitifh : over the eye a long irregular narrow ftripe of black ; a large long patch of black alfo occupies the. whole of the inner part of the wing when clofed: the quills are black, and reach to the end of the tail, which is rather rounded in fhape, and of
a moderate length, Inhabits
FAL €C ON.
Inhabits New Holland, but is not very common. The fpecimen from which the above defcription was taken, was caught alive, and kept for two months, being fed with fmall birds, fifh, &c.
F. Bohemicus, Ind. Orn. i. p: 43. 100, Maeufe-habicht Miflilauce, Fo/. Mayer. Boehm. Ah, Vi. p. 313-
i HIS is more than a foot in length: the gape of the mouth, iri- des, and legs yellow: the upper parts of the plumage afh-colour- ed; beneath white: the orbits white: tail long: the legs fomewhat fhort, furnifhed with feathers below the knees: ave of the outer quills black on the outer margin. Inhabits the mountainous parts of Bohemia, feeding on mice* is chiefly obferved of evenings. It has been fuppofed that this bird may prove only a variety, if not the fame as the Hen-barrier *.
F. Tinnunculus, Zzd. Orn. i. p. 41. 98.—Spalousk. Vor. 3. t. 3.—Brif. Orn. i, p-
Bes 7: ¥F. Nifus, Seg. Pog. 3 .plea17.—Seop, An. Nat. Add. p. Yo.
Keftril, Gen. Syn. i. p. 94. 79.—1d. Sup. p. 25.
¥ Think that this is the bi¥d which in India is called’ Chouee. I have ‘feen a bird, ‘feeminsly a Kefril, zmone fome Obinefe drawings, which was called MJazw-zing, which fienifies Speckled Bird, or ra- yenous. The word Maw, means Brachet or Broken, as the face after
the {mall-pox. In the fame collection, I obferved another called alfo: Mawing, but this had the breaft crofied with numerous bars like the
Sparrow-hawk.
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* Bechfein.
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PLACE.
47: BOHEMIAN’ F.
Description. PLAcE.
48. KESTRIL.
DESCRIPTION.
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48. KESTRIL. Var.C.
DescrIPTION.
48. KESTRIL. Var. D.
DEscRIPTION.
By ANVIL Cav ONE
Epervier des alouettes, Bri, Orz. i. p. 359. 22?
OME few years fince, I received the following bird, which was
fhot in Surrey: it was fourteen inches long: the bill pale, with a black tip: ‘cere and legs yellow: the forehead over the noftrils white: head grey, ftreaked with black; under the eye a black mark like a whifker: back rufous brick-colour; at the tip of each feather a fpot of black: rump pale afh: all the under parts of the body pale rufous white, ftreaked with black down the fhafts: thighs the fame, with here and there a fpot of black: chin and vent nearly white: wing coverts croffed with black bars: quills dufky; within barred with reddifh white: tail pale rufous afh-colour, barred on each fide the fhafts with black ; thofe on the inner webs moft complete, and all the feathers marked at the ends for an inch, with a bar of black, but the very tips quite pale. This I judge may prove merely the bird alluded to above, noticed by Briffon; and probably no other than a young male of the Ke/fril/, in the firft year’s plumage.
Falco brunneus, der Braunrothe Falke, Allg. U. d. Vog. 1.3. Zufafs. S, 679. 127. —Taf. 2. f. 1. Mannch.—f. 3. Funges.
HIS in plumage feems not unlike the Kefril, but as big as the Hooded Crow, being fourteen inches long, and two feet broad: the bill is blue; the cere yellow: the ground colour of the plumage is a fort of rufty yellow, crofled with brown bars, as in the Kefril: the under parts paler, with perpendicular /rriz : tail croffed with lines of _ black, and deeply tipped with black at the end. The young bird is not greatly different, but the crofs ftreaks of blackifh are edged with white on the upper parts, the under not un- like’ the firft; but the end of the tail is tipped with black ina lefs de-
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This bird is faid to inhabit Zhuringéa in the breeding feafon, and appears as a bird of paffage, as it is not feen in winter; it makes the neft as late as May, whereas the reft of the birds of prey build theirs in March and April.
I much fufpect that the above defcribed are no other than the Keftril, which is. known to wear the female plumage for fome length of time; and to fay the truth, very many of the Falcon genus have fo mixed an appearance in their plumage, partaking both of male and female, as to appear to the lefs informed naturalift as a diftin&® {pecies.
Le Montagnard, Lewaill. O:/-i. p. 144. pl. 35. Crefferelle Montagnard, Daud. Orz. ii. p. 135. cix.
T firft fight this bird has greatly the appearance of the male
Keftril; but on comparifon with that bird, in refpect to fize and make, it will be found to differ in many particulars: it is a little bigger: the bill is black; cere and legs yellow: the head rufous, inclining to brown at the nape: the back rufous, marked with crefcents of black: tail pale rufous, croffed with feveral brown bands: chin white: under parts of the body pale rufous, ftreaked with dufky fpots down the middle of each feather ; but the lower belly, vent, and thighs are the fame, on a pale grey ground: quills black above,
beneath barred with white; all the under wing coverts rufous white,
with dufky fpots: tail almoft even at the end, or rather rounded, and the quills reach to about the middle of it. The female, as in other birds of prey, a little exceeds the male in fize.
It is very common in various parts of the Cape of Good Hope, and its neighbourhood; called there Rooye-Va/k (Red Falcon) or Steen-Valk (Stone Falcon) ; alfo feen in mott parts of Africa, efpecially
mountainous
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ORANGE- LEGGED HOBBY.
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mountainous and rocky fituations; it refides in the fame place the whole year: feeds on fmall quadrupeds, lizards, and infects ; makes its neft among the fharp rocks, unfheltered, compofed of dry twigs and grafs carelefly put together ; lays commonly fix, feven, and even eight eggs, intirely of a deep rufous, like its own plumage; is a fierce and daring bird, fetting up a noife like cri-cri, many times repeated, on the fight of any perfon, efpecially during the time of incubation, or when it has young ones.
Falco Subbuteo, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 47. 114. Var.? Falco rufipes, der rothfuffige Falke, Allg. Ueb. d. Vog. ii. Zufafs. S. 677. 122.— Befek. Vog. Kurl. §. 19. 27.—Tafi 3 GF 4.—Pl. Enlum. 431.
BESEKE here mentions two hawks, about the fize of a Kefril, * fhot together late in the fpring. The one fuppofed to be the male wholly black, but the great wing feathers and under parts of the body blackifh lead colour: thighs, vent, and under tail coverts fine red brown: eyelids, the bare {pace round them, the cere and legs, of a brick red: bill/half yellow, half blueifh. ‘The one fuppofed to be the female had many things in common with the other, but was larger: head and neck plain whitifh yellow, or fox colour: eyes placed ih a patch of brown: throat as far as the breaft whitifh yellow, as are the thigh coverts, vent, and under the tail: the fhoulders duller fox-coloured yellow, waved with black; upper part of the body‘pale brown, with dull afh-coloured and black waves: tail croffed with nine fmall black bands. This feems to approach very ‘nearly to a fingular variety of the Hebby, figured in the P/. Enluminées, if not the fame bird.
Falco Subbuteo major, der Groffe Baumfalke, Alle. Ucb. d. Fog. i. Za/afs. p. 660. as 29: Taf.1.—Td. Naturg. Deut/ch. i. 8. 3153 19.
‘THIS bird, fomewhat. refembles the Hodéy, but is as large as a
Raven; in length nearly eighteen inches, breadth three feet: the bill an, inch and. an half fee horn. colour: cere and legs. yellow: iris pale yellow:.head and neck black brown; cheeks black: back and wing coverts blackifh blue, crofied with obfolete dull brown, afh grey, and reddifh grey bands: chin, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the breaft dufky reddifh white, banded with dull brown, appearing on the breaft as oval marks: quills blackifh, marked on the inner webs with eight or more:pale grey oval fpots; on the. tail twelve alternate dull brown and afh grey bands.
The female almoft one-third bigger than the male, and the colours not fo well defined; fhe wants alfo the black on the cheeks, and the breaft. and neck are plain fmutty. white.
This fpecies inhabits the pine forefts of Germany, preying on grous, hares, and fmall birds, It may by fome be miftaken for a variety, but Mr. Bech/fein affures us that it is a diftinct fpecies.
Le Gabar, Levaill. Oif. i. p. 136. pl. 33. Epervier Gabar, Daadin. Orn ii. p. 87. lvi.
AFIS is: the fize of the Sparraw-hawk, and the wings, as in that bird, do. not reach much beyond the rump: the bird is however
a trifle ftouter than the Sparrow-hawk, and the tail rather fhorter $ the head, neck, and upper part of the body and wings are grey brown: upper and lower tail coverts white: quills dufky, banded beneath tranfverfely, and the fecondaries tipped with white: tail even,
banded darker and lighter brown, beneath the fame with black and.
white: all from the chin to the breaft, the colour is blucifh grey, 8 froma
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from thence to the vent, dufky white, croffed with light brown bands: the bill is black: cere and legs fine red: irides yellow. ‘The female as ufual one-third bigger than the male.
Thefe are found only in the interior parts of the Cape of Good Hope, on the borders of the river Swarte-kop and Sondag, alfo about Karow, Camdeboo, and other parts; but not near the Cape itfelf: fup- pofed to lay about four white eggs, as big as thofe of our Sparrow- hawk; it hatches in September.
Le Minule, Lewvaill. Or. i. p. 140. N° 34.
HIS isa fmall bird of prey, being even lefs than the Merlin; it has the fame proportion as the Sparrow-hawk, but ona lefs fcale:
the bill is black: cere and legs yellow: irides yellow orange: all the
upper parts of the body, wings, and tail are brown; the under parts
white, with a few fmall brown fpots on the throat; but the breaft
marked with larger, which increafe in fize as they approach down- wards, becoming at laft bars acrofs the belly and thighs: the quills reach a {mall way beyond the bafe of the tail, which is even at the end, the greater ones banded with white on the inner webs; the fecondaries much the fame, with broader: under wing coverts rufous fpotted with white: the tail feathers are brown, with obfolete darker bands, but the bands are whitifh on the inner webs.
This is a bold fpecies, generally preying on imaller birds, but in defect of thefe on Gra/shoppers, &c. drives the Shrike totally away from their quarters, and even many birds of prey larger than them- felves, even Buzzards and Kites: male and female moft times toge- ther; build on trees, the neft of flexible twigs intermixed with mofs and leaves without, and wool and feathers’ within, and lay five eggs, fpotted with brown near the ends: the female almoft twice the fize’
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of the male; but the plumage nearly the fame: was fo bold as to take away a bird from the table where Mr. Levaillant fate preparing others.
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vig BS RaCORA culotte noire, Levaill. Oi/-i. p. 126. pl. 29.—Daudin. Ora. ii. p. 120, XCil. j ‘ 9 TRIS 1s fomewhat bisser than a pigeon: the bill is fingularly formed, in refpect to the under. mandible, as in the Crefted Indian Falcon, lead coloured, with a yellowifh’ cere: the plumage on the upper parts of the body and wings is grey brown, with a darker ftreak down the middle of each feather: the throat is white: the reft of the under parts very pale rufous, with dathes of dark brown, prin- cipally down the fhafts: the thighs are black: the quills and tail dark coloured; and the wings when clofed reach two-thirds of the way thereon; the tail in fhape rather rounded: the legs are yellow: irides hazel brown.
This {pecies frequent the Grand Namaguas. M, Levaillant killed three in the action of feeding on a leveret, at the fame time ronfed another fomewhat larger, which was fuppofed to be a female. He was informed, that this bird is not uncommon on Sxeeuw-Lergen ({now mountain) where it is called Klyne berg-haan (little cock of the mountain) but by this name they call all the middle fized birds of prey, and the fmalier ones by the name of Valk or Falcon.
Le Rounoir, Lewail]. Oi/. 1. p. 73. pl. 16. Bufe Jakal, Daudin. Orz. il. p. 161. CxXxxill. THis is the fize of our Buzzard, but comparatively more bulky, and the tail fhorter in proportion: the bill is dufky: cere and legs yellow: iris deep brown: the colour of the plurhage is moftly dufky brown: from the chin is a mixture of white, which changes on the breaft to rufous: the quills are dufky, banded with g. Supe. II. H paler
54. BLACK- HIGHED
EF. DESCRIPTION.
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DESCRIPTION:
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paler at the bafe, and the fecondaries mixed outwardly with white: tail deep rufous, with a fpot of black near the end ofeach feather ; the
* two outer ones only banded with dufky: beneath all is rufous grey.
The female differs in being larger, and the red on the breaft not fo high coloured.
This fpecies is moftly feen about habitations of the colonifts: of the’ Cape of Good Hope, where it is known by the name of Fakals- Vogel (Jackal Bird) on account of the cry imitating the voice of that quadruped ; called alfo Rotter-Vanger (Rat-catcher); it is not fhy, being feen every where following the leffer kinds of vermin, as rats, moles, and the like, and like the Buzzard in Europe, is efteemed an ufeful fpecies; it is cowardly, infomuch, that even the Fifcal Shrike will occafionally put it to flight.
Ic inhabits chiefly the thick groves which furround the houfes, and in the thickeft part of them makes the neft of twigs and mofs, » lined with feathers: lays three or four eggs, fometimes only two, which are generally hatched, as the neft is rarely deftroyed, from idea the natives entertain of the utility of this fpecies.
Le Rougri, Levaill. Oif. i. p. 77. pl. 17. Bafe des deferts, Daud. Ora. ii. p. 162. cxxxiv. HIS is fmaller than the laft, and lefs robuft in proportion, but has a longer tail: the bill, cere, and legs are yellow: irides red- difh: the reigning colour of the plumage is ferruginous or rufous, paler beneath, with the chin to the breaft and vent very pale grey, nearly white; the quills are black ; the reft of the under parts are rufous as above, but paler, and ftreaked fparingly with dufky: the tail is like the back above, but greyifh beneath, marked with fome tranfverfe obfolete bands. The female is a trifle bigger than the male, and is lefs diftint in the » colours.
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It is lefS frequent about the inhabited parts than the Fackal Falcon, being only feen in the dry and uncultivated fpots. It lives however on the fame kind of food: its cry not unlike the European Buzzard. The male and female are moftly feen together, and they make the neft in the fame kind of places, and of nearly the fame materials.
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Falco Nifus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 44.107. Var os Sparrow-hawk, Gen. Synz. p. gg 85. Var. C. ¥ ENGT H eighteen inches; in appearance not unlike the Sparrow- hawk: bill pale blue: irides and legs yellows: the top of the head is afh colour; hind partof the neck rufous: back and wings ~ dark afh colour, nearly black: breaft and belly dirty white, croffed with numerous pale rufous bars: tail long, marked with feveral pale bars; wings fhort, reaching only to the bafe of it. Inhabits New Holland.
Le Tachiro, Levaill. Of i. p. 100. pl. 24.
Epervier Tachiro, Daudin. Orx. ii. p. 9. 58- "T HIS is little inferior in fize to our Gofoawk: the head and neck are varied with white and rufous, with fpots of brown black : breaft white, mixed with rufous: above the plumage is dull brown for the moft part, beneath white, fhaded with rufous, marked with crefcent-like fpots of brown: the quills have white tips: the tail is as long as the body, brown above, croffed with deeper bands, beneath white, with broad blackifh bands; the quills reach to about the middle of it: the bill is blueifh: legs yellow: irides topaz colour :
the female \efs bright in colour.
This frequents only the deep forefts, which border Queer Boom,
and in thofe of Hottniqua Land, and makes the neft between the forks.
of the branches of the great trees, formed of {mall twigs and mofs ;
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7. N. HOLLAND ; SPARROW- HAWK. DeEscRIPTION.
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DESCRIPTION,
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lias three young ata time: fuppofed to feed on fmall birds without diftinétion, but nourifhes the young with grafshoppers ; has.a piercing _ note like Cri, eri, eften repeated. The eges are white, marked with. rufous fpots.
New fpecies of Hawk, Scunin. Trav. (Engl. ed.) ii. p. 52.
ENGTH eleven inches and an’ half: bill very hooked, full an inch long: cere and legs yellow: irides orange: the tail nearly even, but the outer feathers rather longeft, though not perceivably forked unlefs expanded: the length of it four inches eight lines, and the wings when clofed reach eight lines beyond it: the firft quill: feather ferrated outwardly *: lees covered with feathers on the fore part almoft to the toes: the forehead and under parts are white ; above the eye and anterior angle of it, covered with flender black feathers: body, head, and upper wing coverts afh coloured, tipped” with grey, the fhafts black: the two middle tail feathers white, | mingled with afh colour: the reft white within, and light grey with- out. Inhabits Egypt, where it is commonly: feen fufpended in the air over the rice fields, like the Kefril, and is fometirmmes feen to perch . on date trees, but never obferved on the ground.
HIS {fpecies is about thirty-four or thirty-five inches in length : the bill-is black; pale about: the noftrils: legs’ pale red: the head:and neck are afh colour: the eye placed in ‘a triangular rufous patch, but immediately round the eye black: the back, wings, and tail, which laft is rather Jong, are of a dufky brown: round the lower parts of the neck, and all eect: ferruginous, croffed with 1 numerous | fine lines of a blueifh ath colour. C Inhabits New Holland. ‘ td .
® This circumftance, added to the fhins being feathered before, and the black fea- ~ thers half round the eye, inclines us to think the bird allied tothe Ow/ Genus.
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61. Has fpecies is twenty-two inches long; and four feet broad from RADIATED the tip of one wing to that of the other: the bill is black: the F.
: : ee ; DEscRIPTION. cere and {pace round the eye pale blue : irides brown: the plumage
in general of a fine rut colour, ie tted and ftreaked all over, with gore, bur crofed on the head and neck with fine lines of the fame: wings and tail brown, marked, with blackith or dufky bars: the tail is very long, with eight or nine biack bars, the wings reaching to the middle of it:. the legs are blue; claws long, black, and fharp.
‘This inhabits New Holland, but is probably a fcarce fpecies, only Peace. ene having been met with, which was found nailed to the fide of a : barn. 62, WINEING BY
SIZE of the. Ringtail; length eighteen or nineteen inches: bill Dgscarprion. pale, with a black point: ae yellow: the general colour of
the plumage is a deep chocolate brown, fpotted with rufty white on
the lower part of the neck behind, and on the axillaries of the wings:
the quills are obliquely, and the tail feathers tranfverfely barred with
the fame: the under parts as far as the breaft, dirty yellowith white,
with fhort dufky ftreaks:. SS covered to the toes with pale afh- °
coloured feathers.
Inhabits New Holland, but no hiftory annexed, further than that ic PLace. has a wonderful faculty of contracting and dilating the iris; and that the native name is Goora-a-Gang. a alco difcolor, 42, Sec. N. H. de Paris, i. pl. 1. p. gt t 4u : note ani ‘Der bunte Falke, Mle. U. d. Vog. ti. 8. 680. 128, ’ ! GREY F.
HE fize of this bird is not- mentioned; but the defcriptionab- Description. ferves, that the upper parts of the plumage are dufky grey; the under, | breaft, belly, and thighs, dufky ruft colour: the under wing coyerts and thofe of the tail white. inhabits Cayenne.
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"[T HE length of this bird is from fixteen to eighteen inches: the bill, legs, and irides yellow: the head and moft part of the neck are white, but the reft of the plumage in general is brown, blotched on the back with dark {pots, and marked on the belly (which is paler than above, and inclining to yellow) with black ftreaks: The tail is long, even at the end, croffed with feven or eight oblique black bars: the quills are alfo barred as the tail, with the ends black. This was met with in New South Wales, and probably is not a numerous fpecies, as only one has been fhot, though others have been now and then feen.
THIS fpecies is twelve inches long: the bill is blue: legs yellow :
the forehead buff colour: all the upper parts of the plumage are brown, as alfo the wings and tail: the throat and under parts of the body buff yellow, paffing upwards in the fhape of a crefcent on each fide under the eye, and again below this, but not fo far: the breaft is marked with numerous brown fpots: thighs croffed with fine brown lines: the tail long; the wings reach about half way thereon.
Inhabits New Holland, and was taken in March. The native name is Goo-r00-wang.
"[ HE length of this fpecies is about twelye inches: the bill is pale
brown: legs and irides yellow: head, neck before, and ail be~ neath, white: the crown of the head, and middle of the belly pale blue: back, wings, and tail brown: the bend of the wing brownith blue, occupying in an oblique manner above half the coverts.
Inhabits New Holland, but neither name nor manners are recorded. Another, very fimilar, was fpotted on the nape with black; the back paler: rump pale dufky blue: tail tipped with pale colour; all be- neath white, but not tinged any where with blue. ;
Genus Ill. OWLS.
* Earep Ow1s. 10, Variegated O, No. 1. Great-Eared Owl. 11. Fafciated O.
2. Long-E. O. 12. Supercilious O.
3. Short-E. O. 13. Georgian O.
4. Marfh-E. O. 14. Boobook O.
5. White-fronted O. 15. Spectacle Owl. Var. A. * * Witx SmootH Heaps. Var. B.
6. Snowy O. 16. Bare-legged O.
7. Ermine O. 17. Booted O.
8. White O. 18. Tengmalm’s O. Var. A. Javan O. Var. A. Dwarf O.
g. Falconine O.
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-* EARED OWLS.
Str. Bubo, Ind. Orn. i. p. 51. 1.—Mu/. Lev. tab. 5. ChE 1, Le Grand Duc, Lewaill. Oi/- i. p. 160. pl. 40.—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 208. se Great-eared Owl, Gen. Sy. i. p. 116. 1.—Jd. Sup. p. 40.
T is obferved, that this bird fees better in the day than any other Descrirrions of the genus, as it is frequently obferved preying on its game in full day light. 1t feems to be a fpecies univerfally fpread over both the old and new continents, as MM. Levaillant met with it in Africa, as alfo the Long-eared Owl, and Scops, on the borders of the River of Elephants, but fmaller, and having a greater degree of black in the plumage.
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Str. Otus, Jed. Orn. 1. p. 53-7. Moyen Due, Levaill. Oi/. i. p. 166. Long-eared Owl, Gex. Syz. 1: p. 121-—Id. Sup. p. 42.
[TN one of thefe which fell under my obfervation, the weight was eight ounces “and a half; the length twelve inches and a half breatiea thirty-four inches: the horns, fo called, confift of nine ae each; thofe in front are the fhorteft, and the fifth the longeft, and when they all lic in their places, there appears a’ black broad ftripe, edged with yellow outwardly, within croffed with three or four bars a a darker fhade. ‘It is found in the neighbourhood of the Cape of
Good Hope, as well as in other parts of 4frica.
Str. brachyotes, Jud. Orr. i. p. 55. 11.
‘Str. Ulala, mas. & fem. Sepp. Vog. i. t. p. 63?
Str. Arética, Mu/. Carl/. fase. in. t. 51 2 i
Duc a courtes oreilles, Daudin. Orn. 1. p. 216. Short-eared Owl, Gen. Syz. 1. p. 124. 9.—Jd. Sup. p. 43-
f~APTAIN Dixon brought over two fpecimens of this bird from Sandwich Ilands. \t is found alfo in the Orkney Pes; where it
is faid to neftle in the ground *. From the almoft impohbilicy of difcovering any one feather longer -
than the reft in dead fpecimens, added to the fimilarity of this bird to
the Hawk Owl of Edwards, or at leaft one fent to me under that deno- mination, | fuppofe them both to be but one and the fame bird; be this as it may, they are known by the name of the Short-eared-Owl in England ; and fufficiently common en the 4merican continent. In refpect to the received opinion of its having the capability of erecting a fingle feather of the crown at will, the fact is much to be doubted 5
* Aré&. Zool. Pref. xxv. ; indeed
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indeed it has a fort of tuft or feries of feveral feathers running back- wards, and {pringing out of a yellowifh line above each eye, which goes over the crown of the head, and thefe tufts the bird ereéts moftly in a quiefcent ftate, never much more than a quarter of an inch in height, and never fo much as to be perpendicular; when alarmed, they are ever deprefied *.
In one of thefe fhot near me in February 1792, I obferved the elongated feathers above mentioned very clearly, and from this am perfuaded, that this bird having in his power to erect a fingle feather only, has no foundation.
I think not improper here to remark, that the Tawny Ow! of Mr. Pennant, if it has yellow iridest¢, I never met with, and except it may hereafter prove the Short-eared Owl, in fome one ftage of its life, I know of no fuch bird in England: our brown Wood Owls have dark or blueifh irides, and one fex of thefe inclines more to reddifh tawny than the other, differing alfo in weight ; therefore till convinced to the contrary, I am of opinion that the Tawny Owl fhould be erafed- from our calendar, unlefs we allow it to be the fame bird with the drowz fpecies f.
*® Col. Montagu.
+ Lonce received from my late friend Mr. Pennant, a drawing of what he called the Taeway Ow/. but it had yellow irides.
t “<M. Buffon a fait tres gratuitement deux fpecies de la Hulotte & du Chathuant ; tandis que trés certainement fon Chathuant n’eft que la Hulotte, dans-fon jeune age, «* obfervation dont je fuis trés certain, ayant eleve plus de dix nichées de ces oifeaux. « On voit que Frifch, a ew grande raifon de regarder 1’un de ces oifeaux comme une ‘¢ fimple varieté de l’autre, malgré des pretendues caraéteres par lefquels Buffoe pree | s¢ tend les diftinguer.”” Levail/. Oifi. p. 164. Note (1-)
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Oo Waindcs.
Strix paluftris, Die fumpfeule, N. G. Deut/ch. 2. 344.——Adllg. U. d. Vog. i. Zafa/i. S.683. 16. Bi—Gr. Muf. S. 82 . HIS is as big as a Crow, and not far from nine inches long = the bill brown blue; tip and edge yellow: legs hairy ; claws black: the upper part of the plumage is white, grey, and brown mixed; but in the head and fhoulders the white predominates : the ears confift of fix feathers; about the neck is a kind of yellowifh ring, marked with coffee-coloured fpots: the under parts of the body are reddifh grey, on the fides ftreaked with chefnut brown, and fome fmaller crofs ftreaks: thighs ferruginous, with dull tranverfe lines: quills grey, with coffee brown fpots, making four crofs ftripes s. the tail has five bands made up in the fame manner: in fome {peci- mens the ear feathers confift of three or four feathers only.
This fpecies inhabits Pomerania, Heffe, and Ti buringia, where it is called by fome the Adoor Fow/, being found in the peat marfhes among the high grafs; it lays four white eggs, the fize of thofe of a pigeen,, and feeds chiefly on field’ or other ice.
White-fronted Owl, Nat. Mz. pl. 171.
IZE of the Little Ow/; length eight inches: general colour of the
plumage on the upper parts brown: the circle of feathers round the eyes dark, fringed at the back part with white ; between the eyes, and over the bill and the chin white; the under parts from thence yellow buf: acrofs the breaft a pale brown band ;, on the wing coverts a fpot or two of white: the firft five quills marked with a white fpot on the outer, and the fecond quills with the fame on the inner margins: the firft quills ferrated on the outer edge the whole length 5 the fecond quill the fame half way from the tip: tail marked as the
quills: legs feathered s. bill black: toes dufky. 1 _ This
OWL.
This was brought from Quebec, by General Davies, in 17903 and with*it another much fmaller, which he had in his poffeffion alive ; it differed in being more dufky, ‘and the circles of the face not fringed on the back part, otherwife fo like, as to be fuppofed merely differing in age or fex: the general obferved to me, that this bird ' frequently ereéted two feathers over the eye ; but although I infpeéted the fpecimens very narrowly, I could not obferve any feathers longer than the reft, which circumftance is alfo noticed in refpect to the Short- cared Owl,
** Witu SmooTH Heaps.
Str. ny&tea, Ind, Orn. i. p. 57. 20.—Seelig. Vog. Th. 3. Taf. 17.—Spalowee Vog. 2. t. 2»
Strix arética capite levi, &c. Bartr. Trav. p. 2856
Chouette Harfang. Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 188.
Snowy Owl, Gea. Syx. i. p. 132.17.—Ld. Sup. p. 45.
OUND fometimes in Saxony, Heffe, and Thuringia, in Germany.
From its preying on hares, among other things, it has probably acquired the name of Harfang. In fummer it is marked with dull pale brownitfh fpots, but in winter as white as fnow.
The Kalmucs are faid to pay divine honours to this fpecies, and augur good or ill luck, according to the bird tending in its flight to the right or left.
In Lapland, it is found ufeful in deftroying numbers of the Lem- mings: the inhabitants of Hud/ons Bay make thefe birds fupply part of their food, eating their flefh when cooked, and drinking the broth made with it.
Bartram obferves, that it arrives in Pen/ylvania in autumn, from the north, and continues through the winter, departing in fpring, and that they fometimes continue their journies as far fouth as
Carolina. {2
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6. SNOWY O.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE,
DESCRIPTION.
0) Wak:
La Chouette blanche, Levaill. Oi/i. p. 174. pl. 45.—Daudin. Ora. ii. p. 190.
HIS bird, from the authority of Mr. Levaillant, appears to be diftinc&t from either the Snowy Owl or Wapacuthu ; neither can it be a white variety of our Great E. O.as itis entirely earlefs; befides, the comparative meafurements of various parts will fhew at once, that it ought to ftand alone as a fpecies; in fize it is fmaller than_ the Szowy Ovw/, and of a more fquat form than that bird: the head too is much larger in proportion: the tail is fhort, and the wings exceed it in length when clofed fome inches, whereas in the Sxowy Owl the tail is pretty long, and the wings do not reach more than half way thereon: the legs in the fpecies here treated of are very fhort, and fo completely covered with feathers, as nearly to hide the claws: the whole plumage is fnow white, with exception to a few fcattered fpots of black on the wing coverts and quills: the bill, which is nearly hid in the face feathers, and the claws, are black. It is uncertain from whence this bird came, but a fpecimen is in the collection of MM. Raye de Breukelerward, at dm/fterdam.
Str. lammea, Ind. Orz. i. p. Go. 28. L’Effraie, Lewaill. Oif i. p. 164.—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 197- White or Barn Owl, Gez. Syz.i. p. 138. 26.—Jd. Sup. p. 46.
HIS is very common at the Cape of Good Hope, but in defect of
barns, out-houfes, and old buildings, it is conftrained to make the neft among. the rocks, in the hollows of which it lays feven or eight white eggs, on a neft compofed of a few twigs and dried leaves. The natives call it Doodvogel (Bird of Death) and the other kinds of owls. Uylers, by which name they call all night-birds.
OW LL
Var. A. Str. Javanica, Ind. Orn. i. p. 64. 39.—De Wurmb. apud Licht. Mag. 1V. 2. 106
HIS is faid to have an afh-coloured body, here and there fpotted with white and black; beneath dirty white, with a tinge of rufous, and fpotted with black. it inhabits Fava. By the de‘cription, it feems too like our Bary Owl to admit of a controverfy, efpecially as this bird has been already found in moft parts of the world, both on
the old and new continent. ;
Le Choucon, Lewaill. Oi i. p. 151. pl. 38. Chouette Choucou, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 186.
‘HIS kind of ow! feems, like the Hawk Owl*, afpecies approaching not a little to the Falcon genus, it is however clearly an owl, and muft be ranked as fuch: the plumage on the upper part of the body a pale grey brown, inclining to rufous on the crown of the head and back of the neck, and on the wing coverts are a few fpots of white ; the greater quills are like the reft of the wing, with whitith tips, and reach when clofed about half way on the tail; which is cuneiform in fhape, and grey brown; all but the two middle feathers are marked on the outer web with tranfverfe white lines, ten or twelve in number : the inner and all the under fide of it intirely white, like other owls: the fides of the face and the eyes in part furrounded with a ruff of hairy feathers, covering the noftrils; thefe are white, as are alfo all the under parts of the body from the chin, moft delicately pure: the thigh feathers hang over the legs quite to the toes, and the legs themfelves covered with fhort briftly feathers: the bill is fmall, and legs are black; irides yellow: the toes placed two and two, or three and one, at the will of the bird.
* Edwards, v. il. pl. 62. b Inhabite
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8. Var. A. JAVAN
oO
DEscrRIPTION.
PLACE.
FALCONINE
DEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
10- VARIEGATED O.
DescriPTiIoOn.
Place.
II. FASCIATED
DsscriPTion,
QO: Wik.
Inhabits various parts of Africa, where the people in the country of the Hottniquas, call it Negt-valk (Night Falcon); it does not appear till twilight, and from this circumftance, and its flying rapidly, not eafily fhot.
Mr. Levaillant caught two of them by chance in a net, for he had in vain before attempted to fhoot them: the female is rather fmaller, and the white of the under parts lefs pure.
Le Choucouhou, Lewaill, Oi. 1. p. 157. p. 3g. * Chouette Choucouhou, Daudiz. Grn. il. p. 187-
HIS isthe fize of the Long-eared Owl, but is lefs bulky, and ftands higher on its legs: the circles of the face round the eyes are white, with dufky markings: chin white; but the plumage in general is brown in various fhades, with a mixture of white, and on the under parts of the body irregularly barred brown and white: the legs are covered with downy erey feathers: the tail banded dufky
brown and rufous white, cuneiform in fhape; and the wings when —
clofed reach two-thirds thereon: the bill is black: irides yellow.
Inhabits Africa, met with in the neighbourhood of the Orange river, and Grand Namaquas: fuppefed to prey of evenings ; for although it has been feen in the day, it has been only when the fmall birds have furrounded it as an object not ufually met with. The female is fomewhat larger than the ma/e, but differs very little in the plumage, except that fhe has lefs white about her, and the irides of a paler yellow.
Le Huhul, Lewaill. Of 1. p. 167. pl. 4%. Chouette Huhul, Daudin. Ora. ii. p. 190. ; Chouette de Cayenne, Mauduit Encyc. Meth. e
HIS is about the fize of our Brown Owl: the bill and legs yellow: the general colour of the plumage of the head, neck,
and body is dufky, crofled with white bars, which are broadeft on the
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Oo WwW L.
the under parts; but the head is only dotted with white: the wings are brown, croffed on the coverts with fine lines of white: quills plain, reaching when clofed to the middle of the tail: the tail itfelf is cuneiform and long, each feather crofled with three narrow white bands, which do not ena correfpond on each fide the fhaft: legs feathered to the toes with dufky and white feathers.
Inhabits Cayenne, and appears to be a new fpecies; by a label ap- plied to the leg of the fpecimen, it was called-Chouette de Four, hence it fhould appear ‘to be a bird that takes its prey in the day, which fome of the Ow/ tribe are known to do.
La Chouette A aigrettes blanches, Lewaill. Oi/ i. p. 170. pl. 43.—Daudin. Orn. ii. Pp: 207. IZE of the Long-eared Owl: the bill yellow: the upper parts of the head and body, wings and tail, rufous brown, with a few fpots of white on the two laft: the under parts from the chin dirty. white, tinged more or lefs. with rufous, with a few dufky {pecks, and. the feathers of the knees covering the thin almoft to the toes; the thins themfelves clothed with fine hairs: above the eye paffes an arch, confifting of a feries of loofe white feathers, over the ears on each fide of the neck; thefe are longer than the reft, but not capable of being erected as in the great and other eared Owls: the tail is fomewhat cu- neiform, and the wings when clofed reach to about the middle of it. This. fpecies inhabits Guicna, but is not very common in our cabinets ; one fpecimen, however, filled a place in the collection: of our late friend and correfpondent MZ. C. G. D’orcy, and M. Levaillanz mentions two others, one in the collection of AZ, Mauduit, and: another in his own.
By
PLace,
WZ SUPERCILIOUS oO.
Description,
Pracz;
64 13. GEORGIAN oO.
DescrirTion.
PLACE.
14. BOOBOOK O.
DescriPrion.
Pracx.
: 15. SPECTACLE oO.
Var. A,
Descriprrion.
Oo Wile
SIZE of the Barn Ow/: length fixteen inches and a half: bill
-yellow: the plumage on the upper parts of the bird is brown, banded -with yellowifh : throat and breaft pale brown, croffed with whitifh bands: belly yellowifh white, marked with longifh red brown ftreaks: thighs and legs woolly, whitith or very pale in colour, varied with fmall blackifh fpots: quill and tail feathers brown, croffed with four or five white bands.
I met with this fpecimen in the collection of Mr. Humpbries, faid to have come from feveral miles within South Georgia, in America.
IZE of the Brown Owl, and at firft fight fomewhat refembles it,
efpecially on the upper parts; but marked with yellow ftreaks on the head, and with fpots of the fame on the back: the chin and throat are yellow, {treaked and fpotted with rufous: belly ferruginous, with pale irregular fpots and markings: thighs and legs covered with yellow downy feathers, marked with black: toes of a brownifh red: the bill is fmall and dufky.
This inhabits New Holland, where it is known by the name of Boobook.
Str. perfpicillata, Ind. Orn. i. p. 58. 24? La Chouette a collier, Levaill. O:/. i. p. 169. pl. 42.—-Daud. Oru. ii. p. 193. Spectacle Owl, Var. Gez. Syx. Sup. p. 5. pl. 107-
HE whole head in this bird is deep rufous, with a white throat, which colour pafies between the eyes, and over them as an eyebrow; whereas in that figured in the Gen. Synopfis, Sup. pl. 1075
the whole head is white, with a large rufous patch, in the middle of which
OW L.
‘ which the eyes are placed : the band acrofs the breaft is the fame in both, and in refpect to the reft of the colours, they agree fufficiently, as to fuppofe them mere varieties, if not fexual differences of the {ame bird.
Mr. Levaillani’s fpecimen was killed at Surinam. It appears to be a variety of the Speéfacle Owl, and the following no doubt a variety alfo of the fame bird.
Str. perfpicillata, Zzd. Orz. i. p. 58. 23. Var. B. La Chouette 4 mafque noir, Levazll. Oi i. p. 172. pl. 44.—-Daudin. Orn.
ii. p. 192. HIS feems to be our Speéfacle Owl for a certainty, sired from the fpecimen in the Lev. Mu/eum, merely in wanting the rufous bar acrofs the breaft; but the large dark patch, in which the eyes are placed, feems abfolutely black, whereas in our fpecimen it was merely dark red brown; added to this, that the whole of the under parts from the chin are nearly white, having below the bar, the belly inclined to yellow; we may therefore fufpect that the two were of different fexes, or of different periods of age. This is faid to have come from Cayenne, from whence we are certain the Leverian one was brought; as to the Collared Owl we cannot efteem it otherwife than a further variety of our Spectacle Owl, arifing
from age or fex.
Chouette nudipéde, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 199.
HIS is feven inches in length: the plumage is fulvous brown
on the upper parts, with a white {pot on each fide of the neck, and other fpots of white on the wing coverts: the under parts of the body are ee with a eerieudied! lyre-fhaped brown fpot on each feather: legs long, naked, iad brown; claws black.
Supp. I. K The
65
us. Var. B,
Description. Prace.
16, BARE-LEGGED @)
DEscRIPTIONe
66
Prace. 17. BOOTED O.
DescriIPrion:
Viace. 18. TENGMALM’S O.
DESCRIPTION.
18. Va rR. Ae DWARF
O.
DESCRIPTION,
Oo W L.
The young birds are rufous, the belly more white, as the fpots at that age are lefs confpicuous. This inhabits Porto Rico in America, alfo at.Cayenne.
Chouette Phalenoide, Daudin. Orn. ii, p. 206.
T HIS fpecies meafures fix inches in length: the bill is black : the general colour of the upper parts of the plumage is fulvous ;
the under wing coverts marked with fix white fpots: the cheeks are
white : the under parts of the body varied with rufous and white :
the wings reach to the end of the tail, which is fhort: the fhins are
covered with feathers, as well as the toes, and are of a rufous colour ;
claws blackifh.
Inha bits the ifland of Trinidad, in America.
Strix Tengmalmi, Jnd. Orz.i. p. 64. 42.—AG. Stockh. Ann, 1783; trim im—=Ara. Zool, Supp. p. 60. Chevechette de Tengmalm, Daudin, Ora. ii. p. 205. 29. Var. HIS is the fize of a black-bird: the bill dufky, tipped with white: from its corners to each eye, is a line of black; the irides yellow ; the circlet of feathers round the eyes is white, mixed with dufky: head grey, ftriped with white, and furrounded with a - dufky circle, fpotted with white and dufky : primaries dufky, barred with white: breaft and belly white, varied irregularly with dufky | marks: tail above of a dufky grey, ftriped with white: toes feathered to the claws, grey, with pea-fhaped fpots of white.
La Chevechette, Levaill, Qif. i. p. 176. pl. 46-
Ghouette Chevechette, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 205. F215 is inferior im fize to the Little Owl, though fomewhat cor- refponding in plumage: the bill is yellow, and covered at the
bafe with hairs, which {tand forwards upon it: the ground-colour of the
ow L.
the bird is dull brown, with fpots of white, on the head, wings, and tail more numerous, and fmaller on the forehead and fides of it: the throat, neck, belly, and under tail coverts are white, fpotted with brown; moftly brown on the breaft: the feet are feathered to the claws: the taikis pretty long, and the wings fhort in proportion, as they fcarcely reach beyond the bafe of it. This character is fufficient to diftinguifh it from the Little Owl, in whicl-the wings and tail are equal in length.
The native foil of this fpecies is unknown. This and the laft de- fcribed are varieties only of each other.
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63. Sd I | SUR 1 ko
Srprs Th wo vE's
Genus IV. SHRIKE.
N°. Collared Shr. N° 12. Robuft Shr.
2. Red-backed Shr. 13. Erect Shr.
3. Magpie Shr. 14. Frontal Shr.
4. Woodchat. 15. Yellow-bellied Shr. 5. Hook-billed Shr, Var. A. 16. Rufty Shr.
6. Jocofe Shr. 17. African Shr.
7. Senegal Shr. 18. Muftachoe Shr. . 8. Barbary Shr. 1g. Cruel Shr.
g. Tyrant Shr. 20. Supercilious Shr. 10. Clouded Shr. 21. Cape Shr. 11. Dubious Shr. 22. Hottniqua Shr.
2. Lanius collaris, Zzd. Orn. 1. p. 69. 10. COLLARED Le Fifcal, Lewaill. Oi/: ii. p. 35. pl. 61. 62. Shr. Collared Shrike, Gen, Syz. i. p. 163. 7. N my Supplement, I fuppofed the Ferruginous Shrike * to be the Canary Biter, or Fifcal Bird, of the Cape of Good Hope; but I am inclined to think it to be the collared fpecies. Thunberg, in his travels +, fays, “ Fifcal and Canary Byter were the appellations given to a black and white bird (Lanius Collaris) which was common in the town, and every garden there } ; it is a bird of
© P51. N° $ + 1. p.293- ~ Lam aware that more than one or two birds go by the name of Canary Byers at the Cape of Good Hope.
4 prey,
S° HR PF sR; Es
prey, though fmall, its food infects, fuch as beetles and grafs- hoppers, which it not only caught with.great dexterity, but likewife when it could not confume them all, it would ftick them on the pales of farm yards, till it had occafion for them. It alfo caught fparrows and canary birds, but did not devour more of them than the brains.”
Mr. Levaillant afcertains likewife this laft fact, and gives a figure of the young as well as the adult bird. He adds alfo, that it is found in Senegal, and in all the interior parts of Africa, and that it is not a variety of our Great Shrike, differing in the quills, of which this laft has fifteen marked with white, in the Collared Shrike only feven ; alfo in the Great Shrike, the tail feathers are twice as broad as in the Fi/cal.
Lanius Collurio, Ind. Orn. i. p. 69. 11.—Spalow/k. Vog. 2. tab. 5. Pie-griefche rouffe, Darnegas, Hi?. Prov. ii. p. 335. L’Ecorcheur male, & de jeune age; Levail). Oif. ii. p. 50. pl. 69. Red-backed Skrike, Gez. Syz. i, p: 167. 25.——Jd. Sup. p. §2.
HIS is common in Egypt, and called there Daguouffe, caught in
large numbers alive in nets, and are fold alive, as well as all thofe birds which the law forbids to be ftrangled, and which muft not be ufed for food till they have been bled; but as thefe fhrikes are very vicious, and cruelly nip the fingers, the bird catchers take care to tie together the two ends of their beak, with one of their feathers *; they are alfo frequently met with in Africa, about the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts.
© Sonsini, Trav, ii p. 319.
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Puacs.
RED-BACKED Shr.
Paaces,
MAGDIE Shr.
ae WOODCHAT.
PLACE,
HOOK-BILLED Shr. Var. A. DESCRIPTION.
Ss He Ree BS
Lanius picatus, 2nd, Ors. i. p. 73. 20; La Pie Piegriefche, Lewaill. Oif it. p. 33. pl. 60.—Daud. Ora. ii. p. 246. Hanius Leverianus, Leverian Shrike, Zew Mu/.t. 59: Magpie Shrike, Lath, Syz. i. p. 192. 49.—Jd. Sup. p. 54. F the (native place of this bird had not been already afcertained to be South America, we might have brought the authority of Mr. Levaillant to confirm it, who as well as Sir Afton Lever received a fpecimen from Cayenne.
Lanius rutilus, Ind. Orn. i, p. 70. 12. La Pie-griefche ronfle, Levaill. Oi/-ii. p: 46. pl. 63. Woodchat, Lath. Syz.i, p. 169. 17- N England, this bird is certainly very uncommon; moft authors fuppofe it to be a different fpecies from the Red-backed Shrike, whilft others efteem it as only a variety. I have only feen one bad fpecimen, which is in the Leverian Mufeum, but Mr. Levaillant obferves, that it is met with in Sevega/, and not uncommon at the Cape of Good Hope, efpecially the interior parts of it, and that fuch birds as are brought from thence do not effentially differ from the Ewro-
pean one.
Lanius curviroftris, Ind. Oru. i. p. 72. 156 Hook-billed Shrike, Lath. Syz. i. p.171.19. Var.” HIS fpecies extends farther than generally imagined, as it has been found in New Holland; it be! in having the whole top of the head black, below the eye on each fide; but the bafe of the bill on the forehead is white,
Siighe is O10 ky. Bs
Lanius jocofus, Jzd. Orn. i. p. 73. 22.
Chinefe Nuthatch, Gen, Syz. ii. p. 655. Var.
Fighting Shrike or Bulbul, Penz. View of Hindofian, 2. p. 261.—Ovient, Colle. for Fan.—Fun. 1797; plate in ditto.
Bolbol, Le Brun, Trav. (Engl. ed.) t. 95. f. 1.”
THE Chinefe Nuthatch feems to be the fame bird as this, as both
have a fimilar name; called in Mr, Pigou’s drawings, Cow Kee Quan, or High-hair Hat, the people comparing it to a Chinefe woman’s head drefs or hat, which is compofed of horfe hair added to their own.
Pennant obferves, that it has probably a moft harfh note, notwith- ftanding. which it has gained the name of Bulbul, or Nightingale. This is called Fighting Bulbul, being trained to combat for the amufe- ment of the natives.
The Fighting Bulbul,.is faid to be enamoured of the rofe. Captain Dixon had two of thefe, male and female, bought at Canton, which were alive off the Cape of Good Hope, but perifhed by neglect in hard weather. They would eat vice, but were fondeft of Cock Roaches, which they were principally fed with.
I faw one of them in the Britifh Mu/eum, full nine inches lone: four or five briftles at the bafe of the bill; bill and legs brown: the
colour of the plumage brown above, beneath very pale; a pointed Jong creft on the head: rump white: vent and under tail coverts crimfon: tail long, all the feathers tipped with white. This came from Guzurat, in India. With the laft, | alfo faw another of only feven inches in length: head black at top, and crefted: plumage above of a darker brown than the laft, all beneath white: under the eye, the vent, and under tail coverts crimfon: ‘rump as the back; tail feathers fhorter than the laft, and not tipped with white; the bill was alfo fmaller, with a flight notch at the tip.
7%
6. JOCOSE
Shr.
PLAGE,
DascRiPTioONs
72%
SENEGAL Shr.
DxsckiPrion,
I WARGS
3. BARBARY Shr.
Dzscriprion.
Pract.
S$) HR. be KEE
Lanius Senegalus, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 74. 24. Le Tchagra, Lewaill. O/f ii. p. 81. pl. 70. fi 1. B Senegal Shrike, Gen, Syn. i. p. 162. 6.
HE defcription given in the Gen. Synopfis, accords intirely with
the bird in queftion: the female is rather fmaller than the ma/e, and the top of the head is not black, in other things it agrees with the male, except in the colours being lefs brilliant; whilft young both fexes are cinereous brown, but paler than in adult age, and the white inclines to rufous.
This is found at the Cape of Good Hope, about the river Gamtoos, and from thence to Caffraria, alfo at Senegal, for it feems to be the - fame with that called by Buffon, in the Planches. Enluminées, Pie gricfche a téte noire du Senegal *, it is faid to make the neft among the bufhes, and to lay as far as five eges {potted with brown.
Wanius barbarus, Ind. Orz. i. p. 79, 45« Le Gonolek, Levaill. O:/. ti. p. 78. pl. 69. Barbary Shrike, Gen. Syn. i, p. 173. 23.
HE female is rather fmaller than the male; the crown of the head only is yellow, with a tinge of green, and the red on the belly lefs brilliant.
In one prefented to the Britifh Mufeum, by Mtr. Schottes the whole plumage is black, except the crown and thighs, which are yellow; but the belly red: this appears to me to be a young male.
Mr. Levaillant met with the Gonolek at the Cape of Good Hope, in the country of the Great Namaqua, but it does not appear to be very common. The individuals feen by him, did not appear to have any
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particular note, nor could the food be exaétly determined, but in three which he opened were found the remains of infects,
Lanius Tyrannus, Ind. Orz. i. p. 81. 53.—Bartram’s Trav. p. 287. Tyrant Shrike, Gen. Sy. i. p. 184. 37-
N a letter from Mr. Adbot, of Georgia, he obferves the following
circumftance : “* A Tyrant Shrike having built its neft on the * outfide of a large lofty pine, 1 was one day confidering how I *¢ fhould procure the eggs, when viewing the neft, I perceived a * Crow light on the branch, break and fuck the eggs, and difplace “ the neft, appearing all the while unconcerned, notwith{tanding _ © both the cock and hen continued flying at, and ftriking it with « their bills all the while, but as foon as the crow had completed “ the robbery it departed. The eggs are flefh coloured, prettily fpotted at the larger end with dark pink, and a few black {pots.”
SIZE uncertain: bill large and blueifh: lore ferruginous: head, hind part of the neck, and fides beneath the eye brown; back and wings the fame: under parts of the body not unlike the upper, but clouded with white: tail longifh: legs dufky. Inhabits New Holland.
LENGTH eight inches: bill and legs yellow; general colour of
the plumage dufky afh: the tail is cuneiform, the two middle feathers three inches and a half Jong, and the fhorteft or outmoft two inches; but what moft beautifully diftinguifhes this bird from others is, that all the feathers of the rump, and fome of the upper tail coverts, have a dafh of fine crimfon at the ends, for one third of
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an inch in length, in appearance like the fingular feathers in the wing of the Waxen Chatterer, but on a near infpection, are not of an horny texture as in that bird, for the webs are perfectly divi- fible.
I met with this bird at Mr. Thomp/on’s, in Little Saint Martin’s Lane, London; but without any hiftory of its manners or country annexed,
HIS is a large fpecies, being full twenty-one inches in length the bill is ftrong and black: legs lead colour: the plumage in general that of the Cinereous Shrike ; but the head andthe whole of the neck as far as the breaft are black: the under parts of the body the fame as the upper, but very pale, nearly approaching to white : quills black: the tail in colour like the body, crofled near the end
with a broad bar of black, but the very end of it is nearly white.
Inhabits New Holland, and from its fize feems to approach greatly
to the Falcox genus.
‘HE fize of this bird is by no means determined, as it has come under our infpection no. otherwife than by means ofa ‘drawine both mandibles feem curved towards each other, of a moderate fize, and yellow, but no perceivable notch in either: the head and hind part of the neck are black: the crown very full of feathers, which when carried erect, appears highly crefted: the plumage’ of the body is pale green above, and white for the moft part beneath; but the breaft and belly incline to yellow: the tail rather long, and dufky, and fome of the outer feathers very pale: quills dufky. Inhabits New Holland.
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EAD and neck black, the firft crefled; from the noftrils to the back of the head a white ftreak, broadeft behind; fides of the jaw the fameas far as it is black: body fine olive green above, beneath fine yellow: quills brown; tail the fame, with the feathers more or lefs tipped with white; bill black, and very ftrong,as in many of the Gro/beak genus: legs brown. Inhabits New Holland, and is in the colleétion of general Davies.
I ZE of the great Cinereous Shrike: bill rather {trong and black:
head crefted: the whole of the head below the eyes very full of feathers, and appears crefted; colour black: the upper parts of the body and tail rufty brown, but with fome reflections of green on the laft: chin white: breaft and belly yellow: quills dufky ; tail rather cuneiform: legs black.
Inhabits New Helland, where it is called Weebong; but it is not a
common ‘bird ; ‘is a bold and fierce {pecies, as it drives ali the ve birds from its neighbourhood.
Lanius rubiginofus, der roftfarbenen Wurger, <d/g. Usb. d. Voz. 1. i. Zufafs. S. 696. Lanius ferrugineus, 42. de la Soc. d’Hift. Nat. de Paris, vol. i. p. 1. p. 911.
HE whole of the upper parts of this fpecies is full ruft colour ;
the under parts of the body pale yellowith red: quills blackifh
within: the forehead a trifle crefted, and ruft-coloured: hind head and cheeks fpotted. Inhabits Cayenne.
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Shr. Descripriom.
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ENGTH i five inches: bill black; crown the fame; forehead white, paffing in a line beneath the eye on each fide, to the hind- head ; hind part of the neck, and from thence to the rump, black, more or lefs {potted or mixed with white; but the feathers of the back in general have the ends white, margined with black: wings black ; on the middle of the coverts a large triangular rufous white patch ; fome of the middle fecondary quills are outwardly marked with the fame, making, when the wings are opened, a longitudinal patch: under parts of the body white, ftreaked with ferruginous on the fides, breaft, and belly: tail black; two or more of the outer feathers white at the ends, and the outermoft of all white on the middle of the outer margin: legs brown. Inhabits 4frica: communicated by Mr. Walcot.
La Pie-griefche rouge a plaftron blanc, Levail. Oy it. p. 55. pl. 65.
HIS is nearly the fize of a Blackbird: the length about ten and an half or eleven inches, of which the tail, which is long and cuneiform, occupies full half: the bill and legs are dufky: the head, hind pare. of the neck, back, fcapulars, and wings in general brown black: the throat and under parts of the boay are of a fine red, growing yel- Jowifh or much paler on the vent, not unlike in colour thofe parts in. the Barbary Shrike, which it alfo approaches in the fize and fhape of the bill; acrofs the breaft is a broad bar ‘of white, as alfoa kind | of ftreak or whifker of white on each under jaw, from: the gape of the bill: the tail is greatly cuneiform in fhape, the longeft or middle feather being five inches long, and the outer one an. inch and three- quarters, the intermediate ones leffeninz in equal proportions ; the whole of the tail is compofed of ten feathers, of a lively red plain ca- 4 lour;,
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lour, paler on the under parts ;_ two of the rniddle quills have the outer webs red, forming a ftreak on the wing ; and the wings when clofed reach a very little way beyond the bafe of it.
This is faid to have been brought from one of the ifles of the South Seas. In fome fpecimens, the ftreak on the wing is white in- ftead of red, perhaps owing to difference of fex.
Le Pendeur, Levaill. Oif. ii. p. 58. pl. 66. 1.
S1zZ E of the Woodchat: length nearly feven inches: the crown,
nape, hind neck, back, and rump, are fine blue grey; fides of the head, taking in the eye, the throat, and before as far as the breaft, black ; from the gape, paffing over the eye, isan arch of white bound- ing the black, as farasthe middle of the neck ; from the fame fprings another, pafling down on each jawto meet the firft, and including a black fpace between them: the wings are black: the belly, thighs, and vent are white: the four middle tail feathers are of equal length, and black throughout; the others unequal in length, the outer one being very fhort, thefe are partly white partly black, and the wings reach fcarcely beyond the bafe of it: bill and legs black.
This is faid to come from India, and to feed on infects, fticking thofe it has not immediate occafion for on a thorn, in the manner of our European fpecies: by the colours, one may juftly fuppofe it to be a male bird.
Le Rouffeau, Lewaill. Oi/. ii. p. 60. pl. 66. f. Zz
26 HIS is about the fize of the Woodchat, and at firft fight might be miftaken for the female of that bird*: the top of the head and neck, back, rump, and wing coverts are rufous: from the fore-
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head over the eye, paffes a white band, and through the eye, from the corners of the mouth, a black one; the under parts are all rufous white: the quills are black, edged outwardly with rufous: the tail is cuneiform, rather more fo than in the Woodchat; the two middle feathers of it are wholly, the others on the outer web rufous : the bill and legs are dufky.
Tenabite Fava, in the Pepabonrhoon of Batavia, and is in the col- letion of MM, Levaillant.
Le Brubru, Levaill. Oi. ii. p. 85. pl. 71. f. 1. 2
HIS fpecies is about five inches and a half in length: the bill is
black; irides brown: the top of the head, and hind part of the neck are black; the reft of the upper parts the fame, with a mixture of white: from the forehead, a white line paffes over the eye towards the hind head: the under parts are white, but the fides under the wings ferruginous; on the wings is a patch of white: the four middle tail feathers are black, the others more or lefs tipped with white, and the outer one wholly fo on the outer margin.
The female is not unlike the male, but thofe parts which in that fex are white, in her are more or lefs inclined to ferruginous, and the black of a brownifh hue.
Ic inhabits various places of the interior of the Cape of Good Hope, efpecially the great river; often in flocks, except in the feafon of incubation, at which time it is feen only in pairs; makes the neft on the Mimofa trees, compofed outwardly of mofs and fine roots, within with wool and feathers; lays five whitifh eggs, fpotted with brown. ;
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22. Le Cubla, Levaill. O// ii. p. 89. pl. 72. f. b. 2. HOTTNIQUA Shr.
THis is full fix inches in leneth: the general colour of the plu- Dsscairrion. mage black, except the under parts from the chin to the vent, the rump, and an oblique bar on the wing coverts, all of which are white: the tail is a trifle rounded in thape, black, and all the feathers tipped with white: the bill and legs are dufky: irides yellow: the female is fmaller than the ma/e, though much the fame in colour, but on the whole 1s inclined.to brownifh or dufky. Thefe birds are found in fimall flocks in the forefts of Hotiniqua PLAceE. Land, and from thence along the eaftern coaft of Africa, where they feed on infects, and the pupz of them, which they fearch for in the cre- vices of the barks of trees. They feparate into pairs during the time of incubation, build in thorny bufhes, making the neft of mofs and fmall roots, and lay five or fix eggs. The note expreffes the two fyllables hd, ché; forthe moft part is a very fhy fpecies.
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N° 1. Hyacinthine Maccaw, 17. 2. Tabuan Parrot.
Var. A,
Var. B. 18, 3. Pennantian P. Var. A. 4. Jonquil P.
5. Carolina P. 19. 6. Pale P. 20. y. Jaguilma P. 21. 8. Nonpareil P. ip) g. Alexandrine P. 23. zo. Ground P. 24. 11. Pacific P. Var. D. Psp 12. Crimfon-fronted P. 26. 13. Small P. 27. 14. Turcofine P. 28.
15. Red-fhouldered P.
Orange-winged P.
Black-necked P.
** Witu Talis EVEN AT THE END.
Bankfian Cockatoo. Var.
A.
Var. B.
Var. C.
Crefted Cockatoo.
Varied P.
Sparrow P.
Chili P.
Gerini’s P.
Pileated P.
Thecau P.
Vernal P.
Purple-tailed P.
Levaillant’s P.
© WiTH UNEVEN TaILs.
Pfitt. Hyacinthinus, Izd. Orz. i. p. 84.
I. HY ACINTHINE Hyacinthine Maccaw, Lever. Mu/, p. 99. pl. in do.
MACCAW.
DEES RSTO Se "THIS rare fpecies is the fize of the Blue Maccaw, length two feet four inches: the bill is very large and black ; the head blue: the body very deep blue, inclining to violet: the quills and tail are violet
blue,
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blue, with a tinge of green on the margins: the legs dufky ath colour: the orbits and chin are both deftitute of feathers, and of a yellow colour: the tail fhaped as in the Blue Maccaw, but not much more than half the length. :
This is in the collection of Mr, Parkinfon, to whom it was given after death by lord Orford; it is by no means afcertained from whence it came, but as all the other Maccaws are of American origin, it may not unreafonably be prefumed that the fame country gave birth to this {pecies.
Pfitt. Tabuenfis, Ind. Orz.i. p. 88. 19, Pfitt. atropurpureus, Pompadour Parrot, Lev. Mu/. pl. in p. 1426 Tabuan Parrot, Gex, Syz. i. p. 214.16. t. 7.
HE one defcribed in the General Synopfis is a male: the female
is moftly green: the head, neck, and under parts are olive brown: belly red; rump blue: the upper furface of the tail is green, the under dufky.
In Cook’s laft voyage, Parrots are faid to have been feen at Tongo Taboo, fomewhat fmaller than the common grey ones: thefe are of an indifferent green on the back and wings: tail blueifh: the reft of a footy or chocolate brown; furely Captain Cook muft have feen very. indifferent fpecimens, as the green is particularly vivid, and the purple, though deep, is by no means footy. -
Pf. Tabuenfis, Ind, Orn. i. p. 88.19. Tabuan Parrot, Phll, Vy. t. p. 253.
HIS is twenty-four inches in length: bill brown; the upper mandible tinged with red: head, neck, and all the under parts bright fcarlet: back and wings fine green: on the lower part of the neck behind, between that and the back, a crefcent of blue: tail long Supp. II, M and
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and cuneiform, moft of its feathers of a deep blue: legs afh coloured: on the upper part of the wings a narrow line of a fine faxon green colour.
The female is generally green, but the fore part of the neck inclines to olive brown: the belly alone is crimfon, and the rump blueifh : tail green above, beneath dufky.
This inhabits New Holland, and is a remarkable variety, if indeed it be one; it differs firftly, in having thofe parts, which in the former are deep purple, of a moft beautiful crimfon; it has in common with the other, the blue crefcent behind the neck, and the blue rump ; but differs materially in having a vivid oblique pale blue-green band near the bend of the wing ; both the wings and quills are wholly green, without any mixture of blue on the edges; and in the female the tail is alfo green, but the crefcent at the back of the neck is wanting.
Tabuan Parrot, White’s Fourn. t. p. 168. 169?
N New Holland is obferved a Parrot very fimilar, which we may
poffibly ftrain a point in ranking as a variety, as all the drawings which I have feen convey the idea of an even ended tail ; in feveral; the pale vivid ftreak on the wings is not confpicuous: the rump blue, but the blue at the bafe of the neck behind is wanting. ~ One faid to be a female, was green, with a pale blue rump ; be- neath from the breaft crimfon; but between the breaft and belly only patched with crimfon: no crefcent at the back of the neck: wings and tail wholly green: the native name of this bird faid to be Wellat, It feems to me not improbable that fome of the above defcribed, may hereafter prove birds in incomplete plumage.
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Pfitt. Pennantii, Zzd, Oru. i. p. go. 26.
Pfitt. elegans, —————-— p. 89. 23?
Pfitt. gloriofus, Splendid Parrot, Nat. Mi/c. pl. 53.
— — fplendidus, Splendid Parrot, Lev. Mu/. pl. p. 27.
Beautiful Lory, Gen. Syz.i. p. 217. 28?
Pennantian Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 61—White’s Fourn. pl. in p. 174. 175. male and female.
HE male has been already defcribed in the Supplement to my Synopfis, and I am almoft certain that the Beautiful Lory does not materially if at all differ therefrom.
The female has the upper parts of the neck and body greenifh: top of the head red, and a patch of the fame under. each eye: chin and throat blue: lower part of the neck and breaft red, as alfo the rump and vent: middle of the belly dufky green: tail dark blue, fringed with chefnut: fhoulders blue; the reft of the wing the fame, but darker. In fome drawings which I faw from New Holland is one of thefe, differing only in not having the blue on the chin and throat.
Pennantian Parrot, Phill. Bot. Bay, t. p. 154.
HIS is of the fame fize, and fixteen inches in length: bill horn colour; head, neck, the under parts and rump crimfon: back feathers black, margined deeply with red: inner wing coverts black, the outer pale blue, making an obffque band on the wing: quills and tail dufky, edged with blue; the three outer feathers-of the laft from the middle to the tip hoary blue: legs grey.
ENGT H ten inches and a half: general colour of the plumage fine jonquil yellow, paler beneath: crown of the head and cheeks crimfon : a largifh fpot of the fame at the bend of the wing next the M 2 fhoulder :
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thoulder: the tail is half as long again as the bird itfelf, and greatly cuneiform ; the two middle feathers pale buff colour, the others more or lefs yellow, moit fo neareft the bafe: the quills are pale yellow, with the inner webs very pale: round the neck, juft beneath the crimion, is a collar of white, or very pale, changing to greenifh at the hind head: the bill and legs are flefth colour.
This was alive in the poffeffion of Mifs Hunter, of Greenwich; called Toto Parakeet, faid to come from the Ramghur Hills, in the pro- vince of Babar, in the kingdom of Bengal. 1 am indebted to General. Davies for the above.
Pfitt. Carolinenfis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 93. 33- Parrot of Carolina, Bartram. Trav. p. 286.—-Gen. Syn. i. p. 227. 29.—Id. Sup.
[2b Dep Orange-headed Parrot, Ge. Syn. i. p. 304. 111. Ware
ARTRAM obferves, that tnefe birds never reach fo far as Peny-
Sylvania, which is fingular, being a bird of fuch rapid flight, as it could eafily perform the journey in ten or twelve hours from North Carolina, which abounds with all the fruits they delight in.
I have already obferved in my Supplement, that the Orange-beaded Parrot and this are the fame ; and Mr. Bech/tein fuppofes that Fri/ch’s bird tab. 52. is probably the female.
Pfitt. pallidus, Pale Parakeet, Nar. Mi. pl. 258.
H1S is about eight inches in length, and has a moderately cu-
neiform tail: the bill and legs are pale: the general colour of the
plumage pale yellow: the quills more or lefs of a rofe coloured dirty white, in fome lights tinged with green, Inhabits New Holland,
PARK GRO; Tt.
Pfittacus Jaguilma, Jd. Orz. i. p. 96. 40.—Molix. Chil. p. 228.—-ld. (Fr- edit.) P: 237-
IZE of a Turtle: the plumage wholly green, except the tips of
the quills, which are brown, and the orbits fulvous: tail very long, and cuneiform.
It inhabits Chili, in South America; moft frequent in the plains fituated between the 34th and 35th degrees of latitude. It is a very clamorous fpecies, and often met with in inconceivably large troops, fo as to obfcure the light of the fun, making great havoc among the cultivated lands, feeding on the buds of trees, and herbs; happily, their arrival on fuch fpots is rarely till after the end of harvelt, for they often tear up plants with the bill, to the root itfelf. Multitudes are deftroyed yearly, without appearing to diminifh their numbers: the peafants mounted on horfeback, with a pole in their hands, ride into the middle of a flock, fettled on the ground, and before they are able to efcape, kill great numbers: their flefh is faid to be extremely delicate, and in courfe is preferred to every other.
Nonpareil Parrot, Nat. My. pl. 93.—New Holland Birds, pl. 2.
S128 of the Pennantian Parrot: bill dufky horn colour: head, fides, and fore part of the neck and breaft crimfon: vent and under tail coverts crimfon: the lower part of the breaft mixed crim- fon and yellow; belly yellow, changing to yellowifh green towards the vent: the chin, and all the feathers furrounding the lower man- dible, white: the middle of the nape behind black and dull green, with a few fmall fpots; hind part of the neck and back, as far as the middle, green, each feather marked with a large fpot of black, or ra- ther the feathers are black, with green margins: lower half of the back
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DESCRIPTION,
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8. NONPAREIL P.
DescRIPTION.
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10. GROUND PARROT,
DESCRIPTION.
Pyar aR! * RYO ant,
back andrump pale green: fhoulders black: lefler wing coverts pale blue; beneath deep blue: greater quills dufky, with the outer margins deep blue: the fecondaries edged with pale green, like the feathers of the back; all the greater quills except the outer one, and fix or feven of the inner fecondaries marked with a tranfverfe pale yellow fpot about the middle, on the inner web: tail blue; the two middle feathers of one colour, the others have the ends pale and nearly white. Inhabits New Holland, where it is a common fpecies.
Phitt. Alexandri, Ind. Orn. i. p. 97- 46.—Spalowk. Vog. 3. tab. 8. Dourra, Sonnini, Trav. (Engl. ed.) v. 3. p. $3. Alexandrine Parrot, Gen. Syz. i. p. 234. 37+
IN Spalow/ki's figure, the ring round the throat is very broad, with no red on the wings or breatt. Sonnini affirms that this fpecies is brought in numbers froma Nubia to Cairo, and that its Arabian name is Dourra.
Pfittacus formofus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 103. 60.
Ground Parrot, Lev. Mu/: p. 219. t. 53.—Nat. Mic. vol. 7. pl. 228.— Zool. of N. Holland, p. 9. pl. 3.
Black-fpotted Parakeet of Yan Diemen’s Land, D’Entreca/teux’s Voy, ii. p. 47. pl. x.
N fize this is rather fmaller than the Pexnantian Parrot: the bill and legs are black: the general colour of the plumage green on the upper parts, each feather banded with black and yellow: the crown and nape are marked with numerous longitudinal black ftreaks: the forehead fine orange colour, nearly fcarlet; all beneath the body the plumage is yellow, croffed with numerous waved blackifh bands: the under part of the wing cinereous grey, with a pale broad
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broad yellow ftripe: the two middle tail feathers are gteen, marked with feveral oblique bars of black; the others yellow, barred in the fame manner; and all the feathers towards the ends growing paler, and without bars: the tail is very cuneiform in fhape.
This is. a moft elegant and beautiful fpecies, inhabiting New South Wales, and other parts of New Holland, where it is known by the name of Goolingnang : it is found in tolerable plenty ; but rarely if ever feen except on the ground, and particularly in moift places: the legs and toes are more flender than ufual in this genus, and the claws more ftraight. It is not known to perch on trees like other parrots, but conftantly feen to rife from among the grafs, and to alight therein again almoft immediately.
Pfitt. pacificus, Jud. Orn.i. p. 104.65. War. «. Pacific Parrot, Lath. Syn.i.p. 252.56. War.
N this the bill and legs are black : the fore part of the head crimfon;
under each eye a large patch of the fame, and another on each fide of the rump; but the general colour is deep green, the under parts paler: the five firft quills are dufky, and both wings and tail dufky beneath.
This inhabits New Zealand.
Pfitt. auftralis, nd. Orn. i. p. 104. 66: Crimfon-fronted Parakeet, Nat. Mi/c. vol. 3. t. 87.
HIS is the fize of the Pacific Parrot; \ength nine inches: the bill is brown, with a red tip: general colour of the plumage deep brown: forehead as far as the crown, and the bafe of the bill all round, fine crimfon; from the eye on each fide defcends a large patch
of the fame: the hind parts of the crown and the back part of the neck half
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half way fine blue, with here and there a yellow ftreak, fhoulders of the wings yellow: legs dufky.
This inhabits New South Wales, and has great affinity to the Pacific Parrot. In the Naturalifis Mifcellany, the forehead only is crimfon, and a ftreak of the fame below the eye: the fhoulders are not yellow.
A bird which appears to be a variety, is among the drawings of A. B. Lambert, Efquire, which came alfo from New Holland. In this the crimfon patch below each eye is much larger, with the addi- tion of a yellow ring round the neck, at the bottom of the blue nape.
In another collection I have feen one which differs further in having the lower part of the neck behind reddifh inftead of yellow : > the fhoulders acrofs the wings tinged and mixed with red, and the fides of the breaft reddifh ; the whole of the nape is olive brown: the tail feathers red at the bafe within: this variety 1s in the poffeffion of General Davies. I have likewife feen it in another collection.
Pfittacus pufillus, Zzd. Orn. i. p. 106. 71.—Small Parakeet, White’s Journ. t. p. 262.
HIS is nearly the fize of the Guinea Parakeet, and under feven
inches in length: the bill dufky, furrounded at the bafe with crimfon: body olive green, paler beneath; tail the fame; but the inner webs at the bafe are crimfon: legs blue.
Inhabits New South Wales : in fome, the bafe of the tail is yellowith inftead of red; itis found in great numbers all over the country about Sydney Cove, and has a brufh-like tongue, well adapted to extract honey from the flowers of the trees, with which almoft every flower of the country abounds.
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Mr. Bechfein mentions a variety * which had the whole of the face crimfon: the upper part of the body dull green, beneath paler ; each feather of the tail,isyerimfon within, with the end yellowifh ; at the bend of the wing isfa red fpot. Mr. *Bechftein fafpects this to be the male, and that the one in / bite’s Fournai may poffibly be the other fex.
Turcofine Parakeet, Nat. Mi/c. v. 3. pl. 96.
SIZE of the Crefed Parakeet: bill black: the upper parts of the
plumage are green, and the two middle tail feathers; the two next have a little yellow at the tips, which increafes in all the others, as they are.more outward, till the two outmoft are perfectly yellow ; the tail itfelf being greatly cuneiform: the head is pale blue; hind head brownifh, the back part of it inclining to chefnut: the whole of the wing is blue, but the coverts are paler and brighter than the reft; at the inner bend of the wing is a long crimfon patch: legs pale brown.
Inhabits New South Wales, but is a rare bird; is obferved not to fly far at a time, and never feen but in pairs, and, oftener on the ground than on trees. The above defcribed from the drawings of Mr. Lambert: one of thefe, in the colle¢tion of General Davies, has four of the middie tail feathers green without, and dufky within, the outer one wholly yellow, except juft at the bafe; the next black half way, from thence to the end yellow; the third black within, green without, with a yellow tip.
+ Der Kleine Sittich mit halbrothen Schwanze.—Al/e. Ucd. d. Vog. 1. i. Zufafi. S. 704.
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14. TURCOSINE PARAKEET. DESCRIPTIQN.
PLACE.
99 15- RED-
SHOULDERED
PARAKEET. DescRIPTIONe
PLACE.
16. ORANGE- WINGED
PARAKEET.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
17.
BLACK.
NECKED 1
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE:
PEO Re, Ryo uels
Red fhouldered Parakeet, White’s Fourn. t. p. 263.—Phil. Voy, t. p. 26g.
IZE of the Guiwea Parakeet: length ten inches and a half: ge-
neral colour of the plumage green, paler beneath: the whole face and throat are crimfon, mixed with yellow round the eye: top of the head, outer edge of the wing, and fome parts of the middle deep blue: fhoulders of the wings, and beneath them blood red: greater quills dutky, fringed outwardly with yellow: tail greatly cuneiform, of a chefnut red at the bafe, and dull blue at the end: bill and legs brown.
Inhabits New South Wales.
ts bird is about feven or eight inches in length: the upper parts of the plumage are darkifh green ; the crown inclining to blue: cheeks beneath the eye pale afh colour: quills very dark: fhoulders of the wings, and all beneath orange: bill pale: legs red. This inhabits the Brajils, or at leaft fuppofed to do fo, as it was brought into England by one of the fhips trading to the South Sea whale fifhery, and is in the collection of General Davies.
IZE of the Alexandrine Parrot: bill and legs black: general colour of the plumage green: forehead and orbits of a lemon colour: chin, throat, and breaft black; the lore is white, and a white line on each fide of the neck, between the green and the black :
belly dufky green: quills and tail black: the leffer quills wholly,
and the edges of fome of tlie others, are blue. Inhabits the Brafis, The defcription taken from a drawing at General Davies's.
ays hy RRR 1: -
*® Wiru Tails EVEN ar THE END.
Pitt. Bankfii, Ind. Orz.i. p. 107.76. Bs Bankfian Cockatoo, White's Journ, tab. p. 139. HITS is fomewhat fmaller than the one defcribed in the Synapfs : in length twenty inches: the bill lead coloured; the head mode- rately crefted, black; the feathers of it varied with yellow: throat and neck yellow: fides of the neck mixed white and black: body and wings wholly black: the two middle tail feathers black; the others have the bafe and ends black, but the middle crimfon, banded with black, as in the firft defcribed, and is found in the fame places.
Pfitt. Bankfil, Ind. Orn. i. p. 107. 76. y. Bankfian Cockateo, Phill, Vey. tab. p. 166.
HIS is twenty-three inches in length: bill as in the Jaft, the bafe of it hid in the feathers: head, neck, and under parts of the body dull brown, margined on the crown and nape with olive: the body above, the wings, and tail glofty black ; all but the two middle feathers of the laft crimfon in the middle, but not banded with
black.
Funereal Cockatoo, Nat. Mz/c. vol. vi. pl. 186.
HIS is rather larger than the common or firft defcribed, and
differs chiefly in having the four middle feathers of the tail of a yellow buff colour, marked with numerous black {pots inftead of bands.
J Sufpect that this bird differs exceedingly, as I find many varieties among the drawings from New Holland, where it is known by the name of Karratt.
N 2 The
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18. BANKSIAN COCKATOO. Var. A.
DESCRIPTION.
18, Var. B.
DeEscrriPrion.
18. VARA
DEscRIPTION.
OTHER VARIETSES.
92
19. CRESTED
- COCKATOO.
DESCRIPTION»
PLACE.
pA Rt Reto va
The ff is black, except a large yellow patch under each eye: the bafe of all but the two middle tail feathers buff, dotted with black: bill and legs pale, not common,
Second variety has no yellow patch beneath the eye: tail feathers from the bafe to near the tip plain crimfon-: bill and legs brown ; this is moft common.
Thirdly, without the yellow patch under the eye; but the black. plumage fprinkled with yellow dots: the tail crimfon, barred with black, juft as in the Sapplement to my Synop/is.
Fourthly, the yellow patch under the eye compofed of pale ftreaked feathers: fide tail feathers deep buff yellow, mottled with brown: fore part of the neck and breaft marked with pale yellow buf cref- cents.
Fifthly, {tems a compound between the two laft, being both {potted on the wings, and waved beneath: the tail barred above with crimfon, and beneath with yellow buff colour.
Pfittacus galeritus, Jud. Orz. i. p. 109. 80. Crefled Cockatoo, White’s Fourn. tab. p. 237. IZE of a Dunghill Cock, and two feet three inches in length: the bill is moderate in fize, and black: the general colour of the plu- mage white: the orbits covered with feathers, thofe of the forehead elongated into acreft; they are ten or twelve in number, brimftone coloured, about feven inches in length, and pointed at the tips 5- behind this the crown is bare: the tail is even at the end, eight inches long; the feathers fulphur coloured at the bafe: legs dufky. This inhabits New South Wales, and is by fome perfons thought to be only a variety of the effer Wbite Cockatoo, which | find to he common in China, where it is called Jimg-wos, fignifying the bird which talks other men’s words.
RAR R OT: be
Pfittacus varius, Ind. Orv. i. p. 112. 99.—Maerter, Phy/. Arb. i. 2. p. 48.
HIS is a little more than five inches long: the bill and legs yellowith: the general colour of the plumage varied with brown. and blue: the cheeks, chin, and throat whitifh: quills and tail duil brown, with the outer margins blue. Inhabits South America.
Piittacus fringillaceus, Ind. Orn.icp. 112. 92.—Maert. Phy/. Arb. i. 2% p. 47%
IZE of a Sparrow; length fix inches: bill and legs pale yellow:
general colour green: head blue: cheeks, chin, throat, and a fpot on. the belly: pale fanguineous; belly itfelf violet: the tail feathers have the infides and tips yellow.
Inhabits South America.
Pfittacus chorzus, Jad. Ora. i. p. 112. 93.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 237-
“HE general colour of this bird isa fine green, beneath cinereous.,
erey, with the tail of a moderate length: the orbits are flefh coloured,
Inhabits Chi; has the fame manners, and lives on the fame food.
as the Faguilma parrot, and is faid to talk remarkably well,
Pfittacus Gerini, Jzd. Orn. i. p. 119. 112. Pf. brafil. viridis capite albo. Ger. Orv. i. p. 95. t. 109 _
SIZE and habit of the White-beaded Parrot : bill and legs pale:: head almoft wholly white: body green: leffer wing coyerts, fome: -
of the middle quills, and tail feathers red. Inhabits Bra/fil.
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20. VARIED 1S ee DsscRIPTION.
PrAce,
21. SPARROW 12 DeEscRIFTION--
Place. -
22. CHILI. ip DeEscRIPTION.
PLacg,
23. GERINI’s Be DeEscrirrion.
Prace;
2
PILEATED le
DESCRIPTION.
AS THECAU Pe
DESCRIPTION.
PLace.
PEAY RE REO) Te
Pfitt. pileatus; Ind, Orn. i. ps 115. 123.——-Scop, Aun. Hit, Nat. i p. 32. N° 32. —Gex, Syn. i. p. 294. Note *.
HIS is the fize of a Miféel-Thrufh: bill horn colour, bafe of it brown: forehead and crown red; cheeks naked: general colour of the plumage green: guwil//s and tail blue on the outer edges; the laft yellow at the tip: rump yellow green. , M. Scopoli fufpects it may be a variety of the Golden Crowned Pa- vakeet, yet does not mention whether the tail is even or not at the end.
Pfittacus cyanolyfeos, Jzd. Orz.i. p. 127. 134.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p.235. .
Tis, according to Molina, is larger than a Pigeon: the head, wings, and tail are green, fpotted with yellow: back, throat, and belly yellow : tail even at the end.
Inhabits Chili, and known there by the name of Thecauz; is a nume- rous fpecies, and does much injury to the corn, often flying in vaft troops, and when fettled, have a centinel on a tree, who gives the alarm on the approach of any one, from hence it is very difficult to fhoot. It breeds in the holes of rocks, laying two white eggs in the moft inacceffible craggy parts ; from the tops of thefe, the inha- bitants let themfelves down by ropes, to take the eggs and young birds, which are thought excellent, and fell at a good price, eight of them fetching about three French fous; if robbed of their young, they lay a fecond and even a third time, rarely a fourth. It ts eafily tamed, and learns to fpeak well.
Py A RR OES
Pfittacus vernalis, Id. Orn. i. p. 130. 147.—Mu/. Carl/. fase. ii. 29.
HIS is five inches and a half in length: the bill reddifh: general colour pale green : wing coverts deep green: quills grafs green: rump fanguineous: tail above fanguineous, beneath blue: legs pale. It is uncertain from whence this bird came.
Pfittacus purpuratus, Ind. Orz. i. p. 132-150. Purple-tailed Parakeet, Gen. Syz. i. p. 315. 121.—Nat. Mi/. i. pl. 16.
SEVERAL of thefe have been brought into England, from Cay-
enne, which differed greatly from each other in fize ; fome of them had the purple tail feathers green for one fourth of an inch from the tip, and the two middle feathers dafhed with purple down the thafts. ;
SIZE of the 4 Coloured Parrot : general colour green in various fhades, on the bend of the wing, and the thighs fine aurora colour. Inhabits the internal parts of the Cape of Good Hope, found frequently
at Koks Kraal river, at which place numbers of them come to
drink. |
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26. VERNAL Pe
DESCRIPTION.
27. PURPLE- TAILED
P.
DESCRIPTION.
28. | LEVAILLANT’s Ps DiscRirrion.
Prace.
N. HOLLAND CHANNEL-
BILL.
DESCRIPTION.
C.AUASN NIE je Bal BE.
Genus VIII. CHANNEL-BILL.
ILL large, convex, cultrated, furrowed or channelled on the fides, with the tip bent. Nosrxits round, naked, placed at the bafe of the bill. Toncue cartilaginous, bifid at the end. Toss placed two before and two behind. Tait confilting of ten feathers. At prefent we are acquainted with only one fpecies belonging to this genus. |
Sc. Nove Hollandiz, Ind. Ora. i. p. 141: 1. Piittaceous Hornbili, PA. Bor. Bay, t. p. 165: Anomalous Hornbill, White's Fourn. t. p. 142.
HE fize of this bird is nearly that of a Crow, and the total length
is twenty-feven inches: the bill from the gape to the point three inches and an half, or rather more *; it is very ftout at its bafe, and curved its whole length; the upper mandible hooked at the point; the upper part is narrow, ridged, and the fides are channelled; at the bafe, clofe to the fetting on of the feathers, the noftrils are placed ; thefe are round, and the edges of them furrounded with a naked red fkin, which continues on each fide, between them and the eye, and alfo furrounds the eye itfelf, but the bare parts are moft confiderable above the eye: the tongue is three-fourths the length of the bill, thick at the bafe, from thence tothe end flat and cartilaginous, and bifid at the end: the head and neck are of an afh coloured grey ; the under parts of the body the fame, but paler: back and wings blueith
* The few I have feen have differed much in the proportionate fize of the bills, but I donot recolleé any one with fo {mall a bill as inthat figured in White's Journal.
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Pl. CXXIV.
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afh colour; the end of each feather tipped with black: the. quills are much the fame, but darker; and the inner webs, as they approach the bafe, are very pale. The firft quill feather is fhorter by three inches and three-fourths than the fecond, and the fecond full an inch fhorter than the third; which is the longeft of all; and the wings when clofed, cover full three-fourths of the tail. The tail itfelf is cunei- form, and confifts of ten feathers, of a deep afh colour; the two middle feathers are eleven inches long; the outer ones only feven inches and three quarters. Near the end of allthe feathers is a bar of black, which takes up moft fpace in the middle ones; the very tips of all for about an inch, are white: the margins of the inner webs, from the middle to the bafe, in all but the two mictdle feathers, are barred black and white; the feathers over the thighs, and the vent and under tail coverts, barred with the fame, but paler: the legs are fhort, meafuring from the heel to the toe joint only two inches; the toes of the fame length, and placed two before and two behind, as in the Toucan; their colour is blueifh black.
This bird inhabits New Holland, where it is called Goe-re-e-gang ; it is not very common, and firft appears about Port Fack/on in Offober ; is feldom feen unlefs mornings and evenings, fometimes feven or eight together, but oftener in pairs: both on the wing, and when perched, they make a ftrange loud {creaming noife, not unlike that made by a common cock and hen, when they perceive a hawk or any other bird of prey hovering over them. They probabiy come to this part of New South Weles only to breed, after which they depart elfewhere in Fanuary, but where is not afcertained. In the crops and gizzards of feveral, were found the feeds of the red-gum and pepper- mint trees, which is believed to be their principal food, and fuppofed to {wallow them all whole, as the pericarpiuni or captule has been found in the ftomach; exuviz of fome beetles have a}fo been found, but not in quantity. The tail, which is not far fhort of the length
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PLACE,
97
98
CHANNEL-BILL
of the body, is fometimes difplayed like a fan, and gives it on flight, or when fitting, a very majeftic appearance. The natives know very little of its habits, haunts, &c. however, they confider its appearance as an indication of wind and blowing weather, and that its frightful icream is through fear, as it is not a bird of very active or quick flight. The pupil of the eye appears uncommonly clear. It cannot eafily be tamed, for Mr. White obferves, that he kept a wounded one two days alive, though he could get it to eat nothing, but bit every thing that approached it very feverely.
HORNBILL é
Genus IX. HORNBILL.
N°. Abyffinian H. N° 3. Indian H. 2. African H. 4. Crimfon H.
Buceros Abyflinicus, Ind: Orn. i. p. 143. 4.—Meyer, Uch. der Neus. Zool, Entd. S. 117. :
Abba Gumba, Erkoom, Bruce’s Trav. v. 3. p. 102.— & App. t. p. 169.
Abyffinian Hornbill, Gen, Syn. i. p. 347. 4-
HIS is fully defcribed by Mr. Bruce, who fays the total length is three feet ten inches, breadth fix feet; breadth of extended wings twenty-two inches: the bill is ten inches long, of which the horn meafures three inches and an half: the plumage in general is footy black: the large wing feathers are ten in number, and milk white: on the neck are feveral protuberances, as in the Turkey Cock, of a light blue colour, changing red on various occafions: the eye is reddifh or dark brown; eyelafhes long, efpecially the upper.
This bird is found in Adyfinia, generally among the fields of Taf, feeding on green beetles, which frequent that plant; it has a putrid fmell, which has occafioned a fuppofition of its feeding on carrion: in the eaftern parts it is called 4bba Gumba, but in the language of Tigré, on the weft fide of the Tacazzi, it is called Erkoom. It has been feen with eighteen young ones, and runs on the ground for the moft part, but when raifed flies both ftrong and far.
It builds in large thick trees, and when it can near churches ; hasa covered neft like that of a magpie, but four times as large as an eagle's, placing it firm on the trunk, without endeavouring to make it high from the ground, the entry always on the eaft fide. On the
O2 froaticrs
ie ABYSSINIAN H.
DEsCRIPTION.
PLAGE,
Mannera,
100
2p AFRICAN H.
3. INDIAN H.
4. CRIMSON H.
DgacripTion.
HORNBILL
frontiers of Sexnava and Raas el feel, itis called Teir el Naciba, or Bird of Deftiny.
Buceros africanus, {vd. Orn. i. p. 143) 5. Der africanifche Hornvogel, Alig. Uch. d. Vog. i. S. 287.—Id. Zufafs. 8. 716. African Hornbill, Gen. Syx. i. p. 348. 5.
| BECHST. EIN obferves, that Mr. Geoffrey the younger, fup-= * pofes this and the foregoing to be one and the fame bird *.
Buceros Hydrocorax, Ind. Orn.i. p. 144. 7 Indian Buceros, 4fat. Refearches, vol. iv. ps Indian Hornbill, Gen. Syx. i. p. 351- 7
[It is obferved in the Afatic Refearches, by Lieutenant Charles White that the name of this bird is Dhanéfa, that it feeds on the Naw Vomica, and the fat of it is highly efteemed by the natives.
EITHER the fize of this bird is known, any more than the
place it inhabits: the head feems full of feathers, and a trifle crefted: the upper part of it even with the eyes, and between them and the bill black; the reft of the plumage a fine crimfon: acrofs the back and fhoulders a band of white: the bill is longer from the gape, than from thence to the back of the head; the colour of it black or dufky, except at the bafe, where it is furrounded with white, and juft at this divifion the noftrils are placed; the bill is ftout, running, to a point at the tip, and a trifle curved for one-third of its length: the legs are the colour of the bill: the tail is cuneiform, and pretty, long, as the quills reach juft beyond the bafe of it.
* See dG, d’Hif?. Nat. de Paris, v.i. p.1. his definition is, <* B. niger, remigi- s* bus majoribus albis, roftro nigro cornu artrorfum aperto, mas gutture rubro, femina: @ ceruleo.”” :
I met
TOF Ri) NAB £.
I met with this bird among. fome drawings belonging to Mr. Smith, moft of which were of Indian birds. I am greatly at a lofs where to place it, for if the drawing is exact, it does not exactly tally with any of the known fpecies, except the Wreathea Hornbill * of Dampier, fuppofing the wreathed parts to be fmoothed off, and in this cafe it has a greater curve at the tip. It feems a curious bird, but I have not met with any one who has feen an original {pecimen.
* This is well figured in D’Entrecafeux?s Voyage, ii. p. 304. pl, xi-
YOR
AO2
AFRICAN _ BEEF-EATER.
BEEF-EATER.
-
Genus X BEEF-EATER.
Buphaga Africana, Ind. Orn. i. p. 147. 10 Pic-boenf d’ Afrique, Levazll. Oi/. pl, 97-—Daudin. Orn. il. p. 294. pl. 22. African Beef-eater, Gen. Syn. i. p. 359. i. tab. 12.
ITHERTO we have heard of this bird only as a native of Senegal; but M. Levaillant affures us that he has met with it in the country of the great Namaquas, near Caffraria, and that it coincides much with the Starling in point of manners, forming itfelf into fmall troops, of a dozen or more in each, alighting on the backs of oxen, antelopes, and other quadrupeds, where by preffing the elevated part of the hide of the animal, containing the larve of the oefrus, it forces it out, to the great relief of the animal, enjoying itfelf a delicate repaft. » Befides thefe, the bird is faid to feed on various kinds of in- fects. It has a fharp kind of cry, by no means approaching to any thing like what may be termed a fong.
is AOINOT:
Genus XI ANE
Crotophaga varia, Ind. Orn. i. p. 149. 3: Crotophagus varius indicus, Ger. Orn. ii. p. 54. tab. 192..
HIS is the fize of the Lefer-Aui, and eleven inches in length: the bill is black, lefs trong than in the common fpecies: head, fore part of the neck and breaft black : the middle and greater wing coverts and tail black; the reft of the body fulvous, inclining to rufous: legs yellow brown. It is not faid from whence this bird came, but we are informed that it was alive for fome time at Ver
failles, where it went by the name of Indian Pie, and a drawing of it:
fent to Florence, from which M. Gerini copied his figure.
103
VARIEGATED:
ANI.
DESCRIPTION.
“VIOLET PLANTAIN E.
DescRIpTION.
PRACE.
PLANTAIN-EATER. e
Genus XI*, PLANTAIN-EATER.
ILL ftout, trianeular, the upper mandible elevated at the bafe above the crown; both mandibles dentated on the edges.
Nosrtrizs.in the middle of the bill.
ToNnGUE entire, and ftout.
Toes placed three before and one behind.
Mufophaga violacea, Mufafreffer, Schr. der Berl. Gefell. ix. S. 16. taf. 1. Royal Cuckow, Lew. Mu/: pl. in p. 167? me HIS curious and hitherto non-defcript bird, is nineteen inches in length, of which the tail is fix inches and one-third: the bill from the tip to the gape is one inch and an half, and very fingularly fhaped, efpecially the upper mandible, being nearly triangular, lofing its at- tachment at the back part, where it is elevated, and hangs over the crown; the colour of the bill is yellow, growing red towards the end, and the edges ot both mandibles are dentated; the tongue not unlike that of a Parrot in fhape: irides brown: the top of the head is purple: lore violet: beneath each eye is a line of white; eye-lids purple: the neck, breaft, and body violet; wings the fame: the prime quills purple in the middle: toe tail iongif:, cuneiform, ob- tufe, the fame colour as the quills+: legs duiky biack, and very ftrong. This beautiful bird is found on the plains near the borders of rivers,
+ lM. Ifert fays the tail confifts of nine feathers only, which might be the cafe with his fpecimen, dut as we know no bird in which the tail feathers are not even in nume ber, I fhould fufpeé& that this bird alfo may have at leaft ten feathers, or even more.
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PLANTAIN-EATER.
in the province of 4era, in Guinea, and is faid to live principally on the fruit of the plantain}; is very rare, for notwithftanding every pains he could take, 4, Yert was not able to obtain more than one fpecimen.
I have ventured to affimilate this with the Royal Cuckow of the Leverian Mufeum, as it feems to agree in every point, except the dif- pofition of the toes, which in that figure are placed two before and two behind. This however may be reconciled, by fuppofing the bird capable of placing the toes in the two different pofitions, at will, a circumftance obferved likewife in refpect to the Tauraco: however, the affertion of MJ. Jert, that the toes were fituated as his figure re- prefents, ought to weigh with us, efpecially as he feems to be the only one who profeffes to have feen the bird. ;
+ Muja paradifiaca & fapientum.
Supp, Il. ea ; iw
105
106 CR Ow
Gewnvus XIII. CRO W.
Ne i. Raven. N® 16. Alpine Cr. 2. South Sea R. 16. Red-legeed Cr. 3. Carrion Crow, 17. Hermit Cr. 4. Rook. 18. Shert-tailed Cr. Var.'G. s. Hooded Cr. 19. Biack-faced Cr. 6. White-breafted Cr. - a0. Caledonian Cr. 4. Jackdaw. 21. Variable Cr. ~ 8. Steller’s Cr. 22. Blue and White Cr. g. Blue Cr. 23. Black and White Cr. to. Cinereous Cr. 24. White-cheeked Cr. 11. Rufous Cr. 25. Rufous-bellied Cr. 72. Red-billed Cr. 26. Changeable Cr. 13. Magpie. 27. Wattled Cr. 14. Senegal Cr.
Corvus Corax, Ind. Orz. 1. p. 150. 1.
carnivorus, Barir, Trav, p. 286.
calvus feu Loripes, Ger. Orn. 2. tab. 143. Var. Corvus clericus, Muf Carl pl. 2. Var.
Grand Corbeau, Levaill. Of. pl. 51.—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 224. 1. The common Raven, Ge. Syz. i. p. 367. 1.
{- RAVEN.
DsscrrPTioN. HE one figured by M. Sparrman, in the Muf. Carlf. differed from the common fpecies, merely in having the chin white.
This fpecies is found in Egypt ; a few {mall flocks appearing about
Rofetta in February only. ‘Thefe mix freely with the flocks of Crows,
remaining on the ground with them, round inhabited places *. It has
® Sennini’s Trav. (Engl. ed.) 2. p. 239 - b cen
Cy R10. W,
been obferved to me +, that a female raven weighs two pounds ten ounces, but the egg fearcely feven drams, fo that forty-eight of them would only make up the weight of the bird. The egg of the Cuckow is lefs difproportionate, requiring only thirty-eight to equal the parent in weight.
Levaillant found that ef which he gives a figure, in Saldanha Bay, at the Cape of Good Hope, where it not unfrequently unites in large flocks, attacking young antelopes, and likewife killing them: that the male and female are generally tegether, making the neft in the clefts of rocks, as well as in old buildings. This is certainly a variety only of our Raven, differing roerely in being bigger, and the bill a trifle more bent.
Var. C. - Corax Cruciroftra, Corbeau Bee croifé, Daud. Orz. ii. p. 226.
HIS is only a variety, with the two mandibles croffing each other; an accidental circumftance merely, and which is not unfre- quently feen in other birds.
Corvus albicollis, fd. Orn. i. p. 151. 3.
Corbeau Vautourin, Lewail. Oif: pl. 50.--Daudin. Orn, ii. p. 227. pl. xiv. Corvus torquatus, Spalow/e. Vog. 3. tab. 10.
Akind of Raven, Bruce’s Trav. App. p. 152.
South Sea Raven, Gex. Syn. Sup. p: 75.
R. Levaillant is certain that it is a diftin@ fpecies; he obferves, that it is rather lefs than a Raven, and is eighteen inches in length, with a cuneiform tail, and the wings are three inches longer : it is flrongly characterifed by a white patch at the nape of the neck, added to a white mark feparating the fides of this white patch, and encircling the neck; this ftripe is itfelf not very apparent, being
4 Colonel Montagu. Bia formed
107
Pracr.
z. SOUTH SEA R.
Descriptions
108
Placg,
3: CARRION CROW.
CR OW.
formed by a fingle row of white feathers, or rather half white, the _ outer border being only vifible: the feathers of the throat are forked ; the beards extending beyond the fhafts, and lefs black than the reft of the plumage: irides brown or hazel.
Mr. Levaillant found this every where in his 4/rican travels, but particularly among the great Namaquas, and in S warte-Land, but lefs common at the Cape of Good Hope itfelf. The female is lefs than the male; the white on the neck lefs extended, the black lefs glofly, more inclined to brown: it is a bold bird, attacking young lambs and antelopes, alfo feeding on carrion.
I obferved a figure of this among Mr. Bruce’s drawings; the bill elevated not unlike that of the 4i : fhoulders of the wings brownifh: tip of the bill white. Mr. Levaillant thinks it a link between the Crow and Vulture, and that it is not a bird of pafiage.
Corvus Corone, Ind. Orn. i. p, 151. 4.—Sepp. Vog. 3. t. 15. Corvus maritimus, Rook, Bartram’s Trav. p. 286? Corneille Corbine, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 228.—Hi?. Prov. i. p. 486. Carrion Crow, Gez. Syz.i- p. 370. 3- HE manners of this fpecies are well known ; Bae a fingular anec- dote of one of thefe has come to my knowledge, attefted by Mr. Edwards. In March 1783, a Crow was obferved to build a neft on the vane of the top of the Exchange at Newca/fle, and the more re- markable, as the fpindle on which the neft was conftructed, being fixed to the vane, rnoves with it, and it appeared very fingular to view it in windy weather, when the neft in courfe turned round to every point of the compafs. A fmall copper-plate was engraven with a reprefentation of the circumftance, of the fize of a watch paper; and fo pleafed were the inhabitants with ir, that as many of them were fold as produced to the engraver the fum of ten pounds. Birds of the Crow genus are ; faid to be fo numerous about 4fra-
chaHy
Cy ROOF W.
chan, that could any one find out the means of deftroying them, it would be doing very great fervice.
Corvus frugilegus, Zvd. Orn, 1. p. 158. 5.—Sepp. Vor. 3. tab. 103.—Bartram. Trav. p- 286? j
Corneille du Cap, Lewaill. Oif. ii. p. 11. N° 52.
Corneille Freux, Daud. Orn. il. p. 229.
Rook, Gen. Syz. i, p. 372+ 4¢ Ree
T is faid that. there are no Rooks in the ifland of Ferfey, although crows and magpies are not unfrequent; nor is it certain that Fays inhabit that ifland*; yet we are certain that Rooks migrate into France from this country.. This fpecies is apt to vary in colour, like the Crow, as two white ones are mentioned by Mr. White, in his Hiftory of Selbornet. . .. \ . . Mr.. Levaillant met with thefe at the Cape of Good Hope, but ob- ferves, that they ,differ only in the noftrils not being bare of feathers, as oblerved in Europe. ‘This probably arifes from fome difference in their manner of feeding, for the young Rooks have the noftrils well covered with briftles, and in proportion as they root with their bills into the ground, the briftles are rubbed off, and at laft the roots them- felves are deftroyed, the noftrils remaining bare for ever after.
Corvus Cornix, Ind. Orn. i. p. 193. 7.—-Sepp. Vog. 3. tab. 106. Corneille manteléc, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 231. Hooded Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 153. 5.
HIS fpecies changes place according to the feafon in this country, breeding in the more northern parts; I do not hear of their doing fo more fouthward than Northumberland; they approach the fouth about the middle of Oéfober, are common in the fummer about
* Col. Montagu. + Pe 4z. the.
109
Placs
HOODED. CR,
bo)
6. WHITE- BREASTED CR.
DescripTion.
Ne JACKDAW.
Cc R. O W.
the Highlands of Scotland, where they breed on all forts of trees ; are indifcriminate feeders, living on both carrion and fhell fith, alfo will eat at times Cranberries, and other mountain berries. I have alfo been informed, that in the ftomach of one were found feveral {mall fhells and horfe beans.
Corvus dauuricus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 154. 8.
Corneille 4 fcapulaire blanc, Lewaill. Oi/ il. p. 14. pl. 53. Corvus {capulatus, Corneille a fcapulaire, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 233. White-breafted Crow, Gen. Syz. 1. p. 3.76. 6. pl. 15.
HIS is figured in the Planches Enluminées, but the wings are
there too fhort, for they reach three-fourths of the way on the tail: the female is fmaller than the male, and the colours lefs vivid: are found at the Cape of Good Hope in plenty; make the neft in trees or bufhes not well cloathed with leaves, and lay five or fix green egos fpotted with brown. The Hottentots hold this. bird and fome others of the crow kind in great eftimation, being of fingular ufe in picking out infects from the backs of oxen, with which they are fometimes fo covered as to be in danger of lofing their lives. In one of thefe, fuppofed to have come from China, I obferved the belly and under parts to be black, and I have no doubt of its being found in Abyfinia, as 1 obferved a figure of one among the drawings of Mr. Bruce.
Corvus Monedula, Jad. Orxz. i, p- 154. 11.—-Sepp. Vog. 3. ts 115. Choucas commun, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 233. Jackdaw, Gex. Syn.i. p. 378. 9.—Id. Supp. p.78- I Have obferved that this bird will frequently make the neft in rabbit burrows, and in the Je of Ely, for want of ruined edifices, in which it moft delights to build, it fometimes makes the 6 nett
c R O W.
neft in the chimnies; On an occafion of this fort, a fire was once lighted on a hearth below, which had not been ufed for fome time, at laft the materials of the neft above took fire, and were in fuch quantity, that it was with the greateft difficulty that the houfe itfelf could be preferved from the flames.
Corvus Stelleri, Ind. Orn. i. p. 158. 20.
Pica glandaria cerulea, &c. Bartr. Trav. p. 170; Geai de Steller, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 248.
Steller’s Crow, Gen. Syz. i. p. 387. 21.
judge this to be the one mentioned in Bartram’s Travels, of an
azure blue colour; no creft or- tuft of feathers on the head ; faid not to be fo large as the blue Fay of Virginia, but equally clamorous; found in clumps and -coverts in the fpace between the lower trading houfe and Rock Point.
Dr. Pallas mentions it as being fiat by Mr, Steller, when Bering’s erew landed upon America.
Corvus cyanus, Ind Orn. i. p. 159. 21. La Pie bleue & téte noire, Levarl). Off ii. p..28. pl. 58.—Daudin. Orn. ii, p- 236.
Corvus cyanus, blue Magpie, Pall. Trav. iii. p. 694.—Gen. Syn. i. p. 394.-
30.
THIs fpecies migrates from the Mongolian Defarts and: China, only into that part of the Ruffian dominions which lies to the fouth of Lake Baikal. The figure in Levaillant’s work feems to have
the feathers of the hind head elongated into a pointed ‘creft, and the
whole of the head below the eyes and the chin black: the body is blue grey beneath, more blue above, wings and tail fine blue: tips of the fecond quills white: tail very long and cuneiform, con-
fitting:
QIt
8. STELLER’S CR.
DescRIPTION,.
9: BLUE: CR,.
DeEscripTiony.
Io. CINEREOUS CR.
DeEscrRiprion.
Tr. RUFOUS CR.
Descriprion.
12. RED-BILLED CR.
DuzscripTion.
CROP. Ww.
fifting of twelve feathers, all of them white at the ends; bill and legs black. ‘This came from China, but Mr. Levaillant is not aware or is filent in refpect to its being the one mentioned by Dr. Pallas.
Corvus Canadenfis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 160. 23. Geai du Canada, Daud. Orn. il. p. 250. Cinereous Crow, Gen. Syn. 1. p. 389. 23. HE weight of this bird is two ounces and a half; iength ten inches and a half; breadth fifteen inches: faid to live among the pines of America; in pairs at all times of the year; are detefted by the natives: the young fly in May.
Corvus rufus, Jd. Orn. i. p. 161. 28. Pie roufle, Zevarll. O:/. ii. p. 31. pl. 59.——-Daud. Orn. il. p. 245. Rufous Crow, Gen. Syxz. Supp. p. 84. : HIE length of this in Levaillant’s plate is nearly eleven inches : head and neck afh colour: back, fcapulars, rump and belly rufous; the two laft pale, inclining to orange: middle of the wing greyifh white: quills black, and reach juft beyond the bafe of the tail, which ‘is long and cuneiform, the general colour of it pale grey ; the ends of the feathers black, more fo in proportion as the feathers are outward, fo that the two middle ones are grey nearly the whole of their length; at the end of each a rufous grey fpot: bill greyifh horn colour: legs yellowifh, faid to come from Bengal.
Corvus erythrorynchos, Ind. Orz. i. p. 161. 29. La Pie blene, Levarll. Oi/: ii. p. 24. pl. 57.—Dandin. Ora. ii. p. 240. t. 15. Red-billed Jay, Ge. Syz. 1. p. 390. 24.
HE defcription in the Gen. Synopfis of birds, gives every idea of
the bird fufficient to difcriminate it from others of its genus ; but
CR O W.
but in refpect to the tail feathers, they are faultily expreffed in the Pl. Enluminées, for inftead of being as there reprefented, of a mode- rate length, and fcarcely more than rounded in fhape at the end, the faét is, that the tail is full half as long again as the whole of the reft of the bird; this we can teftify from a fine fpecimen in the Leverian Mujfeum, ia which the tail is fully as cuneiform in its fhape as in the Magpie; each of the feathers being blue, with the ends black, and ultimately marked with an oval fpot of white at the tip. Mr. Levaillant alfo has remarked the fame circumftance,
Corvus Pica. Ind. Orz.i. p. 162. 32. Pie commune, Daud. Ora. ii. p. 237.—Hi?. Prov. i. p. 487.—Hif. Alepp. p. 69. Magpie, Gen. Syn. i. p. 392. 29.—Id. Sup. p. 80.
T has been obferved, that no greater numbers of this bird are
. feen than in the temperate and fouthern latitudes of Rufia; it is common all over Sibiria, and even in Kamtfchatka ; it was met with alfo in the adjacent iflands by Steller.
In Clayton's account of Virginia, it is obferved that neither Fackdaw nor Magpie are there, and that they prize a Magpie full as much as we do the Red Bird. Many varieties of this bird have been noticed, and others continually fall under obfervation; I obferved at the late Mr. Charles Boddam’s, of Bull’s Cro/s, one of a dun colour, with white wing coverts: breaft and belly white ; this was eleven years old.
One fhot at lord Temple’s at Stow, now in the Leverian Mufeum, is almoft white, longitudinally ftreaked with black: tail white, ftreaked with black at the ends; added to thefe, a magpie’s neft was found fome years fince in Somerfet/bire, in which were four young, three of them had the bills white ; the reft of the body, tail, and degs cream colour: the fourth of the natural colour.
Supp. II. Q%
113
114 14! SENEGAL CR.
PLAGE.
PLACE.
Cc RO W.
Corvus Senegalenfis, Jud. Orz.i. p. 163. 33. Le Piapiac, Levaill. Of ii. p. 17. pl. 54.—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 239. Senegal Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 394. 31.
THIS a4 Levaillant found in Africa, far diftant from the great
Namaquas ; it agrees with that in P2. Enluminées, 538, but has a far longer tail. Mr. Levaillant called it from its cry, which is truely expreffive of its name; it perches on high trees, fometimes twenty together: the males have the longeft tail, more graduated than in the European Magpie, than which it is more flender. It builds on the tops of high trees, defends the neft entirely with thorns, only leaving one opening; lays from fix to eight white eggs, marked with fome fpots of brown, biggeft at the laree end; is feen in the inward parts of the Cape of Good Hope, but rarely if ever at the Cape itfelf Mr. Zewaillant mentioned a fingularity in one of the tail feathers having two fhafts coming out of one quill, one of them entirely without webs, but whether a mere /u/us nature, or common to the fpecies in general, he had not an opportunity of obferving.
Corvus Pyzrkocorax, Ind. Ora. i. p. 165.
Crave des Alpes, Daudin. Orn ii. p. 252.—La Peiroufe, neue Schay. Abb. B, 3. S. 104. .
Alpine Crow, Gez. Syz. i. p. 381, 11.
A Peiroufe obferves, that this fpecies is found in the higheft Pyrenean Alps, defcending at the end of the year into the vallies and meadows. The diftinguifhing charaéter by no means to be drawn from the colour of the legs, as they differ at different ages, for in fome they are black, in others orange coloured, and in old birds quite crimfon: the colour of the plumage is dufky black : the bilt
© R.G: W.
bill is yellow, and bent, but not eoitedia as in the Gornifh Chough or Hermit Crow.
Corvus Gracolus, Jd. Ora. i. p. 165. 41- Crave Coracias, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 253. Red-legged Crow, Gez. Syn. i. D. 401. 39+
ASSELQUIST obferved this bird in the fields of lower Egypt during the months of September and Ofober ; faid ta be common about all high rocks of the fouth latitude of Sidiria, alfo about Mount Caucafus, and the mountains of Perf Hes and that in the firft year the bill and legs are black. The eggs are longer than thofe of the Fackdaw, of a cinereous white, marked with irregular dufky blotches,
Corvus Eremita, Ind. Orn. i. p. 166. 42. Crave huppé, ou Sonneur, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 254. Der Alpen Rabe, WN. G. Deut/ch. B. z. S. 470. taf. xvii. Wood Crow from Switzerland, Borow/k. Nat: pl. 71. 5. B. Hermit Crow, Gen. Syz. i. p. 403. 41.
HE figure in Borow/ki’s work, which feems to been taken from
Albin, is bare about the head, end the creft begins at the nape,
continuing to the lower part of the neck, falling off to nothing at top and bottom, but the feathers of it very long in the middle of the neck: the eye is furrounded with black.
The figure in Gerini’s work is faid to be this bird, but it feems to have a longer bill, and no doubt ought rather to be referred to the
Cornifo Chough. Turdus trioftegus, Mu/. Carl/. Fa/c. iv. tab. 84,
JN this the bill is yellowifh, with brown edges: the head and nape rufty green, with three longitudinal black ftreaks: the upper
Q2 parts
11
16. RED-LEGGED CR.
PLracs;
17. HERMIT
°
DEsCRIPTION.
18. SHORT- TAILED CR. Var. G. DEScRIPTION.
116
19. BLACK-FACED CR. DrscRIPTLON.
Placz.
20. €CALEDONIAN CR.
DESCRIPTION,
CR Giew.
parts of the body and wings green for the moft part: fhoulders, rump, and tail greenifh blue: the greater wing coverts and quills black, on the latter a bar of white: throac, breaft, belly, thighs, and Jegs pale ruft colour: vent rofe colour, inclining to white under the tail, which is very fhort, and moftly black, with the end of a glofly blue.
MM. Thunberg is faid to have brought this variety from fome of the Foaft India Mlands: fize of our Var. C.
GIZE of a Jay: bill flout and black; tongue rounded at the end: the face and throat black: the plumage on the upper parts is blueifh afh colour for the moft part; beneath paler: quills blackith, with pale edges: tail fix inches and a half long, and dufky brown, all but the two middle feathers tipped with white: legs dufky blue. Inhabits Mew Holland, where it is called Kai-a-lora; faid to bea bird of prey. Iam obliged to Mr. Lambert for the above defcrip- tion; among his drawings I likewife obferved another which had a ftouter bill; the head black much beyond the eyes, and the plumage rather of a darker hue, and the tail feathers not tipped with white.
Magpie of New Caledonia, D’Extrecafteux’s Voy. ii. p. 226. pl. 35.
ENGTH twenty inches: head black, feathers of it filky and diftiné&t, round the eye fomewhat bare; all the neck white, and in the middle of the belly a little of the fame: the general colour of the plumage otherwife black: the bill is black and ftout, the end of it for one third yellowifh, and flightly notched: tail very cuneiform, the two middle feathers el¢ven inches long, the next on each fide nine, diminifhing regularly to the outer ones, which meafure no more than, three inches and a half: legs dufky. Inhabits
Ca Rk OFF W:
Inhabits the woods of New Caledonia. I faw a fpecimen of this at Mr. Thompfon’s, Little Saint Martin’s Lane.
HIS is a large fpecies, but the true fize not certain, as the drawing from whence this defcription is taken did not identify it: the bill is ftrong, feemingly lefs than in the Crow, though cha- racteriftic of that genus: the plumage dufky brown, with reflections of blue and reddifh in different lights: bill and legs black. This was met with in New Holland, and was the only one of its kind feen there. Mr. Lambert.
HIS fpecies is fmaller than a magpie: bill and legs dufky brown:
irides brown: from the middle of the crown, the nape, back of
the neck to the middle of the back, the greater part of the wings,
and the end of the tail for one third, of a deep blue; the reft of the plumage white: quills towards the ends brown.
Inhabits New South Wales; known by the name of Karrock. It
feems much allied to the Thrufh genus, as it has not any briftles
covering the bafe of the bill; it is efteemed a rare fpecies.
HIS is about twenty inches in length: the bill and legs dufky black: irides blueifh: the chin’ and throat, the middle of the greater quills, the rump, vent, and middle of all but the two centre tail feathers, are white: the reft of the plumage black. Inhabits New South Wales; probably changes place in different feafons, as it is chiefly met with in May.
117 Pace. 21. VARIABLE CR.
DeEscRIPTION:
Prace.
22. BLUE AND WHITE CR. DeEscrRIPTION,
Place.
23. BLACK AND WHITE CR,
Descaiprion.
PLacE.
¥138 BAe WHITE- CHEEKED CR. DescRievion:
PLACE,
20. RUFOUS- BELLIED
CR. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
Bo Re Ov Wes
IZE uncertain: bill dufky; legs pale: the head is tufted, or rather
fuller of feathers than the reft of the body, and is, as well as the neck, breaft, and belly, black: the feathers of the chin and breaft margined with white ; on the ear a white patch: back, wings, and tail olive green: quills dull ruft colour: the fhape of the tail cunciform ; the outer feathers tipped wich white. ;
Inhabits New Holland, and at firft fight feems to refemble fomewhat the White-eared Fay, but differs in not having the forehead whitifh, nor does the white patch come fo near the eye as in that bird; be- fides, the fhape of the tail is cuneiiorm in the prefent defcribed, but in the White-eared Fay it is fimply rounded at the end.
La Pie A culotte de peau, Lewarll. Oi/- ii. p. 20. pl. 55.
HIS is about the fize of a Blackbird, but differs in having a
cuneiform tail, which is half as long again as the bird: the whole of the plumage is glofly black, with a tinge of blue in fome lights ; but the feathers of the belly, thighs, and vent, are of a fleth colour, or pale rufous, and the vent rather inclines to brown: the bill and legs are black.
This bird is figured from one in the collection of M. Ray de Breu- kelerward, of Amfterdam, and {aid to have been brought from one of the South Sea ifles. It feems to have fome affinity to the Senegal Crow, from its fhape and cuneiform tail: the bill is not fo ftrong in pro- portion as in the Magpie, but more approaching to that of the Thrufhes. In this fingle fpecimen, were obferved only eight feathers in the tail, and onthe moft minute inveftigation, no traces of more could be found ; if it be really the cafe with others of the fame fpecies, as may be known hereafter, it is, we believe, a fingular occurrence, as although frequently more, we do not at prefent know any bird which has fewer than ten feathers in its tail.
& RG wy. *. Le Temia, Levaill. Oi/: ii. p, 22. pl. 56. HIS is about the fize of our Song Thrufh in the body, but rather longer in proportion: the Berean colour of the plumage is black, and the texture of the feathers fine, delicate and foft; but thofe round the bafe of the bill, as far as the eye and chin, are ftiff and fhort, appearing more like black velvet, and thofe on the reft of the body, in different reflections of light, are gloffed with green and purple; thofe of the tail above, feem gloffed with green, the four middle ones wholly fo, but the others only on the outer webs; the tail is greatly cuneiform, and contains ten feathers; the four middle ones or longeft are of equal length, and longer than the reft of the body; the others leffen till the outer ones are very fhort: the bill and legs are black, and perhaps may be allied to the Crow genus, howerchs the bill in fhape is greatly fimilar to that of the Beefeater, and the bird may not unlikely be poffeffed of the fame manners. This was fent from Batavia, to Mr. Temminck, of Amfferdam, but it is by no means certain that this was its native country.
Pie a pendeloques, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 246. pl. xvi.
ENGTH fifteen inches: bill black, flender, and a little elon- gated: the general colour of the plumage brownifh grey: the feathers at the top of the head and neck edged with whitifh; onthe cheeks a little downy, at the bottom of whiclr arifes a cylindrical caruncle, ten lines in length, hanging on each fide of the neck; throat white; fore part of the neck, and under parts of the body dirty white, the’ riddle of each feather’ dafhed with brownifh : on the middle of the’ bélly’a pateh' of ‘fine yellow: quills tipped with white: tail greatly cuneiform,’ each feather tipped with white: legs greyifh yellow’; claws brownifh grey, fharp, crooked, and ftrong. Inhabits New Zealand.
119 26. CHANGEABLE CR.
DESCRIPTION..
Places.
27. WATTLED CR.
DEscriPTion,
Pracs.
120
Te BENGAL R. Var.
DescRIPTION.
PLACE.
Ze DOCILE R.
DeEscRIPTION.
Revo! Te Es Re
EA NEES! PODYO MN RGAE, Va Re
N’ 1. Bengal R. N° 5. Piping R. 2. Docile R. 6. Crimfon R, 3. Noify R. 7. Hairy R. 4. Striated R, 8. Red-breafted R.
Cor. Bengalenfis, Ind. Orxz. i. p. 168. 2. Var. Rollier tacheté, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 258.
SIZE of the Common Roller; \ength thirteen inches: bill black ; head rufous, with a whitifh mixture in the face: the general colour of the plumage is rufous, tinged with dirty green on the back, and inclining to red beneath, marked with a longitudinal white ftripe on each feather: wings dull pale green: quills fky blue: tail rufous brown, pretty long, and the feathers of equal lengths: legs dufky. A fpecimen of this bird isin the Mufeum at Paris, brought from Sene- gal, by M. Geoffroy de Villeneuve. \t has been alfo killed in Caffraria by Mr. Levaillant. It is probably a young bird of the Bengal Roller.
Coracias docilis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 172. 17.—S. G. Grell, It. iii. po 378. t. 42.— Daud. Orn. ii. p. 266.
HE fize of a Fackdaw: bill and legs ae, the bill is rather bent, feathered on the fides, and the under part at the bafe covered with white feathers: eyes black, round them dull grey, behind and beneath them whitifh, with a flight mixture of red; the upper parts of the head, neck, and breaft are much the fame; belly and vent chefnut
RO Bret ke: Re
chefhut brown: the nine firft quills are half white half black; the reft wholly black: tail black, with the tip white.
Inhabits Pev/ia, and has obtained its name from imitating words and actions of thofe around, fuch as crying, laughing, and fuch like.
Coracias ftrepera, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 173. 21- Reveilleur de L?Ifle Norfolk, Daud. Orz.1i. p. 267. Corvus graculinus, White-vented Crow, White's Journ. Bat. Bay, tab. p. 251.
E NGTH nineteen inches; fize fomewhat bigger than a 7ack-
daw: bill two inches and three quarters long, curved at the point, with a flight notch at the very tip; colour black; noftrils elongated, oval: the irides are orange: the general colour of the plumage is black; the feathers about the head fhort and tiff: the firft quill feather is half the length of the fifth, which is the longeft of all; the firft fix quills are white at the bafe, producine when clofed a white patch on the wing : vent, and bafe of all the tail feathers white: the tail is eight inches long, even at the end, and the feathers pointed at the tips, marked on the inner web with white, except the two middle ones, which are wholly black ®: the wing when clofed reaches more than half way on the tail: the legs ate ftrong, feathered rather below the heel; hind toe very large and ftrone.
This fpecies is very numerous at Norfolk Yland, and is very cla- morous, efpecially of nights ; called a Magpie by our failors, perhaps ton account of the colours, added to the fimilarity of voice. Itis a very foolifh bird, running after any perfon, and fuffering itfelf to be knotked down with a ftick.
‘® In the engraved coloured plate of this bird, in White's Fourzal, all the tail fea- thers have white ends, whereas the two middle ones are black the whole of their
Jength.
Supp, IL R
ve NOISY R.
DescrrYe rion,
PLAcE;
122
4. STRIATED R.
DEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
Se PIPING R. DESCRIPTION.»
Place.
6. CRIMSON R
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
ROL LE R.
ENGTH fifteen inches: bill flefh colour; tongue briftly at the end: plumage on the upper parts olive green, marked on the back with fine ftreaks of black, inclining to afh colour on the cheeks : the under parts of the body white ftreaked with black: leffer wing coverts black, edged with pale crey ; the reft, as well as part of the quills, are pale grey, almoft white: quills black: tail pale afh colour,. and pretty long: legs black. Inhabits New South Wales.
HIS bird is eighteen or nineteen inches long: bill two inches: or more, ftraight, except at the point of the upper mandible, which is bent; the colour blue, the tip black: general colour of the plumage deep black, except the nape, wing coverts, and fome of the greater quills at the bafe, rump, vent, and bafe of all the tail feathers for two-thirds of the length, which are white, but the end of the tail is black, as is the whole of the outer feather on-the outer web: legs dufky flate colour. Inhabits New South Wales, where it is known by the name of Tarra-war-nang; it has a foft note, not unlike the found of a well- toned flute; it preys often on {mall birds.
‘Crimfon Roller, Lew. Mu/. tab. in p. 63.
1ZE of a Crow: bill red: the whole plumage crimfon, inclining ~ to pompadour red, but fomewhat deeper: the tail is even at the end, of the fame colour as the reft.of the plumage, but darker ; ‘the
under part of it dufky black; quills of this laft colour: legs dufky. This moft beautiful fpecies inhabits Cayenne ; a fine {pecimen is in the colletion of Mr. Martyu, of Great Marlborough Street ; that from eh: S which.
RO 7b sie ro RR.
which the figure in the Leverian Mufeum was engraven, was taken from a painting in the collection of the late M. G. D’Orcy, commu- nicated by Colonel /VYoodford: this feems to differ in fome degree, for the feathers of the crown are elongated, fo as to make ft appear fomewhat crefted, and the quills and tail are faid to be wholly black.
"THE bill and legs in this bird are dufky blue; the whole of the neck, breaft, and belly teftaceous brown, ftreaked with white, and the feathers rather loofe and elongated: back and wing coverts green brown, edged with blue and changeable red: quills deep blue: tail long, even at the end, and like the quills in colour: above the eyes a ftreak of white, and beneath them a dark one. A drawing of this bird is in the collection of Colonel Woodford.
Red-breafted Roller, Lew. Muy. tab. in ps 199.
TH IS is nearly the fize of a Common Crow: the bill is ftrong and
- black: the general colour of the plumage is alfo black, flightly glofied with blue on the back and wings: the fore part of the neck and breaft are bright fcarlet, inclining to crimfon, changing to ferru- ginous at the lower part: the tail confifts of twelve feathers, and is lightly cuneiform: legs black.
The above defcription taken from a fpecimen in the collection of the late Mr. Bailey, dealer in curiofities in the Haymarket, who informed me that it came from South America.
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7. HAIRY R. Discriprion,
8. RED- BREASTED R.
DeEscRIPTION.
PrLace.
I. CHESNUT and BLACK OR.
DascxiPTion.
ManNeERs,
O'R. 1, (Omir:
«Genus XV. ORIO LE.
N°r. Chefnut and Black Or. © N° 4. Golden Or. ‘ 2. Leffer Bonana Or.. 5. Carthagena Or. 3. Olive Or.
Oriolus caftaneus, Jud. Orn. i. p. 181. 250. Carouge varié, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 3346. Chefnut and Black Oriole, Gen. Syn. il. p, 437+ 24-
-N a letter. from Mr. 4b07; of. Geoegia, in America, he obferves;
“ the Chefnut and Black Oriole is not common in thefe parts ; the <¢ bird you defcribe as its hen, I efteem another fpecies; but con- “€ fidering what you remark about the Ba/timore and other young © birds, I believe it to be a young cock of the fecond fummer ; “they fing loud, and but little different from your No. 24: “the fize, colour, bill, and legs agree, and the fpots and. fhades. cc differ in different birds, having all the appearance of moulting “and becoming like the former, but the hen is quite a different “‘ bird, having no chefnut about her: the young birds are all like «¢ hens, which is the cafe with feveral of this country.”
The neft is built in the beginning of Magy, in the fork of the top- fprigs of Sweet Gum, curioufly woven with the fmali twigs of a plant like green hay, and lined with wool: the eggs are of a very pale or whitifh blue, marked or ftreaked round the larger end_ with dark brown.
I very much rely on the opinion of Mr. or, who is an excellent obierver, and am inclined to think from what he fays, as well as what has bgen hinted to me from my fitend General Davies, that.
thele.
Om FO i, ES
thefe birds vary exceedingly before they arrive at mature plumage, for in one pointed out by this laft gentleman to me as a female, the chin and throat were black: head mottled green and black, in the manner of the Pewit Gull, before its final change into deep black: wings brown, with a rufous bar: under parts of the body pale yellow, but the middle of the belly inclined to rufous: the tail dark olive green, with the twa middle feathers nearly black.
Oriolus Xanthorus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 181. 26. Carouge cul jau n, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 384. Leffler Bonana Bird, Gez. Syz. ii. p. 438. 25.
TJ F the bird figured by Briffon, and that of Edwards be the fame,
the laft is by much the biggeit, as appears by the Leverian Mu- feum, which contains fpecimens of beth. In Briffon’s bird the lore and chin only are black, but in that of. Edwards, the fore part of the head, chin, throat, and the wing coverts have a large portion of white: the yellow parts in Briffon’s bird are very full and bright, but in that of Edwards, of a greenifh yellow.
Oriolus olivaceus, Izd. Orn. i. p. 186, 41. Var. IGerus caftaneus, Troupiale chatain, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 353. Cayenne Olive Oriole, Gen. Sy. il. p. 447- 39-
SIZE of the Olive Oriole: bill black: head, neck, and general colour of the plumage fine velvet black: throat, breaft, belly, back, rump, -and vent fine gloffy chefnut: belly and thighs dufky :. wings and tail black: greater wing coverts tipped with white, form-
ing a tranfverfe band of that colour: legs black. The female is of a colour lefs deep, inclining to. brown above, and
to rufous beneath, with the vent feathers grey.
M. Daudin received the above from Cayenne, with the Olive Oriole,
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Fa LESSER BONANA OR.
DESCRIPTION.
3. OLIVE OR. Var.
DgscripTion.
4 GOLDEN OR.
Se CARTHAGENA OR.
DascriPTioNne
Brace.
OR TO LL E.
Oriole, to which it feems to be allied at leaft, if not that bird in any of its changes of plumage: faid to make the neft of a plain rounded hemifpherical fhape, of dried roots and fibres, and commonly many nefts are found on the fame tree.
Oriolus Galbula, Iza. Orn. i. p. 186. 45. Galbula Aldrov. Ger. ‘Ora. iii. t. 307. 308. 309. Golden Oriole, Nat. Mic. viii. pl. 285.—Ger. Syn. ii. p. 449. 43.—Id. Sup. p. 89.
IN Sepp’s plate, the neft feems compofed of pale mofs mixed with
feathers, and faftened round the divarication of a bifid branch. In the firft plumage the males and females refemble each other: they feem to inhabit the greater part of the old continent; Ruel * found them at Aleppo, in autumn, where they are ufed as food ; Sonnini + obferved them migrating through Egypf, and in doing this they take up fifteen days, during which they are caught for food ; is certainly the Mango Bird of India, as Mr. Macneil { found it in great plenty in the ifland of Salt, and fays the notes are plaintive and melodious, though fimple: it is probably the bird called at Malabar by the name of Magnakii ; faid to be entirely yellow, except the wings, which are black §.
Coracias cartaginienfis, Scop. An. Hi/f. Nat. i. p. 40.
IZE of the common Oriole: bill black; head the fame; throat
white: breaft, belly; and rump: yellow: wings and tail rufous, fpotted with black; a white ftreak paffes from the bafe of the upper mandible on each fide to the nape: back varied rufous and brown.
Scopoli found this in the Emperor of Germany's menagerie at Vienna, to which place it was brought from Carthagena, in South America, by Cl. facquin. it was an unquiet and clamorous bird.
* Hift. of Aleppo. + Trav. (Engl. ed.) iii. p. 318. t Archaol, viii. p. 252. § See Bartholomeo’s Voy. to India, (Engl. ed.) p. 224.
GHk FAS Kg E:
Gee w 05 CVI Gi Re Ay Ke Te
N° 1. Paradife Gr. N° 5. Green Gr. 2. Crefted Gr. 6. Black-headed Gr. 3. Egyptian Gr. 7. Pied Gr. 4. AbyfMfinian Gr. 8. Blue-eared Gr.
Gracula triftis, Ind. Orz. 1. p. 190. 3. Gracula grillivora, Martin acridophage, Daud. Ora. ii. 285. Paradife Grakle, Ge. Syz. ii. p. 458. 3. E believe that this bird varies greatly : in a fpecimen from Jndia, in poffeffion of General Davies, the whole fpace on each fide of the head, from the gape, through the eye, and much beyond it, was bare; the whole of the head otherwife cloathed with greenifh black feathers; but the chin, and fore part of the neck to the breaft, were afh colour: the reft of the bird as before defcribed in the Ge- eral Synopfis. In this work *, it is mentioned from M. Buffon, that the inhabitants of the ifland of Bourbon having imported fome of thefe birds for the purpofe of deftroying the Gra/boppers, the birds increafed fo faft, that after having deftroyed the inlets, they attacked not only the fruits, but young Pzgeons, and became a greater fcourge than the Grafboppers had been before. We learn, however, that this affertion ‘is not precifely the faét, and moft likely M. Buffon had been mifin- formed ; for MZ. Dupleffin, who gave it as his opinion, that thefe birds might be ufeful to be introduced into that part of Spain fituated to- wards 4frica, by way of deftroying the Locu/ts there, had been many years refident in the ifland of Bourbon, where he had feen thofe birds introduced, that indeed they have been much multiplied in that ifland, but fo far from themfelves being confidered as a nuifance, the laws for their prefervation are ftill in force. * Gen. Syn. li. p. 459. R 4
1. PARADISE Gr.
DescRiPTion.
2128
2. CRESTED Gr.
DESGRIPTION.
3. EGYPTIAN
Gr.
DEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
4. ABYSSINIAN Gr.
DascripTion.
Pracs,
GoR AK oy Ee.
Gracula criftatella, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 192. 8. Quifcale criftatelle, Daudin. Oru. ii. p. 320. Crefted Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 464. 7.—Id. Sup. p. go. NE of thefe, or very like, is in the Briti/b Mufeum, which came from the Mabratta country in India: the forehead is moderately crefted : length of the bird nine inches and a half: bill and legs yellow : the plumage is brown, but the head and neck are black; the laft in- clining to dufky+ the greater quills are white, but black towards the tips: fecond quills like the back: under tail coverts white: tail black, more than three inches in length; the feathers of it decreafing in length a trifle towards the middle: the ends of all the feathers are white, but the two middle ones the leaft in proportion, being only tipped with white.
Gracula Atthis, Izd. Orz. i. p. 192. to» Quifcale Atthis, Daudin. Orn. i. p. 321. Egyptian Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 466. 9.
HE only reprefentation I have feen of this, is among the drawings
of the late Mr. Bruce: the colour of the plumage is green, but
onthe ears, the axilla, and under parts, a purplifh blue: tail blue green: bill and legs black.
This is faid to inhabit Abyfinia, where it is known by the name of Warda*.
IZE of the laft: bill black: irides ftraw colour: head deep afh colour: body green, ending in a point on the breaft: beneath the body dull ferruginous orange: legs. black.
Found in byfinia, with the laft {fpecies, to which it feems greatly allied.
* Sonnini calls it Egyptian Raven. See Trav. (Engl. ed.) ii. p. 239. Note °.
POR Aer dy 2B
HIS is fomewhat lefs than one foot in length: general colour
pale dull green: the chin mottled, dufky and brown: the under parts of the body from the breaft whitifh, with a few dufky ftreaks ; wings and tail dufky, the firft edged with white, the laft even at the end, tipped with white: the bill is ftout, a little bent at the point, and of a horn colour; tongue half the length of the bill, pointed at the end: legs black.
Inhabits New Holland, where it is faid to be a rare bird.
Tt is with no little difficulty that we have been able to fix limits to the genus of Grak/e, more efpecially to thofe which inhabit New Hol- land: and to fay the truth, great uncertainty has arifen in refpect to other genera alfo, not only in regard to birds, but quadrupeds, as well as other claffes. It is true, that whenever any difficulty prefents itfelf, it may often be obviated by creating a new genus, and many pertons are of opinion, that this is the only way to afcertain the place any individual ought to hold in the fyftem; but although it may be allowed in fome inftances, it fhould be in fuch only where neceffity may make it unavoidable: a far better way being in our opinion rather to ftrain a trifling point, than burthen the memory by forming numerous new genera. On this account, I venture to enumerate the following fpecies, referving to others the full right of differing in fen- timent :
ENGTH nine inches: bill yellow, a trifle bent, and ftouter at the bafe than is ufual in the Téru/b genus, thovgh not greatly diffi- milar : the forehead is white, but the reft of the head black : the throat, whole of the neck, and all beneath are white, but inclining to blueifh in fome parts: the back, and ail the wing coverts, without exception, are fine pale blue grey, with a trace of white acrofs the lower part of ) the
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5. GREEN Gr. DEscriprTion,
PLacg,
6. BLACK- HEADED Gr. Description.
PLACE.
7. PIE Gr. DeEscRIPTION.
PLAce.
8. EBLUE-EARED Gr. DEscRLPTION.
GAR AY Ry Lae B.
the laft: the quills are dufky, edged with pale ruft: tail three inches in leneth, blueifh afh colour, fome of the outer feathers inclining to pale grey near the ends: legs longifh, {caly, of a pale yellow oker colour; claws dufky and ftout.
Inhabits New South Wales. 1 am indebted to General Davies for the knowledge of this fpecies, having been brought from Port Fack/on, by Governor King.
ENGTH ten inches: bill formed as in the laft, and yellow: fore- head, chin, and throat white; alfo a trace of the fame from the nape on each fide of the neck to the bottom of it; the reft of the head and neck are black, coming forwards on the breaft as a broad bar: the back, fecond quills, and all the outer edge of the wings, as alfo the whole of the prime quills, are black, with a tinge of blue in fome lichts ; the reft of the feathers of the wing white, and when the wing is clofed, giving the appearance of two white bars connected in the middle: the under parts from the breaft are white: tail white, the feathers pretty nearly equal in length; near the end a bar of black : legs dull flate colour. AInhabits New South Wales, with the laft fpecies.
% NGTH eleven inches and a half: bill, forehead, crown of the
4 head, and fides of the cheeks, black : chin, throat, and oreaft lead colour: under the cheeks, fides of the neck, and all beneath from the ‘breaft, white: at the back part of the head a crefcent of white: hind part of the neck, fhoulders, back, wings, and tail, yellowifh green quills dark brown, with yellow margins; towards the ends grey: round the eyes a bare {pace of a bright blue colour: legs blue black; claws black and crooked.
Inhabits New Holland: brought from Botany Bay. I am obliged to General Davies for the above defcription.
CA eR Ue Curt 13t
Geaus XVIMN. CUR UCU
The Leverian Trogon, Lew. Mu/. p. 175. pl. p. 177- ome
HE bill in this bird is lead colour, paler at che tip: shead, neck, DescriPrion. and breaft fine deep violet blue: wings black; quills edged with white: back blueifh green, with a tinge of gold colour: the upper tail coverts filky, of a deep lucid blue green: tail black, with a greenifh caft; the feathers fquare at the ends, the middle ones flightly tipped with black ; the two outer ones on each fide gradually fhorter, black, obliquely edged and tipped with white: belly white, . with a very flight reddifh tinge or buff colour: legs black. Inhabits South America; in fize about that of the Violet-headed Prace. Curucui, to which it very nearly approaches, and may poffibly, on
future enquiry, prove to be a mere variety or fexual difference of “fhat bird.
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GERINi’s OB.
DescriFTion.
LBAV AN R. Bae oe
GENUS XIX. BAR BET,
Bueco Gerini, Ind, Orn. i. p. 207. 29.—=Ger. Orn. ii, p. 51. te 1816
SIZE of a Lhrufh: length nine inches: bill black, ftout: crown of
the head blue, fpotted with black in the middle; beneath the eyes, the cheeks, and fore part of the neck for half way, black: quills black: hind part of the neck, as far as the beginning of the back, and moft part of the belly and vent, rufous red.
The native place of this bird is quite uncertain; I have only met with it in the engravings of M4. Gerini, who calls it a Woodpecker s but the bill is large, and more like that of the Barbet, hence I have ventured to rank it in that genus.
Cy Ue Casks (0). W.
GENUS XX. C40 CK OW.
N° 1. Common C, N° 8. Blue-headed C, 2. Cupreous C. g. Pheafant C. 3. Gilded C. 10. Tippet C. 4. Honey C. 11. Fan-tailed C. 5- Long-billed Rain C, 12. Gloffy C. 6. Touraco C, 13. Abyffinian C. 7. Noify C.
* Wiru Four Tors. Cuculus canorus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 207. 1.
Cuckow, Gen. Syn. ti. p. 509. 1.——Ld. Sup. p. 98.—Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixxviii. Ps 219.— Fenner.
E have fome reafon to fuppofe that the ege of the Cuckow is
not generally known, for fome authors + tell us that it weighs full a quarter of an ounce; that it is not laid in the neft of another bird, but between the roots of old trees on the ground; that the eggs are two in number. It is clear from this defcription, that it can mean no other than that of the Goat/ucker.
Such is the cafe likewife in refpect to that figured in Sepp’s plate of the Cuckow $, and cannot by any means be miftaken. The ego of the Cuckow, however, is fcarcely half as large as either of the figures above alluded to, and in fize is more difproportionate to the bird than any, except the Raven. The Cuckow’s ege weighs rarely ever more
+ Naturforfch, xiv. p. 49.—Befeh. d. Berl, Ge/f. iv. t.18- f. 16 tT Sepp. Vog. p. 117. tab. 62, _ than
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I. COMMON CUCKOW..
134
2. CUPREOUS C.
DescriPTioNn.
PLACE.
OO. Ce ewe aw NN
than fifty grains *, and the bird itfelf barely four ounces, fo that thirty-eight of fuch eges will about make up the weight of the parent, whereas the Raven weighs two pounds ten ounces, and the egg not quite feven drachms, fo that forty-eight are required to equal the weight of the bird.
The Cuckow is fuppofed to lay a great number of eggs, for in one diffected by my friend Mr. Lambd, there were not only two eggs in the ovary, one of them juft on the point of being laid, the other about half the fize, but befides, a vafl number of fmall ones; and in refpec&t to food, the ftomach contained not only {mall caterpillars, but {mall feeds likewife. Similar obfervations, as well as others of much im- port, may be obtained, by confulting Dr. Fexner’s excellent Effay on the fubject, in the Philofophical Trau/aétions above quoted.
Cupreous Cuckow, Lew. Mu/. pl. in p. 159.
SIZE nearly that of a Lark, but of a longer and more delicate
form: the head, neck, and upper parts of the body are of a bright copper colour, with a metallic fplendour, being gloffed with gold and red tinge of copper: the feathers are of a rounded fhape, and are fo difpofed as to refemble fcales: the belly and thighs are of a beautiful jonquil yellow: the tail is lightly cuneiform ; one or two of the exterior feathers marked at the tip with a triangular {pot of white: bill and legs black.
This bird is fuppofed to, have come from Africa, and is in the Leverian Mufeum: in general fhape and appearance, it is fomewhat allied to the Gilded Cuckow, but differs much in its colour, and in’ raving the tail longer in proportion.
* Not unfrequently as low as forty-four grains ; Dr. Hey/ham: from forty-three to fifty-five grains; Jenner.
C08 Ca REOU WW:
Cuculus auratus, Jzd. Orz. i. p. 215. 27- Le Didric, Lewarll. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) i. p, 234. Gilded Cuckow, Gen, Syz. ti. p. 527. 23. HIS Mr. Levaillant found about Koks Kraai, inwards from the Cape of Good Hope, and properly remarks, that it is undoubtedly the fineft bird of the genus. It fings continually, perched on the extremities of large trees, and utters with varied modulation the fyllables di-di-didric, as diftin@tly as can be written; hence he has named it Le Didric.
Cuculus Indicator, Zzd.. Orn. i. p. 218. 35. Coucou indicateur, Lewaill. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8v0.) i. p. 253. War. Honey Cuckow, Gen. Syn. il. p. 533.—Jd. Sup. p. 101. HE cock, deferibed by Sparrman, has the neck encircled with a black ring * ; according to Levaillant, it is faid to be larger than the common Cuckow, very tame, and not afraid to come near him, and that the Hoftentots held it in great veneration +. He likewife adds, that nothing was found in its ftomach on diffeétion but wax and honey, not a veftige of any imfec&t: the fkin fo remarkably thick, as when frefh fcarcely to be pierced with a pin, a wife provifion again{t the ftings of the infeéts which he is to encounter: the neft is'in the hollow. of trees, which it climbs like the Woodpecker, and it hatches its own eggs; from hence the manners feem to be totally diftin& from the European Cuckow.
Cuculus Vetula, Zzd. Orn. i. p. 218. 36. Long-billed Rain Cuckow, Gen. Syz. ii. p. 535. 32. \A R. Abbot, long refident at Savannah, in Georgia, obferved to me, that the Rain Cuckow, is not unfrequent about Burke country,
* See Sparrm. Voy, (1zmo. ed.) ii. p. 142. called there Capzfrum.
+ Called by the Cape farmers, Honey Bird, Barrew’s Trav. p. 321. 4 an
4. HONEY pec
DEscRIPTION.
5. LONG-8ILLED RAIN Cc.
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6. TOURACO. Cc.
7: NOISY Cc
DescripTiONe
PLACE,
Cre CIO 9 We
and that it fies on its own eges: the nefts of thefe birds not un- common, he having procured three or four of them; one difcovered by himfelf, was built in the fork of a fmall oak, made of fticks lined with mofs, and over that dead Hiccory blofioms; the eggs were five in number, of a rough blue colour, but not deep, and found complete about the latter end of April.
Cuculus Perfa, Ind. Orn. i. p. 222. 49. Touraco, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 545. 46. LEVAILLANT, in his travels *, obferves, that numbers of * Touracos are in the country of Hottniquas, but are difficult to fhoot, perching only at the extremities of the higheft branches of trees, out of gunfhot, and rarely fuffer any one to come near enough : feeds on fruits, but not on infects, and is eafily caught alive by fnares baited with fuch fruits as are in feafon; in another place he talks of having killed many Flycatchers and Touracos, which when fricafleed, were fuperior to the Pintado or Partridge +.
Coucou Criard, Son. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) ii. p. 6.
HIS is faid to be wholly of a brown black colour, having nothing otherwife remarkable.
Inhabits the inner part of the Cape of Good Hope, in the country of Gonaquois, where it is known to the Europeans by the name of Criard, being a very noify fpecies, and may be heard at a great diftence. The note confifts of divers founds, very diftinét, and it paffes whole hours in finging without interruption, by which the fportfman is led to the place where it is.
* (Fr. ed. 8vo.) Vol. i. p. 106.—il. p. 7. + We beg leave here to notice an error in our 2d vol. of Synopfis, p. 531. wherein the three paragraphs from line 16, fhould have been placed after Teuraco.
HIS bird is about nine inches in length: the bill fomewhat bent, of a pale blue colour: the upper part of the head, taking in the eyes, the fides and back of the neck, deep blue, inclining to blackith : the reft of the upper parts pale brown, dotted on the back wich white, and marked with narrow bars of the fame acrofs the wiags and tail, which laft is rather long, nearly even, being a very trifle rounded at the end: the under parts are wholly white, tranfverfely marked with narrow dufky lines: the throat and fore part of the neck incline to orange: legs blueifh, very ftout, and fcaly.
Inhabits New Holland: Mr. Lambert informs me, that the above was the only one of the kind feen there by Mr. White, but that one .of a fimilar form and fize, of a gloffy black colour, was taken at the fame time, and it was then fuppofed that thefe two only differed in
fex.
HIS is a beautiful fpecies, and is in length from fixteen to
eighteen inches: the bill, head, neck, and all beneath are of a fine black: the whole of the back and wings varied with rufous, yellow, brown, and black, fomewhat fimilar to a Pheafant or Woodcock: the tail is long, and barred elegantly with the fame colour: the legs are dufky black ; the toes placed’two before and two behind, as in other Cuckows, but the hind-claws are pretty long, and lefs hooked than the fore ones, refembling in this the Egyptian Cuckow, which how- ever differs materially in colour, asin that bird the back and wings
are plain rufous, and the tail, though long and cuneiform, is wholly re
black.
Inhabits New South Wales, known there by the name of Phea/ant. —
Supp. II, aT
137 &. BLUE- HEADED ¢ Description.
PLAcs.
PHE ASANT cS;
DEscrirrion,
PLAGE, -
138 10. TIPPET C
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
Il. FAN-TAILED Cc
DESCRIPTIONe
Prace.
12. GLOSSY
LascriPTion.
GU! CaO) OW.
HIS is nearly twelve inches long: the bill brown, rather ftout, and a trifle curved at the point: the upper parts of the body are
dull green, the under white: the crown full of feathers, and as far as the eyes on each fide black ; on the fides of the neck, the black comes forward, and almoft meets in the middle, giving the appearance of a cloak or tippet: fides under the wings yellowifh: thighs marked . with a few rufty fpots: quills black: tail very fhort, the outer margins of the feathers marked. with white fpots: legs dufky blucifn white, dotted with black : irides orange.
Inhabits New Holland, where it is a rare bird.
‘THIS elegant bird is about the fize of a Song Thrufb, and ten inches in length; the tail occupying at leaft one third: the bill is black, fomewhat bent at the tip: the upper parts of the body are dufky black, coming forwards on the breaft, and encircling it as it were with a crefcent: the cheeks and throat are ferruginous buff ; fides of the breaft the fame, but the middle of it and the belly are pale oker yellow; the tail is greatly cuneiform; the two middle feathers black; the others the fame on the outer webs, but barred on the inner with alternate black and white: the wings when clofed reach rather beyond the middle of the tail: legs yellow. _Inhabits New Holland,
» CIZE uncertain: general colour above rufous, inclined to purple ;
beneath dufky white, croffed with feveral broad bars of a glofly or brownifh copper colour: tail of a moderate length, and barred 6 , with
P1.CXXVI.
Lig baile SAS ae
Fiblishd as the Act directs May 30,1801, by Leigh, Sotheby % Son Korks Street: Covent Garden .
CBU 2? Cl eerO. We. with the fame beneath: the bill is pointed, and dufky; the tongue fharp at the end, the length of the bill: irides blue: legs brown. Inhabits New Holland: for teveral of the jaft defcribed birds, | am indebted to Mr. Lambert.
** Wirh Toree Tors ONLY.
Bee Cuckow, Moroc, Bruce’s Trav. App. t. p. 178. ? t P: 17
HIS bird is faid to be feven inches in length: the head and
neck plain brown; at the bafe of the beaks a number of very fmall hairs: infide of the mouth and throat yellow ; tongue fharp pointed, and capable of being drawn to almoft half its length out of the mouth: eye-brows black; bill pointed, a trifle bent: irides dufky red: fore part of the neck light yellow, darker on the fides, reaching nearly to the fhoulders: breaft and belly dirty white: the wing feathers are moftly tipped with white: the tail has twelve fea-
thers, of equal length, the ends tipped with white: thighs covered -
with feathers half way down the legs, which are black: the toes are only three in number, placed two before and one behind.
This fpecies inhabits fuch parts of Aby/inia where honey is chiefly produced as revenue, as 4gou, Goutio, and Beleffén. It feeds on bees, but kills more than it eats, as numbers are found {fcattered on the ground. It makes a fort of {napping noife, when catching the bees, otherwife it has no note.
This Mr. Bruce fuppofes to be the Cuckow of Lobo, who attributes to this bird the faculty of difcovering honey. He ridicules Dr. Sparr- man, for giving an account of a fpecies of Cuckow to which he attri- butes the fame faculty; but thefe two are very clearly different birds, therefore Mr. Bruce’s criticifms on Dr. Sparrman mult in courfe fall to the ground,
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Genus XXIl. WOODPECKER.
Wane Chilis Wine = N° 5. Yellow-headed W, 2. Leffler fpotted W. - 6. GuineaW. © 3. Bank W. +. Mahratta W. 4. Cape W.
Picus lignarius, Ind. Orn. i. p. 224. 2.—Molin. Nat. H. Chili, (Fr. ed.) p. 215.
HIS bird is fearcely as large as a Blackbird; it has a red-creflted crown, and the body is banded with blue and white: the bill is fo ftrong, as not only to enable the bird to make holes in decayed trees, but even in living and found ones, in which it makes the neft. It is faid from this laft circumflance to deftroy many: fruit-bearing trees. Inhabits the kingdom of Chili.
Picus minor, Ind. Ora. i. p. 229. 15> Leffer {potted Woodpecker, Gen. Syz, ii. p. 566. 14.—Id. Sup. p. 107
T has been hinted to me, that there is every reafon to believe that
this bird does not refemble the female parent, till after it has thrown off the neftling feathers, as in four or five young ones brought to an intelligent naturalift at various times, all of them had red crowns ; however, this matter could not be afcertained by diffection. The egg of this bird and that of the Wryneck are fo alike,.as to be mif- taken for each other, but differs in weighing lefs by about four grains. We are now pretty certain that the Middle Woodpecker is only the young of the Greater Spotted Woodpecker, both fexes having the whole of the crown red during their imperfect ftate of plumage. 5
WOODFP ERC KER
Picus Pitius, Ind. Orm.i, p. 234. 26. Le Pitico, Molin. Chil, (Fr. ed.) p. 216. AEITS fpecies is about the fize of a Pigeon: the plumage brown, {potted with waite. ,
Inhabits Chifi: it is faid. not to make the neft, as others of the genus, in the hoilows of trees, but in thofe of the elevated banks of rivers, and to lay four eggs: the fefh is much efteemed. by the na- tives.
Picus capenfis, Ind. Orn. i. Pp: 237. 37.6. Cape Woodpecker, Geox. Syz. ii. p. 586. 34. N this variety, the head, néck, and under parts are pale grey; back and wings greenifh olive brown: crown, rump, and _ belly crimfon: wings and tail dufky : bill and legs black. I obferved this among Mr. Bruce’s drawings, as an Aby finian bird; and the name it is there known by is Wye-wa,
Picus ifterocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 241. 49. ‘ . Vellow-headed Woodpecker, Gen, Syn. ii. p. 595. 46. ENGT H fix inches and an half: chin and throat {potted with pale red; the under parts from thence to the vent dufky white, croffed with irregular brownifh ftreaks; otherwife refembles the Ye/- low-headed Woodpecker. I am indebted for the above toa drawing taken by General Davies; the fpecimen fuppofed to have come from Cayenne.
Picus altivolans ex Guinea, Ger. Orn. ii. p. 49. t. 173.
[HIS is a doubtful fpecies, nor from the drawing is it quite cer- tain whether it isnot a Facamar: the bil is longer than ufually feen in Woodpeckers, colour of it black : crown and chin-blueith green: body.
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‘body duil red, inclining to brown on the back: fides of the neck
‘mixed with yellow: wings and tail dull blue; quills brown: legs
pale.
This was faid to inhabit Guinea, met with only among the drawings of M. Gerini.
"7 HIS is rather larger than the leaft {potted {pecies: the head yellow brown, on each fide the nape white: the body on the upper parts is black, with large fpots of white: rump white; the chin and all the under parts pale brown, with darker ftreaks down the middle of each feather: middle of the belly red: quills and tail black, fpotted with white, three fpots on each tail feather on the outer margin. Inhabits the Mabratia country in India; defcribed froma fpecimen in the Britih Mujfeum.
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Genus XXIV. KINGSFISHER.
N° 1. Great brown K. 2. Coromandel K. 3. Little Indian K.
Alcedo gigantea, Ind. Orn. i. p. 245. 16 Great brown Kingsfifher, Gen. Syx. ii. p. 609. 1.—P#ill. Voy, pl. in p. 287. Ye White's Fournal, pl. in p. 137. GREAT BROWN- K.
FiIS inhabits New Holland, where it is called Googo-ne-gang; is Descrirtion. not numerous, and never feen but finely; feeds on infects, worms, and fometimes feeds. The note like a laugh: the flight is flow and fhort: fometimes varies in having a little white in the middle of the wing.
; Z. Alcedo Coromanda, Jud. Orn. i. p. 252. 19. - COROMANDEL Coromandel Kingsfifher, Ind. Zool, (4to.) p. 73. 92 K.
IZE of a Blackbird: bill and irides reddith: the head, hind part Description. of the neck, back, wings, and tail, are of a reddifh lilac colour, gloffed with violet: the quills are much the fame outwardly, but of a yellowifh rufous colour within: on the rump is a perpendicular ftreak of blueifh white: throat white: the reft of the under parts light rufous: legs reddifh. Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. PLACE.
+ ee LITTLE Aleedo Bengalenfis, Jzd. Orn. i. p. 254. 25. INDIAN Little Indian Kingsfther, Gez. Syz, it. p. 631. 21- K.
DeEscRiPTiION. TX Vofinaer’s Monogr. 3768, t. iv. are two Kingsffhers, which feem ~~ to belong to this or the blue-headed fpecies, both are rufous yellow, more or lefs, but one of them has a blue back: fize of our European {pecies. f ‘
Among the drawings of my late friend Federick Pigou, efquire, I obferved a bird of this fort called Taaou-yu-tchin, fignifying a catcher of fifh:; this is greenifh grey, has a white patch under the ear: the under parts of the body dull red: fecond quills blue; tail dufky : bill red brown: legs lead colour. PLACE Inhabits Ching.
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Genus XXV. NUTHATCH.
N° 1. Carolina N. 2. Leaft N. 3. Orange-winged N.
Sitta Carolinenfis, Ind. Orn. i, p. 262. 3. Grey black-capped Nuthatch, Bartr. Trav. p. 287.
N a manufcript of the late Mr. Hutchins, relating to the birds and
quadrupeds of Hudjon’s Bay, 1 find one defcribed, which feems to be clearly this: the length is five inches; weight two drams troy; breadth feven inches and an half: bill black ; head, throat, and breaft glofty black: belly mottled with black, orange, and white: back dun black, with faint orange ftreaks: near the junction of the wings, are long feathers of a bright orange, not unlike a fhoulder-knot, which pafs down on the fides and end on the thighs, where they are pale: lefler wing coverts black; the greater are brown, tinged with red: quills brown ; vent white : the two middle tail feathers are brown, the two next with an orange fpot on the outer web; the other fix are orange tipped with brown: legs black.
Inhabits Hudjon’s Bay.
Sitta Pufilla, Ind. Orx. i. p. 263. 5. Leaft Nuthatch, Gez. Syz ii. p. 651. C.—Id. Sup. p. 118.
ROM the fame fource as the laft, I derive the following account of a {mall Nuthatch, weighing five penny-weichts, five inches long, and feven broad: the bill fhort, black, triangular, with fine hairs: Supp. IL. U irides
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irides dark blue: head brown, inclining to afh colour: throat dufky white:. back and fcapulars ereenifh brown; on each fide of the breaft 2 broad fpot of yellow: belly and vent dufky white: thighs tinged with yellow: leffer wing coverts dull green, the greater inclining to black: quills black, the outer margin greenifh, inner web paler: the four middle tail feathers black; the others pale yellow, with the ends for nearly one-third tipped with black: legs black.
This bird inhabits Hud/on’s Bay, where it is known by the name of Keebe min nuc ca ha mauka fife ; 1t builds its neft in the willows, lays four eggs, and hatches the end of June: it is migratory, and derives its name from being remarkably voracious of berries, which it carries. to fuch excefs, as to be always attacking other fmall birds wha are feeding near it.
IZE of the Surinam Nuthatch: general colour of the plumage on the upper parts dull afh colour, the under blueifh white ; rump
‘and upper tail coverts of this laft colour: quills and tail brown: the
bafe of the quills, for two-thirds of the length, are orange colour ; all but the two middle tail feathers tipped with dufky es bill brown: irides reddifh : legs lead colour.
Inhabits New Holland. Mr. Lambert.
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N° 1. Yellow-bellied T. ~ 2, Red-breafted T.
Todus flavigafter, Ind. Orn. i. p. 268. 15.
SIZE of the Brown Tody: length fix inches: bill fhort, broad, and pale coloured, with a few briftles at the bafe: the head, chin, and all the upper parts of the plumage afh colour, or brownifh ; the wings deepeft, but the middle of them paler: tail even at the end; the wings when clofed reach to about the middle of it: all the under parts, except the chin, are yellow: legs dufky. Inhabits New Holland.
IZE of the Yellow Hammer: the bill is ftout and broad, furnifhed
with fome briftles at the bafe: the tongue bifid, the points on each fide of the cleft are a little divided or feathered: the crown is rather full of feathers: the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts is a flate-coloured grey: wings and tail brown: throat and breaft orange, from thence to the breaft nearly white: legs flender and dufky.
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is not plentiful, at leaft not above two or three have been feen of the kind.
I. YELLOW- BELLIED pits DeEscRIPTION.
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. European B. E.
. Red-winged B. E.
. Yellow-tufted B. E. . Wattled B. E.
. Knob-fronted B. E. . Superb B. E.
. Eaftern B. E.
. Blue green B. E.
. Hooded B. E.
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N°? 10. Golden-winged B. E.
11. Black-eared B. E.
12, Black and yellow B. E. 13. Blue-cheeked B. E. 14. Chatterine B. E.
15. Cowled B. E.
16. Variegated B. E.
17- White-fronted B. E. 18. Red-throated B. E.
Merops apiafter, Ind. Orn. i. p. 169. 1.—Vo/m. Monog. 1768. p. 6.—=Ger. Orn.
Vv. t. 494.—Schrift. d. Berl. Gefelijch. ii. §. 194. (Schrank.)
Bee-eater, Gen. Syn. ii, p. 667. 5.—Id. Sup. p. 119.
HE male has the forehead to. the middle of the crown green;
the reft of the head, back of the neck, upper part of the back,
wing coverts, fine rufous ; lower part of the back yellowith : fhoulders and leffer wing coverts green: quills and tail green.
In the female, only as forehead is yellow green; crown rufous : the
reft of the upper parts brownifh green; in other things, both are alike, except the two middle tail feathers, which exceed the reft more in the male than the female.
The Bee-eater is common in Eg ypt*, where it is called Adelino-orghi,
(Bees Enemy) and is eaten for food.
At the Cape of Good Hope, this bird is called the Guat-fuapper, as
* Sonuini’s Trav. iii, p. 318.
obferved by Kolben +, who adds, that the note is not fo fine as that of
+ Hift, Cape, il. p. 154. a Tit-
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a Titmoufe, and that it isa guide to the Hortentots, by directing them to the honey, which the bees lay up in the clefts of the rocks.
The Bee-eater has been obferved at Martifhal,in Norfolk, in a flock, about twenty in number ; andone of them fhot by the reverend George Smith, which was exhibited to the Linnean Society. This flock pafled near the above place in June, and again, on their return in Oéfoder fol- lowing, 1793, but in reduced numbers.
Merops erythropterus, Ind. Orn.i. p, 274. 15. x Red-winged Bee-eater, Gev. Syz. ti. p. 681. 14. pl. 31. RED-WINGED 153 1B
HAD an opportunity of examining feveral of thefe which were Descrrprion. in. the pofleffion of 7. Walcot, efquire ; one of which he added to
my colleétion. The general length fix inches and a quarter: the
tail a trifle forked;. the two middle feathers of the fame colour
as the back; ‘all the others reddifh orange, with dufky ends; the
outer feathers, as well of the tail as of the wings, greenifh brown out-
wardly: the fecond quills and wing coverts alfo the colour of the
back: through the eye, and paffing under it, is a black ftreak; chin
and throat yellow; beneath thefe a triangular fpot of black; from
thence to the vent rufous bay: legs weak and brown.
Merops fafciculatus, Izd. Orn. i. p. 275.19. ys 3. , EAie YE Yellow tufted Bee-eater, Gen. Syn. ti. p. 683.18. Vare—Dixon’s Voy. p. 357- REE pl. 19. i B.E. Var. A,
N this variety, the plumage did not differ from the general colour; Descarprion. but the ends of all the tail feathers were white. ; Var. B. MONG thefe birds, I have remarked another variety, which Descrrprion. _. differed in having the tail feathers wholly black, and the fides under the wings rufous,
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Description.
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Merops carunculatus, Jud. Orn. 1. p. 276. 20. New Holland Bee-eater, PAi/l. Bot. Bay, t.p. 164. Wattled Bee-eater, White's Fourn. t. p. 144. male.—TId. p. 240. female.
HIS fpecies is from fourteen to fifteen inches in length: in the
male, the bill is black; noftrils pervious, but covered in part with a membrane; crown dufky: at the gape of the mouth a filvery band: behind the bafe of the under jaw, an elongated caruncle, of an orange colour, hanging down as in the Cock: the body is brown on the upper parts, the fhafts of the feathers whitifh: quills and _ tail dufky ; the laft cuneiform in fhape; the outer quills are white at the tips: the tail feathers are all of them more or lefs tipped with white: legs brownifh; the outer toe connected to the middle at the bale. :
The female is faid to be ftouter of the two, more brilliant in plum- age, and the bill more curved: the tail fhorter: it is deftitute of a wattle ; but the feathers on the chin are dark, long, and hang dif- | fufely.
At. General Davies’s is one of this fpecies, which differs; it is fmaller, twelve inches long; the whole bird appears brighter, and more ftreaked with white down the fhaft, {welling out into a fpot at the tip of each feather: no filvery band at the gape. It appears to be a young bird. In a full grown male, in the fame collection, the middle of the belly is yellow.
Thefe birds probably differ greatly among each other, for in Mr. Lambert’s collection of drawings, | remarked one which had the top of the head and hind part of the neck black or dufky, the reft pale brown or dufky afh colour, each feather margined with whitifh, and a few dafhes of white on the back’ of the neck and back; top of the head, taking in the eyes, black: the under parts of the body are paler than the upper, with a few obfcure markings: the bill is black: legs
I pale
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pale ferruginous: a red caruncle on each fide of the chin, as in the former.
The above inhabit New Holland, efpecially the fea fhores, and are pretty numerous: they chatter much, and are bold to a great degree, for when other birds, even larger and ftronger than themfelves, ap- proach, they drive them away. Their chief food is infects, but they likewife are very fond of fucking the honey from the different kinds of Bankfia. They are known to the natives by the name of Goo- gwar-neck, which word much refembles the kind of note they are inceflantly chattering,
Merops corniculatus, Jud. Orn.i. p. 276, 21. Knob-fronted Bee-eater, Whites Fourn. pl. p. 190.
SIZE ofa Mifeél Thrufh: length fourteen inches: bill one inch and
a half long, rather bent downwards; colour pale brown, with a dufky tip; noftrils oval, placed in an hollow, and the feathers come forwards to near the middle of the bill to meet them: the tongue briftly at the end: on the forehead is a blunt fhort eminence, like the rudiment of an horn: the colour of the plumage on the head is whitifh, ftreaked with brown, and the feathers are fhort: fides round the eye brown: upper parts of the body brown, with olive brown margins: quills and tail darker than the reft; the firft quill only half the length of the fecond: the under parts of the body are pale: the chin, breaft, and belly dufky white: tail even at the end, and about fix inches long, the fhafts and tips of the feathers whitifh : the wings when clofed reach half way on the tail: legs brown; the fegments near the toes rough and fcaly ; outer and middle toe joined at the bafe; hind claw very long and ftout.
Inhabits New Holland, and is a fingular fpecies. That figured in White's Journal is an exact reprefentation, This was firft brought into England by Sir Fofeph Banks,
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9. HOODED Bebe DeEsCRIPTION.
BEE-EA TER.
Superb Bee-eater, Nat. Mic. pl. 78.
HIS is nearly nine inches in length: the bill black: general colour of the plumage red: the forehead, all round the eye, and throat blue: rump blue: the two middle tail feathers are longer than the reft, and the parts which exceed the others are black. This isinthe Briti/h Mufeum. Dr. Shaw feems to think it allied to the Bra/filian Bee-eater, in which opinion { readily join him.
IZE of the Red-winged Bee-eater: the general colour dull green : the feathers rather full: quills red but not bright; the outer
edges of them dull green, with black tips: tail green; the two middle
feathers produced beyond the others, where they are narrow and black, as far as they exceed them.
This {pecies is in the Briti/h Mufeum, faid to come from the Mabhratta country in India.
ENGTH eight inches: colour of the whole plumage blue ereen, with a deeper glofs, appearing black in fome lights: legs black. The native place of this is uncertain.
Lewes from nine to ten inches: bill yellow, curved, and rather ftout; tongue twice the length of it, and fringed at the tip: front of the head whitifh; acrofs the crown of the head black, which colour pafies through the eyes on each fide to the throat; the reft of the head whitifh grey and dufky, in fine tranfverfe lines: belly dirty white, croffed with clouded dufky lines: upper parts of the
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the body pale lead coloured brown: lower belly and vent white : the fix outer quills brownifh; the firft very fhort ; the others incline to brown; but fix or feven of the middle ones are of a greenifh yellow in the middle, on the outer webs, and the tips greenifh yellow : tail rounded, of a pale greenifh lead colour, with a dirty white tip : legs yellow brown.
Inhabits New Holland. In the colle&tion of General Davies.
ENGTH uncertain, fuppofed about twelve inches: general colour brown: the fhafts of the feathers very pale: greater quills darker than the others, four or five of the outer ones have the middle part for two-thirds of a golden orange; the ends white: tail greatly cuneiform, brown, confifting of twelve feathers, all but che two middle ones tipped with white: ill and legs black: tongue briftly at the ene. : Inhabits New South Wales; feeds chiefly on flies and other infects, as well as by fucking honey from the various kinds of Bank/fia, &c. The natives name it Goo-gwar-ruck.
HFiIS fpecies is about feven inches long: the bill of a moderate fize, and the legs brown: the plumage on the upper parts of the bedy is pale rufous brown ; beneath dufky white, {potted on the lower belly, vent, and thighs with black: behind the eye is a broad ftreak of black ending ia a point: quills black: tail dufky, Inhabits New Holland.
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14. CHATTERING B.E. DEscRIPTION.
Beier - BEAVER,
IZE of the Song Thrufh: general colour of the plumage biack, but the feathers of the breaft, back, and belly, are margined with golden yellow : the wing coverts are not far different, but the greater ones have the ehds more or lefs of that colour, as are the outer margins of the quills, though the ends of them are for the moft part tipped obliquely with black: the bill is black: legs pale brown ;. though in fome the bill and legs are both of a dufky colour: from the bill a greenifh ftreak runs through the eye, which is broader in the middle, and in fome fpecimens defcends on the lower jaw ; the feathers which compofe this ftreak are fhorter than the others, and fomewhat rigid: the tail is cuneiform; the two middle feathers black, fringed at the ends with yellow; the others yellow: vent plain yellow.
Inhabits New Holland. From the drawings of Mr. Lambert. .
LENGTHS fixteen inches: bill black; tongue briftly at the end :
the upper part of the body, wings, and tail are brown: the top of the head, taking in the eyes, nape, and back part of the neck, black s throat and fore part of the neck the fame; the-fides of the neck between thefe, from the gape, and all the under parts, white: the eye farrounded with a blue patch, lengthening behind to the ears: bill black : tail even at the end: legs fcaly, blue.
Inhabits New Holland.
SIZE of a Thrufe: length ten inches: bill yellow ; tongue briftly at the end, and longer than the bill: the upper parts of the body pale
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pale brown: forehead dufky: neck and under parts white, a little mottled with dufky, moft fo on the throat and breaft: thighs barred dufky and white: acrofs the crown of the head black, paffing on each fide behind the eye, and bending down on each fide below the ears ; within this, behind and clofe tothe eye, a round {pot of yellow: the wings are black, but the greater part of the prime quills are yellow, with-dufky or black ends: the tail is long and cuneiform, the feathers dufky, tipped with white: legs ftrong and yellow.
This bird inhabits New South Wales, and is faid to be a noify chat- tering fpecies, infomuch as to give the alarm in the manner of the Fay, fo as to prevent the fportfman getting a fhot at the Patregorang.
THis is a large fpecies: the bill ftout and bending, colour black ; tongue very briftly at the end, appearing like a brufh: the head and part of the neck are black, and covered with a fort of down: the nape at the back part is elongated with a kind of briftly tuft: the htnd parts of the neck and back are brown, the firft mottled with a paler colour; the under parts white, marked on the chin and throat with dufky fagittal ftreaks: quills and tail dark brown: legs dufky blue. f This is found about Port fack/on, in New Holland, in Fanuary. The hind head projecting, and being of a black downy texture, giving the refemblance of a cowl or hood, has occafioned it to be called a Friar. The natives call it Vergan.
HIS is fomewhat bigger than the Red-winged Bee-eater: the bill black: legs dufky: top of the head and nape dull orange, the middle of the feathers darker; through the eye from the bafe of the
bill a broad black ftreak, continuing a good way beyond it, and De 1 ending
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DuscriPrion.
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ending in a point; beneath this a ftreak of pale blu¢: chin orange yellow: on the throat a triangular patch of black ; from thence to the belly, the parts are yellow, but the belly itfelf, the thighs, and vent are blueifh white: the back part of the neck and wing coverts are green: back mixed green and brownifh orange ; lower part of it © and rump blue: the middle part of the wing has fome fertes of fea- thers green, with fulvous margins, and others wholly fulvous: quills green outwardly and black within; the fecond quills edged with yellow: the two middle tail feathers prolonged to double the length of the others, as in feveral of the genus, the additional part being very narrow, and furnifhed with very flender webs, the colour of them blue; the other feathers of the tail chefnut.
This is faid to be the male bird ; I met with it in the colleGtion of General Devies. In Mr. Lambert’s collection of drawings, I obferved one of thefe which I fufpe&t to be the other fex. In this the fore- head to the middle of the crown is blue, the nape only being dull orange, which laft colowmseifo occupies the chin: the black throug! the eye, the blue beneath, and patch on the throat, the fame as in the other; the back brownifh green: rump blue: the two middle tail feathers as in the other: the reft black: the wing coverts like the back; the reft of the wing varied not unlike the other, but lefs bril- hant.
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is known by the name of Dee-weed- gang.
‘PT HE mele is about eight inches in length: bill brewn; tongue: longer than the bill: the back and wings are of a fine rufous, but the forehead and all the under parts are white; the feathers of the latter marked down the fhafts with a black line, as are alfo the rufous feathers above : between the bill and eyes, fides of the head, the
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the crown and nape, wholly black: fides of the body under the wings marked with tive dark blueith bands: quills and tail pale blue, marked outwardly on the edges evith white fpots, within darker; the tail even at the end, or a trifle rounded, the wings reaching thereon to. about the middle: legs yellow brown.
The female, or one fuppofed to be fo, was brown on the back and wines, and dirty yellowifh white beneath, with dafhes down the fhafts, as in the male: the forehead is brown and white fpotted; the reft of the head brown, where in the ma/e it is black: the tail feems fhorter “than in thé male, and appears in the drawing to be wholly fpotted with dirty yellow and brown, or rather dirty yellow, with the brown {pots in bars: bill and legs as in the male.
I am obliged to General Davies for the above defcriptions, having made drawings of them from fpecimens in the pofleflion of Captain King, which were brought from Port Fack/on, in New South Wales.
Red-throated Bee-eater, Nat. Mie. 9. pl. 337-
SIZE a trifle lefs than. the common fpecies: general colour on the
upper parts black: the forehead fine blue, paffing a little way over the eye; behind the eye a patch of the fame: the fore part of the throat and neck of a fiery red: rump blue, marked with {pots of black: belly clouded blue and black: fome of the quills and taii feathers have blue edges ; the bafe of the greater quills ferruginous, forming a patch of that colour on the wings; the wings when clofed reach but little beyond the bafe of the tail, which is even at the end, or nearly fo.
Inhabits Sierra Leona in Africa,.
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PLACE.
1. RED- THROATED Babe
Descrip Tion,
PLACE,
Genus XXIX. CREEPER.
N° 1. African Cr. N° rg. Leona Cr. 2. Polifhed Cr. 20. Mahratta Cr. 5. Enlvous Cr. > 21. Black-eyed Cr. 4. Sugar Cr. 22. Slender-billed Cr. 5. Cinereous Cr. Var. A. 23. Dirigang Cr. 6. Red-backed Cr. 24. Chirping Cr. 7. Ignoble Cr. 25. Mellivorous Cr. 8. Undulated Cr. 26. Black-headed Cr. g. New Holland Cr. 27. Sanguineous Cr. 10. New Caledonian Cr. 28. Cochineal Cr. a1. Red-fpotted Cr. 29. Hoary Cr. 12, Peregrine Cr. 30. Yellow-winged Cr. 13. Gartered Cre = Bice Aoiler Cr: 14. Cupreous Cr. 32. Cerulean Cr. 1§ Blue-throated Cr. 33- Yellow-eared Cr. 16. WrenCr. 34. Red-rumped Cr. 17. Green-winged Cr. 35- Black-fronted Cr. 18, Crimfon-bellied Cr.
: Certhia afra, Ind. Or. i. p. 286. 18. Var. o. AFRICAN Trochilus varius, Gmel. Sy/?.1. p. 492—Maert. Phyf Arb. i. 1. p. 75- CR. Certhia bifafciata, Spalow/k. Vog. 3. tab. 22. Deets HIS is four inches and an half long, and about the fize of the thumb: bill and legs black: the general colour of the plumage green gold; the under parts brownifh white: the quills are pale brown; upper tail coverts blue green: tail an inch and a half
I long, _
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long, brown, gloffed with green; all of ‘the feathers, except the two middle ones, whitifh at the ends: acrofs the breaft two bands, the one of blue, the other fanguineous. In Spalow/ki’s figure of this bird, a blue band croffes the middle of the crimfon one.
Certhia polita, Ind. Ov. i. p. 287. 19.—My. Carlf. fafe. iii. t. 59.
HIS is five inches long: the crown, fhoulders, and leffer wing
coverts purple, gloffed with gold: upper part of the throat and neck black, beneath thefe violet purple ; beyond this is a deep purple band, feparating the above-mentioned parts from the belly, which is dufky brown: at the bend of the wing, a tuft of yellow feathers: tail black ; the outer feathers ferruginous on the outer margins anc tips: bill and legs black.
Certhia fulva, Ind. Orn. i. p. 287. 20.—Maert, Phy/: Aré.i. 1. p. 76.
‘HIS is rather more than five inches long : bill and legs horn co- lour: the plumage for the moft part fulvous: quills and tail feathers black above, and brownifh beneath : tail about two inches in
length. Inhabits South America; and is faid to be of the fize of a Finch.
Certhia afiatica, Ind. Oru. i. p. 288, 22.
HIS is about four inches in length: bill and legs black : general colour of the plumage deep blue: wings deep brown. Inhabits India, where it is called Sugar-eater, From the drawings of Major Roverts.
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CR.
DeEscRIPTION.
F
ULVOUS CR.
DeEserirrion.
PLACE.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
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6. RED-BACKED CR.
WANTS Jae) DaesCRIPTION.
CE JGNOBLE CR.
DESCRIPTION.
Fake OF UNDULATED CR. DeEscRIPTION,
CARS eE, Ea sP ie he aR.
Certhia cinerea, Ind. Ora. i. p. 289. 25. Cinereous Creeper, Gen. Syz. ii. p. 721. Var.
JN the Leverian collection is one of thefe birds, which I fufpe& to
be a female, or young bird not attained the perfect colours: the plumage above mottled brown, beneath cinereous white: the fhoulders of the wings, one or two of the fecond quills, and the rump, green:
the long tail feathers wanting: bill and legs black.
Certhia erythronotos, Jud. Orz. 1. p. 290. 28. Red-backed_Creeper, Gen. Syxz. Sup. p. 132. Var. HIS variety has the head and upper part of the body fcarlet, the - under afh colour: bill, legs, wings, and tail black. From the collection of drawings of Colonel Woodford.
Certhia ignobilis, Izd. Orz. i. p. 294. 42.—Mu/. Carl/ fafc. iii. t. 56.
SIZE of a Starling: length eight inches: the bill is yellowith: upper parts of the plumage footy brown: wings brown with black fhafts: the under part of the body afh coloured, marked with Jongitudinal elliptical white fpots: tail and legs black. _ Native place unknown.
Certhia undulata, Ivd. Orn. i. p. 295. 43.—Mu/. Carll. fafc. ii. ts 34.
H1S is about feven inches long: the upper parts of the plumage footy afh colour; the under undulated tranfverfely, blackifh and white : quills foot colour, margined with cinereous olive: under part of the tail cinereous: bill brown: legs black. Native place unknown.
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Certhia Nove Hollandiz, Ind. Orn. i. p. 296. 49.
sae New Holland Creeper, White’s Fourn. tab. p. 186. male—Id. p. 297. female. NEW va LAND " :
HE male of this fpecies is feven inches long: the bill obfcure, Dzscrirrion, with a pale tip: noftrils covered with a membrane: the plumage in general black, ftreaked on the neck and breaft, belly and - fides, with black and white: quills and tail fringed on the outer webs with yellow; tail rounded ; the two outer feathers white within at the tips: legs pale. The female has the colours lefs vivid, but not unlike the male; it has not the white markings onthe front of the head and over the eye, but on the cheeks only: the back and breaft are plain black; belly x black, ftreaked with white: fcapulars brown, ending in a point half . way on the back: the yellow on the wings and tail inclines to olive. Inhabits New South Wales; chiefly feen there in Fanuary: known Pace.
by the name of Balgonera. 10. NEW Certhia incana, Ind. Orn. i. p. 296. 50. CEEDONTAR SIZE very fmall: colour brownifh: the neck and quills inclining Description. to hoary,
Inhabits New Caledonia. From the MS. of Mr. Anderfon. PLACE. Il. Certhia cruentata, Id, Orn. i. p. 296. 51. RED-SPOTTED Red-fpotted Creeper, Ger. Syn. ii. p. 736. 40. Var. CR. Var. MONG fome fine drawings in the collection of Mr. Lambert, I obferve one nearly the fame with this, but inftead of being white beneath, itis pale blue; alfo another not far different ; in this the under parts are white, but the eye is placed in a patch of black, Both thefe inhabit New Holland. PLace.
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DeEscriPTION.
13. GARTERED CR.
DeEscRIP@RION.
PLACE.
14 CUPREOUS CR.
DsEscRiPTION.
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Certhia peregrina, Ind. Orz.i. p. 297. 54.
IZE fmall: general colour of the plumage olive
dufky, acrofs the wings two pale bars: as far as the belly: tail a trifle forked; outer feathers white.
The female like the male, but paler.
In the collection of Mr. Parkin/on.
:. wings and tail the under parts are yellow the inner webs of the two
Certhia armillata, Ind. Orn. i. p. 298. 55.—Mu/. Carl/ fa/c. ii. t. 36. LEN GTH five inches: bill black: the upper parts of the plu-
mage emerald green, the under greenifh white: vent yellowifh : wings black: fhoulders gloffy blue or fapphire colour ; beneath the wings yellow, with the outer margins and tips black: quills black, the inner margins yellow: legs yellowifh: the rump fpeckled with fapphire colour, and the lower part of the thighs furrounded with the fame at the joints.
Inhabits Surinam : is apt to vary in having here and there a feather more or lefs inclined to blue, and in fome fpecimens a band of black paffes from the bill. through the eye, and adjoining to it a line of yellow.
~Certhia znea, Ind. Ora, i. p. 300. 68.—Mu/f. Carl/. fae. iv. t. 78.
HE bill in this fpecies is rather ftout and black: head, neck, fhoulders, belly, thighs, and vent green, gloffed with gold and copper: breaft and back marked with a feries of gilded blueifh-fpots + wings dufky foot cola tail black, tinged with glofly blue: legs black. Inhabits the Weft Indies.
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Certhia gularis, Jad, Orz. i. p. 300. 69.—Mu/. Carlf. fa/c. iv. t. 79.
ILL black: throat, fore part of the neck and breaft clofly blue; lower part of the breaft, belly, vent, fides, and thighs yellow: from the gape a yellow ftreak paffes beneath the eye on each fide of the neck, dividing it into two parts; the upper, with the top of the head, nape, and back, are cinereous brown, as alfo the wings and the rump: under wing coverts pale yellow: quills foot colour: tail black ; the two outer quills marked with white at the tip and outer edges as far as the middle, and thofe adjoining have the tips whitifh. Inhabits Martinico.
Certhia trochilea, Ind. Orn. i. p.. 300. 70.—My/. Carl. fa/c. iv. t. So.
IZE of the Willow Wren: bill brown, beneath yellowifh; plu-
mage above brown and greenith olive mixed, beneath yellowifh dufky white: under wing coverts very pale yellow: firft quills ferru- ginous, the others very dark, with the outer edges only inclining to ferruginous: tail black: legs pale.
Inhabits America, but what part uncertain,
Certhia prafinoptera, Id. Orn. i. p. 300. 7.—Muf. Carlf. fa/. iv. tab. 81.
ILL and legs black: top of the head, nape, back, lower part of the breaft, and fides black: throat, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the breaft purple, wings wholly of a gloffy changeable green: tail greenifh brown. Inhabits Surinam
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15. BLUE- THROATED CRE Descriprion.
Description.
Pracg.
17. GREEN- WINGED CR. Descriprion,
PLacx,
164 res CRIMSON- BELLIED Ck. DsscriPTiON.
PLAGE,
19. LEONA CR. DEscRIPTION,
20. MAHRATTA
CR. DgEscRIPTION.
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¥ ENGTH five inches and a half: bill black: head, neck, and breaft of a moft brilliant amethyftine purple, mixed on the breaft
with vermilion red, forming a kind of bar thereon: belly black:
vent and under tail coverts glofiy purplifh blue: the upper part of the neck, lefler wing coverts,’ back, rump, and upper tail coverts moft brilliant green gold; the reft of the wings and tail greenifh black ; two or three of the outer feathers fringed on the outer margins with green gold: on_each fide of the breaft, under the wing, a tuft of fine yellow: wings black. vi
Inhabits Africa. It feems to approach very ‘near to the Certhia Polita of the Carlfonan Mufeum.
Leona Creeper, Nar. Mi/c. x, pl. 369 2
ENGT Hi four inches: bill and legs black: head; hind part of
the neck and ‘back green gold: chin, throat, and breaft purplifh black: the belly and vent pale brimftone or yellow: quills dufky : tail glofly blackifh fteel colour: under the wings a tuft of yellow feathers as in the laft, but paler.
Brought from /frica with the laft, and communicated by Thomas Wilfon, elquire, who obligingly furnifhed me with fpecimens of both; this is about one third fmaller than the former, and has many things *n common with it, but whether it differs therefrom in fex or age only, wants further inveftigation.
,ENGTH i four inches: bill and legs black: general colour of the body violet pnrple: wings dufky brown: tail dufky black, but the two middle feathers are entirely, and the outer edges of all : the
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the -others are violet: on each fide of the breaft under the wing is a tuft of yellow feathers, as in fome others of this genus.
» Inhabits the: A/chratta country in India, and is in the Britifb Mu- feum ; it feems allied to the Afiatic Creeper, Ind. Orn. N° 22. :
T‘HIS is more than feven inches in length: the bill one inch long, curved half way from the point, and black: legs brown: the tongue longer than the bill, and fringed at the point: the plu- mage on the upper parts is mottled brown: the forehead, lore, and all the under parts are white; before the eye, between that and the bill, begins a black band, which paffes through the eye, growing broader, after which it narrows to a point, and ends on each fide of the breaft. | inhabits New South Wales: faid to be fond of honey, and alfo to feed on flies: ina fecond of thefe birds, the forehead differs in not being white, but the lore is black, paffing under and a little way beyond the eye.
J ENGTH rather more than fix inches: bill one inch and a
quarter lone, very flender, and moderately curved; tongue longer than the bill, and fringed at the end: the crown of the head is black, taking’ in the eyes on each fide, and paffing in a broad band quite to the breaft: the back, wing coverts, and rump are pale flaty grey: quills and tail black, the laft fomewhat cuneiform: the chin is very pale rufous, and from that to the breaft white; the rufous colour furrounded with a crefcent of black, with the horns pointing up- wards. ||
Inhabits New South Wales, and is a beautiful fpecies.
PLace.
ee BLACK-EYED CR.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE,
22. SLENDER- BILLED
ee Oe DEscrRirTion.
Praex.
166
DIRIGANG CR. DeEscRiPTION.
PLACE.
24 CHIRPING CR
DescRIPTION.
PLAace.
25. MELLIVOROUS a
Descrip rion.
PLACE.
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N fize this fpecies fomewhat exceeds our Common Creeper: plu-
mage above pale olive or greenifh brown; beneath white, inclining to dufky on the belly: on the forehead and crown are a few fhort, tranfverfe, black lines: under the eye a patch of yellow, and behind it another of a reddifh colour: at the bend of the wing a few pale fpots: bill and legs dufky.
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is called a Woodpecker, from hence we may fuppofe it to frequent and run up and down trees in the manner of that bird. ‘The native name is Dirigang.
IZE of the Nightingale: general colour pale ereen, inclining to , brown.on the back, and to pale yellow beneath: quills and tail dufky : thighs dufky, barred with white: bill fender, black: tongue briftly at the end: legs brown: irides blue. Inhabits New Holland; and has a chirping kind of note.
SIZE of the Miféel Thruo: the bill moderately curved and black :
tongue briftly at the tip: general colour of the plumage black, marked on mott of the feathers with flender crefcents of white, and with fhort ftreaks of the fame: the axillary coverts have pale edges, and the” margins of fome of the quills the fame: feveral of the greater wing co» verts are longitudinally marked with rufous: on the rump a few white markings: the ends of the tail very pale, nearly white.
Inhabits New South Wales, and is called Goo-gwar-ruck; is anume=
_rous fpecies, feldom feen but near the fea fhore, efpecially about
where the natives refort; is a lively bird, conftantly imaction, in fuck- 5 ing
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ENGTH fix inches: bill dufky ; tongue briftly : top of the head, and from the bafe of the upper mandible, black, paffing through the eye, and below it fome way on each cheek: hind part of the neck, back, wings, and tail pale green, but the wings and tail are brown, with pale edges: chin, fides of the neck, and fore part of it, as well as the under parts of the body, dufky white: legs pale brown. Inhabits New South Wales.
IZE of the White Throat: all the upper parts of the bird crimfon,
marked here and there, except on the hind head, with a few irregular large black fpots: chin and throat white: breaft and belly dirty pale brown: quills black, edged with white: bill and legs black: tongue briftly at the end.
Inhabits New South Wales.
SIZE of the Red-/potted Creeper: general colour crimfon, but the
under parts from the breaft are white; on the red of the breaft
fix black {pots: a large fpot of black occupies the beginning of the back, a fecond below it, befides fome other {maller ones of the fame on the rump: through and round the eye a black ftreak of an oval fhape and pointed: wings and tail black; the laft very fhort: bill and legs black; tongue briftly.
Inhabits
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Pracz.
27. SANGUINEOUS CR
DrscriPTion,
Piace.
28. COCHINEAL CR
DeEscRIPTION.
Descriprion.
PLACE.
31. AGILE CR.
DeEscRIPTION.
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Inhabits New South Wales; feen only in the {pring, and-is a rare {pecies.
LENGTH eight inches: body flate coloured above, white be- neath, inclining to rofe coloured purple on the breaft: quills and tail dufky: bill ftout and black; tongue briftly : on the wing coverts a few markings of white: legs brown. Inhabits New South Wales.
ENGTH * feven inches: bill black ; tongue briftly: head, neck, and back pale flate colour, inclining to yellow on the rump; beneath whitifh, with a few narrow lines on the breaft: on the ears a yellow fpot, below it a patch of black: quills dufky, the greater ones from the bafe to two-thirds of the length yellow: the two middle tail feathers dufky, the others of a pale yellowifh colour. Inhabits New Scuth Wales; with this is another, perhaps differing in fex: the plumage is pale cinereous grey above, and pale yellowifh white beneath: vent fpotted with ferruginous: quills as in the laft, but pale ferruginous inftead of yellow: both of thefe continually obferved in the action of catching flies.
LENGTH fix inches: bill black; tongue briftly: top of the head, nape, -and hind part of the neck black; the reft of the upper parts of the bedy, wings, and tail brown: under parts white: the white and black join each other on the fides of the neck irregu- larly : legs blue black. Inhabits New South Wales; is'an ative fpecies, feeds on honey and flies, in the manner of feveral others of this genus.
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SIZE of the White Throat: bill a trifle curved, but flender as in the Warbler genus, colour dufky: the plumage on the upper parts is pale brown; beneath pale flefh colour: fore parts of the neck pale blue grey: quills and tail dufky: legs dufky. Inhabits New South Wales.
SIZE of a Hedge Sparrow: length fix inches: bill and legs black : tongue briftly: irides dirty pale red: the plumage on the upper parts of the body pale dirty brown; beneath white: below the ear an oval fpot of a fine yellow colour, and above it a fmaller one of black. Inhabits New South Wales.
-IZE uncertain: bill and legs black: tongue briftly : the plumage on the upper part of the body is pale brown; beneath dufky “white: rump crimfon: on the fide of each jaw three or four dafhes of crimfon: outer part of the quills and tail dufky ; fome of the outer feathers of the laft pale or nearly white at the end. Inhabits New South Wales ; faid to be very rare.
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‘HE body in this fpecies is green on the upper parts, and yellow beneath: the forehead and cheeks black: tail cuneiform. In the Leverian Mufeum; from whence unknown,
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DeEsCRIPTION.
DESCRIPTION.
Pace.
34- RED-RUMPED CR.
DEscRIPTION.
DEscRIFTION.
te EKEBERG’S A.B. DESCRIPTION.
PLacE.
2) CHILI H. B. DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE:
HUMMING BIRD.
Genus XXX. HUMMING BIRD.
N°1. Ekeberg’s H. B. N° 5. Orange-faced H. B. 2. Chili H. B. 6. Blue-headed H. B. 3. Mango H. B. 7. Great H. B.
4. Gilt-crefted H. B.
* WitTH curved BILis.
Trockilus capenfis, Ind. Orz.1. p. 303. 6.—Lin. Mantis. 1771. p. 525.
SIZE ofa Swaliow: general colour green gold: quills black; the wing coverts neareft to them margined with glofly blue: tail feathers even at the end, except the two middle ones, which are three times the leneth of the others; colour of them all black, margined at. the bafe with gloffy green: vent black, marked with. fhining blue » {pots. This 1s faid to inhabit the Cape of Good Hope, for which we have the authority of M. Ekeberg ; at has however never fallen to our lot to meet with any one of the genus which came from that place.
Trochilus-galeritus, Jd. Orn. i. p. 304. 10.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 127, 2.
HIS fpecies is rather lefs than a Wren: the bill is fomewhat bent: the general colour of the plumage green gold: head crefted; the creft radiated with purple and gold: the under parts of the body are fire colour: quills and tail brown, varied with gold. Inhabits Chik.
HUMMING BIRD.
Trochilus Mango, Ind. Oxd. i. p. 307. 20.
Mango Humming Bird, Gen. Syx. ii. p. 758. 18.—Ia. Sup. p. 135. B- WV E have before related a circumftance of the poffibility of keep-
ing Humming Birds alive for fome time, by means of fugar and water *; but this was in their own country and climate. In ad- dition to this, we have been informed, on undoubted veracity, of the following fact: a young gentleman, a few days before he fet fail from Famaica to England, was fortanate enough to meet with a female Humming Bird, fitting on the neft and eggs, when cutting off the twig, he brought all together on board the fhip; the female became fufi- ciently tame, fo as to fuffer itfelf to be fed with honey, and during the paffagze hatched two young ones; however, the mother did not fur- vive long, but the young were brought to Lygland, and continued alive for fome time in the poffeffion of Lady Hamond. Sir H. Engle- Jield, Baronet, and Colonel Svoave, both witneffes of the cirumftance, informed me that thefe little creatures readily took honey from the lips of Lady Hamond, with their bills: one of them did not live long, but the other furvived at leaft two months from the time of its arrival. Iam not pofitively certain that it is the fpecies I have here arranged it under; but I am inclined to think fo, from the above gentlemen comparing it with the figure of the bird pointed out to them, and efpecially as it is the moft common fpecies found in that aiignds S|
HIS is a finall fpecies, being only two inches and an half in length: the general colour green: the top of the head furnifhed with a gloffy gilded green creft: quills and tail black.
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6. BLUE-HEADED H. B.
DESCRIPTION.
/Piacs,
HUMMANG BIRD.
The female is greenifh brown above, and whitifh beneath, with dufky fpots on the breaft.
The neft is chiefly compofed of pappofe down, as in the major part of this genus. I am indebted to Colonel Woodford for this defeription.
HiS is about three inches and a quarter long: the bill black, three quarters of an inch in length, nearly ftrait, being only a trifle bent juft at the tip, the colour of it white: the head feathers a little elongated at the hind part: the general colour of the plumage is dufky, inclining here and there to blue: belly wholly dufky : between the bill and eye an orange fpot; chin orange, and the outer margins of the wing of the fame colour the whole of its length: tail blue above, orange beneath: legs black. From the drawings of Colonel Woodford; from whence it was brought uncertain.
** Witnu Strait Bitts. Trochilus eyanocephalus, Izd. Orn.i. p. 319: 63.—Molin. Chili, (Fr. edit.) p. 227.
HIS is faid to be the fize of a walnut, but the tail is three times the length of the body: the bill is flrait, pointed, and of a whitifh colour: the head is of a gilded blue: the back glofly green: the belly yellowifh red; the feathers of the wings blue varied with purple. ; Inhabits Chil.
HUMMING~ BIRD: 173
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Trochilus maximus, Mu/. LefR. N° 76. T. ii. N° 2.
Der grofste Kolibri, J/g, U. d. Yog.i. Th. 2. S. 737. GREAT H. B.
HE length of this fpecies is about eight inches: the billis fharp, Description. and half as long again as the head: the plumage is gloffy: the crown, quills, and tail blueifh: hind part of the head, back, breaft, rump, and wing coverts greenifh gold: the throat white as fnow: vent ruft colour; tail pointed and blackith. Native place uncertain.
174 38 HA RD Nie.
Or pe Ry LHS PATS S ROR MINE
Genus XXXI. STARLING.
N° t. Perfian St. N° 3. Dauurian St. 2. Magellanic St.
Sturnus moritanicus, Jad. Orz, i. p. 325. 11.—S. G. Gmel. I. iv. p. 174.—
awe PERSIAN Pall. n. Nord. Beytr. iv. p. 52. ST. Etourseau more, Daudin. Ora. i. p. 302.
HIS is about the fize of the Skylark: the tip of the bill is black : general colour of the plumage afh colour: fore part of the head
and the throat mixed with white : ‘the belly {potted with rufous. Prace. Inhabirs the alpine parts of Perfia ; makes the neft in the hollows
of rocks, and lives on infects,
DESCRIPTION.
Sturnus Loyca, Ind. Orn. i. p. 325. 12-
Ze MAGELLANIC militaris, Zzd, Orz. i. p. 323. 4?—Daud. Orn. ive. 305.
ST. Magellanic Stare, Gen. Syz. lll. p. 7: Description. IZE of the common cae general colour mixed brown and
whitifh: breaft crimfon: female pale grey; breaft crimfon, but of a much paler colour.
Inhabits Chi/i; makes the neft in the hollows of the earth, lays three orey eggs, varied with brown; faid to fing {weetly, is eafily tamed, and efteemed much by the natives, who entertain fome fuperftitious ideas in refpect to its fong, burt likewife value it on account of the beauty
of its feathers, with which they form aigrettes. It may poffibly be 5 E a variety
PLace.
St A) Ret) NG.
a variety of our Magellanic Stare; but no mention is made of the crimfon lore, or fpots on or near the eyes.
Sturnus Dauuricus, Jnd. Orz, 1. p. 325. 13.—Pall, AG. Stock. 1778. iii. px 198. Etourneau de la Daourie, Daudin. Orn. ii, p. 302.
HIS is about fix inches in length: the bill black, rather fhorter and more bent than ufual in the genus: irides brown; before
and over the eyes a white ftreak: general colour of the body violet black ; beneath cinereous white: the head and nape blueifh white ; on the crown of the male a violet black, ftripe, which is brown in the female: the wing coverts black glofled with green: quills black ; the two inmoft white at the tip, the reft outwardly are tipped with
white: tail fomewhat forked; the coverts of it violet ; the feathers
of the tail greenifh black : legs biue black.
Inhabits in the willow beds of Dauuria, feeding on both vegeta- bles and infects ; lays three eggs, of a ferruginous colour, tinged with blue,
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3 DAUURIAN SA Describe Tion.
Placw.
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1. SONG THR. DEscRIPTION.
Sy) EER AES Ed.
Genus XXXII. TH RUS 4A.
. Song Thr. N°18. Prafine Thr.
N°1 2. Penrith Thr. 1g. Volatile Thr. 3. Red-legged Thr. 20. Blue-cheeked Thr. 4. New Zealand Thr. 21. Brown-crowned Thr. §- Thenca Thr. 22. Lunulated Thr. 6. Chili Thr. 23. Sooty Thr. 7. Ceylon Thr. 24. Black-browed Thr. 8. White-rumped Thr. 25. Fly-catching Thr. g. Ethiopian Thr. | 26. Blue-headed Thr. 10. Minute Thr. 27. Maxillary Thr. t1. Reftlefs Thr. : 28. Frivolous Thr. 12. Black-eyed Thr.’ 2g. Sordid Thr. 13. Doubtful Thr. 30. Shert-winged Thr, 14. Dilute Thr. 31. Yellow-bellied Thr. _ 15. Guttural Thr. 32. Punctated Thr. 16. Harmonic Thr. 33. Afiatic Thr.
17. Port Jackfon Thr.
Turdus muficus, Ind. Orn. 3. p. 327. 2.—Ger. Oru. iii. pl. 290, 291. 292. Throftle, or Song Thrufh, Ger. Syz. iii. p. 18. 2.—Bolton’s Brit. Birds, pl. 5. 6. -H15S bird is known in fome parts of Hampfhire by the name of Storm-Cock, asis alfo the Miffel Thrufh; is a more hardy bird than the Redwing, which in hard froft is obferved firft to fuffer from it; and in defect of other food, both this and the Aéiffel Thrufh are known to live on the roots of Arum, which they break from the ground with tneir bills, as well as fhell fnails, mifleltoe, and ivy
berries, Tn
Tf Ft Ree. $7) ER
In Ray’s letters, page 137, a bird is mentioned by the name of Heath Throftle, taken from the Epitome of Hu/bandry, the author of which firft noticed it. Mr. Ray fuppofes it to be the Ring Ouzel, as that bird is called Heath Throfile; in Craven ; be this as it may, the late Mr. Lewiz fhewed me a pair of thrufhes fimilar to the Song Tbriujfe in colour, but they were darker, and the tail feemed rather fhorter; thefe were fhot near Dartford in Kent ; 1 remember to have made fome remarks upon thefe birds at the time, but having miflaid them, I cannot venture here to fay more on the fubject.
IZE fuperior to the common Water Ouzel: head, wings, upper
part of the body, and tail dufky: chin and throat white, at the bottom of the laft a bar of dufky: breaft, belly, and thighs white, with fhort black dtreaks pointing downwards, more numerous towards the lower belly and thighs: vent rufty yellow, croffed with bars of black: legs rufty yellow.
This is faid to be found about Penrith; given to Mr. Pennant, by Mils Calvin *.
Turdus Plumbeus, Ind. Orz. i. p. 334. 29. Le Thili ou Chili, Moliz. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 230. Red-legged Thruth, Gez, Syz. ili. p. 33. 29.
HE male of this fpecies is wholly black, and has a cuneiform tail ; under the wings a large fpot of yellow.
The female is grey, paler on the under parts ; between the bill and eye a black patch: chin white, with black markings, fometimes wholly black: tail feathers dufky, the four outer ones white at the tips: bill, eyelids, irides, and legs orange red.
* T took the above account out of the late Mr. Pennast’s notes, of a journey from Downing to Alfon Moor, in which is painted a figure of the bird, Mr. Pennant thought it to be a new fpecies.
Supp, fl, Aa This
177
2s PENRITH OUZEL.
DEscrIPTion:
PLac#,
36 RED-LEGGED THR,
DescripTion,
4738
PLACE.
4. NEW ZEALAND THR. DescRiPTION,
PLACE.
Re THENCA THR. DESCRIPTION.
Piack,
6. CHILE THR.
DsscriPTions
. HBR Ci St
This fpecies inhabits Chili: makes the neft of twigs by the river fides, mixed with mud, and lays four eggs. Its fong is excellent, but the bird does not, bear confinement. It is a very numerous fpe- cies, occafioned perhaps by its flefh being unfavoury, and therefore not fought after.
Turdus auftralis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 338. 43-—Mu/f: Carlf. fafe. iii. t. 69.
IZE of the Song Thrufh: bill’ and legs black: the general colour
of the plumage is dufky black: breaft and belly white, but the bafe of the feathers are black.
Inhabits. New Zealand.
Turdus Thenca, Jud. Ora. i. pe 339. 46.—-Molin. Ghil, (Fre ed.) p. 231-
IZE of the Mocking Thrufb: bill, irides, and legs brown: general _
colour of the plumage cinereous, fpotted with brown and white: breaft and belly pale grey: quills and tail white at the ends.
Inhabits Chili: makes a cylindrical neft, a foot long, defended on the outfide with thorns, within lined with wool and feathers, with a fmall entrance on one fide; lays four white eggs fpotted with brown. It poffibly may hereafter prove a variety of the Mocking Thrufk.
Turdus curaus, Ind. Ora. i, p. 342. 53.—Molix. Chil. Gee ed) p. 232. (Le Cureu. ). Quifcale du Chili, Daud. Ora. ii. p. 318. IZE of a Blackbird: bill rather angular, black, a trifle turning up at the end: ee wholly black and gloffy : tail cuneiform and long:.
This is a very common. bird. i in Chili, finging well, and imitating: the notes of other birds, hence often kept in cages; attacks other birds, picking out their brains; alfo feeds on feeds and worms: con-
I oregates
ae, RES) Sst Ee
gregates with Starlings: makes a neft of twigs and fibres, mixing it with mud, and lining it with hair; the eggs are three in number, of a blueifh white: the fichh j 1s not good eating, being black.
Turdus Zeylonus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 349. 80.—Spalouse. Vog. tab. 5
Le Bacbakiri, Lewvail/, Oif il. p. 65. pl. 67. f..1. 2.
Ceylon Thrufh, Gez. Syx. iit. 62. 73.
R. Levaillant confirms what has been before mentioned in ‘the
Gen. Synopfis, that this fpecies is not uncommon at the Cape of Good Hope, and that it there goes by the name of Bachakiri, and adds, that in fome of the cantons it is called Fentje-bibi, and Couvit= Couit, from fome of its notes imitating thofe words ; it ‘is alfo called by others Geéle Canari-byter, or Yellow Canary-eater ; that it is not only commonly feen at large, but frequently comes into the gardens at the Cape.
We learn that both male and female have the black -crefcent on the breaft, but in the female, the crefcent and the reft of the colours of the plumage are lefs vivid; alfo that the young birds of both fexes do.not obtain it till of mature age, in which cafe we can eafily fup- pofe our Orange-headed Thrufo may prove to be a young bird of this rather than a diftinét {pecies.
The male and female are for the moft part obferved together, and make the neft among the thick bufhes, and the hen lays four or five eggs, which both fexes fic upon by turns, and the young continue in fociety with the parents till the {pring following.
Turdus bicolor, Izd, Oru. i. p. 350. 84. Turdus bicolor, Stourne Spreo, Daud. Ora. ii. p. 311.—Levaill. Oi. pl. 88. White-rumped Thrufh, Gen. Syz. iii. p. 64. 75.—Yhunb. Trav. ii. p. 48.
AR. Thunberg obferves, that this bird is known at the Cape of Good Hope, by the name of Sprevw, and that it very frequently
accompanies the larger cattle and fheep, ‘ mornings and evenings, Aa 2 “ picking
179
7: . CEYLON THR.
8. WHITE- RUMPED THR.
180
9. RTHIOPIAN THR.
DESCRIPTION.
VE i) CA SkL Ete
« picking the infects, which dropping from the bufhes upon the «© animals, and biting deep into their fkins, ftick very faft to them, “ and occafion them great pain;” that it is a fhy bird, and makes the neft in the fides of rivers and brooks, and digs holes in the banks : they are obferved alfo to feed on ripe grapes, and flying in great
‘flocks, not unfrequently do much damage to the vineyards ; however,
by fuch kind of food the flefh is rendered very delicate: thefe birds
do not always make the neft in banks, but fometimes in old ruined : buildings, or holes of decayed trees, at others rob the fwallows of
their neft; the eges. are five or fix in number, ereenifh {potted with
brown.
This we are inclined to believe is the Locuft-eating Thrufh men- tioned by Mr. Barrow *, as the chief if not the only food, appears to be Larve of the migratory Locujts, following the troops of thefe wherever they are. He obferves that the bird is gregarious, making the neft in vaft numbers together, not greatly different from the So- siable Grofbeak, appearing as one large neft, big enough for a Vultures which circumftance he obferved at Seuwberg, on a clump of low bufhes: on examination, the neft was found to confift of a number of cells, each of which was a feparate neft, with a tube that led: into it through the fide ; and of fuch cells, each clump contained from fix to twenty, and one roof of interwoven twigs covered the whole, like that made by a Magpie: moft of them had young birds, generally five. The eggs are of a blueifh white, with fmall faint reddifh fpecks,
Turdus ethiopicus, fzd. Orz. i. p. 357. 110. Le Boubou, Levaill. Oxf. ii. p. 73. pl. 68. f. 1. 2. Ethiopian Thruth, Gen. Syz. ili, p. 78. 103. ‘HE female is a trifle lefs than the male: the parts which are black in the laft are in the former brownifh, and the under parts almoit intirely fulvous, except the throat, which is rufous white, and
* Travels into South Africa, p. 256. the
A ER Re Cia S ek a
the bar -acrofs the wing inclined to rufous at the back part: whilft young, the male appears like the female, but the female wants the bar of white on the wing coverts, many of which are bordered with rufous.
In the fouthern parts of the Cape of Good Hope, this f{pecies is very numerous as far as Caffraria. The note of the male exprefies the words Bou-bou, and that of the female Cou-i. They make the neft among the thorny bufhes, laying four or five eggs.
Turdus minutus, Ind. Oru. i. p. 363.136. Mf. Carl. fa/c. iii. t. 68.
HIS is a fmall fpecies, being lefs than four inches in length:
the bill and legs are brown: general colour of the plumage rufty brown, beneath inclining to afh colour: chin whitifh: two or three of the prime quills are dufky, the others black, but ferruginous in the middle; many of the fecondaries tipped with ferruginous, and the reft wholly of that colour: the four middle tail feathers are black, the reft ferruginous.
IZE of the Song Thrufh: length eight inches, in fhape fomewhat
flender: the bill three quarters of an inch long, and curved at the point, colour black; tongue fharp: the plumage on the upper parts of the body is black, on the under white: tail a very trifle rounded at the end :. legs black.
Inhabits New Holand, faid to be-a reftlefs fpecies.
ENGTH eight inches: bill ftout, flightly curved; tongue briftly at the tip: the crown of the head and under parts of the body are yellow: the forehead mottled with dufky: nape, wings, and tail rufty brown, the two laft mareined with yellow: from the gape fprings a black ftreak growing broader, furrounding the eye, and
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PLaAcE,
10. MINUTE THR. DeEscrRIPTION,
II. RESTLESS PR: Descriprion.
Pracr
12. BLACK-EYED THR. Descriprion.
i§2
PLACE. 13. DOUBTFUL THR. DESCRIPTION
PLace.
14. DILUTE THR.
DEscrRiPTION.
PLACE.
; 15. GUTTURAL THR. -
DascripTion.
PLaAce.
16. HARMONIC THR.
Description.
Ti ER) WS. kL.
and defcending on each fide below it, growing more narrow; juft
within at the bottom part isa {mall {pot of yellow: tail moderately
long; the wings reach only to the bafe of it: bill and lees brownith. Inhabits New South Wales.
ENGTH nine inches: bill one inch long, blueifh: tongue briftly at the end: plumage blueifh black, beneath white: quills and tail brown, the laft rather long: legs dufky. Inhabits New Holland, and is a bird of a dull uninterefting appear- ance.
THE bill in this fpecies is ftraight and blueifh: the head, neck, and rump are pale blue grey: back and wings pale brown: the under parts of the body blueifh white: tail dufky pale brown: legs blueifh. Inhabits New Holland.
IZE of the Ceylon Thrufb, and fomewhat refembles it in figure:
the head is black, reaching forwards as far as the breaft, but the chin is white, and the nape inclines to yellow: back and wings green: breaft, belly, and vent yellow: bill and legs black.
Inhabits New Holland; not unfrequently feen at Port Fack/on in the winter months.
ENGTH nine inches: bill and legs horn colour: plumage on the upper parts pale brown, on the under whitifh, with a flender brown line down the fhaft of each feather: wings and tail dufky
black. Inhabits
Ty) A RSs) Ee
Inhabits New Holland: called from its note, which is harmonious, the Port Fackfon Thrufh, but feems different from the following one, which goes by that name in Vbite’s Voyage.
Port Jackfon Thrush, White’s Voy. pl. in p. 15 7--
HE top of the head in this bird is blueifh grey ; from thence down the: hind. part: of the neck and the back, the colour is a fine chocolate brown: the wings and tail are lead colour; the edges of the feathers pale; the tail itfelf pretty long, and even at the end: all the under parts from chin to vent are dufky white, except the middle of the neck juft above the breaft, which inclines to chocolate : the bill is of a dull yellow: legs brown. This is faid to inhabit the neighbourhood of Port Fack/on, in New South Wales,
SIZE of a Song Thrufo: bill dufky, both mandibles fomewhat curved: general colour of the plumage pale flaty blue, marked on the wing coverts with black; the inner part of the quills is alfo black: chin white = belly dirty pale yellow oker-colour: below each ear a large oval patch of black: the tail is wholly black: legs dufky yellow. Inhabits New. South-Woles ; met with in the month of December.
ENGTH nine inches: fhape flender: bill rather flight and black: the head, neck, upper parts of the body and tail are black ; the under parts of the body white: tail long, and evenat the end, and the wings when clofed reach to the middle of it: legs flender, dufky. {nhabits various parts of Mew Holland, and is not’ uncommon;
obferved in company with another of the Gro/beak genus, to hover frequently
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PLACE,
17. PORT JACKSON. THR. DEscRIPTION,
Place
18. PRASINE -THR. DeEscriprion.
PLacez, 1g. VOLATILE} THR.
DESCRIPTION
Place.
184,
20. BLUE- CHEEKED THR. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
21. BROWN- CROWNED AREDRe DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
22. LUNULATED THR.
DeEscripT10ONn
ACE.
Ae a RO aera
frequently about two feet from the ground, making fudden darts at femething, which on more minute attention was found to be a fort of worm, which this bird by a chirping note and tremulous motion of the wings, with the tail widely expanded, feemed to fafcinate or entice out of its hole inthe ground. ‘The account adds, that the bird itfelf is in its turn frequently fafcinated by a Sake; but this circumftance we have reafon to fuppofe is not peculiar to this {pecies, as we find it recorded of other birds,
SIZE of the Miffel Thrufo: \eneth twelve inches: plumage above pale green; beneath pure white: the eye placed in the fore part of an oval patch of blue: quills dull ruft colour: tail rounded or flightly cuneiform : bill and legs flate colour. Inhabits New Holland, where it is rare: has a fineular whiftling note, and is often feen purfuing {maller birds. -
HIS {pecies is about fix inches long: bill pale blue: legs black: back and wings black; but the quills are edged with white:
‘the chin is black, from thence to the vent white; but the fides of
the body next the wings, and the crown of the head, are brown. FInhabits New Holland ; frequently feen about Port Fack/on, in New South Wales.
S! ZE ofa Mifél Thrujh, but of a ftouter make: bill black, rather bent towards the tip: legs pale, inclining to yellow: tongue fhort, briftly at the end: the plumage on the-upper parts of the body, wings, and tail are brown ; beneath from the chin to the vent white, every where marked with crefcents of black; tail fhort. Inhabits New South Wales.
D oF RU, S- A:
GIZE of the Song Thrufh: bill pale, in fhape much like that of the common Thrufh ; tongue fharp at the tip: the general colour of the plumage is dark greenifh brown: chin, and fore part of the neck pale grey; the breaft marked with large dufky fpots: tail even at the end: legs yellow. Inhabits New Holland.
IZE of the laft: plumage in general pale olive brown, paler
beneath; wings and tail darkeft: the crown of the head appears remarkably flat, rifing fcearcely above the level of the bill; between the noftrils and eye, the parts rife into a fort of yellowifh creft, margined above with black ; behind the eye a roundith crimfon {pot, edged with black: bill and !egs red.
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is known by the name of Dilbong : defcribed from a drawing of Mr, Lambert.
IZE of a Song Thrufh: length ten inches: bill bent a trifle at the
tip, and brown: legs brown: the head and fides of it beneath -
the eye, hind part of the neck and back blueifh black: chin and all the under parts white: wings and tail brown.
Inhabits New South Wales, called there Bana-will] will; faid to feed on fies and infects.
IZE of the laft: bill ftout, blue; tip black: the top of the head even with the eyes deep blue: back, wings, and tail brown; the quills darkeft, tipped with white: the under parts of the body ftom Supp. IL. “Bib ‘the
185 2a SOOTY THR. DescRiPTion.
Prace,
24. BLACK- BROWED THR. Description.
CATCHING THR, DescripTion.
Place.
26. BLUE-HEADEB THR. DEscRIPTiIon.
186
PLace.
27. MAXILLARY THR.
Desgriprron,
PraceE.
28. FRIVOLOUS THR. DeEscripTion.
PLace« 29. SORDID
THR.
DEsCRIPTION.
Pace:
ie: He) ROU) iS EE:
the chin yellowifh white, croffed with many fine lines of black next the wings: tail rounded, the outer margins of all the EEUABIS marked with triangular {pots of white: legs blue.
Tahabies New South Wales: manners and name unknown...
IZE of the laft: crown of the head black, paffing between the
bill and eye on each fide, and ending ima large patch below the jaw: hind part of the neck dull blue: back, wings, and tail brown, with a tinge of greenifh bronze on the thoulders, mixed with black and green: all the under parts of the body pale blueifl white : tail even at the end; the tips of all the feathers of it white: the bill has. both mandibles fghtly curved, and brown: irides orange: legs yellow. :
Met with at Port Fack/on, in New Ficlland.
IZE of the others: bill black: legs lead colour: the upper parts
of the body and wings brown; beneath white, inclining to rufous on the fides of the neck and breaft, and to yellow on the fides under the wings: forehead and half the crown mixed cinereous and white: quills fomewhat paler, and the tail darker than the reft of the plu- mage; the laft rather fhort. -
Found. with the former at Port Fack/on.
“HIS has a ftrong bill, of a pale blue colour: the plumage in general is greenifh afh : wings and tail black; on the outer edge of the wing a long ftreak of white; the tips of all but the two middle tail. feathers white ; the wings long, reaching almoft to the end of the tail. . Inhabits various parts of New Holland.
TED RA Sh ig
ENGTH about ten inches: general colour of the plumage pale brown, inclining to afh colour beneath, and a little mottled on the breaft: the tail is cuneiform, and pretty long, but the wings are remarkably fhort, fcarcely reaching to the rump: the bill and legs are dufky: at the gape and before the eyes a few black briftles: irides blueifh. Inhabits New South Wales, and is chiefly feen on the ground, or at moft taking very fhort flights, being unable to accomplifh long ones, from the fhortnefs of the wings.
IZE of a Miféel Thrufb: bill pale red; tongue briftly: legs pale
red: head, hind part of the neck and fides of the breaft dufky black: back and wing coverts greenifh brown: breaft and belly olive yellow: chin, fore part of the neck and vent white: quills olive brown; the leffer ones barred with black: tail olive above and pale beneath: at the back of the neck are tranfverfe black marks, and between that and the fides of the breaft a few fagittal marks.
Inhabits New South Wales: is migratory, coming in the {pring for the purpofe of incubation, and departing in autumn.
HIS fpecies has the upper parts pale brown, fpotted with black :
the fore part as far as the breaft flate colour, from thence red-
difh white: fides over the thighs and vent marked with fhort black
ftreaks: over the eye a white ftreak: the chin is white ; below this
on each fide is a rufous patch reaching behind the eye: quills and tail dufky: bill black: legs yellow.
Bb 2 Inhabits
187
40. SHORT- WINGED THR. Descaiprion.
PLace.
ts YEPLOW. BELLIED THR. DescrRiprion.
PLaAce.
32.
PUNCTATED THR.
DescriPrion.
183
PLACE.
33« ASIATIC THR.
DESCRIPTION.
"Bee RS CS ee Tnhabits New South Wales. For the defcription of feveral of the. above, I am indebted to my friend Mr. Lambert, and for many to real {pecimens from time to time brought into this kingdom, now in poffeffion of Mr. Wilfon, and others of my friends, but unfortunately in either cafe with little or no hiftory of their manners annexed...
GIZE of a Nightingale: length near fix inches: bill and legs black: the head, juft including the eye, and all the. upper parts of the body and wings, are black; but the greater quills are edged with yellow, and the leffer have white margins: the greater wing coverts. have white ends, making when clofed a bar on the wing ; above this is a fhorter bar of white: all the under parts are yellow: tail eS inclining to olive green. In the collection of General Davies, who fuppofed it to come from. China, as he met with it among other preferved birds from that part of the world.
GE AT (hee iE! Re
G BN Us) DOCK: \C FA ToT ER ER.
N° 5. Carolina Ch. N° 3. Yellow Ch. 2.. Cupreous Ch. 4. Crefted Ch: .
Ampelis Garrulus, Jud. Orn. i. p. 364. 1. 8. Crown Bird or Cedar Bird, Bartr. Trav. p. 288. Chatterer of Carolina, Gen. Sy. ili. p.93. 1. A.-
R. Bartram obferves that this bird is to be feen in little flocks -: or flights, in all the regions from. Canada to New Orleans, on the - Mififippi, but how much. farther fouth and fouth-weft not cértain. - The longeft period of their appearance in .Pennfylvania, is in the - {pring, and firft of Fune, at the time when the early cherries are ripe ; . alfo in the autumn, when the Cedar berriés* are in perfection 5 .
and they generally arrive'in large flocks. .
The late Mr. Tunjtall. iAfocmied me, that here and there one of thefe had not only the waxen appendages tothe quills, but that three or four of the tail feathers were tipped in the fame manner: the fame circumftance happens alfo in the one which inhabits Europe; as in a bird of this kind fent to me by Dr. Hey/bam, killed in Northumber-
Jand, one of the wings had eight appendages, the other feven, and . five of the tail feathers were tipped in a fimilar way; but the fex of .
this bird could not be afcertained.
& Juniperus Americana, -
189,
i. CAROLINA . CH.
PLAGE...
190
2: CUPRLOUS CH DESCRIPTION.
Piace.
3. YELLOW CH.
DeEsCRIPTIONe
4. CRESTED
DescrIPTION.
Place.
CrnvA Tie HR wey R.
Ampelis cuprea, Ind. Orn. i. p. 366. 8. Cotinga cupiea, Merrem. ic. dv. p. 5. t. 1. f. 2. : SIZE of the Red Chatterer, with a correfponding bill, and at firft fight not unlike that bird: the general colour is olive; the feathers gloffed with copper and orange bronze at the tips: the crown is red ; cheeks orange; the breaft and belly fanguineous, gloffed with green on the margins. On comparing it with the Red Chaiterer, we further find that the feathers of the head and neck are fmaller and ftiffer than the others ; thofe on the cheeks:curled, on the ears full and long; and the wings are longer, for they reach above a quarter way on the tail, which is rounded at the end: legs brown. Inhabits Surinam.
Ampelis lutea, Izd. Orx. i. p. 368, 13.—Mu/. Carlf, fa/c- iii. t. 70.
ENGTH fix inches and a half: bill black; at the gape a fpot
of white: the body above is olive brown; beneath yellow, grow-
ing white towards the vent; rump yellow: the two middle tail
feathers are black, tipped with yellow, the others dufky yellow: the
Jegs are black.
Weare not told from whence the above came: the bill is a trifle
bent, but very fharp at the tip, appearing more like that of an Oriole than.a Chatterer.
Ampelis criftata, Ind. Orn. i. p. 368.14.—f. F. Miller, ill. t. 15. C.
N this the head is crefted: the back red: the cheeks and belly white: wings and tail black. | Inhabits America.
Go iO. SBOE A kK,
Genus XXXV. GROSBEA K.
N° 1. Grenadier Gr. N° 10. Ath coloured Gr: 2. Hudfonian Gr, 11.. Ferruginous Gr. 3. Sociable Gr. 12.. Frontal Gr. 4. Philippine Gr. 13. Muftachoe Gr. 5. Sumatran Gr. 14. Blue-winged Gr.. 6. Caffrarian Gr. 15. Fafcinating Gr. 7. Fafciated Gr. 16. Black-lined Gr... 8. Prafine Gr. 17. Nitid.Gre. g. Sunda Gr.
Loxia orix, Ind. Orn. i. p. 376. ‘17. Var—=Spalowf. Vog. i. tab. 31 ?——Ger, Orns.
iii. t. 323.—Daudin. Orn. ii. p: 377. Grenadier Grofbeak, Var. Gen. Syz. ui..p. 120. 16. Var...
if may be obferved, from viewing the different figures a this bird, , that it varies greatly: In one of thefe faid to come from Senegal, ,
the black on the‘ chin was wanting; the tail fhort and brown, and the tail coverts fo long as to entirely hide the tail from-view: and in another irom the fame place, the fame circumftance of the length of tail coverts occurred; the black on the belly mixed with white, and the colour by no means of a deep red, but a fiery orange.
Mr. Thunberg obferves, that thefe are feen at the Cape of Good Hope in immenfe flocks, near the rivers, and make the neft among the reeds; and that the eggs are perfectly green: the hen always grey ; but from Fuly to Fanuary the blood-red feathers of the male gradually appear ; they are faid firft to devour the bloffoms of the wheat, and afterwards the corn itfelf*.
This {pecies is faid to be gregarious, and build their nefts in large focieties +.
* Thunberg’s Travs iis p. 14. + Barrow’s Trav. p. 243>
19k
i. GRENADIER
(192
HUDS ONL AN GR.
DescriPrion.
PLAce.
DESCRIPTION.
‘PLAGE.
GieR O}SW BYE aAnck.
Loxia Hudfonica, Jzd. Orn. i. Pp. 379. 28. Bouvreuil de la Baye d’Hudfon, Daud. Orn. ii. p..416.
ENGTH five inches: bill fhort, thick, and brown: plumage above deep brown, but the feathers moftly-margined with ru- fous; the greater and middle wing coverts tipped with the fame, pro- ducing a bar on the wing: breaft and belly-white, marked with long brown dafhes: the middle of the belly and vent) white: tail a trifle forked: legs brown. Inhabits Ludjon’s Bay; known there by the name of Atic-koom-a-/hifh.
*Loxia focia, Jad. On i Pagorengige Tifferin republicain, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 397. Loxia, Paterjon’s Cap. p. 133. t. in p. 126.—Bird and neff.
‘CTZE ofa Bulfinch : length five inches and a half: bill and
lore black: the general colour of the plumage rufous brown;
‘beneath yellow: region of the ear yellowith: tail fhort: legs brown.
Inhabits the interior parts of the Cape of Good Hope, building in
waft numbers, in one fociety, on the Mimofa Trees, uniting: their fe-
veral nefts under one common roof; and it is faid that not fewer than 800 or 1,000 form together one community ; not perhaps that this circumftance happens in one year, for they are obferved to add to the fize of the neft from year-to :year, till the tree, unable to bear any further. addition of -weight, neceffarily falls beneath its load, when the birds are in courfe conftrained to fearch a new place of abode. Mr. Paterfou, on examining one of thefe, found many entrances, each of which formed a regular ftreet, with nefts on both fides, at about two
inches diftance from each other. ‘The material with which thefe
birds build, is called Bofhman’s Grafs; and the feeds of it faid to be their principal food ; but the wings and legs of infects have been like-
wife obferved in the nefts.
ns M. Daudin
@ iB yO Sr ByB SA:
M. Daudin fappofes the Totty Grofbeak* to bea variety, which I mutt leave for further inveftigation.
This fpecies not only is obferved to make the group of nefts on the Acacia Trees, but likewife on the Alo? Dichotoma, which grows to the ftature ofa tree of no inconfiderable fize; for Mr. Barrow + mentions the circumftance of one which had fteps cut out on its trunk, to enable a perfon to climb up to obtain the neft of thefe birds.
Loxia Philippina, Zzd. Orz.i. p. 380. 32.
Tifferin des Philippines, Daud. Orz. ii. p. 394.
Baya, Berbera, &c. Affatic Refearches, ii. p. 109.—Bartolomeo’s Voy. to the Eaft Indies (Engl. ed.) p. 226.
Philippine Grofbeak, Gen, Syx. iil. p. 129. 30.
E are inclined to think that this is the bird called Baya in India, {aid to be larger than a fparrow, having a yellow brown plumage, yellowifh head and feet, light coloured breaft, and a conic very thick beak; and that it is the moft docile of all birds, perching on its mafter’s hand ; ‘that it builds the neft chiefly on the higheft trees, efpecially on the Palmyra or Indian Fig Tree, preferring fuch as hang over the water; the neft is of grafs, fhaped like a bottle with a long neck, and fufpended at the ends of the branches, the entrance from beneath; it is faid to ufually confift of two or three chambers: fup- pofed to feed among other things on fire flies, as the remains are found in-the neft; is fo docile as to fetch and carry like a dog at command; it lays many eggs refembling pearls, when boiled the white is tranfparent, and the flavour of them excellent; it has a lively note, but is rather what may be called chirping than finging; much the fame account is given by M. Bartolomeo, in the work above quoted, who adds, that thefe birds chiefly frequent the cocoa-nut trees, in which alfo the greater part of their nefts were obferved.
* Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 156. + Travels in South Africa, p. 393- Supp, II. Gic
193
4 PHILIPPINE GR.
DESCRIPTIONe
194
c. SUMATRAN GR. Description.
PLAcE.
6. CAFFRARIAN GR.
DiscripTiOn.
PLACE,
G R-O S BE A ®
Loxia hypoxantha, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 384: 44.—Daudin. Orn. it. p. 429.—-Mufe Carll: il. t. 71. IZE of a Yellow Hammer: the bill and legs are of a pale colour: irides rufous: the general colour of the plumage of the upper parts is yellowifh green: the forehead and all the under parts yellow : wings dufky black, with yellow margins: tail black alfo, even at the end, and the margins of the feathers yellow. Inhabits the rice fields of the ifland of Sumatra, from whence a fpecimen was brought, and continued alive for fometime in the col- lection of Count Carlfon.
Loxia Caffra, 7nd. Ora. i. p. 393. 78 —AG. Stock. 1784. p. 289; Fringilla Caffra longicauda, Spalowyk. Vog. iii, t. 42. fem ? IZE of the Bulfinch: bill cinereous brown: general colour of the plumage black ; with a tail longer than the body, and fome- times of double the length: the quills are brown margined with white: wing coverts white: fhoulders crimfon: legs grey. ¢ Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope: at certain feafons the ma/z is grey, but the female is continually of that colour: faid to build in marfhy places *. I fufpect this bird to be the fame as my Orange-/houldered Bunting, but as 1 do not find the bird any where figured, I cannot afcertain the circumftance; perhaps the one above referred to in Spalow/ki may prove the female. Mr. Zhunberg, in his travels, talks of a bird called Lang/taart, which is found in the marfhes and low fields about Sea Cow River; likens it to a goldfinch in its red velvet or fummer drefs ; but dif-
* Mr. Barrow fays the neft is curious, compofed of grafs, plaited into a round ball, faftened between two reeds; the entrance through a tube, the orifice of which is next the water: thought to be polygamous; for although thirty or forty nefts are often in one clump of reeds, never more than two males are feen amongft them. Barrow’s Trav. p. 24.4.
+ Vol. ii. p. 64.
I fering
a
G RGOQ;) Sy Bi FAK,
fering in that the tail was longer than the body : in winter the cock is grey, as the hen, who has not a long tail, is all the year round. Its flow flight, on account of the length of its tail, make it not only eafy to fhoot, but in rainy or windy weather may almoft be caught with the hands; there is little doubt but that this and the foregoing are the fame.
Loxia fafciata, Ind, Orn. i. p. 395. 87.-—Nat. Mic. ii. pl. 56.—Ger. Orn. ili.
tab. 358. f. 1. fem ?
Fafciated Grofbeak, Gen. Syz, iii. p. 156. 80.—Id. Sup. p. 154.
AVING an opportunity of examining both fexes of this bird,
I obferved that in the ma/e, the chin and throat were of a filvery whitenefs: breaft and belly pale cinnamon colour; middle of the belly chefnut: quills black, with the fecondaries tipped with pale cinnamon: tail black ; all but the two middle feathers have a fpot of white on the inner web at the tip, but on the outermoft the whole of the inner tip is white.
The female differs in being every where paler, and in wanting the
crimfon band on the throat; the under part wholly pale cinnamon colour, and the white at the tips of the tail feathers lefs confpicuous.
Loxia prafina, Izd. Orn. i, p. 396. 91-—Mu/f. Carlf. fafe. iii. t. 72. 73. Bouvreuil prafin, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 422. SIZE of a Sikin: the male is olive green; beneath yellowith orey: the rump red, as alfo a feather or two on the belly: the legs yellow: tail rounded, black; the two middle feathers red above ; the others the fame on the outer margin.
The female is olive brown, beneath yellow grey: the rump dull red: quills cinereous, eight of the fecondaries whitifh on the anterior margins and tips: the tail feathers black tipped with white: the bill in both black.
Inhabits the ifland of ¥eva ; found in the rice fields,
Ciey2
EMS FASCIATED GR.
DeEscRIPTION,
8. PRASINE GR. DescRIPTION.
Puace.
196
9. SUNDA GR.
DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE. 10. ASH- COLOURED
GR. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
It. FERRUGINOUS Gi»
’ DsscrRiPrion,
PLAce.
Gi OF Ss Beak Pea ike
Loxia Javentfis, Mu/. Carl/. fajc. iv. t. 89.
IZE of a Bulfinch: general colour greyifh brown: top of the head black; from the chin, the under parts are paler than the upper, and the belly and thighs white: quills black; the fecondaries _ brown, with ferruginous margins: tail black: legs pale yellow. Inhabits Sumatra and Fava.
Loxia cinerea, Mu/. Carl/. fa/c. iv. t. 88.
HIS may be ranked among the larger fized Grofbeaks: the bill is tout, and very pale: the plumage above cinereous brown: belly nearly white: the head has the feathers elongated into a creft at the back part: the tail is pretty long, and rounded in fhape; the feathers black, margined outwardly with white: the legs red. Inhabits Malacca, Sumatra, Fava
Loxia ferruginofa, Muf. Carl/. fa/e. iv. t. go. gt.
IZE of the White-headed Grofbeak, which it much refembles:
general colour of the body ferruginous: crown, nape, and fides of the head white; bafe of the bill, chin, and throat black: on the belly before the thighs a large fpot of black: quills black: tail dull ferruginous: bill ftout and cinereous: legs black.
The female is of a general brown colour, paler beneath, or pale
afh colour: quills black, more or lefs edged with ferruginous: bill and legs black.
Inhabits the Haft Indies.
Gr Re ROS” SUB R CAr IK:
Bengali a front pointillé, Daudiz. Orn. ii. p. 445.
IZE of the 4maduvade : bill pale grey ; at the forehead and corners of the mouth a few ferrated black feathers, each tipped with white: upper part of the head and neck pale rufous, of the body cinereous grey, the edges of the feathers paler: throat and under parts of the body white: legs and claws pale grey. Inhabits Senegal, from whence feveral have been brought alive to Paris. Bengali myftacin, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 446. Slee of 2 Wren: length under four inches: bill reddifh brown, with a black tip: head, and upper parts of the neck reddifh brown; above the eye a ftreak of bright red, and another of the fame at the corners of the mouth: throat and fore part of the neck pale grey.: upper parts of the body, wings, and tail brown, inclining to olive; beneath whitifh grey: legs flefh colour: claws grey. Inhabits Cochin China.
CIZE of a Bunting: \ength feven inches: general colour cinereous brown: round the bafe of the bill as far as the eyes confiderably darker : wings wholly of a deep blue, but the bafe of the outer quills white, forming a long white fpot on the outer edge of the middle of the wing: tail the fame, but paler than the wings ; the ends of all the feathers white: bill and legs blue. Inhabits New South Wales; found at Port Fackfon. From a drawing by General Davies.
X
IZE of a Bulfinch, but longer: the plumage on the upper parts
in general dufky black, inclining to brown; the under white : one or mere of the outer tail feathers white: bill and legs dufky.
Inhabits New Holland: at Port Yackfon is called the fmaller fafci- nating bird, having the manners exactly of the Fa/cinating Thrujh.
197 We FRONTAL GR.
DeEscripPrion,.
PLace.
13. MUSTACHOE GR. DEsCRIPTION.»
Place. 14. BLUE-WINGED GR.
DescriPrion.
PLace. 15. FASCINATING GR.
DESCRIPTION.
Brac.
198 16. BLACK-LINED GR.
DESCRIPTION.
DirscriprTion.
13. WAX-BILL GROSBEAK.
GAO! (SB VAGIK:
IZE of a fmall Linnet: general colour grey, paler beneath, croffed
every where with numerous flender lines of black; between the bill and eye black, furrounding the eye, and ending in a point juft behind it: the bill is ftout, and of a fine crimfon colour: the lower part of the back and rump are alfo fine crimfon: legs pale brown.
inhabits New South Wales, where a fingle fpecimen was met with in May; called Weebong.
IZE of the laft, but ftouter in the body: the general colour of
the plumage pale olive brown above, and dufky white beneath, croffed every where with fhort abrupt curved lines of black: quills and tail brown, marked with feveral bands of a darker colour: the bill, irides, lower part of the back and rump are crimfon: legs yel- lowith.
Found in the fame place and at the fame time as the laft.
Loxia aftrild, zd. Orn. 1. p. 376. 75.. Waxbill Grofbeak, Gen. Syn. ili: p. 152. 71.
HE amazing flocks of this fpecies may in fome degree be con- ceived, from the circumftance of fixty-three having been fhot at one difcharge of a fmall fowling-piece *.
* Barrow’s Trav. Pp. 373°
P1.CXXXI,
Zp
oe Nihil Grosbeak ;
Publisha as te Act directs May 30,1801, by Leigh, Sotheby k& Son Sorke Sireet, Covent Garden.
Be USN) Phebe. Ni Gi
Genus XXXVI BUNTING..
N° 1. Yellow-winged B. N° 8. Painted B. 2. Cirl B. g. Varied B. 3. Crimfon B. 10. Coloured B. 4. Baden B. 11. Dauurian B. 5. Ruddy B. 12, Yellow-browed B. 6. Ruftic B. 13. Luteous B. 7. Dwarf B.
Emberiza chryfoptera, Ind. Orz. i. p. 401. g. Yellow-winged Bunting, Portlock’s Voy. pl. in p. 35. Male and female. .
IZE of the Yellow Bunting: bill brown: plumage on the upper part of the body reddifh brown: fides of the head quite round the eye, the chin, and fore part of the neck white; at the lower part a bar of reddifh brown like a collar: breaft yellowifh, from thence to the vent dufky white: the leffer wing coverts yellowith; the reft of the wing as the back, the edges of the feathers yellowith: tail as the back, but the two outer feathers on each fide yellow: legs yellow. This is the male: the female is not greatly different, but the leffer wing coverts are pale afh colour: fides of the head, chin, and throat dufky white. Inhabits Falkland I/lands.
Emberiza Cirlus, Ind. Qra.i. p. 401. 10.—Gér. Orz, ili. t. 349.1. & 2? Cirl Bunting, Gen. Syz. iii. p. 190. 26. <a HE Cirl Bunting has not we believe hitherto been afcertained to be a Britifh fpecies: Colonel Montagu has however been fortu- nate enough to detect it laft year in Devonfbire, in the month of February,
i)
Be YELLOW- WINGED B. Dzrscrirrion,
€Co
3. CRIMSON- BELLIED B
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
4e BADEN B
De3criprion.
Butane en, INGO G:
February, fince which he has met with feveral of both fexes, and conjectures that this fpecies breeds in thofe parts; it cannot be won- dered how the circumftance may till now have efcaped the obferva- tions of the naturalift, the female being extremely like that fex of the Yellow Bunting, fo as to deceive almoft any one. Ina letter from
~ the late Mr. Hudjon, he fays: I am convinced that I faw in Devonfhire,
in pretty good plenty, the Ember. Cia or Foolifb Bunting, and which might before then have been miftaken for the hen of a Yellow Bunt- mg; but on my relating this to Colonel Montagu, he fays he has never met with it, which he moft likely muft have done had it inhabited thofe parts, and where the Colonel has refided himfelf for a long time paft.
Emberiza coccinea, dnd. Orn. i. p. 410. 34.—Naturforfch. xill. p. 199. ( Sanders.)
SIZE of the Yellow Hammer: the bill, head, eyes, and a {mall ftreak beneath the bill are black: hind head and tail black gloffed with blue: the upper parts of the body are filvery grey, the under crimfon: vent white: on the wings a fpot of white. Inhabits the woods .of Baden, in Germany, feeds on hemp feeds.
Emberiza Badenfis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 411. 39.—Naturfor/ch. xiii. p. 198. (Sanders. )
HIS has much affinity to the O/ve Bunting; is almoft a fpan long, and in breadth rather more: the bill is black, beneath it yellowifh, in the middle of the upper mandible a fingle ftout inden- tation; noftrils covered with feathers: the general colour of the plumage is olive ftreaked with dufky, beneath paler: throat orange: breaft ftreaked with dufky: legs yellowifh: found at Baden with the
- Taft fpecies.
Bw N Ea. NCE:
Emberiza rutila, zd. Orn. i. p. 411. 40.—Pall, &. iii. p. 698. 23.
SIZE of the Yellow Hammer: general colour rufous, with a fan- guineous tinge ; beneath brimf{tone coloured: wings rufty grey. Inhabits the willows on the borders of the Oxon, in Sibivia, towards the borders of Adongolia, but 1s a rare {pecies.
Emberiza ruftica, Ind. Oru. i. p. 413. 51.—Pallas reife, ili. p. 698. 21.
IZE of the Reed Sparrow: the head is black, marked with three
white bands, one down the crown, the two others above each eye: the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts like that of a fparrow; the under white: the nape and fhoulders are ferrugi- nous: the throat marked with teftaceous dots: the two outer tail feathers obliquely tipped with white.
Inhabits the willow beds of Dauuria, moft frequent in March.
Emberiza pufilla, Ind, Orn. i. p. 414. 54.—Pallas reife, tii. p. 697. 20.
"THIS is fcarcely fo big as a Si/kin; in general colour not unlike the laft: on tne head and fides of it five teftaceous bands, the intermediate fpaces between which are black: throat fpotted. Inhabits the rivers, and the larch grounds, among the torrents of the Dauurian Alps.
Emberiza Ciris, Ind. Orm.i. p. 416. 61.
Linaria Ciris, or Painted Finch, Bartr. Trav. p. 289.
Paffer brafilienfis, male and female, Ger. Orn. iii. t. 344. 1. 2 Painted Bunting, Ger. Sym iii. p. 206. 54.—Jd. Sup. p. 159.
R. Bartram obferves, that the fong of this bird is remarkably low, foft and warbling, exceedingly tender and foothing; that it
is not feen north of Cape Fear, in North Carolina, generally about ten Supp, Il. Dd miles
201 Boe RUDDY
B. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE. 6. RUSTIC
B
Description.
PLACE.
7 DWARF EB. DEscRIPTION«
- Prace.
8. PAINTED
9: VARIED B
DescripTioNn.
PLacz.
oe GE COLOURED B
DescRIPTION.
Pracs.
It. DAUURIAN B
DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
BUEN? -T. 0) Ny *G:
miles from the fea coaft, or perhaps twenty or thirty miles at fartheft, and for the moft part near the banks of great rivers, in the fragrant groves of oranges.
Emberiza mixta. Ind. Orn. i. p, 416. 62.—Amen. Acad. iv. p. 245. 20.
IZE of a SiRin: the general colour of the plumage grey: the bill
is thick, and of a pale colour: the grey colour is fo mixed with blue, that in fome lights this laft colour appears predominant: the region of the ears, throat, breaft, and bend of the wing blue green: the belly is white, but the bafe of the feathers is brown: thighs grey, intermixed with blueifh feathers: legs pale.
Inhabits China.
Emberiza fucata, Ind, Orn. i. p. 419. 73.—Pall. reife, iti. p. 698. 22
QIZE of the Foolif> Bunting: the general colour above is like that of a Sparrow; but the crown and part of the nape hoary afh- colour; the fhafts of the feathers brown: the neck white, with a circle of brown {pots on the throat, and a round rufous fpot on the ears. Inhabits the rivers Oxon and Ingoda, in Rufia, on the banks of which it is found plentifully ; firft met with in 4pri/.
Emberiza fpodocephala, Jud. Orn. 1. p. 419.74.—Pall. reife, iil. p. 698. 29.
IZE ofa Reed Bunting: plumage like that of a Sparrow, with
the under parts yellowifh: the head and neck hoary afh colour :
face round the bill black. Found fparingly about the torrents of the Dauurian Alps in fpring.
BUNTING. 208
12. : ee YELLOW Emberiza chryfophrys, Ind. Orn. i. p. 419. 75.—Pail. reife, ili. p. 698. 25. : BROWED : : é 5 B. HE general colour of this fpecies is not unlike the laft: the Description.
crown is black, over the eye a yellow ftreak ; a white band from the middle of the crown to the nape. This is found in the fame places as the laft: from our want of PLace. better information concerning this fpecies, we dare not pofitively affirm chat it is not fomewhat allied to the White-crowned Bunting *.
Emberiza luteola, Mu/: Carl. faf. iv. t.93. LUTLOUS
HIS {pecies on the upper parts is reddifh brown, with markings Dee. of darker brown ; beneath more or lefs yellow: rump greenifh brown: quills and tail brown, with pale margins: bill brown: legs pale yellow. Inhabits Jvdia; the above brought from Coromandel. Prace.
# Gen. Sym iil, pe 200.
Dda
tr. SILENT ane
DescRIPTION.
PLACE
Ze YELLOW- FRONTED
aE
DsscRIPTION.
© AON ALG Bs oe.
Genus XXXVII TANAGER.
N° x. Silent ‘T. N° 3. Rude T. 2. Yellow-fronted T. 4. Showy T..
Tanagra, filens, Ind. Orn. i. pi'432. 42: Tanagre de la Guiane, P/, Exl. 742.
LENGTH feven inches : bill black: general colour of the plum- age sreen, but the head and under parts are hoary 5 fides of the head black ; over the eyes a ftreak of white: throat white; beneath this a curved bar of black: fhoulders yellow. Inhabits the thick woods of Guiana: is a folitary bird; oftener found fitting on the ground, than perched on a tree; and by no means endowed witha fong.
Emberiza flayifrons, Mu/ Carl/. fafc. iv. t. 92:
SIZE of the Rufous-headed Tanager: bill and legs black: crown;. hind head, and beginning of the nape blue; but the feathers are brown at the bafe: the forehead yellow: the reft of the plumage green, but inclining to yellow on the throat: quills and tail dufky black. Its native place is not mentioned, but we fufpect it to be South America; and that itis very probably the young bird, or a female of the one we have compared it with aboye..
PAN ATG! FoR,
Tanagra rudis, Mu/: Carlf fae. iv. tab. 94.
HIS is about eight inches in length: bill cinereous brown: the top of the head, nape, and between the fhoulders, black brown: back and rump rufty brown: breaft, belly, and vent, rufo-ferrugi- nous: wings and tail dufky; the laft rather long: legs cinereous. Inhabits the Coromandel Coa/t, in the Eaft Indies.
Tanagra ornata, Mu/. Carl/. fa/c. iv. tab. 95.
SIZE of the Sayacu: the upper parts of a brownifh green; the under pale grey: the head of a pale blueifh violet colour; the leffer wing coverts not unlike the back; the middle ones tipped with yellow, making a bar on the wing; the reft brownifh green: quills black; the outer margins greenifh yellow: tail not unlike the quills: bill and legs dufky grey. Inhabits the Haft Indies.
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3. RUDE Ts DESCRIPTION,
PLaAce,
4. SHOWY 4h
DESCRIPTION.
PLacE,
206
fe RED- CROWNED iE
DESCRIPTION.
2s SWAMP EB
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
By a Nar Cin Eh
Genus, XXXVIII. FINCH.
N°’ 1. Red-crowned F. N° 9. Sharp-tailed F. 2, Swamp F. 10. Georgian F. 3. Rofy F. 11. Red Pole F. 4. Crimfon-headed F. _ 12. White-headed F, 5. Pine F. 13. Sultry F. 6. Foreft F. 14. Nitid F. 7. Bearded F, 15. Temporal F. 8. Chili F.
Fringilla ruticapilla, Zzd. Orn.ie p. 438. 14.—Mu/f. Carlf. fa/e. ii. tab. 44.
THE bill in this bird is brown; the plumage on the upper parts
of the body of the fame colour: crown and hind head reddifh, margined before and on the fides with black: face and cheeks white, dotted with black: chin ferruginous; breaft ferrugineus afh colour ; belly and vent afh colour; tail black.
Fringilla iliaca, Ind. Orn.i. p. 438. 15.—Merrem. ic. av. p. 37. t- 10.
IZE of a Starling; length nearly feven inches: bill and legs yel- low: cheeks white: body above greyifh olive, the feathers tipped with black ; beneath white; breaft fpotted with grey brown: rump and tail rufous; the laft even at the end, and grey beneath. Inhabits North America. 1 have feen this brought both from Georgia and Hudfon’s Bay; at the former it is rare; at the latter called Great Sparrow, Swamp, or Wilderne/s Sparrow.
Be Ee NEG. cE.
Fringilla rofea, Ind. Orz.i. p. 444. 33.—Pall. It. iii. p. 699. 26.
IZE of the Brambling: the back is grey and brownifh, mixed with
a general tinge of rofe colour: face white: wings and tail dufky, externally margined with rofe colour.
Inhabits among the willows about Uda and Selenga, in Sibiria; but
not common,
Crimfon-headed Finch, Ar. Zool. ii. N° 257.
HIS has acrimfon head and breaft, the firft faintly marked with dufky fpots; fpace behind each eye dufky: back, wing co- verts, primaries, and tail black, edged with crimfon: belly white,
tinged with red. Inhabits New York; arrives there in 4pril; is very frequent among the red cedars, and fhifts meft nimbly around the ftems., The Crim- Jfon-beaded Finch, Gen. Syn, iil. p. 271. 29. feems to be a further va-
riety.
Fringilla Pinetorum, Ind. Orn. i. p. 445. 40.—Lepech. It. ii. p. 188.
HIS is teftaceous, inclining to rufous above, beneath yellow ; on the breaft a tranfverfe ferruginous band. Inhabits the pine forefts of Sibiria.
Fringilla fylvatica, Ind. Orn. i. p- 446.41.—Lepech, It. ii. t. 7.f. 2,
HE head of this bird is fafciated; the body mixed grey and black: breaft and belly hoary. Found with the lait,
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DEscRIPTION. Place.
CRIMSON. HEADED F, DEscRIPTIO¥.
PLACE.
Sens PINE F, DEscRIPTION.
PLace.
6. FOREST FE Descriprion.
PLACEs
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DeEscRIPTIONs
PLACE.
8. CHILI F. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
9. SHARP-TAILED
DESCRIPTION.
ot. NG BE
Fringilla barbata, Ind, Orn. i. p. 456. 75.-—Le Siz, Molin, Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 227.
1ZE and habit of the Canary Bird: the bill is white at the bafe, towards the tip black: head black and velvety: body yellow,
with a flight tinge of green: wings variegated with green, yellow, red, and black: tail brown: from the chin hangs an elongated tuft of black feathers, like a beard, which in very old birds reaches to the middle of the breatft.
The female is wholly grey; the wings fpotted with yellow; but is deftitute of the chin beard-like feathers ; and has not the leatt fong.
Inhabits the mountainous parts of Chili, next the fea; builds in trees, making the neft of ftraw and feathers: the eggs are only two in number. The flefh is accounted favoury, and is therefore in much eftimation.
The male is often kept in a cage for the fake of its fong, and it is faid alfo to be a mimic of others. The Spaniards call it jilguero, or Goldfinch, which it fomewhat refembles in colour.
Frigilla Diuca, Ind. Orn. i. p. 456. 77- Malin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 229.
HIS is rather larger than the laft: the general colour blue, with
the throat white.
Inhabits Codi; chiefly about dwellings; fings remarkably well,
efpecially about fun-rife; it feems much allied to, if not the fame as ‘the White-throated Grofbeak *.
Fringilla caudacuta, Zzd. Orz. 1. p. 459. 85.
HIS is four inches and an half in length: bill and legs pale: iris dark brown: general colour of the plumage mottled brown and pale rufous; the laft chiefly at the edges of the feathers: the
© Gen. Syite ille Ps 115+ 10. : throat
Bi ID NAC! EE
throat is pale rufous, and a ftreak of the fame over the eyes; the lower part of the neck behind rufous, but darker than the throat: tail even at the end; but the tips of the feathers run off to a fharp point.
Inhabits the internal parts of Georgia, in America. I met with this at Mr. Humpbries’s, among other fpecimens brought from thence. It was entitled Spotted Grafs Sparrow.
Fringilla Georgiana, Jud. Ora. i. p. 460. 86.
ENGTH fix inches: bill dufky: irides brown: head brown, full of feathers: middle of the back -dufky brown; the under parts are white: chin and throat grey ; beneath the jaw a divaricated ftreak of black: the lefler wing coverts are rufous, and the quills and tail feathers are rufous on the outer edges: legs brown. Found in the fame places as the laft.
Fringilla cannabina, Ind. Orn. i. p. 458. 82.—Bolton’s Br. Birds, pl. 29. 30. Greater Red-headed Linnet or Redpole, Gen, Syn. ill. pe 304.
HAVE been long inclined to think the poffibility of the Common
or Grey Linnet, as it is called, and the Redpole, proving only one f{pecies ; and in this 1am encouraged by that excellent obferver Mr. Boys, of Sandwich, as well as by Colonel Montagu, both of whom have hinted their fufpicions in refpect to this fact; the way to account for it is, to fuppofe that the Common Linnet is not complete in refpe& to the red of the forehead, till the end of the fecond year at fooneft, yet - ds capable of breeding in the firft {pring after being hatched. I have obferved in the male NF the Grey Linnet, the mane feathers to appear externally like the reft of the upper parts, but on lifting them up, a tinge of red was very manifeft. One of thefe birds brought to me in the month of Fanuary, was feemingly in its change, for the feathers of
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GEORGIAN
Breen tie
Pracs,
II. REDPOLE
210
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Descriprion.
PLAGE.
13. SULTRY F
Duserierion.
PLACE.
Bik NG) Ee
the forehead were apparently grey, but on lifting them up with a pin they were fine crimfon in the middle. As to the red on the breaft, it is well known that it is only to be feen at certain feafons; and if the bird be kept in a cage, it entirely lofes it, fo.as never to return. during confinement.
SIZE of a Bulfinch: head, neck, and under parts from the breaft: white, marked on the fides and under the wings with a long patch of black, charged with numerous white fpots; acrofs the breaft a broad. bar of black communicating with the black on. the fides: be- fore the eye a crefcent of black : tail fhort and black :. the upper part of the back, the wings, and tail, are rufous brown;, the lower part of the back and rump crimfon; the bill alfo is crimfon:. legs pale brown. Inhabits New South Wales. From the drawings of General Davies.. Among the drawings of Mr. Lambert, 1 find. a bird greatly corre- fponding with the above, and which-may not unlikely prove different: only in fex: the bill and legs are the fame : the head, initead of white; is pale afh colour: back, wings, rump, and.tail, fimilar to the other, but rather more pale; but the crefcent of black on the upper part: of the breaft is the fame, joining with the black on the fides in the: fame manner, and the fides marked with the fame white fpots ;. the: under parts from the breaft white.
ENGTH five inches and’ an half:. bill dufky: general- colour- of the plumage fine pale rufous brown; the under parts are plain, but on the upper, each feather is ftreaked down the middle with dufky. black, efpecially the crown, where the ftreaks are very broad and; diftint: ‘tail.even at the end: legs pale yellow. Inhabits the Mabratta country in India.
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Pale No Ge. OIF
NITID SIZE of a Houfe Sparrow: the bill pale red: legs yellow; plumage chs ae above, including the tail, pale afh colour; the under parts white, but the fides next the wings incline to yellow: quills dull ferruginous yellow : over the eyes a black band, pafling down a little way on the ears in a broad patch. ' Ynhabits New South Wales. Piace,
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1Z E uncertain: bill and legs reddifh brown: crown of the head Dart rmbe: blue grey: upper parts of the body, wings, and tail pale brown;
all the under parts white: from the bill a dull crimfon ftreak arifes,
growing broader at the back part, and forming on the cheeks an oval
patch: rump crimfon.
Several drawings of birds probably allied to this, hee come under our obfervation: in one of thern, the bill is crimfon, a broad ftreak of the fame over the eye, and the rump and vent crimfon alfo: the crown rather full of feathers: the whole of the upper parts of the plumage and tail green; beneath greenifh white, with a flight reddifh tinge on the breaft: tail fhort:—ain another, the bill was pale red; the ftreak over the eye and the rump crimfon: tail fhort, as in the other: the plumage above greenifh brown; beneath cinereous white. For thefe I am indebted to the drawings of General Davies; and in thofe.of Mr. Lambert, I have remarked a third, in which the upper parts were green; the under greenifh white: bill, ftreak over the eye, and rump, crimfoa; but differed from the others in having the tail much longer.
All thefe faid to inhabit New South Wales. - Puace.
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fe- CHILI PLAC:
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE,
PLANT-CUTTER.
Genus XXXIX. PLANT-CUTTER.
ILL conic, ftrait, ferrated on the edges. Nostrits oval. ToncueE fhort, obtufe.
* Witn Four Toes.
Phytotoma Rara; Izd. Oru. i. p. 466. 1.— Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.), p. 234+. Phytotome du Chili, ou Rara, Daudin. Ora. ii. p. Be
SIZE of a Quail: bill very ftrong, pointed at the tip,. half an:
inch long, indented like a faw on the edges’: tongue very fhort,. blunt: irides brown = the back is dufky grey; the under parts paler:: tail of a moderate length, rounded at the end: quills and tail feathers. fpotted with black. The foot confifts of four toes, three before and! one behind ; the hind toe much fhorter than the forward ones.
Inhabits Chi, where it is far from uncommon. The voice is. rough, and the bird at intervals utters the words Ra, Ra, very dif- tinétly : its food is vegetables, perhaps preferring the parts next the root, for with much pains, it digs about and cuts off the plants with its bill, as it were with a faw, clofe to the eround ; from this circum- ftance, it does much injury to the gardens, and is detefted by the in- habitants. Thefe birds build the neft in high trees, well cloathed. with leaves, and in unfrequented places; the eggs are white, fpotted with red,
Pl. CXXXIN,
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AMyfunian Lap tcutlers
Lublihd as the Act directs May 30.1801,by Leigh. Sotheby, ke Son:Vork: Street, Covent Garden.
PLAN T-CUT TER.
* * WITH THREE TOES.
Loxia tridaétyla, Jud. Orz.i. p. 397. 93-
Le Guifso Balito, Buf Ov/- ili. p. 471.
Phytotome d’Abyflinie, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 366. 2. Three-toed Grofbeak, Gen, Syz. iil. ps 471-
IZE of the common Grofeak; length about fix inches: bill brown: the head and fore part of the neck red; the reft of the plumage black ; about the fhoulders brownifh, with a tinge of green: the greater wing coverts appearing as black fcales, margined with white, flightly tinged with olive: taila trifle forked: legs brown, with only three toes, two placed before and one behind. :
This isthe defcription given by M. Daudin, from a-drawing fent him figured from a Nubian fpecimen: it feems, however, to differ a little frorn that defcribed by Buffon, for that bird is faid to be black, with not only the head and-fore part of the neck of a beautiful red, but that colour prolonged in a narrow band quite to the vent: wing coverts brown, edged with white; and the quills edged ‘with green. M. Buffon defcribed his from Mr. Bruce’s drawings done in Abyffinia, where it is faid to be a folitary {pecies, livingon the kernels of almonds,, the fhells of which it eafily breaks with the bill,
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ABYSSINIAN PL. C.
DzscriPTion.
ard FLY CA Fe Ht Rr
GEnus XE. FLYCATCHER.
N° 1. Ferruginous Fl. N° 15. Black crowned Fl. 2. Melodious FI. 16. Rufous-fronted Fl. 3. Yellow-eared Fl. 17. Crimfon-bellied Fl. 4. Yellow-tufted Fl. 18. Black-cheeked Fl. 5- Red-bellied Fl. 19. Muttachoe FI. 6. Paradife FJ. 20. Rofe-winged FI. 7. Defart Fl. 21. Coach-whip FL 8. Cat Fl. 22. Black-breafted Fl. g. Particoloured Fl. 23. Hooded Fl. 10. Javan Fl. 24. Rofe-breafted Fl. a1. White Fl. 25. Grey Fl. 12. Cambaian FL 26. Soft-tailed FI. 13. Southern Fl. 27. Orange-rumped FI.
14. Supercilious Fl.
4. Mofcicapa ferruginea, Ind. Or. ii. p. 477. 41.——Merrem. Ic. Av. Ps 19. FERRUGINOUS t..6. FL.
Dascription. O1ZE of a Goldfinch; five inches and an half long: bill black, deprefled at the bafe, with chefnut edges: general colour grey brown; beneath yellowifh white: throat white: wings black; the margins of the quills ferruginous: tail fhort and black ; the wings seach to the bafe of it. ( PLace. Inhabits Carolina.
FEY CA ae HER.
Moufcicapa Aedon, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 478. 42.—Pall. reife, iil. p. 695. 11 *.
CIZE of the Reed Thrufh: above ferruginous brown; beneath
yellowifh white: tail cinereous brown, pretty long; the two mid- ~ dle feathers equal in length, the outer are much fhorter.
Inhabits the rocky and funny places in Dauuria, where it is not un- common: fings {weetly,.and even in the night, in manner of the Greater Nightingale, to which it is not inferior in melody, and fully fupplies the place of that bird;. the Nightingale not being found in Sibiria.
Mufcicapa Nove Hollandiz; Ind. Orn. ii. p. 478. 43. Yellow-eared Flycatcher, Wite’s Fourn. pl. in p. 161.
IZE of a Martin; length feven inches: bill broad at the bafe, and yellowifh: general colour of the plumage brown; whitifh be- neath: belly quite white; behind the eyes, and beneath them, a ftreak of yellow, growing broader at the back part: tail pretty long, and the middle feathers of it rather fhorter than the others. Inhabits New Holland.
HIS is \confiderably larger than the Hedge Sparrow: bill and legs black : tongue briftly at the tip:. the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts is olive green: the crown, and all be- neath, from the chin, yellow: through the eyes, from the gape, a large patch of black ; at the back part of which, on the ears, a tuft of yellow, which tuft confifts of feathers longer than the others: the outer tail feathers yellow. Inhabits, Nez Holland, where it is called Darwang, and is a common 9 {pecies,
2k
2. MELODIOUS FL.
DeEscRIPTION,
Prace.
DEscrRIpT1ON.
PLace,
4. YELLOW- TUFTED
DeEscrIPTION.
Place.
216
Se RED-BELLIED FL.
DESCRIPTION
FLY CACHER. fpecies. The Evglifb named it, as well as the laft, the 2eZow-eared
Flycatcher: is faid to feed principally on honey, which it obtains from the flowers, by means of its feathery tongue: makes the neft on the extreme pendent branches of low trees or {hrubs, and by’ this means efcapes the plunder of various fmaller’quadrupeds, who are unable to reach the neft with fafety. Whether this is allied to the laft, 1 will net take upon me to afcertain.
Mofcicapa erythrogaftra, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 479. 30.—Nat. Mic. xlix. pl: 147.
Red-bellied Flycatcher, Gen. Syz. il. p. 343. pl. so.
HESE birds are obferved to be more numerous in Norfolk Ifland, than in New South Wales; and feem to vary much.
In one from Port Fackfon, in the drawings of General Davies, the head, neck, back, and wings, are flaty black: quills and tail black : chin and throat the fame, but paler; on the forehead a white {pet: breaft purplifh or deep red Jake colour: belly and vent white.
In another, the forehead is not white; inftead of which is a white ftreak over the eye: the chin is white: the general colour is black, as in the others: breaft and belly crimfon: vent white: tail rather fhorter thanin common. ‘The native name Booddang.
In a third variety, there is an oblique ftreak of white on the wine; and moft of the outer tail feathers white. I have alfo feen this fame vary with the tail feathers wholly black.
In a fourth, the plumage is black above; beneath wholly deep crimfon: forehead, juft over the bill, white: on the wing coverts fome motlings of white.
A further variety has the general colour of the upper parts dufky or cinereous black: the chin, fore part of the neck, and breaft, crim- fon: fpot over the forehead, an oblique broad longitudinal ftreak on the fhoulders of the wings, and all the belly and vent white. This , came from Port Fask/on, and was communicated by General Davies,
FLYCATCHER.
Mofcicapa Paradifi, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 480. 546
Paradife Flycatcher, Gen. Syz. ill. p. 345. I Sufpect the Sifuil Boulboul and White Nightingale, fo called in india,
to be this bird: it is white; the head crefted, and mottled a little
about the fides and creft with black: the tail pretty long*: vent red: bill like that of a Tbrufh; that and the legs black. Another of thefe had the creft black, and the vent red; no red about the eye: it was called Full Doon, or Eniire, or Full Tail, as the tail is pretty long.
Both thefe from Jndia.
Dr. 7. R. Forfter, in his notes on Bartolomeo’s Voyage to the Eat 7ndies, wonders that this author could affert that the Bird of Paradije exifted at Malabar +; but this point is without difficulty cleared up, when we know that it is one of the names which the Paradie Fly- catcher is known by in India.
~ Mufcicapa Deferti, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 478. 44.—Muf. Carl), fafe. ii. t. 47. SIZE of the Long-tailed Titmoufe : bill yellowifh: legs black: ge-
neral colour of the plumage dufky ruft colour: wings and tail black ; the laft half as long again as the body.
Inhabits the deferts of Africa; met with between the river Heui and the fpring Quamodacka.
* The tail of this, in a drawing which came under my infpetion, appeared to'be forked; but I have not obferved this circumftance in real {pecimens which I have yet feen.
+ See a tranflation of this work by William Fohn/ton, 8v0. 1800. p. 224. Note *.
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6. PARADISE FL.
Description,
PLACE.
WE DESERT FL DeEscrRiIPTion.
Pace.
21g
o PARTI. COLOURED FL.
DascriPrion.
DescRIPTiION.
PLacs.
PLC A We WER: ee
Mufcicapa Carolinenfis, Ind, Orn. ii, p. 483. 64. Cat or Chicken Bird, Bartr. Trav. p. 288. Cat Flycatcher, Gen. Syx. iil. p. 353. 54.
rr HIS breeds in Penn/ylvania; 1 have likewife received it fronv
Georgia: it is faid to be very little inferior in fong to the Mocking Bird; but as an imitator of others, ic far exceeds it, for it repeats the- melodious and variable airs from inftrumental mufic: it will alfo often imitate the notes of chickens, and efpecially their cry when in diftrefs, infomuch as frequently to put the mother into a great fright when no danger is nigh: is an early fonefter, often beginning before day-break ; feeds on both infects and fruits; comes in the fpring, and breeds there, making the neft in coppices and in gardens, near habi- tations: the irides are dark brown.
Mufcicapa dichroa, Ind. Orn. il. p. 490. 94. bicolor, Mu. Carl/. fa/c. it. pl. 46. HIS is eight inches in length: bill and legs dufky: the general’ colour of the plumage cinereous above, and yellow oker coloured beneath: wing coverts hoary on the margins: tail about the fame length as the body ; the feathers of it oker coloured and cinereous. Inhabits the fouthern parts, of Africa.
Mufcicapa Javanica, Jad. Ora. ii. p. 490. 95.—Mujc Carl/: fa/. iis pl. 75~ IZE of the Spotted Flycatcher: bill and legs black : feathers on the upper furface dufky, with. ferruginous margins ;. beneath, or the forepart of the neck, a bar of black ; over the eye a line of white = tail pretty long, rounded at the end; the four middle feathers whoily black ; the others black, with the ends white. Inhabits Fava.
FLYCATCHER
Mofcicapa alba, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 490. 96.—Muf. Carl. fafc. iit. pl. 74.
HIS bird is wholly white, the head a little tinged with brim- ftone: tail long, as in the Wagtail; from this circumftance, the flendernefs of bill, and make of the whole bird, it would appear rather to belong to that genus than to the Flycatcher. Found at Stockholm.
Mufcicapa Cambaienfis, Ind. Orx. ii. p. 490. 97.
IZE of the Black-capped Flycatcher: bill depreffed, broadifh, dufky, with a few hairs at the bafe: the colour of the upper parts of the body is black, with a yellowifh green tinge on the back; beneath fulvous yellow: wing coverts white at the ends, from whence arifes a double band of that colour on the wing: legs blueith. Inhabits Cambaia: defcribed from a fpecimen in the Briti/h Mu- Sem.
Southern Motacilla, White's Fourn. pl. in p. 239.
HIS rather exceeds the Cinereous Flycatcher in fize: bill and legs
pale brown: the general colour of the plumage is cinereous brown on the upper parts and tail; the under a fine yellow: over the eye a ftreak of yellow, and a double trace of the fame behind it: the chin and vent paler than the reft of the under parts.
Inhabits New Holland. The {pecimens vary; fome of them have the crown, hind part of the neck, and back, blueifh brown: wings brown ; the edges of the quills whitifh: the traces above and beneath the eye white; and the ends of the two middle tail feathers white: the crown feems alfo fuller of feathers. I fufpeét that thefe two dif fer only in fex.
Ff
DEscriIPrion.
Puace.
12. CAMBAIAN
DESCRIPTION. Prace.
130 SOUTHERN FL.
DESCRIPTION.
Prac.
220 BLOC ATC EVER:
14. : SUHERe Hous Mufcicapa fuperciliofa, Mu/: Carlf faf-. iv. pl. 96.
Descriprion. GIZE of the Small Thrufh: the upper parts of the head, taking in: the eyes, neck, back, and wings, are dark brown; from the ye trils, over the eyes, a broad ftreak of white: chin and throat ferrugi- nous; from thence to the vent fine pale afh colour: the tail ended at the end; two middle feathers like the back, the others ferruginous, _@ with the inner margins and tips brown: bill black, with a pale brown. bafe: legs pale brown.
ro: BLACK- USSR NS ets CROWNED Mufcicapa meloxantha, Mu/ Carl. fa/c. iv. pl. 973- RTT ary FL. Description. IZE of the White Throat: bill black: general colour of the upper-
parts of the plumage dufky afh: crown and forehead black: wing coverts black, with the tips and margins yellow: the under. parts from. chin to vent yellow: quills black, edged with yellow : tail fhort, rounded, black; all the feathers tipped with white, but the outer: one has the end for nearly a fourth of the length of that colour: legs. dufky. The native places of the two laft are. not afcertained..
16. RUFOUS- FRONTED FL. Descrirrion, IZE of the Nightingale, but more flender :- the crown of the head,
back of the neck, the wing coverts, and half of the tail, and under parts of the body from the breaft, pale brown: the forehead, middle- of the back, and bafe of the tail are ofa deep rufous, inclining to red: chin, fore part of the neck and breaft yellowifh white ; {potted on the ears and breaft with black: on the middle of the neck before, a large patch of black: tail rather long, and in-a fmall degree lege taie bill and legs pale brown.
Hite 9 Inhabits.
PL, CXXXIV.
ELYCATCH-ER,
Tnhabits New South Wales, where it is known by the name of Burril: has hitherto only been met with in November.
LENGTH five inches and a: half: bill and legs pale brown:
plumage olive brownabove; but from the bafe of the bill to the mid- dle of the crown, taking in the eye, black, and paffing backwards into a point on the ears: the chin and fides of the neck are white: breatt and belly deep crimfon: the wings are black; but the quills are white half way from the bafe: tail longith; the two middle feathers wholly black ; the others the fame half-way from the bafe, the reft of the leneth white: the wings reach one third’on the tail.
Inhabits New South Wales: fpecimens of this fpecies are fcarce.
SIZE of the White Throat: plumage above brown ; beneath pale yellow, growing white towards the vent: crown of the head black, and a broad ftreak of the fame occupies the fides of the cheeks, beginning beneath each eye: the quills are darker than the reft, fome of them edged with yellow: tail longifh: bill black: legs blueifh. Inhabits New South Wales; met with there. in July...
ENGTH from eight to nine inches: bill flender ; black :: legs black : tongue fringed at the tip: general colour of the plumage pale green; but the under parts from chin to vent greenifh yellow ;
the laft moft confpicuous on the chin and breaft: from the gape _
fprings a black band, which grows broader, and pafles under the eye to the hind head, where it is fringed with yellow.
Inhabits
225
PLaca.
17. CRIMSON- BELLIED FL. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
18. BLACK CHEEKED FL. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
19. MUSTACHOE FL.
DeEscriprion.
20+ ROSE-WINGED FL.
DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
Biko COACH-WHIP FL.
Descriprion.
PLAcE.
22. BLACK- BREASTED FL. DESCRIPTION.
Foe mC Ant Cy Eby.
Inhabits New South Wales ; is a pugnacious bird, attacking others, efpecially the fmaller Parakeets.
SIZE of a Nightingale: bill and legs brown: general colour of the plumage brown; beneath white : the feathers of the crown feem loofe, giving the appearance of a creft, and {potted with black: the middle of the outer quills, and the four middle tail feathers, from the bafe to three-fourths of the length, are rofe colour, the laft marked with a few black fpots. inhabits New South Wales.
SIZE of a Thrufh: general colour of the plumage flaty black :
chin and throat croffed with fine lines of dufky white: the feathers of the crown are long, and can be erected into a creft: tail Nightly cuneiform : ‘bill ftout, black: legs flender, black : irides blue.
Inhabits New South Wales; native name Djoxz. It has a long fingle note, not unlike the crack of a coachman’s whip, hence called the Coach-whip Bird; it appears a lively fpecies, and menacing in its manners; for ereéting the creft, it gains a formidable appearance, which it takes the advantage of in contending with other birds, efpe- cially Parakeets, about the right of extracting honey from the flowers ; it is not a common {pecies.
HIS is rather more than eight inches lone: bill brown; legs black : the head, taking in the eyes, the nape, and fides of the neck, are black, continuing in a band on the breaft ; within this, the chin
FLYCATCHER,
chin and throat are white: the upper parts of the body are greenifh yellow; the under yellow: wings black; but the coverts are edged with yellow: the tail black, with a yellow tip.
This fpecies is found at New South Wales, in April.
ILL and head black ; the laft full of feathers: general colour of the plumage clouded black ; but the under parts are white: the whole of the wings and tail are black ; but the leffer quills are fringed. with white: legs dufky. Inhabits New South Wales.
"] ‘HE upper parts of this bird are pale brown; the under pale: breaft rofe colour, inclining to carmine; on the wing coverts a few pale fpots: the bill is brown, rather long, and bent towards the point: irides blueifh: legs brown, Inhabits New South Wales,
HIS is nearly the fize of a Sparrow: bill rather broad, fur- nifhed with a few briftles at the bafe, and black: the upper parts of the body and wings are pale flaty grey ; beneath from chin to vent pale yellow : quills and tail dufky black: legs pale brownifh flefh colour. Inhabits New South Wales.
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236 HOODED FL. DESCRIPTION,
PLACE.
24. ROSE- BREASTED FL.
DescrRipTioNn.
25. GREY FL. DESCRIPTION.
PLAceE.
ts i) aS
26. SOFT-TAILED FL. DescripTION.
PLACE.
Puy wee A eae Rs
Soft-tailed Flycatcher, Linx. Tranfiv. p. 240. pl. 2.
ie ENGTH from bill to rump three inches: bill brownifh black s
bafe furnifhed with ftrong briftles; noftrils low down on the bill: the general colour of the plumage ferruginous, but the feathers of the upper parts of the body and wing are ftreaked down their middle with brownifh black ; the middle of the belly nearly white: over the eye, arifing at the bafe of the bill, is a pale blue ftreak: throat and fore part of the neck of the fame blue colour: the feathers of the rump are foft, long, and filky: wings ihort, fcarcely reaching to the bafe of
the tail: the quills are dufky, edged with ferruginous: the tail is
four inches or more in length; the fhafts very lender and black, the webs on each fide confifting of minute flender hairy black filaments, placed at diftances, and diftiné&t from each other, as in the feathers of the Caffowary: legs pale brown. ;
The female is like the male in colour, but wants both the blue ftreak over the eye, and the chin and throat are-of the fame colour as the
reft of the under parts.
Inhabits New Holland; being found about Sidney and Botany Bay, in marfhy places, abounding with long grafs and rufhes, which afford it an hiding place, and where, like the Bearded Titmou/e, it is fuppofed to make the neft; when difturbed, its flight is very fhort, and is found to run on the ground with great {wiftnefs ; feeds on {mall flies and other infects. The name it is known by in the country is Merion Binnion, or Caffowary Bird; we are indebted to General Davies for the above notices concerning this fingular bird, which is well repre- fented in the Linnean ¥ ~2nfaétions. er
FLYCATCHER. one
27. OR ANGE- RUMPED FL. : HE head and neck in this fpecies are pretty full of feathers, and Description.
black: back and rump orange colour or redaifh; all the under parts of the body are white, marked with feveral longifh ftreaks of black on the breaft: wings and tail brown; the feathers of the laft have the webs much feparated and diftinct from each other, as in the Soft-tailed Flycatcher » legs pale brown. Inhabits Nez South Wales ; and is an active fpecies, frequently car- PEACE. rying the tail erect, and expanding the fame at the moment it fprings from a branch on its prey.
Supp. II. Gg
426.
Ee AY Rook?
Genus XL. LARK.
N° rt. Sky L. N° 4. Dixon’s L. 2. Dufky L. s. Ferruginous L. 3- Yeltonian L.
Alauda arvenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 49: Sky Lark, Gen. Syx.iv. p. 368. 1.
SOME of thefe birds will meafure as far as eight inches in ee and even mores.
I find that the cuftom paid at Leipfic for Larks, amounts to 12,000 crowns per annum, at a Grofch, or 2% pence fterling, for every fixty Larks.. The quantities may feem prodigious, but the fields appear- to be covered with them from Michaelmas to Martinmas ; that they do not all breed here is manifeft, from the fudden appearance of fuch vaft flocks. But this is not confined to Germany; for we are informed, that the fame circumftance. happens about Cairo, in Egypt, in refpect to Larks, as they come to that place about the beginning of September, and continue for fome days; during which, they are taken in vaft quantities in nets, and efteemed for eating. They are fuppofed to come from Barbary, and are called in Egypt, Asfour
ree or Mountain Birds*.
® Sonnini’s Trav. ii. p. 3470
a UR Kt
Alauda obfcura, Ind. Orn. ti. p. 494. 7-
Alauda pantherana, Gerin. Orz. iv. pl. 375. f. ¥s
Spipola palufiris, Gerinx, Oru. iv. t. 388, f. 1?
L’alouette pipi, P/. Ex/. 661. f. 2.
Sea Lark, # alcot’s Pirds, ii. N° 191.
Duky Lark, Lewin’s Birds, iti. pl. 94«
Rock Lark, Lin. Tran/. iv. p. 41. (Montagu) pl.ti.f. 3. the egg.
HIS fpecies rather exceeds feven inches in length ; and weighs from fix to feven drams: the bill is flender, three-fourths of
an inch long, dufkty, with a darker point: the plumage on the upper parts of the bird dufky greenifh afh colour; the middle of each fea- ther darker: fore part of the neck and breaft mottled dufky white and brownifh afh colour: the chin, and fore part of the neck, dufky white ; and the middle of the breaft is like the fore part of the neck, but paler: belly dufky yellowifh white: the wings are much the fame colour as the back, but edged with a paler colour: the four firft prime’ quills are nearly of equal lengths, the fecond a trifle longeft; the fecond quills almoft even with the firft at the ends: tail full three inches long, even, of much the fame colour as the quills; the outer feather has all the outer web and half the inner cinereous white; the next whitifh at the tip: legs brown; hind claw crooked, no longer than the toe, which is the fame length as the outer one before.
This, till within a few years paft, has not been fufficiently difcri- _
-minated. I faw it firft among the preferved birds of the late Mr.
Leman, where it was marked as a finoular variety*. Mr. Walcot and Mr. Lewin afterwards found it in the marfhes of Kent; and Co- lonel Montagu likewife met with it in more places than one, in fimilar fituations. This gentleman. obferyes, that it is only to be feen on
® I fulpeét it to be the variety of the Tit/ark, in Br. Zool, fol. pl. P. i. Ge2 the
Duscrivrion,
30, YELTONIAN L
DeEscRIPTION.
PLAGE.
4 DIXON'S L
DescRIPTION,
ETA RK:
the fea fhores, or at leaft a little more than a quarter of a mile from: the fea water, and efpecially in rocky fituations, at leaft no: where except in places where the tide occafionally covers. It makes the neft in the tufts of grafs on the fhelves of rocks, &c. by the fea fide, where it is rarely to be got at without the help of a ladder.- The neft 1s made of dry grafs, marine plants, and a little mofs, lined with. finer grafs, and a few long hairs. The eggs of a dirty white, {potted: with brown, moftly fo at the larger end. This f{pecies is not ob-= erved to affociate in large flocks like other Laks, only three or four~ having been feen together. Marine infects feem to be its principal. food. The note is a very infignificant one, being very rarely more than. a chirp, not unlike that of a Grafshopper. For a fuller account, confule- Linn. Tranf. We Pp. 410. &Cs.
Alauda Yeltonienfis, Zid. Orn. it. p. 496. 16:—Phil. Tranfe Wii. ps 3505- (Forjier.) : .
SIZE ‘of the Starling: bill cylindric; ftrait and pointed ; bafé black,.
with the tip very pale; tongue bifid: the colour of the plumage:
is black, varied on the head, back, and fhoulders.with rufous: the:
th quill has the outer margin white; the two middle tail feathers:
are rufous, the others like the reft of the plumage: the hind toe pretty:
ftrait, and larger by much than the others.
This inhabits the neighbourhood of the Volga; found about the lake:
Yelton: that it is gregarious, and very fat in 4ugu/t, at which time it is of a moft exquifite favour. :
Alauda Nove Zealandie, Ind. Orn. ii. P> 497% 19. Be Cinereous Lark, Portlock, Voy. pl. in ps 376 S IZE of a Titlark; length fix inches: bill and legs black: the’
upper parts of the. body. afh colour; the under very pale afh co- Jour,
LA RK. lour, inclining to white towards the vent: quills and tail black; the
outer edges of the quills, and the outer tail feathers white. This inhabits New Zealand : defcribed. from Captain Dixon’s draw-
ings; and except in being lefs, feems greatly allied to the New Zea-
land Lark.
Alauda Gorenfis, Mu/. Carlf fafe.iv. pl. 99.
HE bill in this bird is brown; the crown, nape, and beginning of the back, dufky, the feathers margined with ferruginous: back and rump deep ferruginous ; chin and under parts ferruginous, but the throat and breaft have each feather ftreaked with dufky: belly much the fame, but the ground nearly white: vent white: quills very: pale on the margins: the feathers of the tail have the margins nearly white; but the middle ones are ferruginous brown, and the outer- moft towards the end obliquely white, marked with a triangular fpot of white at the tip: legs pale.
PIACcEs
FERRUGINOUS Sq
DescrirPrion.-
230
t. WHITE Ww.
TA rae Gat Bees Te ie,
Genus XLIL WAGTAIL
N° 1, White W. N° 4. Black-crowned W. 2. Dauurian W. 5. New Holland W. 3- Hudfonian W.
Motacilla alba, Iud. Ora. ii. p. 501. 1.—Ger. Orn. iv. pl. 335. 16 White Wagtail, Genz. Syn. iv. p. 395. 1.
F ROM various obfervations made by my friends and myfelf, it ap-
pears clear that there is very little if any diftinction of fex in adult birds of this fpecies; neither fex gains the black about the head and throat the firft feafon after hatching; but as fpring comes on, both fexes gradually obtain it, and both again lofe it after incubation; not perhaps wholly, for in old birds fome traces are vifible at moft times, and under this mafk have been defcribed as different birds. This cir- cumftance likewife happens in refpect to the Grey Wagrail, which is only met with in the fouthern and weftern parts of England in the winter months. I faw one of them at the edge ofa rivulet in my garden, September 28 of the laft year, but they do not often appear be- fore Ofober. That-both fexes have a black throat, I am well in- formed, and more or lefs tracing of it may be obferved before their departure towards the north in fpring, where they breed. However authors may multiply this genus, we have certainly no more than three in England; viz. the White Wagtail, common almoft every where at all feafons; the Grey Wagtail, inhabiting all the fouthern counties the winter halfof the year, departing northward as fpring ap- proaches; and the Yellow Wageail, which is not obferved any where except in the fummer feafon.
Wi & G:F XA. ©
Motacilla melanopa, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 503. 5.—Pal. It. ili. ps 696. 16.
THis fpecies has the habit of the Yellow Wagtail, but is not fo large; the legs alfo are fmaller: the general hue is blueifh afh colour above, beneath yellow: lore and throat black : over the eye a ftreak of white, beginning at the gape: the three outer tail feathers are white, except the outer margin, which is black. Inhabits the eaftern borders of Dauuria.
Motacilla Hudfonica, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 503. 6.
ENGTH fix inches: bill pretty fhort, yellowith brown; legs the fame: plumage above brown, the feathers margined with
ferruginous: chin and throat pale ferruginous, ftreaked with dufky :
breaft, belly, and vent dufky white: quills dufky; fecond quills edged with ferruginous: tail three inches long; the outermoft feather white; the next to it on each fide white, with the inner margin brown; the third dufky, with a fender ftreak of white down-the middle ; the others plain dufky: the tail even at the end..
Inhabits Hydfon’s Bay: the name it is there known by is Puck-c-
tow-0-/bifke
IZE of our Wagteil: bill and legs yellow: crown of the head black: back and wings red brown; the under parts of the bird white, inclining to orange on the breaft: the quills are black: tail long, fomewhat cuneiform; the middie feathers a little pointed ; colour of all of them red brown half way from the bafe ; from thence to the end yellowih. Inhabits New South-Wales; but isa {earce bird,.
23%
Ze DAUURIAN W.
DEsSCRIPTIONe-
PLACEo ~
3. HUDSONIAN Ww.
DeEscCRIPTION®»
PLace,’
-
4. BLACK- CROWNED Ww.
DESCRIPTION.
Prac.
239 G. NEW HOLLAND Ww.
DESCRIPTION,
Prlacr.
Ways tea rh
'IZE and habit of our Grey Wagtail: bill and legs black: tongue briftly at the tip: the general colour of the plumage above pale blue ; beneath pale yellow: the quills and tail are black ; the laft re- markably long: the baftard wing is fall, and of a reddifh white. Inhabits New South Wales.
WAR BL E R, .
Genus XLIII.
N° 1; Nightingale.
Sylvia Lufeinia, Ind. Orn. ti. p. 506. 1.—-Gerin, Orn. iv. pl. 400. f, 1. and 2.
. Greater Pettichaps. . Leffer Pettichaps.
. Sardinian W.
- Rufous-crowned W. .« Wood Wren.
. Yellow Wren.
. Leffer White-throat. . Grafshopper W.
. Dartford W.
. Prothonotary W.
- Plata W.
. Black Poll W.
. Cowled W.
. Indigo W.
. Loufiana W.
Mediterranean W.
. Ferruginous W.
. White-collared W. . Long-billed W.
. Shore W.
WAREB
N° 22. 23- 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
Nightingale, Gez. Spx. iv. p. 408. 1.
LER.
Cafpian W. Black-backed W. Perfian W. Cambaian W. Guzurat W. Afiatic W. Yellow-vented W. Streaked W.
. Terrene W.
Black-cheeked W.
- Rufous-vented W.
Gold-bellied W.
. Ruddy W. . Chafte W.
White-tailed W.
233
Crimfon-breafted W.
- Rufty-fided W.
. Swallow W.
. Variable W.
. Flame-coloured W.
Dwarf W.
Te NIGHTINGALE,
N Lower Egypt, at leaft in the moft eaftern part of that quarter of the globe, the Nightingale is very common; alfo in the iflands of
Supp. II.
Hh
the
234 We: our TBott <a
the Archipelago, at the period of their emigration*. In fome parts of Germany are alfo great numbers, for we are told, that they are: found in vaft abundance in the wood ef Rofendabl, near Drefden; in which neighbourhood Larks alfo are in fuch amazing quantities, as to furnifh a confiderable revenue to the crown +.
It has not efcaped the writers on this fubjedt, that the males and fe- males of fome birds, for inftance, Chajfinches, feparate for a tume into dif- ferent flocks, each flock confifting of one fex only; but my ingenious- friend Colonel Montagu hints to me, that. the males of all the Yar- blers come firft, and if the weather fhould afterwards prove. cold, with the wind at Eaft or North, all communication is cut off between the {exes till the wind changes, frequently for a fortnight or more; but if the weather is warm, with a South or Weft wind, the females follow the males in a few days. The arrival of the females may be foretold by the fingine of the males: if they are very vociferous,. the females may be immediately expected; -if, on the contrary, none- will appear, for both are actuated by the fame caufe;. the fame fti- mulus that occafions the fong in one, gives the other locomotion to- feek its mate; and from this caufe no doubt it is that moré males of. the Nightingale are taken than females.. 5
Motacilla hortenfis, Zzd. Orn. ii. p. 507. 3 GREATER Salas Ficedula cinerea major, Bigia, Ger. Orz. iv. t. 395. 1? PETTICHAPS. Die Baftardnachtigale, Naturf. 27. S. 39. 1. (Beckftein.) | Greater Pettichaps,-Gez. Syn. iv. p. 413. 3: fe&t. 2d. DEscRIPTIONs THIS fpecies weighs about five drams; the length nearly fix: inches: the bill a trifle broader at the bafe than the common _ White-throat: irides dufky yellow:. the upper parts. of the bird in. general, light brown, inclining to olive green: quills and tail edged
® Sonnin, Travels; ti, po 5% 5%. + 6,090 dollars. Kep/ler. with
? W SAL TR SEL ve OR.
with the fame: below the ears a dafh of ath colour: throat, neck, and upper part of the breaft, dirty white, inclining to dull buff co- lonr: lower part of the breaft, belly, and under tail coverts white ; beneath the wings buff: legs dufky. When in fine plumage, an ob- fcure ftreak of pale or yellowifh colour appears over the evap
In one of thefe, from Mr. Boys, of Sandwich, obferved the tongue to be jagged at the end ; the length was five inches. and three quarters, in breadth eight inches and three quarters. This was a female. Co- Jonel Montagu met with it in Gloucefterfbire ;- but remarks, that he has never feen it in Cornwa/l, notwithftanding he has been long refident there. I have met with it in more than one place in Kent, and have heard of it in Berk/hire and other parts, but believe it to be no where exceedingly common. The males of this fpecies come generally the laft week in April, the females a tew days later. It builds in thick bufhes or hedges, compofed of dried fibres, fome wool, and a little green mofs outwardly ; within fometimes lined with horfe-hair. The eggs generally four in number, weighing each thirty-fix grains; colour a dirty white, marked with brownifh fpecks, pretty numerous,
-and running frequently together at the larger end.
In fong, this bird is little-inferior to the Nightingale, either in me- lody or variety. Some of its notes are fweetly and foftly drawn, others are quick, lively, loud, and piercing, but reaching the diftant ear without inharmonious difcord.
Mr. Beck/fein thinks the fong to’ be even more varied than that of the Nightingale, burfting into various kinds of modulation as it pro- ceeds, and at times warbling like the Hou/e Swallow ; and obferves that it is found in Sweden and Germany throughout, departing thence the latter end of Augu/t.
Irs general food appears to be infeéts, which it fearches for under the leaves, but will frequently come into gardens, when in the neigh- bourhood of its haunts, making free with fruits likewife, The young
yh are
235
236
3s LESSER PETTICHAPS.
4 ee
Aas
PLacs.
WARBLER
are obferved to remain in the neft till they are grown very large, and: almoft as well feathered as the parents.
Sylvia Hippolais, Ind. Orn. it. p. 507. 4. Motacilla Fitis, Waturf. 27. S. 50. 5.
Leffer Pettichaps, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 413. 3.*. Chirping Willow Wren, Wdite’s Selborne, p. 45:
apne has been fufficiently defcribed before in the Synopf GANG
fometimes comes before the 20th of March f, but is in general: before the 1ft of Apr il, departing before the end of September; and is perhaps as early as any migrant, if we except the Wryneck: the weight is about two drams; length five inches;. breadth eight inches + the firft quills fhorter than the fecond,, and the two middle feathers. rather fhorteft.
We believe this bird to be every where pretty common; but it has. not been obferved in Guern/jey, although the Willow Wren, a much more fcarce bird, is there in plenty..
This fpecies is perpetually finging, or rather chirping: the notes. Seemingly like the words Iwzt, Twit, Twit, Twit, Twit, haftily and delicately repeated, or as Mr. Beck/tein calls it Fit ;, and from whence he has derived his name.
Sylvia melanocephala, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 509: 7-—=Cett. Wee. Sard. p.215.
"THIS is faid to be fmaller than the Blackcap, but very like it; of a greenifh afh colour above, and grey beneath: crown black,. and a red band over the eyes. Inhabits Sardinia: has very little of a fong.
+ T once heard it on the 14th of Masch.
W ACR B Lb E Re
Sylvia mofchita, Ind. Orn. i. p. 509. 8:—Cert. Uc. Sard. p. 215.
THIS is lead colour, with a rufous crown. Inhabits Sardinia : the eggs of the Cuckow faid to be frequently Jaid in the neft of this bird. ‘here is little doubt but M. Certi has unneceffarily made two fpecies of this and the laft, as they appear to’ be no other than the male and female Blackcap..
Regulus non criftatus major, Bri; Orn. 3. 482. A.—Ind, Ora. ii. p. 550, 3.— Will. Orn. p. 164.—Ray’s Letters, p. 108.
Motacilla Sibilatrix, Das Laubvolchen, Naturf. 27. p. 47: 4.
Larger, not crefted Wren, Vill. Orn. (Engl, ed.) p. 228.—Gen. Syn. iv. p- 514. €.
Larger Yellow Wren, White Selb. p. 55.
Sylvia Sylvicola, Wood Wren, Liz. Tran/. iv. p: 35.—Id. vol. ii. p. 245. pl. 24:
HAVE ever had my doubts of this bird beinga variety of any fpecies before defcribed ; but it is to my friends that I am indebted for fixing. it as a-diftinct fpecies. It is indeed not greatly differing in colour from the Willow Wren; but is of a more elegant make, and the colours infinitely brighter. The length is five inches and aa. half; the weight two drams forty-two grains: the bill is horn co-
lour: irides hazel: noftrils furnifhed with: briftles; upper parts of
the body in general yellow green: threat, cheeks, and under -part of the fhoulders yellow; breaft paler yellow: belly and vent a moft beautiful filvery white: over the eye a ftreak of yellow: feathers of thé wings moftly brownifh, with green margins outwardly, and in- wardly whitifh: tail rather forked, dufky brown, edged with green: legs horn colour..
The female caught on‘the neft weighed three drams:
This is a migratory fpecies, the males as ufual coming firft, and’ as Colonel Montagu obferves, there is a greater diftance between the
4 arrival:
297
RUFOUS- CROWNED W. DEscRIPTIONe
6.- WOOD WREN.
DeEscerPriox.
233
YELLOW Ww.
DeEscRIFTION.
WA SARE. BS ples Ri
arrival of the two fexes than in any other bird, being often a week or ten days between. Firft obferved the very end of April: are ofteneft feen in coppice woods of oak or -beech,- about eighteen or twenty years growth; on the top of the moft lofty of which, it may be found uttering a kind of fibilous note, during which it expands the wings, and moving them in a fhivering or fluttering manner. Some have compared the note to that of the Bunting, but more fhrill; it has alfo-other kinds of notes, which may be compared to that of the Maro Titmouje, or the fpring note of the Nuthatch. .The place of
refidence will ever detect it, as it is not to be met with in hedges or
bufhes, but in woods only. It makes the neft on the ground, be- neath the fhade of trees, conftructing it of dry grafs, dead leaves, and mofs, lined with finer grafs, and a few long hairs; in fhape oval; the entrance near the top, like thofe of the Yellow Wren and Petti- shaps, but materially different, as thofe birds line the neft with feathers. The eggs weigh from eighteen to twenty-two grains, are white, fprinkled all over with’ ruft=coloured fpots, and in fome the markings are confluent *. ‘They are generally fix or feven in number; and the young are hatched in thirteen days f.
Sylvia Trochilus, Iud.’Orz. ii. p.550. 1556
Afilus, Small Yellow Bird, Radi Syz. p. 80. A. 10.
Afilus, Le Pouillot, ou Chantre, Brz/s. ili. 479. 45-
Der Weidenzeifig, Naturforfch. 27. S. 54. 6.
Maiseape Cantatrix, Green Wren, Bartram. Cae p: 283. Yellow Wren, Gen. we iv. Pe 512. 147.
THI S, if we except the Gold- crofted Wren, is the {malleft of our European birds: feldom meafures more than four inches and a guarter in length, and the breadth fix inches and three quarters: the
* fn Lin. Ti ran iv. tab. 2. f 1. is s the reprefentation of it. 4 Mr. Beck/tein.
tail
VE A RR BOL E.R:
el fomewhat-lef$ than two inches: the plumage above is Erownifh green, the head darkeft, and moft. inclined to green towards the tail: over the eyes’ a dufky yellowifh ftreak > beneath, the body dufky white, tinged lightly on. the fides of the-neck and breaft with red: knees greenih grey.: tail even at the end; and the quills dufky,. with pale edzes: legs: pale. The female differs very little from the mae, except in being paler. but in the young birds, the. tinge of green is more confpicuous than in the adult,.and in this ftate fomewhat approaches in colour to the- Wood Wren, which is above an inch longer, befides differing in other particulars, ‘Ehis fometimes-appears-in- the laft week-in March, but more frequently. not till the firft-in 4pri/; and this circumftance alone will diftinguith both,this and the Leffer Pettichaps from the Wood Wren, * which feldom appears. before the end of the. laft-named month. . -
Sylvia Sylviella, Ind. Graz. ii. p. 51%. 24. Motacilla longiroftra, Der Spifskopf. Naturf. 27. S. 43. 22 Leffer White-throat, Gen. Syz. Sup. p, 185. pl. 113. HIS is fufficiently defcribed in our former. Supplement, fo as to make any thing further on that head unneceflary. Mr. Beck- fein makes the length of its bill, a charaéteriftic diftinction, and it. certainly is a trifle more fo in proportion. than in the Reed Wren, Willow Wren, or Lefer Pettichaps ; but it appears even greater than it really is, fromthe face itfelf being a trifle prolonged. It both hops and flies well, and may be obferved at times fitting with its bill upright, continually opening and fhutting it, and harfhly: uttering the words aet/ch atch*.. I muft not omit, that a few years fince I re= ceived this very bird from Sweden, under the name of Motacilla Cur-- vaca; but whether itis-the fame or not with what goes by the name of Kruka in that country, and is defcribed under that headin. the.
* Beckfiein. .
Faung:
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8. LESSER WHITE: THROAT...
240
GRASSHOPPER W.
DesersiP TION.
W AOR Bon je ow
Fauna Suecica*, can {earcely be determined. I have in another place + given fome reafons for fuppofing it to be the Mot. Sylvia of Linneus; but whether I may have been right in that conjecture, or that it is the Mot. Curruca of that author, or diftinét from either, I leave others to determine.
Sylvia locuftella, Jud. Orn. il. p. 515. 35. Ficedula peétore fufco, Geri. Qra. iv. t. 393.27 Fauvette tachetée, P/. Enlum. 581. 3. - Grafshopper Warbler, Gez. Syn. iv. p. 429. 20.
IZE of a Reed Wren; the weight three drams, fometimes more: length rather more than fix inches; expands feven inches and
an half: the billis fender; the upper mandible dufky, the under whitifh, with a dufky tip: over the eye in the male is an indiftiné trace of buff colour: the upper parts of the plumage not unaptly refembles the Sedge Warbler ; but the tail differs, for it is cuneiform in a confi- fiderable degree, the two middle feathers being full two inches and an half long, and much pointed at the tips; the outer one only one inch and a quarter, and rounded at the ends, the intermediate ones de- creafing in fharpnefs, in proportion as they are more outward: the firft quill is fhorter than the fecond; the under parts of the body are plain dull white, inclining to dufky rufous on the breaft; over the thighs, the vent, and under tail coverts, dull white, with a dufky ftreak down the fhaft: the tail feathers viewed obliquely, appear to
* N° 247 In this work, Linneus fays, ‘* extima (reétrice) margine interiore 46 alba,”’—in the Sy/fema Nature, he writes, ‘¢ extima (rectrice) margine tenuiore « alba,’’ no doubt meaning that the margin of the zuwer web is white, Yet adds at the end of the defcription in the Fauna Suecica: <* Rectrices fufce, fed margine ex- « exteriore longitudinaliter alba,’? which is the cafe in our bird, at leaft the outer web is very pale, approaching to white.
+ Supplem. p. 186.
have
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have eleven or -twelve undulated bars of a darker hue acrofs them, but in full light, fuch appearance vanifhes: legs one inch long, and yellow.
The Gra/shopper Warblers come to us about the 17th of pri]: they frequent commons for the moft part, and are met with there among the bufhes and_ furze, but are exceffively fhy, and keep conftantly in the middle of the bufh; like others. of the genus, the males arrive firft, and are to be feen on the top of the fpray, emitting a kind of grinding note, but at fome times has a very agreeable kind of warble ; and the male is faid fometimes to entertain its mate with a fone of nights, when the weather is mild and favourable., The neft is of an elegant f{tructure, and the ege of the fize of the White Throat’s, not quite fo round; of a delicate blueifh white, or pale blue,
This fpecies i is faid to be found in America*.
Sylvia dartfordienfis, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 517. 31.
Curruca fepiaria, Gerin. Orn. iv. t. 391. f. 2?
Dartford Warbler, Gez. Syz. iv. p. 435s 27.—Id. Sup. p. 181 Lge s Birds, vol. ii. pl. 106.
puis fpecies is fuficiently known, or at leaft nothing can be
added to the defcription of the bird; -but I am indebted to Co- lonel Montagu for fome further knowledge of its hiftory and manners. This gentleman found it in tolerable plenty among the furze, near Penryn, Cornwall. The bird he firft fhot, was the 27th of September 1796, and proved to be a young one, juft beginning to throw out the ferruginous feathers on the breaft; it had loft all the tail feathers but three, and the young ones were grown about half an inch: the irides were yellowifh, and the orbits dull orange: the baftard wing was not white, but the edge of the wing beneath whitifh; from hence
#* General Davies.
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PLACE.
1d, DARTFORD
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242
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DESCRIPTION.
PLACE,
Wi AUR: FBI a Fs aR
it did appear to him, that thefe birds probably breed in the parts ad- jacent. The Colonel continued to fhoot thefe at various times till Chrifimas, after which none were feen: the laft he killed was from a furze buth covered with faow: he is inclined to believe that they are full as common as the Stone Chat, for notwithftanding he faw and heard fevera! every time he was out with the gun, they proved fo fhy, that it was impoftible to procure many good fpecimens, nor can we be always fure of fhooting them at all. The above would appear to bring fome proof of their breeding thereabouts, or at leaf’ to make us fuppofe, that if migratory, they might be found im the fame parts at ftated feafons; but ftrange as it 3s, notwithftanding the ftriCteft fearch, they have not been met with from the above period to the prefent time, nor can their movement be at all accounted for ; it is not probable that after Chrifimas, with fnow upon the ground, they would be inclined to move northward, nor could they go to the fouth, except they paffed the channel, which at that time of the year does not feem a likely circumftance.
\
Sylvia protonotarius, fad. Oru: il. p. 542.1238. Parus aureus alis ceruleis, Blue-winged Yellow Bird, Bartr. Trav. p. 290? - Prothonotary Warbler, Gez, Syx. iy. p. 494. 123-
N addition to the former defcription of this bird, I find that the four
middle tail feathers are black, the outer one white on the inner web, except at the tip, which, as well as the whole of the outer web, is black; the next on each fide the fame; the third differs only in. having the white occupying lefs fpace; the fourth wholly black, ex- cept a fpot of white on the middle of the inner web.
I am indebted to Mr. Abbot, of Georgia, for the above, who informs, me that it inhabits that province, but that it is a very rare fpecies,
Wi AR, Be. BR
~ Sylvia Platenfis, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 548.149. Avis a Corarao, Ger. Orn. iv. tab. 400. f. 1.
SIZE of the Commen Wren; but the tail is a trifle longer: the ge-
neral colour of the plumage varied with rufous, white and black: the head and upper part of the neck ftreaked longitudinally: the under parts of the body from the chin white: fides inclined to ferru- ginous: the quills and tail croffed with feveral darker bands: that
figured by Gerini, was rufous above, white beneath: wings and tail dufky black.
Sylvia ftriata, Ind. Orn. il. p. 527. 67. Black Poll Warbler, Gew. Syx. iv. p. 460. 65.
N the female, the crown is the fame colour as the reft of the upper
parts of the plumage; the double band on the wings lefs confpi- cuous, and the fpot at the tip of the tail feathers much fmaller than in the male.
Sylvia cucullata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 528. 72.
HIS is greenifh above; beneath white: forehead and cheeks black: tail cuneiform. I met with this in the Leverian Mufeum and is probably a variety of the Hooded Warbler, or not very far different;
Motacilla Cyane, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 541. 122.—=Pall. reife. iii. p. 697. 18.
R. Pallas informs us that this bird is the fize of the Rudy-chroat
Thrufo: the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts is deep blue; beneath white: from the bill to the wings a ftreak of black: outer tail feathers white,
Tia This
243
12. PLATA Ww. DeEscRIFTION.
13. BLACK POLL W.
DESCRIPTION.
14. COWLED W. DESCRIPTION.
15. INDIGO W.. DESCRIPTION.
PLAceE.
16. LOUISIANA
W. DeEscRIPTION.
17> MEDITERRA- -NEAN W. DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
18.
YERRUGINOUS W.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
Wer AER Beier! BR:
This is found in the fpring, about the extreme boundaries of Dauuria, between the rivers Onon and Argun; butis a fearce bird.
Sylvia Ludoviciana, Ind. Ori. 11. p. §48. 150
Motacilla Caroliiiaiia, Great Wren, Barer. Trav. p. 289.
‘HIS length five inches: bill ftouter and longer, and a trifle curved; colour pale brown, with
the tip and under mandible pale: top of the head deep brown, in- clining to chefnut down the middle: upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, undulated acrofs as in the Common Wren; under parts buff colour: chin and belly nearly white: fides of the head mottled pale brown and whitifh; over the eye a pale ftreak, paffing on each fide of the neck to the lower part of it; and beyond the eye pale brown and whitith mixed; beginning of the back deep brawn, nearly black,, dotted with white: legs long, ftout, and brown.
Defcribed from a {pecimen in the collection of Mr. Fraucillon.
Mr. Bartram’s bird is faid to have the throat and breaft of a pale clay colour.
1S bigger than the Common Wren ;
Sylvia mediterranea, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 551. 156. Motacilla corpore ex fufco viridefcente, pettore ferrugineo, Ha/felg. Voy. 286. Se
THE upper mandible in this bird is a: trifle curved at the tip: general colour of the plumage greenifh brown; beneath ferru- ginous; fore part of the neck and breaft fulvous. Inhabits Spaz.
Sylvia gularis, Zvd. Ora. ii. p. 552. 160.—F. 7. Miller, tab. 30. C,
HIS is ferruginous above, and white beneath, with the wings and tail black. Inhabits South America.
Wr AOR! Ben ER, Rs
246 ue 19. : es : mA HITE- Sylvia T{checantfchia, Jud. Orn. it. p. 552. 161.—Lepech. It, ii. p. 186. COLLARED see ue : : W. "T HIS fpecies is dufky above, and ferruginous beneath: the head Descriprion. is black ; the nape whitifh; back black: a collar, and an ob- long fpot on the wings, both white. Inhabits S74:ria. Puace. Sylvia Kamtfchatkenfis, Jd. Orn. ii. p. 552. 162. ‘ 202 Long-billed Warbler, Ard. Zool. ii. p. 420. O. PONG EEE
"T HE upper parts of the plumage are olive brown: forehead, Dzscrirrion. cheeks, and chin. pale ferruginous: the bill long:
Inhabits Kamt/chatka.. PLacr. 21. Sylvia littorea, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 552. 163. SHORE
THIS is dull green above, yellow white beneath: quills and tail Dsscrsprion.. dufky. Inhabits the fhores of the Ca/pian Sea: lives on worms; and is a Pracss. _ finging bird.
Sylvia longiroftris, Ind, Ora ii..p. 552. 164.5. G. Gmelin, It. iti. p. 98. t. 19: CASPIAN fez Races
"THE upper parts in this fpecies are afh colour; the under black: Descriprion. the bill long.
Inhabits the mountains bordering on the Ca/pian Sea.
PLace.
Sylvia ochrura, Ind. Ora. ii. ps.552.165.—S. G. Gmel. It. iv. p. 178.—Pail, N. BLACK:
Nord. Beytr.iv. p. 56. - BACKED Ww.
IZE of the Nightingale: bill brown: hae lids naked: crown and’ Descriptions nape cinereous brown; lower part. a4 the laft and the back black : rump
246 PLACE,
24. PERSIAN W.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
25. CAMBAIAN W.
DEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
26. GUZURAT Ww
DEscRIPTION»
PLAcE,
Wie AAR” Beek. ERs
rump and vent cinereous and white mixed: throat and breaft glofly black: belly yellow: legs dufky. Inhabits the mountainous parts of Pev/fia.
Sylvia Sunamifica, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 552.166.—S. G Gwel. It, iv. p. 181. 182. —Pal!, N. Nord. Beytr. iv. p. 60.
SIZE of the Blue-breafted Warbler : general colour rufous afh : chin and throat black: breaft and belly pale rufous; the feathers with white tips: wing coverts and quills white on the outer margins and tips: the two middie tail feathers are brown; the others fulvous: the vent is white; and a line of white paffes over the eye towards the nape. Inhabits the rocky parts of the A/ps of Perfia.
Sylvia Cambaienfis, Zzd. Orn. ii. p. 554. 1726
IZE ofa Nightingale: bill black: plumage dufky brown above ;
glofly black beneath: boctom of the belly and vent dull rufous: wing coverts white: tail three inches long, even at the end: legs brown.
Inhabits the kingdom of Guzarat. In the Britifb Mufeum.
Sylvia Guzurata, Lud. Ora. ii. p. 554. 173.
IZE of the Yellow Wren; length four inches and an half: bill and legs pale brown: body above duil green; beneath white: crown
cheinut: quills and tail brown, with green margins; tail rounded. Inhabits the kingdom of Gazurat, in India.
I
W fA OR OB VL OBR:
Sylvia afiatica, Ind. Orn. il. p. 554. 174.
IZE ofa Nightingale: bill dufky, furnifhed with a few hairs at
the bafe: head and neck black ; lore and chin white: the body above brown; beneath-yellowifh, with a few fpots of white on the breaft: tail three inchés and three quarters in length, cuneiform ; all but the two middle feathers, from the middle to the ends of a pale colour.
This varies in having the forehead, ftreak over the eyes, and all the under parts white, and fuch of the tail feathers as are pale in the former, are in this quite white.
Found in the fame places as the two laft.
‘HIS is pale brown above, beneath dull white: under tail coverts yellow: irides red: bill and legs brown. Inhabits New South Vales: met with in January.
IZE and fhape of an Hedge Sparrow: bill black; legs dufky :
the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, are not greatly dif- ferent from that bird, but incline on the rump to ruft colour: all the under parts are white, with fagittal ftreaks of black: the top of the head is black, marked with the fame figured ftreaks of white, and the upper parts of the body with fimilar black ones; from the nof- trils, through the eye, and fome way behind it, paffes a ferruginous ftripe: tail loofely webbed, and brown.
Inhabits New South Wales in July; is faid to fing remarkably well. | ;
247
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DEscRIPTION.
Pracez.
28. YELLOW-- VENTED
W.
DEeEscRipPrion..
PLace.
29.
STREAKED W.
Descrirrion.
Prace.
2.48
30. TERRENE W.
“DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
31. BLACK- CHEEKED Ww.
' DescRIPTION.
PLACE.
32.
RUFOUS-
VENTED W
DeEscRIPTION.
PLACE.
Wo AOR -B 4 VE OR.
FTE general colour of this bird is greenifh yellow, inclining to
brown, but paler beneath: quills black: the ends of the. tail feathers pale afh colour: bill and legs black.
Inhabits New Holland; not uncommon at Port Fackfon: it is a bird
of fhort flight; not fo often feenon trees as on the ground; in this _
agreeing with the Wagzails.
IGGER than a Sparrow: bill and legs dufky: tongue briftly at the end: upper parts of the plumage reddifh brown; the under dufky white: cheeks black; in the middle of the patch the eye placed; through the eye an irregular ftreak of fine yellow, which is feen alfo beneath the eye, but not above it: chin blue grey. Inhabits New South Wales: is a lively fpecies, and is fuppofed to live principally on honey, as thofe birds whofe tongues are jagged at the end are found to do.
HIS fpecies is about one-third bigger than the Blue-throated Warbler, which it fomewhat refembles: bill and legs dufky: tongue bifid at the tip, and feathered on the fides : plumage above flaty grey, coming forwards on each fide of the neck, and forming on the breaft a bar or crefcent, at which part it inclines to blue: above this the chin and fore part of the neck are white: breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, rufous: tail even at the end, Found with the laft defcribed.
WAR BLE R.
IZE of the laft: bill lender; both that and the legs dufky black: the head, hind part of the neck, back, wings, and tail pale afh or flate colour; wings and tail darkeft: rump yellow: all the under parts golden yellow; but from the chin to the breaft deepeft: be- tween the bill and eye, and juft round the latter, black. Inhabits the fame places as the former ones.
HIS is a trifle larger than the Red-dreaf: the bill is flender and dufky: irides hazel: legs yellow: the plumage above brownifh afh colour; beneath wholly ferruginous, inclining to yellow: wings and tail brown; the laft rounded in fhape. Inhabits New South Wales.
HE upper parts of the plumage is ferruginous brown; beneath
yellowifh white ; clouded on the breaft with pate blue, and on the fides with ferruginous: over the eye an irregular dufky brown fireak: tail dull pale yellow, blotched down the middle with fpots of brown.
Found with the laft.
HIS is brown above; beneath blueifh white: quills black; acrofs the middle of them a patch of white: tail longifh; all but the two middle feathers white: legs lead colour. Inhabits New South Wales: not unlike the Dirigang Creeper in co- lour, but is clearly diftin& from that bird,
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249 43. GOLD- BELLIED
Ww. DeEscrirerion.
PLace. 34: RUDDY W.
Description.
Pracs. CHYSTE Ww:
Descriprion.
PLACE. 36. WHITE- TAILED W. DESCRIPTION
Pracg.
250
37° CRIMSON REASTED W.
DescripTion.
PLAcR. 38. RUSTY-SIDED W.
DeEScRIPTION.
PLACE.
39° SWALLOW
AOR cei
Puacr.
40. VARIABLE WwW
DescrirTion.
Pack.
W ACR BOL BE R ae
IZE uncertain: bill and lees brown: plumage above bfue; bee neath white: fore part of the neck and breaft fine crimfon.
Inhabits New South Wales.
IZE of a Wren: bill dufky: legs pale: the greater part of the head and wings, lower part of the back, and all except the two middle tail feathers green: hind part of the neck, the beginning of the back, and the two middle tail feathers blue grey; under parts of the body whitifh, but the fides of it are ferruginous: between the bill and. eye a narrow ftreak of black. Found with the laft.
Sylvia Hyrundinacea, Nat. Mz/c. iv. pl. 11 4».
HIS is a fmall fpecies: all above the plumage is black; from the chin to the breaft fine crimfon; from thence to the vene white, divided down the middle with a broad black ftreak: the vent. and under tail coverts orange.. Inhabits the fame places as the laft, of een it is probably a va— riety.
ILL black: legs pale brown: plumage above brown, clouded
with purplifh, red; beneath blueifh white: the two middle tail. feathers brown ; the others purplifh red, Hppce with. white,
Inhabits Mew South Wales.
Wed oR Bett: Ee Re
Motacilla fammea, Muf. Car//. fa/e. iv. tab. 97.
HIS elegant little bird is the fize of a Wren: the bill, legs, wings, and tail, are black: the head, neck, and back, a beautiful pale orange or flame colour: eyes black: tongue furnifhed with two hairs at the end; the belly paie grey. Inhabits the Palm Trees of Fava. Dr. Sparrman fays there are feven prime quills, nine fecondaries, and ten tail feathers ; but in the War- bler genus we find in general not fewer than twelve.
Motacilla Pufilla, White's Fourn.t. p..257.
HIS is about the fize of the Superb Warbler: the upper parts of the plumage brown; pale beneath, with a band of brown to- wards the tip of the tail: bill and legs black. Inhabits New South Wales: has evidently fome affinity with the fpecies to which it is compared above; but the tail is not cuneated, being even at the end.
Kks
25% 4l. FLAME- COLOURED
Ww. Descrirrion,
PLACE,
42. DWARF W.
Description.
PLACE.
252
i SUPERB M
DescRiIPTION.
2: PICICITLY M
DESCRIPTION. Prace.
MIACATO- TOTL M: DxesCRIPTION.
PLAcg.-
NEE AGN). (ACO TNE
Genus XLIV. MANAKIN.
Ne.1. Superb M. 2. Picicitl M. 3. Miacatototl M.. 4. Speckled M.
N° 5. Supercilious M.- 6. Czrulean M. 7. Long-tailed M. %. Crimfon-throated M;,.
Pipra fuperba, [nd. Oras ii. p.556. 4. Manacus fuperbus, Pall. Spic. fa/c. vi. pl. iti. f. 1. SIZE of the Blue-backed Manakin: bill black: general colour of | the plumage deep black; but the crown of the head has the feathers pretty long, forming a creft of a glowing red colour: back between the wings pale blue: prime quills brown: tail. fhort,. com-- pofed of ten feathers: legs yellowifh. This feems to differ very little from the Blue-backed Manakin.
Pipra Picicitli, sd. Orz. ii. p. 559. 16.. Avis Picicitli Tetzcaquenfis, Ferz. NM, Hi/p..p.'§3. cap. CC.. HIS isa {mall fpecies: general colour cinereous :: head and neci: black: on the fides of the head a white fpot, in. which the eyes: are placed, which proceeds on each fide'to the breaft... Inhabits Mexico; appears there after the rainy feafon; is deftitute- ofa fong;. will not bear confinement ; is efteemed as. good food: not- known where it brzeds.
Pipra Miacatototl, Ind..Orz, ii. ps 560; 19.—Ferzand. Hift. N; Hifp.p. 30:- gual S.is black, with white feathers intermixed ; belly pale: wings and tail beneath cinereous.
Inhabits Mexico; is feen frequently perched on the Maize plants ; iets affects -
MEAS NE AK IPO NS
‘affects the cooler fituations ; is accounted good food. Both this and the laft are of a doubtful genus.
Speckled Manakin, Nar. Mi/e. pl. 111.
IZE fmall; and the different fpecimens vary confiderably : the bill black: legs brown: the whole top of the head and back of the neck black, marked with pale fpots: back and wing coverts brownifh yellow, with the middle of each feather dark brown: the outer edge of the wing, the quills, and tail black, fpotted with white;
all the under parts of the body yellowifh white, with a tinge of red-
on the breaft: lower part of the back dull yellow: rump crimfon.
In another, only the top of the head is black, fpotted with white: hind part ofthe neck blue grey. In both, the forehead, .and between the bill and eye, are yellowifh, and in the laft-mentioned, the. yellow- appears to pafs through the eye, and is juft feen at the back part of it.
Inhabits New Holland. Iam indebted. to the pencil of General Davies-for thefe defcriptions, taken from fpecimens in the poffeffion of Captain King. Thefe feem to have fome affinity to the Srriped-headed Manakin.
SIZE of the: Speckled’ Manakin : bill and legs brown: general co- lour of the plumage above pale reddifh chefnut;. beneath dirty yellowtfh white: over the eye a whitifh mark, bounded above with
black: quills brown: tail fhort, black; the two middle feathers dotted.
on the fides, and the others at the ends, with whites Inhabits. New. Holland.-
4. SPECKLED M
DeEscRIPTIONs
PLacre
Ks SUPERCILIOUS M.
DESCRIPTION»
PLacs:
254
6. CARULEAN M.
DESCRIPTION.
LONG-TAILED M
DESCRIPTION.
8. CRIMSON- THROATED M
DESCRIPTION.
MAN AK IN,
SIZE ofthe laft: bill and legs brown: tongue jagged at the end: p'umage on the upper parts of the body blueifh: crown, quills,
and tail dufky black; under parts of the body yeliowith white. Native place uncertain.
Long-tailed Manakin, Nat. Mi/c. vol. v« pl. 153.
SIZE of the Blue-backed Manakin: the general colour of this bird is a fine blue: the whole crown of the head crimfon: wings black: two middle tail feathers elongated to a point three quarters of an inch beyond the reft: the plumage, efpecially about the neck, is gloffed with green: bill brown: legs of a pale colour. Native place not mentioned.
SIZE of the Gold-beaded Manakin: the upper parts of the plumage blueifh black: chin, throat, fore part of the neck and vent crim- fon: belly white: bill pale: leos dufky.
I met with a fpecimen of this bird in the collection of General Davies, who informed me it came from the ifland of Huaheine. In ftature and appearance it is not unlike our Crim/on-vented Manakin ; but whe- ther at all allied to that bird muft remain for future inquiry.
Dee OM. Ould. .S.E:
CSiEINGU S) cls Ver ny VO ee SP Es
N° 1. Crimfon-rumped T. N° 4. Indian T. 2. Crefted T. s. Knjaefcik T. 3. Alpine T.
Parus peregrinus, Jud. Orn. ii. p. 564..4.—Mu/. Carlf ii. p. 48. 49 Crimfon-rumped Titmoufe, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 539. 4.
N the male, according to the figure in Mfu/. Carif. the head, neck,
and back, are afh colour: between the bill and eye, and under the
lafl, dufky black: fore part of the neck and breaft high orange co- Jour; rump the fame: bill and vent whitifh: under part of the wings pale brimftone; above black; but the bafes of fome are orange, making a fpot on the wing: the four middle tail feathers are black, the reft black as far as the middle, from thence to the ends orange: the female has the upper parts the fame ath colour as the male, but paler: the whole of the under parts are dufky white :: rump orange : fpot on the wing the fame, but paler: tail as in the male, but more of the feathers are tipped with orange: bill and legs in both black. This is a doubtful f{pecies, and is fo like the Flammeous Flycatcher in fome of its changes (for we have feen feveral. varieties of that bird) that it has been with difficulty that we have kept it apart therefrom.
Parus criflatus, Jad. Orn, ii. p. 567: 14. Crefted Titmoufe, Ger. Syn. iv. p. 545. 12: E have heard of this fpecies being plentiful in fome parts of Scotland, efpecially in the pine forefts, from whence I have re- ceived a fpecimen, now in my poffeffion.
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Parus alpinus, Ind, Orn. ii. p. 569. 21.—S. G. Gmel. It, iv. p. 17 1.—=Pall. N. Nord. Beytr. iv. p. 49.
SIZE and fhape of the Long-tailed Titmoufe: the feathers on the upper part of the body are black, margined with afh colour; be- neath pale rufous, fpotted with black: a white line from the bafe of - the bill, running towards the nape: quills black: tail the fame, a trifle forked in fhape; the outmoft feather marked with a cuneiform {pot of white at the tip. Inhabits the higher parts of Perfia; and lives on infects.
Parus indicus, 2nd. Ora. ii. p. 572. 29.—Ms/f. Carlf. fa/e. ii. tab. 50.
IZE of the Greater Titmouje: bill and legs brown: forehead dufky; the reft of the upper parts of the plumage cinereous: chin and throat dufky white: breaft, belly, and vent, ferruginous: wing co- verts dufky black, with cinereous margins: quills and tail dufky ; the Jaft a trifle forked. Inhabits Jndia.
Parus Knjaefcik, Ind, Orn.ii. p. 572. 30.——Lepech, 27, 1. p. 18 le
HIS is white, with a livid coloured collar; a ftripe of the fame through the eyes, and a continued ftripe on the under parts of the body. » Inhabits the oak forefts of Sidiria.
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Genus. XLVI SWALLOW. N° x. Efculent Sw. N° 4. New Holland Sw. 2. Aculeated Sw. 5. Javan Sw. 3. Needle-tailed Sw.
Hirendo efculenta, Jnd. Orn. il. p. 580. 26.—Olcar. Myf. tab. 14. fig. 2 and 6,
(the nef.) é * Chinefifche Felfen Schwalbe, De Vries, S. 279. Small Grey Swallow, witha dirty white belly, Zé. to China, i. p. 288.——Jd.
ii. p- +5. Efculent Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 578. 28. SIZE of the Sand Martin: iength four inches and a half: from the tip to tip of the wings expanded, full eleven inches: the bill is {mall and black; gape wide: general colour of the plumage dufky black, and gloffy above; all the under parts from the chin to the vent pale afh colour: the wings are very long, meafuring from the joint of the fhoulder to the end of the quills, four inches and a half; and when clofed, exceeding the- end of the tail by at leaft one inch: the tail is rather forked, all the feathers rounded at the ends, and all of a plain dufky black colour; the three outer feathers on each fide are one inch and three quarters long, and of nearly equal lengths, but the three interior fhorten by degrees as they approach inwards, the two middle ones being no more than one inch and a quarter: the legs are dufky, and bare of feathers. We are inclined to credit, with Sir George Staunton*, the poflibility of more than one fpecies being concerned in making the much ef- teemed nefts; but in cafe it be not fo, the bird formerly fuppofed
* Emb. to China, i. p. 290. Supp. II, L1- to
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to be the fabricator of the- nefts in queftion, muft be totally diftinét from the one here defcribed, as that is reprefented fmaller than a Wren, with a white belly, and white {pots on the end of the tail *, but no fuch marks are to be found in our fpecies.
It is fer from improbable to fuppofe, that even more than the two fpecies above hinted may be concerned. Willughby, Ray, Klein, and fome others, call their bird particoloured, the meaning of which is by no means clear. De Vries, fpecifically as large as a Swallow, and black +; and Sir George Staunton, in his fhort defcription, fays, fmall srey Swallows, with bellies of a dirty white ; but he obferves, they were fo fimall, and flew fo quick, that they efcaped the fhot fired at them. The way to reconcile thefe differences muft be left to future: obfervers.
The fpecimen from which the figure is taken, is now with its young in my colleé&tion, prefented to me by Sir Fo/eph Banks, having been fent to him from Sumatra.
I have alfo been enabled to give a figure of the neft, being not only furnifhed with an accurate drawing of one, but jlikewife the nett itfelf, from Mr. Hay, junior, of Portfea.
Hirundo Pelafgia, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 581. 30.—Bartram’s Trav. p. 290. Aculeated Swallow, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 583.32.
THs Mr. Bartram calls the Houfe Swallow, becaufe it builds in
chimnies, inthe fame manner as our Chimney Swallow does in Europe’; which laft is alfo found in America. He obferved vaft flights not only of this, but the Baxk Martin, pafs northward from Carolina and Florida, towards Pennfylvania, where they breed in fpring, about
* Defcribed by M. Je Poivre, and taken up by Brifon and Linneus, and after- ward: by WM. Bufjon.—See alfo Geria. Orn. iv.t. 411. fig.z. In alli thefe figures, the wings reach no farther than the rump.
_ + “ Men find int Konighryck Tanquin, des gelycks op de Kiift van Coromandel <* Seekere Soort von Swarte Yogelen fo groot als cene gemeene Swaluw.”
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the middle of March, and likewife in September and Oéfoder, on their return fouthward.
FiIS is twice the fize of the laft, though in many things. not un- like : the bill is broad and flat, and the claws ftrong: the general colour is dufky, with a glofs of green on the wings and tail, and the inner wing coverts mixed with white: the forehead is white, and the throat nearly fo, being very pale: the tail feathers furnifhed at the ends with. projecting points, as fharp as a-needle. Inhabits New South Wales; met with in moft plenty in. February; and among other infects, obferved to feed on a large locuft, which at that feafon is very common.
SIZE of the lait: general colour dufky brown, and without any tinge of green on the upper parts: throat and rump blueifh white:
the tail feathers run to a point, but are deftitute of ve needle-fhaped —
procefies at the tips.
It is found with the laft, and report affirms it to be the female; but it may be doubted, becaufe in the Mish {pecies, both fexes have the tails alike.
Hirundo javanica, Mz/: Carl/. iv. tab. 100.
Trifle lefs than the Chimney Swallow: biil flat, pointed, black;
noftrils oval; gape wide; tongue bifid: wings longer than the tail: the body above blueith black, gloffy : forehead, throat, and fore part of the neck ferruginous: breaft, belly, rump, and under part of the wings, pale afh colour: quills black: tail even at the end; the two middle feathers plain black, the others the fame, marked with a white {pot on each: legs black,
Inhabits Fava; makes the neft in the earth, Lila
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GOATSUCKER.
Genus XLVI]. GOATSUCKER.
N° 1. Bombay G. N° 5. Great-headed G. 2. New Holland G. 6. Gracile G. 3. Banded G. 7. Fork-tailed G. 4. Strigoid G. 8. Leona-G.
Caprimulgus afiaticus, Jad. Orn. ii. p. 588. 16. L’Engouleyent a collier, Levail), O:/: i. p. 186. pl. 49. Bombay Goat-fucker, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 195+. 16.
HIS, by 14. Levaillant, is likened to our European fpecies in fize,.
and differs not in defcription from the Bombay Goat/ucker above
referred to, except in having the white on the throat broadening out on the Sides into fine yellow orange.
The female is faid to be fmaller; and the white on the throat in- clines to rufous, but without the accompanying orange feathers fo confpicuous in the male; and the fpot on the tail rufous inftead. of white. It is in the orange ftreak being a continuation. of the white one on the throat, that this bird differs from our Bombay f{pecies, in which it is not feen; and may arife from different periods of age.
This is found in the inward parts of the Cape of Good Hope, but not at the Cape itfelf; is well known on the borders of the Gamfoos, in Hottniqua Land, efpecially towards the bay of Lagoa, or Blettenberg:; called there Night Ow/; feeds on infects, efpecially beetles, which it. takes from the ground, as it does others in flying, {wallowing them: whole, like the reft of this genus.
They pair in September; lay two white eggs on the ground, fome- times in @ hedge; the male and female fit by turns: if the eggs are
difturbed,
GOATSUCKER.
difturbed, take them to another place in their bills; make a horrid noife for an hour at Jeaft after fun-fet, and before fun-rife, fo as to- difturb- the neighbouring inhabitants; and in fine nights, fometimes the whole night through.
Caprimulgus Nove Hollandiz, Jnd. Orn. ii. p. 588. 18. Crefted Goat-fucker, Phill. Bot. Bay, t. p. 270.—White’s Fourn. t. p. 241,
ENGTH nine‘inches and a half: general colour of the plumage on the upper parts brown, mottled and crofled with obfcure bars of white: quills plain brown, but the edges of four or five of the outer ones dotted with dufky white : the tail rounded in fhape, or flight- ly cuneiform; the two middle feathers five inches long, the outmoft four ; the two middle ones crofféd on both webs with twelve dufky
white bars, dotted with brown; but the others only on the outer: webs: the under parts of the body moftly white ; but the throat, breaft,. and fides are marked with narrow dufky bars: bill black; infide of
the mouth yellow ; fides of it furnifhed with briftles, as in many of the genus; befides which, at the bafe of the bill, before the eyes, are ter or twelve ftiff briftles, barbed fparingly on each fide, and ftanding erect, fo as to reprefent a creft: the legs are pale yellow :. the toes: long and flender: claws black, but not pectinated.
Inhabits New: Holland: no account has been hitherto learned of the manners, further than that it appears about our fettlement at Port Fack/on,.in March.
In fome drawings in poffeffion of Mr. Lambert, I obferved one very: fimilar, though {maller ; but does not feem to differ fufficiently to. re- quire a feparate defcription.
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HE fize of this bird is not certain, but fuppofed to be ten or
eleven inches long: the billis black, not very lange, and bent ; and the gape exceedingly wide, as ufual in the genus: the irides orange or yellowifh: the head is full of feathers, and of a dirty flefh colour; the reft of the neck and under parts of the body not much different, with a ferruginous tinge: under the eye, on the fides of the neck, and beneath. the wings, crofled every where with broken dufky lines and other markings :, the crown and back part of the neck are black, coming forwards on each fide in a curved point over the eye: acrofs the nape is a band of black, ending on each fide about the ~ middle of the neck, where it divides into two parts: the back and wings are dufky blue, powdered with black: quills dufky, edged and fpotted with dufky ruft colour: tail dufky, with dull pale ferru- ginous fpots on each fide of the webs of the feathers ; in fhape fomewhat forked: legs reddifh flefh colour.
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is called by the Engli » Mu-
quite Hawk, a name, it muft be remarked, the Goatfucker of North America 1s known by : snot frequent i in July.
HIS is twice the: fize of the European fpecies; and at a diftance - having the appearance of the Short-eared Owl: the general colour of Me siniranee is rufty brown above; marked on- the head with rufty brown’ ftreaks, and the back mottled and ftreaked. with the fame: on the wing coverts are three oblique palifh mottled bars: quills brown, with pale fpots on the outer margins: the~ under parts
_ of the body not unlike the upper, marked with narrow fagittal ftreaks
of brown: tail fomewhat forked: the fides of the head, through the ; cys
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eye, pale brown; above the eye, a pale clouded whitifh ftreak : bill black: legs yellowith. +
Inhabits the fame parts, and at the fame time with the laft: the native name Bir-reagel.
HIS is a large fpecies, being full thirty inches in length : the bill
very ftout, more fo than~in any other fpecies; colour pale brown: general colour of the plumage dull black or dufky brown, mottled and ftreaked with whitifh and ruft colour: breaft pale dull ferruginous : belly pale afh colour: the quills are barred or {potted with black and white alternate, the tail the fame; on both webs the white tranfverfe mark ‘being bordered above with black ; in fhape rounded at the end: the head and neck are remarkably large and full of feathers, with a feries of longer feathers arifing at the bafe of the bill, ftanding up like a creft: irides yellow: legs pale yellowifh brown. st Ma 5 a: Inhabits New South Wales, with the others.
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HIS isa large fpecies: the bill ftout, pale brown, with feveral erect briftles: at the noftrils: irides and legs yellow: the plumage above is mottled and ftreaked, not greatly unlike our Exropean {pecies, but feems to be of a more flender make, and has a larger tail in pro- portion: all the under parts from the chin are whitifh, mottled and ftreaked with ferruginous yellow. Inhabits New South Wales; called by the natives Poo-dook,
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Engoulevent 2 queue fourchue, Levaill, O// i. p. 178. pl. 47. 48.
HIS isa very large fpecies, exceeding in length every other yer
recorded ; for it meafures from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, twenty-fix inches: the body does not exceed the fize of the Brown Owl; but the neck and the tail make two-thirds of the general length: the bill is black, much bent, and when the mouth is clofed, appears very fmall; on the contrary, the gape is aftonifhingly large ; the upper mandible has a fingular kind of notch about the middle, into which the under one fhuts, whereby the union of the two becomes moft complete: the plumage is not far different in colour from that of the European {pecies, being compofed of a mixture of black, brown, rufous, and white; but the moft confpicuous character is the enor- mous length of tail, which is greatly forked in fhape, the middle feathers not being more than half the length of the outer ones: the legs are yellow. —
A male and female of thefe were by chance procured by Mr. Le- vaillant ; they had taken their abode in a hollow decayed tree, which had fallen by the fide of the river of Lions, in Great Namaqua Land, in the interior of the Cape of Good Hope. It makes a noife founding fomewhat like Gher, r, r, r, r, in this not greatly differing from the European {pecies.
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Caprimulgus macrodipterus, Afxelius Defer. Sierra Leon. tab. in D°. — Leona Goat-fucker, Nar. Mifc. 8. pl. 65.
His fingular fpecies is about the fize of the European one, and not far different from it in the general markings: the length from the bill to the end of the tail is eight inches and a quarter; but the
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the remarkable circumftance belonging to it, is the, having a fingle feather fpringing out of the middle part of the coverts of each wing, full twenty inches in length: this continues as a plain unwebbed fhaft for fourteen inches and three quarters, having a few folitary hairs on the infide only, from thence it expands into a broad web for the remaining five inches and a quarter of its length. ‘This part is _ mottled, not unlike the darker part of the reft of the plumage, and crofled with five dufky bars: the web or blade has almoft the whole of its breadth on the inner fide, being there more than one inch broad, but very narrow on the outer part of the fhaft: the legs are {mall.
into. Exgland: one of which was added to my collection by Th. Wilfon, Efquire.
Supp. Il. Mm
Inhabits Sierra Leona, in Africa ; feveral ‘of them have been brought.
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“ WITH MODERATE Tatts. N* 7. Southern P.
N° 1. Bronze-winged P. 8. Pale P. 2. Brown P. g. Surat P. 3- Egyptian P. ** Witu Lone Talts. 4. White-faced P. 10. Bantamefe P. baal ede hi eepeay 11. Black-winged P. 6. Waalia P. 12. St. Domingo-P.
* WITH MODERATE TAILs.
Columba Chalcoptera, Jud. Oru. ii. p. 604. 39-
Bronze-winged Pigeon, PAri/. Bot. Bay, t. p. 162.—=White’s Fourn. t. p. 146. —Lev. Mu. p. 227.t. 55.
SIZE of a Common Pigeon: bill.and legs red: the general colour of the plumage is cinereous brown on the upper parts; on the
under cinereous, with a tinge of red on the breaft ; on the middle
of the wing a large patch or rather double bar of beautiful refplendent copper bronze, varying in different lights to red and green, arifing from each of the middle coverts, having a large oval fpot of bronze on the outer webs near the ends; fome of the adjacent feathers have alfo fimilar fpots, but in a lefs degree, and making no part of the large patch: the tail confifts of fixteen feathers; the two middle ones
brown;
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brown; the others dove colour, crofied with a bar of black near the ends: the forehead in fome fpecimens is buff colour, nearly white; with the chin the fame, paffing beneath the eye: in others, the whole of the face is brown, with a dark ftreak through the eye.
This inhabits Norfolk Iland, alfo various parts of New Holland, and no where more frequent than in the neighbourhood of Siduey Cove and Betany Bay; more efpecially in fandy and defert tracts; is only feen from September to February, and at that time very numerous ; and chiefly in pairs. They make a neft either in the ftump of fome low tree, or on the ground; lay two white eggs in a very flight neft, and hatch in November: are-obferved to feed chiefly on a fruit like a cherry, the ftones.of which have been found in quantities. in their ftomachs. The places they frequent are eafily known, as they make a loud kind of cooing noife, which at a diftance may be miftaken for the lowing ofa cow. The name it is known by, in New Holland, is Goad-gang, and by the Englifh, Ground Pigeon, being unable to take long
flights, and feen chiefly on the ground or low trees; called by fome
alfo Brufh Pigeon.
Columba brunnea, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 603. 38.
HE bill and legs in this fpecies are blood red: the crown; upper part of the neck, back, and wing coverts,. red brown: breaft, fore part of the neck, and rump, glofly green. Inhabits New Zealand,
Columba A-gyptiaca, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 607. 49.——Forfk. Faun: Arab. p. 5. 15:
HE bill is black: head flefh colour, with a tinge of violet : orbits naked, and blueifh: the feathers of the throat are cuneiform, black, divided at the tips. into two flender lobes, which diverge, are truncated at the ends, and of a rufty flefh colour: back cinereous : Mm 2 breatt
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breaft violet flefh colour: belly and thighs whitifh: wings chiefly brown: the two outermoft tail feathers are cinereous at the bafe, in the middle black, the reft white; the two next on each fide cinereous at the bafe, black in the middle, and whitifh at the very
, tip; the fifth on each fide brown, with a dufky middle; andthe two
middle ones wholly brown: legs flefh colour.
Inhabits Egypt; moftly feen about houfes: whether this is the moft common {pecies which frequents thofe parts is not faid; but Savary * informs us, that in Egypt, Pigeons are more numerous than in any other country whatever, being in fuch vaft flights as to darken the air; and this feems credible, as every hamlet, every town, as we are
‘told, forms one vaft pigeon. houfe.
‘HIS is much larger than our Turile: the bill and legs reddith: _ face and fides of the head, as far as the eyes, white: before each eye a triangle of black, and behind a crimfon fpot: crown and hind head pale afh; and the reft of the neck dufky: upper part of the body and wings dull green; fome of the inner quills ferruginous : beneath from the breaft white; fides of the breaft next the wings black: fides of the body marked with a double feries of black {pots. Inhabits New Holland: native name Goad-gang.
: GIZE of the laft: bill and legs the fame: ‘the whole of the face,
reaching beyond the eyes, white: the general colour of the plumage ereenifh black on the upper parts, which colour wholly fur- . rounds the neck; and below this, coming forward on each fide irre- gularly on the breaft, but not meeting thereon; from that part where
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the black furrounds the neck, the under parts are white, but the fides of the body near the wings, and the vent, marked with feveral {pots of black: the tail is black, tipped with white.
This feems greatly allied to the laft, perhaps differing only in fex or age. Both of them were feen at Port Fack/on, in New Holland, in
December.
Waalia Pigeon, Bruce’s Trav. iv. p. 282. 200.—/d. App. tab. p. 186.
HIS is lefs than the Common Blue Pigeon, but larger than the
Turtle Dove: the general colour is green, inclining to olive: head and neck darker and lefs lively than the reft: the pinion of the wing is of a beautiful pompadour colour; the outer edge of the wing narrowly marked with white: tail dirty pale blue; below the tail fpotted brown and white: thighs white, fpotted with brown: belly of a lively yellow: the bill is a blueifh white ; noftrils large: irides dark orange: legs yellowifh brown; feet large.
This inhabits the low parts of Abyfinia; perches on the higheft trees, fitting quietly during the heat of the day; flies, high, and in valt flocks ; frequents moftly a fpecies of beech treé, on the maft of which it feems chiefly to live. In the beginning of the rainy feafon, in the Kollz, they emigrate to the fouth and fouth weft, and are frequently fo extremely fat,as to burft on their falling to the ground. Mr. Brucz, from-whom the above account is taken, ob- ferves, that it is the fatteft and beft of all the Pigeon kind; yet the Abyffinians will not tafte the flefh, holding it in abhorrence. The
name Waalia, given to it by Mr. Bruce, is from the bird being fre- .
quently met with there, and lies due north weft from Gondar : it feems greatly allied to the Pompadour Pigeon *.
* Gen, Sya.iv, p. 624.
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IZE of a Turtle; length ten inches: general colour of the plumage deep reddifh brown; a little paler on the breaft; from thence all beneath is pale reddifh white: the eye is brown, placed in a bare blueifh white fkin: the bill black, a trifle bent at the end; the nof- trils apparent, but not protuberant: the quills are deep brown: on the leffer coverts, three or four marks of blackifh purple: tail fhort, cuneiform, the feathers rather pointed at the ends; the two middle feathers black brown, with a bar of black about three quarters of an inch from the end; the others brown, but white for about one inch. next the tip, the two colours joining in a lunular form;, the outer feathers white on the outer web the whole of its length: legs red. Inhabits New Holland: 1 faw a fpecimen of this at Mr. Swain/on’s.. It feems to be much allied to the Martinico Pigeon, ox its variety..
HE bill and legs in this bird are brown: the general colour of the plumage greenifh white: the head and neck inclining to afh colaur: the greater quills are plain; but the reft marked’ irregularly with black on each fide the fhafts: the two middle tail feathers are- dufky, the others very pale or whitifh: the outer edge of the wings: and the quills are dufky. Inhabits New Holland.
Columba Suratenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. Gog. 55. La Tourterelle de Surate, Sonn. Voy. Ind. it. p. 17.9:
IZE of the Collared Turtle: bill black: irides and legs re: the general colour of the plumage is grey: the upper part of the neck black; the nape white: back part of the neck fafciated with 9 rufous.:
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rufous: the wing coverts cinereous grey, with the fhafts of the fea- thers black. . Inhabits Jndia.
: ** With Lone Talits. Columba Bantamenfis, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 615. 77-—Mu/: Carl. fa/. iii. t. 67.
HIS is a fmall fpecies, not exceeding in fize the Wryneck: the bill is black: the legs red: the plumage is on the upper parts hoary afh colour, the under whitifh, marked on the back, wings, and breaft, with waved black crefcents: the tail is cuneiform, the length of the body, and confifts of fourteen feathers ; the fix middle ones are black, the reft white towards the tips. Inhabits the ifland of Fava; exceedingly common near Bantam, in
the palm woods of which it fills the ears of the neighbouring inhabi- °
tants with its pleafing melancholy notes.
Columba melanoptera, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 615. 78.—Molin. Chili (Fr. ed.) p. 215.
X7 E have no other defcription of this fpecies, further than that it has a wedged tail, a blueifh body, and the quills black. Inhabits Cdiiz. 5
Columba dominicenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p.615.79. Tourterelle de St. Domingue, P/. Enl. 487. HIS is in length eleven inches: bill black: legs red: the body above cinereous grey, fomewhat undulated on the back: a few dufky fpots on the wings: breaft vinaceous: forehead, throat, fides of the head, and from thence a collar under the nape, white; a black fpot on the crown of the head; a band of the fame colour from the noftrils, pafles beneath the eye, and grows broader behind; on the middle of the neck, a collar of black: the vent is white: tail grey; the feathers all tipped with white. Inhabits the ifland of St. Domingo.
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2. EGYPTIAN 12s DESCRIPTION.
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Orper V. GALLINACEOUS, Genus LII. PINTADO. |
N° 1. Guinea P. N° 2. Egyptian P.
Numida Meleagris, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 621. 1. Guinea Pintado, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 685.—Id. Sup. p. 204. DR. Sparrman fays, he found thefe birds in great plenty in the inner parts of the Cape of Good Hope; and Mr. Levaillant * gives much the fame account; but adds, that being frightened from the trees, they run a good way, and on their attempting to take wing
"again, are often caught in numbers: by the dogs, without firing a
fhot ; the dogs firft frighten them, by barking at the roots of the trees, where they fometimes rooft by hundreds of evenings.
They are likewife very common on the mountains in the ifland of Hinzuan or Johanna >.
Meleagris egyptiaca, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 622.—Ger. Orn. ii. p. 80. tab. 232.
HE bill in this bird is pale red: legs blueifh black: the head and neck rufous, and very thinly befet with hairs; the feathers on the top of the head long, ftanding upwards as a creft; on each jaw a folded rugofe fkin, of a pale blue colour, but not enough elongated to be called a wattle: the body is black, marked with blueith fpots, much larger than in the Cre/fed fpecies, of which it may perhaps only prove a variety. This defcription was taken from a living fpecimen in the aviary at Verfailles, in 1728.
® Lewaill. Voy.i. p. 195. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) + Afiat. Refearch. ii. p. 86.
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MEN URA,
Genus LIT* MENURA,.
ILL ftout, conico-convex, a trifle naked at the bafe. Nosrrits oval, placed in the middle of the bill.
Tar long, confifting of fixteen loofe webbed feathers; the two middle ones narrow, exceeding the others greatly in length; the outer one on each fide growing much broader, and curved at the end.
Lees ftout, made for walking.
‘HIS fingular bird is about the fize of a Hen Pheafant; the total length from the point of the bill to the end of the longeft tail feathers is more than three feet and a half:. the bill, from the tip to the beginning of the feathers at the bafe, is one inch and a quarter,
but to the gape about half an inch more; it is nearly ftraight,.
except towards the end, where it is fomewhat curved; the noftrils are a longifh oval flit, placed beyond the middle part, where it is deprefled; round the eye fo little furnifhed with feathers, as to appear nearly bare: the head of the male is fomewhat crefted: the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts brown: the greater part of the wing inclining to rufous: the fore part of the neck, from the chin to the breaft, inclines alfo to rufous, but the reft of the parts be- neath are of a brownifh afh colour, paler towards the vent: the tail confifts of fixteen feathers, and is of a fingular conftruétion, being chiefly compofed of loofe webbed feathers, much refembling thofe fpringing from beneath the wings of the greater Bird of Paradife, but the vanes are placed at a quarter of an inch diftance each; thefe feathers are’ twelve in number, and more than two feet in length ; befides thefe are, firftly, two flender feathers which take rife fiom the centre of the tail above, and reach confiderably beyond the ends of the others, and curve towards the end, they are fully webbed on the outer fide, but om the inner only furnifhed with fhort vanes, one eighth of an inch long; and laflly, the exterior feather on each fide is fingularly confpicuous, in leneth fomewhat fhorter than any of the others, but the webs fully connected throughout, at the bafe about
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an inch wide, gradually increafing from thence to the extremity, where it is full two inches broad, and confiderably curved; the outer web is pale brown, and narrow; the inner very broad, inclining to grey, but from the middle to the edge fine rufous, marked with fixteen curved marks feemingly of a darker colour, but on clofe infpection are perfeétly tranfparent ; the end of the feather dufky black, fringed all round with white: the thighs are covered with fea- thers quite to the knees: the legs fcaly and rough, furnifhed with {trong claws, curved much like thofe of a Fow/ or Turkey: the colour of both bill and legs is gloffy black.
I find a fecond fpecimen of this bird in the Briti/h Mufeum, fup- pofed to be the female, but I fufpect it to be a young bird. In this the loofe webbed feathers are only fo from the middle to the ends, being the reft of their length clofely connected as in other birds, and not only the exterior feather has the crefcents, but the next to it like- wile on each fide, though much-leds diftin&t. In this the two flender middle tail feathers were wanting, whether accidental or not could not be determined. Since my penning the above, I have been favoured by Mr. Lhompfon, of Saint Martin's Lane, with the infpection of {pe- cimens of both male and female; the former feemed to anfwer to the firft defcription; the latter is in comparifon a very plain bird: it is not at all crefted, and thirty-five inches long from bill to tail, which is cuneiform in fhape; the longeft feathers being nineteen inches long, the outer eleven inches; all the feathers as perfelly webbed as birds in general: the colour of the plumage is deep brown: belly inclining to afh colour, but the quills and tail are darker than the reft: the quills reach about two inches on the bafe of the tail.
The above curious bird inhabits New Holland, where it is faid to be rare; as yet we know only of five fpecimens having arrived in England, nor have we been able to obtain any account of its manners, or name it is known by among the natives. It may be fufpected that the bird rather affects to be upon the ground, in the manner of our poultry, as the manifeft wearing of the ends of the claws feem to juftify ; not butin all probability thefe birds may perch on trees of evenings occafionally, as is ufual in many of the gallinaceous tribe.
PHEASANT.
Genus LIV. PHEASANT.
N* 1. Superb Ph. N° 2. Fire-backed Ph.
Phafianus fuperbus, Jud. Orn. i. p. 628.2. Ware=—Lin, Mantifi. 1771. p. 526. Var.
Phafianus varius, Nar. Mie. 10. pl. 353.
Superb Pheafant, Gez. Syn. iv. p. 709. 2. Var.
HIS bird is of the fize of a fmall Cask: the bill and legs yellow: it is furnifhed with a creft and wattles, which laft occupy almoft as much fpace as in the Turkey: on the neck are hackles, as in the Cock, of a dark green, with pale edges: the feathers over the fhoulders are long and black, edged with chefnut: the breaft and under parts
black: the rump furnifhed with long black hackles, with pale edges: '
the tail of a dark fhining green, with the long fickle-fhaped feathers hanging on each fide, as in the domeftic Cock: the quills are brown: on each leg is one {pur behind, at the ufual place.
This was fhewn to me by Mr. Humphries, a colleétor of curious fubjeéts in Natural Hiftory ; but he was able to give no account of it, further than that it was fuppofed to have come from India.
In a drawing fhewn to me by Colonel Woodford, the feathers of the neck were blue, edged with yellow: lefler wing coverts golden yel- low ; the reft of the wing orange tawny: vent white: rump hackles black, with deep yellow edges: quills and tail deep blue, with two fickle feathers on the fides, as in the common Cock: bill and legs yellow, with one fpur behind,
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DascRIPTIONe
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Fire-backed Pheafant of Java, Emb. to Chin. i. p. 246. pl. 13.-=Nat. Mfc. 9. pl. 321-
S1Z E, of a common Fow/: the bill long, pale in colour, and pretty much curved, yet lefs fo than in the Jmpeyan Pheafant: the face
and fides of the head, much beyond the eyes, covered with a bare rugofe fkin, as in others of the genus, and hanging in a kind of wattle on each fide the throat: the general colour of the plumage black, with a glofs of blue in fome lights: the feathers at the back part of the head much lengthened into a fort of creft: the lower part of the back ferruginous, varying into a bright fiery orange colour in different refleCtions: of light; this furrounds the belly, and is much of the fame colour, but without the brilliancy of orange as above: the feathers of the neck and breaft are rounded at the ends, and appear diftinét and fealv, as in the common Turkey: the tail of the fame colour as the body: legs ftout, fcaly, each furnifhed with a long and ftout fpur, fharp at the end; the colour pale like that of the bill.
The above was prefented to Sir George Staunton at Batavia; but whether indigenous to fava or not, is far from certain.
The tail was mutilated, fo as to make it impoflible to afcertain of what length it had been originally.
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Genus LVI. GROUS,
N° 1. Hybrid Gr. N° z. Gooto Gr.
Tetrao hybridus, Mu Carl/faf. i. t. 15? Hybrid Pheafant, White’s Nat. Calend. pl. inp. 65.
HIS, from the appearance in the plate, is certainly more allied to the Grous than the Phea/ant genus; and does not feem to differ materially from that in the Carl/onian Mufeum. Did not Mr. White in another place * exprefsly fay, that the Black Grous was at the time of his writing extinct at Se/borne, we fhould have no hefitation to pronounce it a mixed breed between that bird and the Phea/ant ; how- ever, the fa&t is not impoffible, as the Black Grous ftill remains in fe- veral parts of Hampfhire. This bird weighed three pounds three ounces and a half: the back, wings, and tail pale ruffet, curioufly ftreaked, fomewhat like the upper parts of a Hen Partridge: the tail blunt and fquare at the end: head, neck, and breaft, gloffy black; fome of the feathers edged with pale yellow: round the eye a bare fearlet red fpace; the bill ftout and black, as in the Black Grous: legs pale brown, totally bare of feathers; claws black. This was fhot at large in a coppice in the Holt, a feat belonging to Lord Stawel.
* Hi, of Selborne, p. 16.
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DEscRIPTION.
276 GROU S,
2. GOOTO Gooto, Bruce’s Trav. i. p. 80. 2416 GR.
DEsceiPrion. MR. Bruce fays, that a bird like a Partridge, and better than a Pigeon, is common in the defarts of Africa: he gives, however, but an imperfect defcription of this fpecies, if diftinét from thofe al- ready known: he defcribes it as being of different colours in different places: that of the defarts of Tripoli and Cyrenaicum very beautiful 5 that of Egypt fpotted white like a Guinea Fow/, but upon a brown ground, not a blue one, as the latter is. About Yor, very fmall, and coloured like the back of a Partridge; but indifferent food, as all of them are. Mr. Bruce exprefsly fays, this is not of the fame kind as the Partridge, as the legs and feet are covered with feathers, and has but two toes before. It feeds on infects.
Mr. Garnet, in his Tour through the Highlands of Scotland, men- tions, that on account of the different temperatures of the air of the mountain Benlomond, the perpendicular height of which is faid to be 3,262 feet, that the P/overs abound near the middle of the moun- tain, Grous a little higher, and near the top Prarmigans, which were remarkably tame.
PARTRIDGE
Genus, EVI: PART BI. D.G: E: ie N° x. .Cape’P. N° 7. Californian Quail. q. Ceylon P. 8. Kakerlik P. 3. Afiatic P. g. Cambaian P. i Crowned P. to. New Holland Quail. 5. Common P. iz. Cafpian P. 6, Common Quail, 12. New Holland P.
*® WiTH FoUR TOES, FURNISHED WITH A SPUR BEHIND.
Perdix Capenfis, Ind. Orx. ii. p. 643. 1. Cape Partridge, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 756.
HERE are many reafons to fuppofe this bird and the Senegal Partridge to be not far diftant in {pecies, though we by no means are able to confirm it. It may however be obferved, that both in- habit Africa. The firft fuppofed to be the male, the latter the female, in incomplete plumage: our bird has two fpurs, the lower one of which is ftout and fharp; the Senegal Partridge has likewife two, but both of them blunt, a circumftance not uncommon in female birds, both of the Partridge and Phea/ant genus.
What the Partridges were which Mr. Levaillant talks of finding at the Cape, we are not able to affirm. He merely fays, they were as big as Pheafants, and of three kinds, and in fuch quantities as to ferve them as ordinary food; and they put them by fcores into the pots, in order to make foup of them *.
* Levaill. Voy. is p. 97+ (Fr. ed, 8y0.)
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278
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ASIATIC P
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE,
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Tetrao Ceylonenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 644. 3. Ceylon Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 758. N the only defcription extant of this bird, the fize is not mentioned; but having feen drawings of the female, both in Lady Jmpey’s draw- ings, and thofe of Mr. Middleton, it appears to be at leaft as big as a Fowl.
Perdix afiatica, Ind. Orx. ii. p. 649. 20.
HIS is fix inches in length: the bill fhort, obtufe, brown; the lower mandible pale: head and throat yellow brown: the upper parts of the body varied with rufous yellow and brown, here and there mixed with black: beneath whitifh, each feather marked with two black bands: towards the vent, the colours are lefs diftinét: quills rufous yellow, variegated with brown: legs reddifh, furnifhed with a blunt fpur at the back part, about the middle. Inhabits Judia; common in the Mabraita country.
=* Wirn Lees DESTITUTE OF & SPUR.
Mate. Columba criftatay Ind. Orn. ii. p. 596. 10. Phafianus criftatus, Muf: Carlf. fafe. iii. t. 64. Uncommon Bird from Malacca, Phil. Tranf: \xii. ps 1. te Le “Le Roloul de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 174. te 100: Violaceous Partridge, Nar. Mic. vol. iti. pl. 34. Leffer crowned Pigeon, Gen. Syx. iv. p. 622. 10. FEMALE. 'Fetrao viridis, Jad. Orn. li. p. 650. 22. Green Partridge, Ger. Syz, iv. p. 777. 21. ts 67.
BOTH the above birds have been before defcribed in the refpec-
tive places above referred to, as birds not only different in fpecies,
but of a different genus, Later obfervations however have proved I to
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to us that they are one and the fame bird, differing only in fex, and that in general both have the hind toe not furnifhed with a claw. That it is fo in So#nera?’s bird, both the figure and defcription teftify ; and it feems fufficiently clear alfo, that Dr. Badenach meant the fame in his defcription of the bird in the Philofopkical Tranfaétions *, al- though his draughtfman has figured it with a back claw; but it cannot be denied, that now and then an individual may have a claw: for in the one defcribed by us from the Leverian Mufeum, it was the cafe, and the. legs fafhioned fo exactly like thofe of a Pigeow, added to the attitude of the bird being different from the ufual one of any of the genus, as to induce us to call it a Pigeow. In a collection of living birds at Exeter Exchange, fome few years fince, was one of thofe alive, which had every gait and appearance of a Partridge or Quail: but to put the matter beyond all doubt, we have had the point cleared up by the examination of three fpecimens of the male fent to England in fpirits from. Sumetra;all of which wanted the back claw: and as an additional proof, Sir: Fo/eph\ Banks fome time fince produced to me two fpecimens of thefe birds fent to him as male and female; hence- forth therefore, the! ornitholosift will do right in confidering the Lefér sroconed ‘Pigeon and Green Partridge as see de in fex only.
Perdix cinerea, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 645..9.—Gerin. Orn. iil. t. 249. 250. 251. —
Sepp. Vog. ii. p. 185, tab. 96. 97- T is generally fuppofed that the female Paréridge differs from the male in wanting the horfe-fhoe mark on the breaft. We have however been informed, that ‘this is by no means the cafe, from the obfervations. of our friends. The male certainly obtains the horfe- fhoe on the breaft before the female; but in the female, after the
* Pedes tridaétyli, fifi, incarnati, fubnodofi; digitus pofticus reliquis craffior, bre- wior, truncatufque, vol. Ixil, p. 2. tab. 1. firft
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6. COMMON QUAIL.
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firft year, fome marks of it begin to appear, gradually increafing, till it is nearly as confpicuous as in the male; hence it is no un- common thing to hear fportfmen affirm their having killed or taken {everal male birds together, led no doubt to this fuppofition from ex- ternal appearance only. I have been informed by Colonel Montagu, that having killed nine old birds at the end of September, which ap- peared all to be males, he had the curiofity to open them, when four of them proved to be females: and this gentlernan farther ob- ferved to me, that the fexes were without much difficulty diftin- guifhed by their head, that of the Female being paler, particularly about the bill and ears, and that the major part of fuch birds as have the horfe-fhoe mark on the breaft lefs bright, are more likely to turn out females.
Perdix coturnix, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 651. 28.—Gerin. Orn. iii. pl. 243. 244. Common Quail, Gen. Syz. iv. p. 779.—Jd. Supp. p. 222.
E are told that no country has more quails than the Crimea* 5 thefe birds during the fine weather are difperfed, but affemble
at the approach of autumn, to crofs the Black Sea, over to the fouthern coafts, whence they afterwards tranfport themfelves into a hotter climate; the order of this emigration is invariable: towards the end of Auguft, the quails in a body chufe one of thofe ferene days, when the wind blowing from the north at fun-fet, promifes them a fine night; they then repair to the ftrand, take their departure at fix or feven in the evening, and have finifhed a journey of fifty leagues by break -of day. Nets are fpread on the oppofite fhore, and the bird-catchers waiting for their arrival, take tithe of the emigrants,
_ 2 Memoirs of the Baron ae Torte being
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being an efteemed food*. We are told by Sir William Hamiltox +, that great quantities of thefe birds occafionally vifit the ifland of Sv. Stefano, which has only Hawks and a kind of large Gull for its general inhabitants; but that in the month of May, great flights of Quails arrive there from rica, fpent with faticue, and many of them fall an eafy prey to the Hawks and Gulls, Quails precifely the fame with ours, are alfo faid to be met with both at Rodden Ile and the Cape of Good Hope.
It is not uncommon to find twelve eggs or even more in one nett ; but I have known two inftances, in both of which the number of eggs was twenty. In another place, the bringing Quails to London from France, for the ufe of the table, is mentioned; the time of their being fent over is fometime in May; and a late friend of mine § had once an intent of purchafing a quantity of them to turn out on his eftate, in hopes of their breeding, till he was affured that the whole of thofe exported from France were males, which are taken by imitating the cry of the hen.
Californian Quail, Nat. Mf. 9. pl. 345. Crefted Partridge of New California, La Perou/z, Voy. i. p. 201 ?
HIS is rather larger than our Common Quail: the bill is lead coloured: the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts
of the body, wings, and tail, is pale cinereous brown; this colour ,
comes forward on the breaft on each fide in a broad band, where it inclines to blueifh afh colour; the back part of the’ neck fpeckled
* Not fo in the time of Pliay, as they were then condemned as unwholefome. See Pliny, Nat. Hift, lib. 18. cap. 23.
4+ Phil. Tranf. vol. 76. p. 372.
{ Levaill. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) i. p. 62.
§ Mr. Tunftal.
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Description.
PLACE.
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Description,
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with dull cream colour: from the crown {prings a tuft, compofed of fix long dufky feathers, which are capable of being carried ereét :.-the forehead is dull ferruginous ; behind this, about the eyes, the chin, and throat, dufky black; behind the eye is a dirty cream coloured ftreak, and a crefcent of the fame bounds the black of the throat all round the lower part: the belly from the breaft is dirty ferruginous yellow, marked with flender crefcents of black: over the thighs, beneath the wings, fome long dufky feathers, marked with a yellow ftreak down. the middle of each: the tail is rather long, and fomewhat cuneiform in fhape: the legs fhort, and of a lead colour.
The female differs chiefly in wanting black on the head, and having the colours in general lefs diftinct.
Inhabits California, whence it was brought by Mr. Menzies. The fpecimen is in the Briti Mufeun. ,
Perdix Kakerlik, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 655. 42.— Falk. It. iii. p. 390. SIZE of a Powter Pigeon: the bill, eyelids, and legs in this bird are crimfon: the breaft cinereous, and the back undulated with white and cinereous, Inhabits Bucharia, Chiwa, and Songoria; and is a gregarious fpecies.
Perdix cambaienfis, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 655. 44.
ENGTH fix inches: bill fhort, ftout, and pale: the body wholly of a yellowith rufous colour above, but paler beneath; each feather clouded with a deeper colour: the legs yellow; the hind toe without a claw. Inhabits Judia; found in the kingdom of Guzurat. A fpecimen of this is in the Lriti/h Mufeuia.
P SAR 1 Rh DRG:
ENGTH feven inches and a half: bill blue black: general co-
lour of the plumage mottled chefnut, marked with zigzags of black, and dots of the fame, with a line of white down each fhaft, as in the Quai]: the under parts of the body buff, with black zigzags as above: the chin pale and plain; down the middle of the crown a ftreak : legs brown.
Inhabits New Holland.
Perdix Cafpia, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 655. 43. Tetrao Cafpius, Gmel. Lin. p. 762.—Gmel. reife, iv. §.67.t. 10. IZE of a Common Goofe: bill olive -brown :, noltrils, eyelids, and orbits, bare and yellow; eyes black: legs yellow, not feathered, nor furnifhed with fpurs: general colour, of; the plumage cinereous grey, fpotted with brown: ends of the quills, and part of the tail white. rt {nhabits Ghilan, in Perfia.
* * WiTH THREE TOES ONLY.
TZE of our Qyuail, or at leaft between that and the Partridge: the bill is horn colour: plumage on the upper parts of the body fomewhat like our Partridge, marked with large triangular fpots of black, which arifes from the middle of each feather being of that colour: the forehead, and. round the eyes, {potted with fmall dots of white: fore parts of the neck and breaft pale afh colour: on the ears a blueifh fpot; from thence on each fide of the neck, pale dufky red or ferruginous: belly, thighs, and vent, dull white: quills black: the legs pale yellow, furnifhed with only three toes, all placed forwards: Inhabits New South Wales; met with in Fuly: faid to have the habits of our European Quail.
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PLAceE.
II. CASPIAN iE
DESCRIPTION.
Place. 12. NEW HOLLAND
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DiscripTion.
Place.
2, ARABIAN B.
Dracrirrion.
BUS TFT AOR DD
Genus LIX. BUS TARD.
N° x. Chili B. N° 2. Arabian B.
Otis Chilenfis, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 658. 2.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 241.
HIS fpecies is larger than the Great Buftard of Europe: the bilt
and lees fimilar to the fame parts in that bird: the colour of the plumage is for the moft part white; but the crown of the head and the forward part of the wings are grey ; and the quills black: the tail confifts of eighteen white feathers, and is rather fhort: the legs are farnifhed with three toes placed forwards, befides which is a fourth, fituated a little way up behind.
It inhabits the plains of Chi, in South America, called there Piu- quen; moftly met with in flocks, and feeds on herbage. It does noz begin to pair before it is two years old: the female lays fix white eggs, about as big as thofe of a Goofe: is found to be eafily made tame, for many perfons of the country have domefticated it, in man- ner of other poultry. As we have not feen this bird, nor even a figure of it, we are conftrained to follow the name given by Molina, who ranks it with the Buffard; but from the circumftance of the back toe, we are not clear that hereafter, on our further inveftigation, it may with more propriety occupy fome other fituation, )
Otis Arabs, Fad. Oru. it. p. 659. 4 —Gerin. Orn. iii. t. 266. Wilde Pauw, Wild Peacock, Barrow. Trav: p. 139. Arabian Buftard, Gen. Syz. iv..p. 801. 3.—Id. Sup. p. 226.. HIS bird is faid to meafure fometimes as far as three feet and a half in Jength, and to expand from the tip of one wing to the other as much as feven feet, and that it is nearly as large as the Buftard':
Ba Des 4 T GARR D,
Buftard: the feathers of the neck are long, very thick, and loofe, like thofe of a domeftic fowl, of a bright chefnut colour on the upper part, and an afh coloured blue under the throat and on the breaft: the feathers of the back undulated with black and brown lines: the belly white: tail feathers from fixteen to twenty in number, marked acrofs with alternate bars of black and white.
It is generally met with in the neighbourhood of farm houfes of the internal parts of the Cape of Good Hope, and Mr. Barrow thinks might be eafily domefticated ; the flefh exceeding good, with an high flavour of game.
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Didus ineptus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 662. t.
Cygnus cucullatus, Dodo, Grew. Mu/. p. 60. Jaf? Paragr.—Nat. oe vol. iv. pl. 143. the leg.—Id. vol. v. pl. 166. the head.
Dodar from the Ifland of Mauritius, Muf Tradc/. p. 4.
Hooded Dodo, Gen. Syz. v. p. 1. pl. 70.
O fewer than three fpecies of this genus have been enumerated
by authors, but all of them do not reft upon the fame authority
as the Hooded one, of which feveral have been formerly met with in the ifland of Mauritius, from undoubted teftimony of authors*. Ed- wards’s figure of it, which is confefledly the beft, was copied from a picture drawn from the living bird brought from S¢. Maurice’s Iland. Dr. Grew, who enumerates the leg of one of thefe among other trea- fures of the Briti/b Mu/feum, fufficiently defcribes this part, but it is to Dr. Shaw that we owe a figure of it, being the very one mentioned by Grew; and befides, has alfo favoured the world with the head of the bird in queftion, which, with a leg of the fame, now exifts in the Afomolean Mufeum at Oxford; but if we miftake not, a fpecimen of the whole bird muft have been in the mufeum of John Tradefcant, as fuch an one is recorded under the name of Dodar, as compofing part of that curious man’s collection at South Lambeth +. In a late hiftory of
* Compare notes on thefe birds in Journ. de Phyfigue, t. xii. p. 154 & feq. + The Mifeum Tradejcantianum was publifhed in 1656. As to the ifland of Maz- ritius, Where thefe birds are faid to be found, it went by the name of Cerne or Swan 9 ifland,
ae BO: “DEAe, 287 of the [and of Mauritius *, we are told that “ it is no longer found “© in the De of France, Bourbon, Rodriguez, or Sechelles, and mutt * now be placed among thofe {pecies which have exifted, but have “ been deftroyed by the facility with which they were taken. No *¢ hope can now be entertained of finding them, but on the fhores of * uninhabited iflands.”
ifland, before the Dutch took poffeflion of it in 1598, as the failors found thereon a great number of white fowls without tails, which on that account they took to be Savans. Surely thefe birds could mean no other than our Dedo; and if they are now extinct it is no wonder, fince their extreme difficulty of moving from place to place muft have rendered them an eafy prey to any one who might chufe to knock them at head.
« Heft. of Mauritivs, by Charles Grant, Pict. de Vaux, ato. 1801.
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Ons) Ree)! Gaara
Genius! MEX Orsi a Talk C-H.
Struthio Camelus, Zxd. Orn. ii. p. 663. 1. Black Oftrich, Gen. Syx. v..p, 6.
DE. Sparrman* is of opinion that the male and female Oftrich fit upon and hatch the eggs by turns; for in one of his journies, he frightened a male from a neft, which he fond made only onthe bare fand, on which the eggs lay fcattered and loofe; thefe were eleven in number, from another fourteen were brought to him, and feveral left behind, from whence he concludes, that from fixteen to twenty may be the ufual quantity. Thefe circumftances happened in December. Thunberg + affirms, that a male Offrich makes a neft with three or four fernales, which together lay twenty or thirty eggs, on which they fit by turns, in a hole made with their feet in the fand, and that if any one take away the eggs, never lay again in the fame place; and if the eggs are difturbed only, they break them to pieces with their feet. Thefe birds are very deftructive to the farmers, doing much damage to the carn, as they come in flocks to eat the ears of the wheat, fo that nothing but the bare fkin itfelf is left behind. The ficth is far from good, yet the Hotzentots eat it; but the eggs are re- lifhed both by the colonifts and others, though not efteemed fo good as hens eggs. Dr. Sparrman obferves, that the fhell weighs eleven ounces, is fix inches and a half deep, and holds five pints and a quarter, liquid meafure; the weight of the frefh egg does not greatly exceed this.
* Vy, ii. p. 120, & feq. 4 Trav. Vo ii. pps 10. 53. 142. Thefe
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Thefe eggs may be feen fufpended under the vaulted roofs not only of the Mabometan mofques, but alfo of the Greek and Cophtic churches, and could not fail of being efteemed a beautiful ornament every where, if the difficulty of procuring them was greater.
Mr. Barrow thinks, that among the very few polygamous birds that are found in a ftate of nature, the Ofrich is one: a male is ge- nerally feen with two or three, and frequently as many as five of the females, which lay their eggs in one neft, to the number of ten or twelve each, which they hatch all together, the male taking his turn of fitting on them; between fixty and feventy eggs having been found in one neft; the time of incubation fix weeks: for want of knowing the Offrich to be polygamous, an error refpecting this bird has flipt into the Sy/tema Nature, where it is faid, that one female lays fifty eges*. The circumftance alfo of fmall oval fubftances, the fize of peas, of a pale yellow colour, and very hard, being found in thefe, is mentioned by Mr. Barrow: in one egg he found nine, and in another
twelve of fuch ftones +.
® Barrows Trav. in South Africa, P. 94» $ Id. ib.
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Genus LAT © CAS "S2O WARS
Struthio Nove Hollandie, Jnd. Orn. ii. p. 665. 2. Southern Caffowary, Nat, Mi/c. vol. iii, pl. 99. New Holland Caffowary, Phill. Voy. pl. inp. 271.—White’s Fournal, pl. Pp. 129. HIS is a large bird, meafuring more than feven feet in length: the bill is black: the plumage for the moft part brown and grey mixed ; paler on the under parts: the head differs greatly from that of the Common Caffowary, being covered with feathers; nor has it any helmet or rifing protuberance whatever, as in that -f{pecies: the fea~ thers however about the head and neck are of a/hairy texture, and rhe fore part of the chin and throat nearly deftitute of any, fo as the purple colour of the fkin may be feen through them: the long {pines obfervable in the wings of the common fort are here wanting, but in- ftead of them are real wings, though of fo fmall a fize as to be ufelefs for flight; they are covered with feathers like the reft of the body, and when the bird is quite at reft, are fcarcely difcernible therefrom : the legs are dufky and ftout, in colour not unlike thofe in the other fpecies, but are greatly indented or ferrated at the back part; the three toes placed in the fame manner, all forwards: fo far the ex- ternal appearance of the bird; internally it is faid to differ from every other fpecies, particularly in having no gizzard, and the liver fo {mall as not to exceed that of a Blackbird, yet the gall-bladder was large and diftended with bile: the crop contained at leaft fix or feven 6 pounds
CASSOWAR Y.
pounds of grafs, flowers, and a few berries and feeds: the inteftinal canal fix yards long: the heart and lungs feparated by a diaphragm, and bore a tolerable proportion to the fize of the bird.
Inhabits New Holland, where it is not uncommon, being fre- quently feen by~our fettlers there; but is exceedingly thy, and runs fo fwiftly, that a greyhound can fcarcely overtake it. The flefh faid to be very good, tafting not unlike young tender beef. A fine fpecimen of this bird is in the collection of the late Mr. Jobe Hunter.
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AMERICAN RHEA.
DescriPT10Ne
R HSE A.
Genus LXIll RHEA.
ILL itrait, deprefled, fomewhat rounded at the tip. Wines ufelefs for flight. Lower part of the THIGHs bare of feathers. Lecs furnifhed with three toes forward, and a knob behind inftead of a back toe.
Rhea Americana, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 665. 16
Le Chenque, Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 2416
Nhanduguacu, Wil). Orn. 150. § II.
American Oftrich, Encycl. Brit. xvi. p. 205. pl. 437.-—-Nat. Mi/e. pl. 72.—=Gen, Syn. V. p. 23 *e
HIS bird, notwithftanding it is fufficiently common in the
fouthern parts of America, has fo far efcaped the refearches even of later naturalifts, as to render it at beft but an obfcure fpecies. The defcription in Willughby is not amifs, but although Faulkner, Wallis, and other voyagers faw them in the greateft plenty in Patagonia, it fo happened, that a full grown fpecimen has never to our knowledge been brought to England. The author who has moft noticed it is Molina, who, in his hiftory of Chili, defcribes it nearly thus: it is rather lefs than the common Ofrich; when ftanding, the head is elevated from the ground about the height of a man: the neck 1s two feet eight inches long: the head fmall, rounded, and covered with feathers: eyes black; eyelids fupplied with eye-lafhes: the bill fhore and broad, not unlike that of a Duck: legs the length of the neck, furnifhed
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furnifhed with three toes placed forwards, and the rudiment of a fourth behind: tail compofed of fhort feathers of equal lengths, fpringing from the rump: the wings ftretch from tip to tip no lefs than eight feet; but, on account of the want of unity of the webs of the feathers, are ufelefs in flight, hanging over and hiding the tail: the general colour of the plumage on the back and wings is dull grey, otherwife white; but fome individuals are wholly white, and others black, which may be efteemed as varieties.
This bird is found in various parts of South America, but no where more plentifully than in the neighbourhood of lake Nabuelguapi, in the valley of the “des. Itis faid to live on fruits; is a voracious fpecies, and like the Ofrich, {wallows indifcriminately any thing of- fered to it; but its chofen food appears to be flies, which it catches with peculiar addrefs; it defends itfelf with the feet; whiftles like a man, when it calls its young: lays from forty to fixty eges on the bare fand, of fuch a fize as to contain about two pounds of liquid each. The feathers are made much ufe of by the Indians for every purpofe, where either ornament or fhade is required. We believe that no other fpecimen has yet been in England, befides that in the Leverian Mufeum, which appears to be about an half-grown bird, and from which the figure we give of it has been taken.
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Div. I. WATER BIRDS.
Orper VII. WITH CLOVEN FEET.
Genus LXVI. JABIRU.
N°. American J. N° 3.. Senegal J. 2. New Holland J..
Myé€teria Americana, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 670. 1-
American Jabiru, Gew. Syz. v. p. 22. pl. Ixxv. E beg leave here to expunge the Fabiru-guacu and Nbandbu- apoa of Ray and Willughby, as well as the Touyouyou of M. Bajon®. We have before had our doubts in refpeé to this matter, and further obfervations oblige us to reftore them to their place in a diftinét cenus, noticed above under the name of Rhea. The reft of the fynonyms quoted on this occafion may ftand, as alfo the figure given of it in the
Gen, Synopfis, pl. 75.
New Holland Jabiru, Linn. Tran/. v. p. 34. 2.
HiIS fpecies meafures, from the tip of the bil! to the end of the claws, full fix feet: the bill is a foot long; neck fifteen inches ; thighs ten inches: legs almoft the length of the bill: the upper man- dible of which is nearly ftrait, or but juft fenfibly curved upwards;
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the under rather more fo; the colour of both black: the chin is for a little way bare of feathers, and of a reddifh colour: irides yellow: the head is pretty full of feathers, and with about half the neck is black, with a tinge of green in fome lights, in others of purplifh: the middle of the wing coverts, and fecondary quills, as well as the middle of the back, are eat black ; and the tail alfo is of the fame coe Jour: the reft. of the plumage white: the whole of the leg and bare parts above the knee are of a fine red; the toes furnifhed at the end with pale coloured claws, fhaped not unlike thofe of the human {pecies.
Inhabits New Holland. The defcription and figure which we have given of the bird, is taken from a fpecimen in the Leverian Mu/feum, drawn for me by my friend and relation, Mr. Shaw, of Great Fames Street.. Among the drawings of Mr. Lambert, is a reprefentation of one apparently ‘the fame, in which the fkin beneath the lower man- dible and threat is of a fine crimfon, and faid to be capable of great
diftention: head and half the neck brownifh black, with a variable.
green and copper glofs; between the bill and eye, grey: the general colour of the plumage of the lower part of the neck, the body, and wings, is white, except on the fhoulders, which appear blackifh, with the fame bronzed hue as the head and half the neck : the tail is black.
l apprehend, that from the difference between the two birds, they are of oppofite fexes. Mr. Lambert informs me, that only two have yet been met with, but are now and then feen on the muddy banks of the harbour of Port Fack/on, fearching for fith, when the tide is out, on which, no doubt, they principally live.
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DsscrirTion,
Flacs.
JABIR U.
Senegal Jabiru, Lin. Tranf. v. p. 32. pl. 3. the bead.
HE length of this bird, from the bill to the end of the claws, is
fix feet two inches: bill itfelf thirteen inches; neck fifteen inches; body twelve inches; the naked part of the thighs eleven inches, the feathered part four inches; knee joint one inch; leg thirteen inches and a half; the middle toe is five inches and a half, the two outer ones four inches and a half, all flichtly conneéted at the bottom: the upper mandible is very pale for three inches from the gape; the under the fame, for about one inch and a half, then begins a bar of black for about three inches ; from thence to the tip the colour is reddifh, yncreafing in depth to the end, where it is of a deep vermilion: on each fide of the bafe of the upper mandible, is a large femioval and femitranfparent fpace, which, at its back part, is continued upwards in a curved direction acrofs the fore part of the eye: over the noftrils, a bare flattened part, fomewhat in the manner of the Coot, and other birds of that tribe: beneath the bafe of the bill, juft at the beginning of the feathery part, are two very {mall pear-fhaped pendant wattles, adhering by very fmall necks: the head and neck are black; fca- pulars black, with pale bottom, and fifteen inches in length; the remainder of the bird white: the wings and tail both wanting: the legs are very long, and the thighs, to a diftance nearly equal to that of the leg itfelf, quite bare: the whole leg and thigh black, excepe that round the knee, as well as round each joint of the toes, is a pale band or zone. The whole length of the leg and thigh is coated with hexagonal longitudinal {cales.
This appears to be quite a new fpecies, approaching fomewhat to the New Holland Fabiru, yet differing from it in feveral particulars. We are indebted for the defcription of it to the Linnean Tranfattions, in which it is fully defcribed by Dr. Shaw, from a fkin of one lent to him by the Rev. Mr. Rackert. Said to inhabit Senegal.
fe BE TROON:
Genus LXIX,. HERON.
N° 1. Demoifelle H. N° rr. Red-crefted H. 2. Crane. 12. Thula H. g- Indian Cr. 13- Blue-headed H. 4, Brown Cr. 14, Common H. 5. Caledonian H. 15. Variegated H. 6. Obfcure H. 16. Lacteous H. 7. Bittern. 17. Brown H. 8. Little B. 18. White-fronted H. g. Sguacco H. 19. Spottéd B. io. Black-breafted H. 20. Pacific H.
Ardea Virgo, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 673. 2. Ciconia Numidica, Geriz. Orn. iv. tab. 435? 436. Demoifelle Heron, Gen, Syz. v. p. 35.—Linn. Tranf. iv. p. 105. pl. x. f. 4. the wind pipe. HIS elegant fpecies has been fufficiently defcribed before, as far as relates to external appearance; but the fingularity of the windpipe is, we believe, not fo generally known; it does not, as in the generality of birds, go ftrait forwards into the lungs, but firft enters a cavity inthe keel of the breaft-bone, for about three inches, when it returns, after making a bend forwards, and then paffes into the cheft *.
© Sce Pitfel?s Mem. pl. p. 204.—-Phil. Tranf. vi. p. 210. pl. xt. f. 5 —Lis. Tranf. iv. p. 105. pl. x. f. 4.
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HOE RY ON:
Ardea Grus, Ind. Orm ii. p. 674. §.—Gerin. Orn, iv. t. 416.
The Crane, Gen, Syn. ve p. 40. 5:— Archaeol ii, p. 172.—Linn. Tranf. iv. p. 107, pl. xii. fi. 4.
HE {carcity of this bird’as a Briti/h {pecies, has been before no- ticed, for it is only now and then, at long intervals, in the prefent times, that it is at all met with in thefe realms. Hiftory however informs us, that they were formerly in great numbers, and ferved up by dozens at feafts. As far as relates to my/elf, have only been able to afcertain three which have been met with in this ifland; viz. one fhot near Cambridge; a fecond met with on the Kenti/b coaft, commu-
nicated by Mr. Boys; and a third, on the fhores of the Medway, men-
tioned to me by Sir William Bifbop, in January 1794. The ftructure of the windpipe in this bird is fingularly curious, fomewhat in the manner of the (Wild Swan, but is doubly reflected, as may be feen in the figure. above referred to in the Philo ofopbical Tranfattions, as alfo in thofe of the Linnean Society.
I am informed that the Grue du ‘fapon, which is efteemed as a va- riety, has fomewhat fingular in the ftructure of the trachea; which fome future obfervations may probably confirm. The crown of this bird feems to vary, for in the fine drawings of Lady Jmpey, both the crown and fore part of the neck are black, body and wings white; the incurvated feathers on the rump afh coloured, tipped with black.
In fome drawings in poffeffion of the late Mr. Pigow, the crown is red; and from thence called Chu-ting-nock, Chu-ting fignifying a red crown, and Nock, the name of the bird.
Ardea Antigone, Jud. Ora. ii. p.674. 4. Vare
Indian Crane, Gen. Syn. v. p. 38. 4.—39. 4. A- "THIS differs from the others, in having the bill and fore part of the crown yellowifh: lore, and fpace round the top of the neck,
bare, and crimfon: irides pale orange: chin and throat befer with
9 black
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black briftles: general colour of the plumage dull pale blue: quills and tail black: legs and bare part of the thighs black, dotted with white.
Inhabits New South Wales.
Ardea canadenfis, Ind. Orn. il. p. 675. 7-
Grus Freti Hudfonis, Ger. Orn. iv. t. 416.
Great Savannah Crane, Bart. Trav. p. 199. 218. 291. Brown Crane, Ger. Syn. Ve Pp. 43. 7+
"T HIS isa thy fpecies. Mr. Bartram relates the mode of hatch-
ing their eggs, of which the female lays only two at a time, which are very large, long, and pointed at one end, of a pale afh colour, powdered or fpeckled with brown: they form their nefts by choofing a tuffock, and there collect together a rude heap of dry grafs, or fuch like materials, nearly as high as their belly is from the ground, when ftanding upon their feet: on the top of this they form the neft, of fine foft dry grafs. When they cover their eggs to hatch them, they ftand over them, bearing their bodies and wings upon the eg@s; in this imitating the Flamingo, and perhaps many other long-leeged water birds. The male is frequently feen to traverfe backwards and forwards, as if upon the watch; but we are not informed whether he fits on the neft in turn or not; fome perfons will eat the flefh, but it is more efteemed when made into foup, and is then thought to be ex- cellent.
‘Ardea caledonica, Izd, Orn. ii. $79. 15. Caledonian Night Heron, Gez. Syx. v. p. 55.
HIS bird, with very little variation, is found in New Holland: the bill and legs are brown: general colour of the plumage a chef- nut brown, paler on the fore part of the neck: belly white: on the
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breaft, and each fide the back, towards the tail, below, the plumage is very downy, appearing of a filky texture.
This is ciearly very litle different from the Caledonian fpecies ;. and we have even doubts, whether this laft is net a mere variety of the common IVight Heron, which has been met with in almoft every part of the globe yet known, not excepting our own kingdom, as we have known the circumitance. to have happened three times at leafl in our rnemory.
Ardea obfcura, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 679. 16.—It. Pofeg. p. 24; t. il.
IZE and habit of the Bittern: the bill rather bent, and‘ of a
blackifh green: on the hind head a dependent creft of one feather: forehead, crown, and nape, dull chefnut: back and wing coverts the fame, with a gold green glofs: neck behind ferruginous chefnut; before, with the breait and belly, chefnut, fpotted longitudinally with white and ferruginous: quills duli chefnut, tipped with white: tail. chefnut: legs fhort, greenifh.
Inhabits Sc/avonia. In compliance with our wifh of defcribing every thing poffible, we have retained the above as a diftinét fpecies; yet'we will not be pofitive that it is really fo, efpecially as the Night Heron is fo fubject to vary in the different {tages of life; hence on fu- ture inveftigation, perhaps, the Common, Jamaica, Caledonian, with the laft defcribed, will be found to conftitute only one fpecies..
Ardea Stellaris, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 680. 18.—Ger. Ora, iv. t. 432: Bittern, Gen Syn. ve p. 56. 17-—A1d. Sup. p. 234. UCH has been faid concerning the fingular kind of noife this bird makes at certain times: which we believe to arife from a. loofe: membrane, which can be filled with air, and exploded at plea- fure.
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fure. Iam informed by a friend, that he has diffeéted feveral, and clearly obferved a loofe membrane at the divarication of the trachea, capable of great diftention, and it ts no doubt by this Singular con- ftruétien, that the bellowing kind of noife is made *; another of our correfpondents + mentions his having found, during the froft in winter, a female Bittern, which had in its ftomach feveral warty Lizards per- feét, and the rudiments of feveral Toads.or Frogs, which were pro- bably taken out of the mud,.under fhallow water, in the {wamp where it was fhot. The Lizards were not differing from thofe in our waters in fummer, having the fin on the tail,
Ardea minuta, 7nd. Ora. ii. p. 683.27. Little Bittern, Gen, Syx. v. p. 65.66.—Id. Sup. p. 235.
NE of thefe was fhot on the river Avon, near Bath, in the winter of 1789. ;
We already have recognized it asa fpecies belonging to many parts of Europe, though very rarely coming into England; and that it is found in Af, more particularly in Arabia. We likewife find it to be an inhabitant of New Holland, at leaft a trifling variety of it, differing merely in having five or fix longifh black fpots down the fore part of the neck. This is found in the marfhes and other moift
ground about Port Fack/on, in December. Its native name is Da- ralia. :
© Mr. Lamb.—Wiéillughby mentions the circumftance of the loofe membrane,
but feems not fufficiently aware of its being the caufe of the noife which this bird: makes.
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Ardea comata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 687. 39. ¥- Ardea comatz fimillima, Js, Pofeg. p. 24. Sguacco Heron, Gen. Syx. v. p. 74. 39. Var. B.
HIS has a white bill tipped with black: the head not crefted: forehead and hind part of the neck dufky teftaceous-white; the feathers margined with black: tail feathers white, the two middle ones pale teftaceous at the tips: the rump, belly, and thighs white. We fufpeét this to be a variety or fexual difference from the Sguacco Heron. One of the common fort was fhot at Boyton, in Wiltfbire, by Mr. Lambert, in 1775.
Ardea torquata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 688. 42:——Miller Illuftr, t. 36.
‘T HE colour of the plumage in this bird is brown on the back and upper parts: the hind head crefted, and black: neck and belly dirty white: breaft black, marked with yellowifh crefcents. Inhabits South America.
Ardea erythrocephala, Ind. Orn. il. p. 688. 43.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 214.
HIS is about the fize of the Common Heron: the general colour of the plumage white: from the head {prings a long crelt ofa red colour, which reaches quite to the back. Inhabits Chia.
Ardea Thula, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 688. 44.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. aie
7“ FIIS is wholly white, with a large creft of the fame colour. This inhabits Cbi/z, where it is known by the name of Tdu/a.
ane): Ra) IN.
Ardea cyanocephala, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 688. 45.—-Molin, Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 214,
HE bill in this bird is black: the head and back blue: wings black, edged with white: belly yellowifh green: tail green: legs yellow. This fpecies is found in Chi, with the three former ones.
Ardea cinerea, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 691. §4.—Ger. Orn. iv. t. 421? 427.428. Common Heron, Gen. Sym. v. p. 83.
HE circumftance of this fpecies building in focieties has been be-
fore noticed: thefe are for the moft part in tall trees, but like- wife in high cliffs over the fea. In this kingdom, we may mention a few of thefe Heronries, as they are called; viz. a confiderable one at Penfhurft Place, in Kent; at Hutton, the feat of Mr. Bethel, near Be- verley, Yorkfbire; in Gobay Park, on the road to Penrith, near a rocky pafs, called Yew-cragg, on the north fide of Ulle/water ; but we believe none more confiderable than that at Crefi Hall, fix miles from Spaldizg, in Lincolufbire. Inthe northern parts, where Eagles frequent, they are often frightened from their nefts, and ‘the Crows not unfrequently watch opportunities of ftealing the eggs. It is not only in England that the two long feathers of the creft of the male of this bird are va- lued, but every where throughout the Haff. Chardin mentions that the Perfians catch the Hero, and after depriving the bird of the long feathers, fuffer it to depart*; in another place + we are alfo told, that thefe feathers form a part of the Perfian crown or bonnet. It is mentioned by Thunberg tf, that this fpecies and the Blue Heron are both found in the Velooren Valley, inward from the Cape of Good Hope.
* Trav. p. 82.! + Coronat. of Solyman the Third, p. 49. ~ + Trav. 2. p. 143. '
393
BLUE-HLADED H
DeEscRIPTION.
PLacs.
304
15. VARIEGATED H
DiscRiPTION.
16. LACTEOUS H
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
17. BROWN H.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
18. WHITE- FRONTED H. DEscRIPTION.
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Ardea variegata, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 692. 56.—Scop. dan. Hif, Nat. i. p. 88. 120.
HIS is of a ferruginous colour, {potted with brown; beneath paler: throat white: forehead black: thighs rufous; legs brown. This was in the collection of Count Zurrian, and probably is a mere variety of the Great Heren.
Ardea Galatea, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 696. 68.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 214.
HE bill in this fpecies is four inches long, and yellow: the head is fomewhat crefted: the plumage in general as white as milk; the neck is two feet and a half in length: the legs fully as long, and of a beautiful crimfon colour. Inhabits Chil.
Ardea fufea, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 700. 83. Le Heron brun, Buf. Oz. 5. p. 381. Pl. Exl. 858.
"HIS is two feet anda half long: the bill brown: legs yellow:
the head furnifhed with a moderate creft hanging down behind, and of a dufky colour: the upper part of the neck, body, and wings, are dufky brown; beneath white, {potted on the breaft with longifh
~ ftreaks of brown.
Inhabits Cayenne.
Ardea Nove Hollandiz, Ind. Orz, ii. p. 701. 88. White-fronted Heron, PAz/]. Voy. pl. p. 163. HIS is about half the fize of the Common Heron, being twenty- eight inches in length: the bill is four inches long, and black ;
bafe of the under mandible yeowifh: lore and orbits naked, and of a greenifh
HOE Re @ O(N.
a greenifh colour: the body on the upper parts is blueith afh colour: crown of the head black, and the feathers elongated: the forehead, cheeks, chin, fore part of the neck, as far as the middle, white : quills and tail blueifh black: the feathers of the breaft are elongated, and hang down in a graceful manner ; thefe, with the belly and thighs, are of a rufous cinnamon colour: back covered with long flender feathers, which fall over the tail, and conceal about half its length: lees yellow brown.
Inhabits New Holland: the fpecimen above defcribed met with at Port Fack/fon.
"THIS me firft Geht appears not unlike the Little Bitteru: the bill
is dufky green; the under mandible yellow at the bafe: round. the eye bare, and of a greenifh afh colour; irides yellow: the general.
colour of the plumage is pale brown above, {potted on the back and wings with white: quills pale ferruginous, with paler ends:. under parts of the body dufky white: legs dufky green.
Inhabits New South Wales. Manners unknown..
THE fize of this fpecies is uncertain, though we believe it not to.
be a fmall one: the bill is of a moderate fize, and horn coloured ; the upper mandible fomewhat curved, the lower ftraight ; tongue the length of the bilt:~1rides pale red: the head and neck dull white, marked on the fore part of the latter with dufky fpots; behind the eye a dufky mark: back and wings dufky, with a green and copper elofs: breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, dufky white; the feathers mar- gined- with dufky, giving a leafy appearance. This inhabits the fea-fhores in various parts of New Holland, where it goes by the name of Bulla-ra-gang ; but is not a common fpecies.
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19. SPOTTED H. DEscRIPTION,
PLACE: 20. PACIFIC H
DEscrIPTION.
PLacg.
2 2 a
Y. COMMON Cc. VaR. DeEscrIprioNe
Zeunt CRYING Cc
DeEscrRIPTION.
Cin OR, SEE AW.
Genus LXXI. CURLE W.
N° 1. Common C. N° 2. Crying C. - Numenius arquata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 710.1. Var. es Common Curlew, Gen. Syn. vy. p. 119. 1.—Jd. Sup. p. 243. Var.
Bird of this kind has been brought from New Hollend; it feerns.
to differ chiefly in having the bill confiderably larger in propor- tion, and the ground colour of the plumage dull ferruginous, inftead of brown: bill black: irides yellow: legs dull blue.
Ephoufkyca, Crying Bird, Bartr. Trav. p. 145. 291.
SIZE of a large domettic Hen: bill five or fix inches long, and
arched downwards; fquare at the bottom; colour dufky green: the eye large, placed high in the head, and very prominent: the neck is long and flender: all the body above and beneath of a dark lead colour, every feather edged or tipped with white, which makes the bird appear fpeckled: tail very fhort, the middle feather the longeft, the others on each fide fhorten gradually, of the colour of the reft of the bird, only fomewhat darker; the two outermoft perfectly white, which the bird has a faculty of flirting out on either fide, as quick as a flafh of lightning, on being difturbed: the legs are long, and bare of feathers above the knee, and of a black or dark lead colour.
This
GMMR Wise | we
This fpecies, if it be really diftinét, inhabits the fwamps of the Maufguito River, and the lakes of Florida, as well as Georgia, and called by the Indians, Epboufkyca, which fignifies Crying Bird. Mr. Bartram calls this an Jbis*; but as he does not mention its being bare
on any part of the kead or throat, we may fafely rank it with the Cur- _ lew genus, for he feems himfelf undetermined where to place it im
the fyftem. .
= Fantalus Pi@us.-
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PLACE:
1. GREAT SN.
Description.
ShOUN as GPa eR
Genus LXXIL S NiI P<E.
Ne Great Sn yas N° 3. Courland Sn. 2. Godwit. Var. 4. New Holland Sn.
Scolopax paludofa, Ind. Ora. ti. p. 714. 3. — major, bid. 4.
— Gallina, Sepp. Vog. 3. t. 127-
— media, Ger. Orn. iv. p. 446.
— atra, zbid. 450?
Savanna Woodcock, Gez. Sym. v. p. 133. 3- Great Snipe, ibid. 4.
EIGHT eight ounces and a quarter: length from the bill to
the end of the tail twelve inches; to the end of the toes fixteen inches: bill two inches and three quarters *, black ; the under man- dible pale half way from the bafe: the top of the head brown, mottled with rufous; down the middle a clay coloured line; fides of the head pale clay colour, fpeckled with brown: through the eye, from the bill, a dark brown ftreak, and a paler one curving round the under mandible: hind part of the neck, half the back, and feapulars, cho- colate brown, the feathers ftreaked on the fides with clay colour, and barred with ferruginous; the lower part of the back brown, crofied with numerous greyifh white lines: tail coverts pale rufous clay co- lour, barred with black brown, and fo long as to cover the tail for two thirds of its length: the tail when fpread out is rounded at the end; the eight middle feathers are dufky for three fourths of the
¥ J have feen one in which the bill was fonr inches long, and another in which it was more than three inches,
_ Jength
SpoN.- TR Bee,
lensth from the bafe, the reft of the length rufous, croffed with two or three bars-of black ; but the four middle feathers are deep rufous, andthe two on each fide very pale; the two outermott feathers on each fide wholly white and black in alternate bars: the wing coverts black brown, {potted with rufous white; reft of the wing dufky black;
every feather but the greater quills tipped with white: beneath the -
wings beautifully croffed with white and dufky bars: the fore part of the neck is the fame as behind: the breaft, belly, and vent, croffed with numerous dufky bars, inclined to a zigzag fhape on the fides: legs pale blueifh brown, and bare above the knee for half an inch.
This is a rare fpecies, and has not been met with more than three times to my. knowledge, nor does it appear to be at all plentiful in this kingdom, a circumftance which will apologize for defcribing it fo fully, from a recent one now in my collection, fhot in Suffolk, Sep- tember 1792. I have feen this very fpecies more than once brought from South America, and have every reafon to fuppofe that the Savanna Woodcock and this bird form together but one fpecies.
Scolopax /Egocephala, Ind. Orn. ii. p, 719. 16. —
— Belgica, Gmel. Sin. p. 663. 39.
Rufticola, of Grutto, Sepp. og. pl. 28. ps 53.
La grande Barge rouffe, P/. Enl. 916.
Barbary Godwit, Shaw’s Trav. p. 255.—-Gen. Syz. v. p. 145-14. A.
pH! S bird is about fixteen inches in length: bill nearly four inches
long; dufky orange, with a black tip: head and neck as far as the breaft ferruginous: crown fpotted with dufky; from the noftrils through the eye, dufky white: belly, thighs, and vent, white; the breaft mottled with a few dufky fpots: back dufky brown, the mar- gins of the feathers ferruginous: the tail is even at the end, and the bafe of all but the two middle feathers are white, as are alfo the rail
coverts: legs long and black. The
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Description.
ac COURLAND SN.
DESCRIPTION.
Prace.
NE AW HOLLAND SN.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
Sign? perk.
The Godwit feems to vary much; in fome, the under coverts and fides have black markings, in others plain: the rump alfo is more or Jefs white, as alfo the bafe of the outer tail feathers, otherwife black :
great fimilarity appears to be between this and the Red Godwit; but
from the rarity of both in this kinedom, it is to be feared a clear dif- crimination between thefe will not foon be effected.
Scolopax curonica, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 724. 37.—Naturf. Geych. vil. p. 462.
HE very fhort defcription we are able to obtain of this fpecies, fays, that it is {potted with grey, with dufky wings and bill; the lower part of the under mandible crimfon from the bafe to the mid-
~ dle; and the legs brick coloured.
Inhabits Courland.
ILL ftrait, large at the bafe, the upper mandible dilating a little at the point, and twice the length of the head: colour of the plumage above brown, mottled Ge manee in the manner of a Wood- cock: fides of the head and the neck dufky white: back of the neck marked with brown ftreaks, and clouds of the fame: onthe fides next the wings, a few clouded crefcents: bill and legs pale yellow: irides blue. Inhabits New South Wales.
SAN D PPP ER
Genus LKXXIII. SANDPIPER.
N° 1. Green S. N° 6. Black-headed S. - 9. Equeftrian S. 7- Quebec S. 3. Selninger S. 8. Wattled S.
4. Fafciated S. 9. Browneeared S.
5. Sibirian S.
Tringa ochropus, Jnd, Orz. il. p. 729. 826
glareola, Ind. Orn. 730. 13.—Lin, Tranf. i. pr 128. pl, Xiwld, ii. BE SIE :
Green Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. p. 170. 12.<812. 8.
Wood Sandpiper, Gen. Syz. v. p. 172. 13.
HIS fpecies varies greatly at different periods of life; but from late obfervations, we are inclined to belive that the above-men- ‘tioned, with the feveral fynonyms referred to under their refpective heads, unite in forming only one fpecies. This fpecies inhabits America as well as Exrope, but is {maller, and meafures one inch and a half lefs in length; it differs fomewhat
in markings, but {carcely fufficient to make mention of. -One of thefe
was brought from Quebec by General Davies.
Tringa equeftris, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 730. 14. Calidris viperino coloris, Ger. Orz. iv. t. 468. Le Chevalier commun, Buf. Oi. vii. p. 511.—Pl. Enl. 844,
FiIS is twelve inches long: bill dufky: legs pale grey: the body above rufous grey, clouded with brown: fides of the head, fore part of the neck and breaft white, clcuded with paler brown; on the fides
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1. GREEN
PLACE,
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DescriPTion.
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FASCIATED
Die
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SIBIRIAN
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Puage.
SrAqNi D PU, PEER.
fides of the head are minute fpecks of the fame: chin, belly, thighs, vert, and rump, white: the two middle tail feathers rufous brown, with black bands; the others plain pale rufous brown.
Inhabits Evrope; fometimes on the fhores of England, but rarely *.
Tringa maritima, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 731. 18.—Brux. Orn. p. 54. 182.
Sea Sandpiper, Linn. Tranf. iv. p. 22. pl. 4.
Selninger Sandpiper, 4rd. Zool, ii. p. 481. E.—Gen. Syn. Ve Pp. 173+ 15
E have the authority of Mr. Markwick to rank this among the
Britifb fpecies. A flock of about ten or twelve being met with on the fea coaft near Bexbill, the 8th of December 17.96, of which two were fhot. I have likewife been informed, that feveral fpecimens have at times been killed on other coafts, in hard winters; and that they vary much at different periods of life; as the Stint, Dunlin, and others of this genus, which circumftance has we fear been the occafion of multiplying the number of fpecies unneceffarily : poflibly this and. the ftriated Sandpiper are one and the fame bird.
Tringa fafciata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 738.—F. G. Gmel.—It. ii. p. 194. t. 26.
Tn this bird, the bill, crown, hind head, a ftreak through the eyes, and the belly, are black: the forehead and the tail, which is
rounded in fhape, aré white.
Inhabits Affrachan.
Tringa Keptufchca, Jud. Ora. ii. p. 738.—Lepech. It. ii. p. 229.
AL HIS has an afh coloured body, a black crown, a dufky belly, growing rufous towards the bottom. Found in the marfhes of Sibiria.
* Five shot at Sawdwich this fpring, with pale orange legs. Mr. Bays.
S AGN D. Pi iP BUR:
Tringa atra, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 738,—Naturf. xiii. p. 193.
8 head and neck in this are black: back and wings pale brown, - mixed with black: breaft and belly cinereous: rump cinereous, undulated with white and black. Inhabits the banks. of the RAze.
IZE of the Song Thrufh ; length nine inches: bill nearly one inch and a half lone, and flender; the bafe reddifh, the reft of its lenoth black: general colour of the plumage dufky plumbeous afh colour: the feathers on the back margined with afh colour; of the wing coverts and breaft, with greyifh white: the three firft quills dufky, with white fhafts; three of the inner ones juft fringed with white at the tips; the two or three next white, marked with ath co-
lour on the outer web; then follow two or three almoft wholly whites.
the reft plain dufky: the four middle tail feathers dufky, the others pale afh, fringed at the edges and tips with white: between the bill and eye, and the chin, dufky white, mottled: fore part of the neck plain afh colour: belly white ; fides of it, clofe to the wings, marked with a few dufky fpots: the thighs are (contrary to the ufual nature of the genus) covered with feathers quite to the knees, and even be- low the joint: legs fhort, and of a pale yellow colour,
This was brought from Quebec, by General Davies.
HIS is at leaft nineteen inches in leneth: the bill pale: irides yellow: the crown and nape are black: fides of the head, and round the eye, furnifhed with a carunculated yellow membrane, hang- ine down on each fide, in a pointed wattle: the neck and all beneath Supp. II, Sf is
313 6. BLACK- HEADED Ss. Drscri?rion,
PLACE, 7. QUEBEC Se
DeEscRiPTIONs
Place, 8. WATTLED S
DzescripTion..
ot
PLACE>
Q- BROWN- EARED S. DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
S (AUN) D sPylePe BR
is white; but the. fides of the breaft next the wings are black: back and wings olive brown, with a tinge of ruft colour: the quills and end of the tail black ; but the very tip of the laft is fringed with white: the bare part of the legs above the knee, and a {mall fpace below it, is of a rofe colour ; the reft black, with rofe coloured fegments: at the bend of each wing a ftout yellow fpur, fomewhat bent.
Inhabits New South Wales; is fometimes met with in the flats going to Parramatta, but is not a common bird. It feems to be a {pecies- between the Louifiana and Senegal ere but -is clearly diftinét from either.
HE bill in this is as long as the head, and dufky: plumage above rufty afh colour, crofled with numerous whitifh lines on the back and wings: the feathers on the outer ridge of the wing all edged with white: over the eye a white ftreak ; all the under parts pale, a little mottled or ftreaked: on the ears a brown patch, which paffes through the eye, but lefs diftinét: quills and tail dufky: legs dufky white. _Inhabits New South Wales.
It may not be amifs again to remark the ereat uncertainty in re- fpeét to fome of the fpecies of Sandpiper, and in none more than the Ruff, of which we fufpect many fpecies to have been made during its advances to the adult, for the ma/e does not gain the Jone neck fea- thers the firft feafon, and afterwards only during breeding time: we have alfo had doubts whether our Egueftrian Sandpiper may not be a young bird of this fpecies: the fame alfo of the Selwinger and /triated fpecies ; and in refpect to the a/b-coloured Sandpiper, it is probable that on a longer acquaintance, it may prove merely the young of the Knot. Thefe are however hints only, thrown out for the fake of inciting others to a more ftriét inveftigation of the fubject.
PLOVER. sets 315
Genus LXXIV. PLOVER.
N° 1. Sanderling. N° 8. Great-billed Pl. 2. Alexandrine Pl. g- High-legged Pl, 3. Kentifh Pl. 10. Brown Pl. 4. Rufty-crowned Pl, 11. Grifled Pl. 5. Sibirian Pl. 12. Bridled Pl. 6. Curonian Pl. 13. Green-headed PI: 7. Courland PI.
Charadrius calidris, Znd. Orn. ii. p. 741. 4e Sanderling, Gen. Syz. v. p. 197. 4.——1d. Sup. p. 253. HIS fpecies is found in New South Wales, but not plentifully > the bill is rather fhorter than in the European fpeciess I have as yet only feen it in the adult drefs, but no doubt it is fubjeét to the fame variety in its progrefs to that ftate as ours is known to be. The Englifh call it at Port FJack/on, Sea or Shore Lark, from its being met with in that fituation; but it is known to the natives by the name of W adder gal. It is certain, however, that the Rimged Plover is found there likewile;. hence it is probable, that both thefe birds are known indifcriminately by the name of Sea Larks.
re SANDERLING..
Charadrius Alexandrinus, Znd. Orn. ii. p. 744. 9.—Ha/elg. Voy. (Engl. ed.) p. 190-. 2 —Brun. Orn. in App. p. 77-—Mull. N° 210,.—Faun. Aragon. p. 78. 16. ALEXANDRINE- Alexandrine Plover, Gez. Syz.v. p. 203. 9:
WE beg leave here to omit the fynonym of Brifon, whofe bird having the addition of a black ftreak through the eye, and a
collar of the fame, ought not to have place here. The defcription then: Sf 2 of
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DESCRIPTION.
KENTISH PE DESCRIPTION.
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Pee ONT Vier Bi, Re
of the Alexandrine Plover will ftand thus: fize about that of a Lark: bill black: head and back greyifh or pale brown: forehead -at the bafe of the bill white, which paffes over the eye in a line of the fame, and blends itfelf with a collar of white, pafling round the neck; the under parts of the body are every where white allo, and the brown colour comes forward on each fide of the breaft, but does not meet thereon: the quills are dufky grey, within whitifh, and leffen in length inwards, but the three inmoft are nearly as long as the outer ones, and of the fame colour with the back; from the fifth to the eighth quill, an oblong white fpot onthe outer margin; the fecon- daries tipped with white: four of the middle tail feathers are dufky black, the others fhorter; the two outer ones on each fide are white; the two next dufky white, with brown tips: jegs bluetfh brown: toes and claws black,
I was favoured with a drawing of what I conjecture may be a va- riety, by my late friend Mr. Pennant: in this, the head was pale brown, but the forehead not white, nor was there any ftreak of white over the eye; all the under parts from the chin white, paffing round the neck in a collar: the back, wings, and tail, as in the former: bill and legs _ black *,
Vy ie Ai
Kentifh Plover, Lewin. Br. Birds, pl. 185.
IZE of the Ringed Plover: length fix inches and a half; breadth fifteen inches ; weight an ounce and a half: the bill is black: top of the head ferruginous brown, bounded on the fore part with black ; but the forehead is white, and paffes over the eye, and a little beyond it: from the bill, through the eye, a black ftreak, broadening behind
4 We fhould think that whatever further variety may be of this bird, it is not likely, to be with a black ftreak through the eye, or a black breaft; fuch more probably be-
long to the Egypizan Plover.—=Gen. Sy. Vs Pe 205.9. A, the
Peis) OFF Va ee
the eye, and reaching over the ear; all beneath, from the chin to the vent, white, pafling round the neck asa collar: on each fide of the breaft, next to the fhoulder of the wing, is a black patch: back and wings pale brown: quills dufky; the fhaft of the outer one, the whole of the leneth, andthe middle of the next white: the greater coverts for the moft part tipped with white: tail rounded in fhape, not unlike the quills; the three outer feathers whice, except a dufky fpot on the inner web of the outmoft but two; the others have the bafes very pale half way, but the two middle ones are of one colour: legs blueifh black.
I received the above from Mr. Boys, of Neidio: 23d May 1787, being fhot in that neighbourhood; and in the month of April 1791; two others: the weight of thefe was about twenty grains more than the former: the bill and legs were black: in one of them the whole nape was of a fine pale reddifh bay, the other pale brown, inclining to bay towards the nape: the three outer tail feathers white, but the inner of thefe inclining to dufky on the inner web; the next very pale brown, or brownifh white, with a dufky tip; the four middle ones brown, with the ends dufky, approaching to black: in other things they were like the firft defcribed; but in one of them, the black patch at the bend of the wing was much larger, and approached on each fide towards the breaft. We do not find the above defcribed or figured except in Briti/h Birds; to the author of which I firft com- municated it. That it does not at all belong to the Rizged Plover, in any ftage, the colour of the bill and legs will teftify; for in the laft, both of them incline more or lefs to yellow or orange, even whilft very young, and in the adult are ever of a fine orange.
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DESCRIPTION.
PLACE
ee SIBIRIAN PL. DESCRIPTION.
Place.
6. CURONIAN Pie DESCRIPTION.
Been: On Va ES Re
Charadrius Falklandicus, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 747. 18. Rufty-crowned Plover, Portlock’s Voy. pl. in p. 36. Male and Fone
IZE of the Ringed Plover : \ength feven inches and a half: Bill three inches and a quarter, black: forehead, chin, all the fore part of
the neck, the breaft, and. belly ee acrofs the top of the head a. bar of black, paffing downwards on each fide of the neck, in an irre- gular manner, to the wings, and frqm thence forwards to the breaft, forming a broad bar thereon: behind the black bar, on the top of the head, isa ftripe of ferruginous, encircling all the back part of the head as a wreath: the crown of the head within this, all the upper parts of the body and wings are cinereous brown; but the greater quills and tail are black: legs black.
The female is much the fame in colour with the male, but differs in wanting the ferruginous wreath at the back part of the head.
Inhabits Falkland Ifles, in the Pacific Ocean.
Charadrius Sibiricus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 747. 19.—=Lepech. It. ii. t. 6.
HE forehead in this bird is variegated with black and white; the crown fafciated with dufky: breaft brown, bounded by a white band: belly ferruginous, Inhabits Szbcria.
Charadrius curonicus, Ind, Oru. ii. p. 750: 31 eee d. Berl. Naturf. Gefch Vil. p. 463. 48. (Be/eke.)
HE bill in this is dufky : the head, breaft, belly, and vent are white: the forehead is white; in the middle of which is a black crefcent: on the crown grey: from the bill, through the eyes, and beyond them, paffes an undulated dufky ftripe: on the breaft a black band: back, wings, and tail grey, with pale dull markings: the three firtt
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firft quills are dufky, and the outer one has the fhaft white: the upper
tail feathers black at the ends: the bill is black: irides yellow: legs reddifh.
> -Inhabits Courland: feeds on fifh.
Charadrius nevius, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 750. 32.—-Schr. d. Berl. Naturf. Goch. vil. p. 464. 49. ‘T HE bill and legs in this bird are dufky: the whole of the under part of the body white; the upper part of the body is grey, marked with black and white fpots: beneath the eyes, over the ears, paffes a dotted black ftripe: the three outer wing feathers are black. Inhabits Courland,
IZE of the Golden Plover: bill black, ftout, and very broad, re- fembling the Tody genus: the general colour of the upper parts is blue grey, ftreaked with black; beneath pale afh, but with the fame . markings: forehead, part of the crown, and ears, minutely fpotted: quills black: bafe of feveral of the primaries white : legs dull blue. Inhabits New South Wales.
THIS has a nearly ftrait black bill : the crown, back, and wings, blue
grey, marked with black ftreaks, largeft on the back and crown: irides yellow: beneath the eyes, cn the ears, a large patch of brown: the under parts are dufky white, ftreaked on the neck and breaft with pale brown: inner ridge of the wing ferruginous: quills black. It ftands very high upon its legs, not much lefs fo than the Long-legged Plover ; the colour of them pale blue,
inhabits New South Wales,
319 Prack.
7. COURLAND PL.
DEscRIPTION.
Description,
PLACE, E 9. HIGH-LEGGED Pibe
DuscriPTion.
PLACE,
DESCRIPTION»
PLACE.
12. BRIDLED Phe DeEscRIPTION.
DgscripTion,
Pas OF ANE STE AR,
HIS fpecies has the habit of our Golden Plover: bill black:
irides yellow : legs lead colour : plumage above a mottled brown; beneath brownifh white, a little mottled: tail black, dotted with white: legs lead colour. ;
Inhabits New South Wales.
ABOVE pale brown; beneath white: crown {potted with black ; the wings with white: quills black: tail dufky: bill dufky: lees blueifh: irides hazel. Inhabits New South Wales.
HE bill in this bird is blueifh: the plumage on the upper parts of the body and tail pale cinereous blue, dafhed with fmall brown ftreaks: fides of the neck marked with a broad dufky ftreak, taking rife beneath the eye, and defcending to the beginning of the back: the under parts of the body are pale, marked with narrow dufky lines. on the breaft; belly white: quills dufky; legs yellow. Inhabits New South Wales.
A new fpecies of Plover, Sounini’s Trav, ii. p. 209.
ENGTH eight inches: head deep green, with a changeable luftre ; a fort of white diadem furrounds the head, paffing through
the eyes: back and leffer wing coverts of a pretty bright afh colour: greater wing coverts white: quills white, tipped with black, having each a black fpot about the middle, forming a black {tripe acrofs the middle of the wing: throat white: under part of the neck and body ei? white,
iy Piwet ©) ~Wios,. Re
white, with a reddifh tinge: on the upper part of the breaft a narrow band of deep fhining green paffing half round : tail feathers fhort, and of unequal lengths, of the fame grey colour as the upper part of the body for two-thirds of the length, where it is croffed by a broad black band; the remainder white: eyes brown: legs and feet blueifh : bill and claws black.
Such is the defcription of MZ. Sonnini, who thinks it comes near to our Black-beaded Plover *; and indeed the defcription feems fome- what to juftify the fentiment; but on comparifon, they appear to differ in many particulars. He faw feveral in various parts of Egypt, ‘moftly in pairs, feldom in troops, and then not exceeding feven or eight: feed on aquatic infects.; never alight on the mud, but frequent the fandy parts only. Whenthey take wing, they utter a litcle fharp cry, repeated feveral times : are obferved to run rather than fly, feldom quitting the ground: are by no means fhy, fuffering themfelves to be eafily approached.
® See Pluvian, P/, Exlum. 918.
Surp. I I. Tt
Ga
I. TROGLODYTE R,
DuascriPTion.
PLacE,
2. DOUBTFUL R
DrscripTion.
PULAcE,
R Aa
Genus LXXVIII. RATIL.
N° 1. Troglodyte R. N° 3. Dwarf R. 2. Doubtful R.
Rallus auftralis, Izd. Orz. ii. p. 756. 3. Troglodyte Rail, Ger. Syz.v. p. 229. 3.—=Id. Sup. p. 255.
I Find this bird to be a native of New Holland as well as New Zea- - land, but not very common; and varies in fome particulars; it is fmaller, and wants the white ftreak over the eye, in the fame manner as feen in Mu/: Carif.i. pl. 14. I remark in a fpecimen feen by me, that the fpur of the wing feems large and formidable, In another va- riety, I obferve the bill to be two inches long, more bent at the tip: noftrils in a deep furrow of the bill : total length fourteen inches : the general colour of the plumage much the fame as in the others on the upper parts: fides of the head, and ftreak over the eye, pale afh co- lour: all beneath deeper afh colour: thighs feathered to the knees. This was brought from Lord Howe's I/land.
Rallus dubius, Ind. Ora, ii. p. 760. 19.— Jt. Pofeg. p. 26.
EARLY the fize of the Common Gallinule: bill and legs dufky green: the face pale ferruginous: chin dufky white; round the neck a broad collar of white: the general colour of the plumage barred with brown and ferruginous: the belly white; fides brown, banded with ferruginous afh colour; the firft quills on the outer edge white. Inhabits Pofegania.
RAS TIL.
Rallus pufillus, Jud, Orn. it. p. 761. 24.—Pall. reife, iil. p. 700. 30.17. Pofeg. p- 26.
HIS is fomewhat fimilar to the Water Rail, but not bigger than a Lark, and fomewhat the colour of it: the face, fore part of the neck, and down the middle of the breaft, blue grey: chin white: through the eyes a pale ferruginous ftreak : the upper parts are black and ferruginous mixed, marked on the back with longitudinal lines of white: belly and vent black, croffed with narrow white bands: legs green. Inhabits the falt Jakes and reedy places in Dauuria; and is obferved often to flirt up the tail between the wings, and carry it in that mans ner.
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DWARF R.
DescriFrion.
PLact.
Yo CHINESE JAC.
DEscRIPTION.
2 CHILI JAC. DescripTion.
Je ANCLAt N® A.
Genus LXXIX. JACANA.
/ N° 1. Chinefe Jac. N° 2. Chili Jac.
Parra chinenfis, Izd. Orn. ii. p. 764. 7- Chinefe Jacana, Gen. Syz. v. p. 246. 8.—Id. Sup. p. 256. t. 117.
Species which feems very little different from the Chine/e one, was
met with on the ifland of fava*. The utility of the great lenoth of toes feemed manifeft, for thefe birds were thereby enabled to walk over the leaves of the Great Water Lilly + with wonderful agility, thus keeping themfelves at the furface of the water.
Parra chilenfis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 765. 11.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 239.
IZE of a Magpie, but ftands higher on its legs: the bill is conic, fomewhat bent at the tip, and two inches long: irides yellow : on the forehead a bilobated red caruncle; back purt of the head fomewhat crefted: the neck, back, and wings, on the fore part are violet: neck before, to the middle of the breaft, black: belly white : the tail fhort and brown; quills the fame colour: at the bend of the wing a yellow ccnical fpine, half an inch in length: legs black; above the knees naked, as ufual in the genus: the toes fhorter than in moft of the genus. »
® D’Entrecaffeaux Voy. ii. p. 332:
+ Nymphea nelumba. Inhabits.
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CEREOPSIS.
Genus LXXIX*. CEREOPSIS.
TLL fhort, convex, bent at the tip. Nostrits at the bafe, under the cere. Heap wholly covered, beyond the ears, with a rough fkin or cere. At the bend of the wing a blunt knob. Tat fhort, confifting of fixteen feathers. Lzcs fitout, bare much above the knee: toes cloven: the outer one conneéted to the middle at the bafe: back toe fmall.
IZE ofa fmall goofe; length thirty-nine inches: neck long: bare part of the thigh one inch and three quarters; leg feven inches and a half; middle toe three inches and three quarters: the bill is black, three quarters of an inch in length; but from the tip to the gape an inch and a quarter; the under mandible fhutting clofe under the upper; from the bafe of the bill begins a bare rough fkin of a yellow colour, covering the whole of the head beyond the ears: the plumage is pale afh grey, but the neck and under parts are paler, the upper inclining to brown; fome of the wing coverts and axillaries have a dufky blackith fpot near the ends, and the quills are dufky towards the tips: tail the fame, confifting of fixteen feathers, and rounded in fhape : at the bend of the wing a blunt knob: the fecond quills nearly as long as the prime ones: the legs are orange colour, but the fore part above the bend, the toes, and claws, are black; toes four in number, the three forward ones ftout and cloven, but the exterior is connected to the middle one by a membrane at the bafe : the fole of the foot is a folid knob on which the foot refts, and above this a very fmall fourth toe, which fcarcely reaches the ground. Inhabits New Holland: the only fpecimen we have feen is in the Britifh Mufeum. t%3
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NEW — HOLLAND Cc
Description.
Place,
i. PURPLE
VAR. A»
DESCRIPTION.
Var. B.
DESCRIPTION.
PLace.
GALLINULE
Genus LXXX. GALLINULE.
N° 1. Purple G. Var. B. Var. A. N° 2. White G.
Gallinula porphyrio, Jud. Orn. ii. p. 768. 6.—Gerin. Orn. v. t. 485.—=dldrers lit. pl. in p. 439.
Pindaramcoli, Bartolom. Voy. (Engl. ed.) p. 224.
Purple Gallinule, Gen. Syz. vy. p. 254. 6.
HIS is known in India by the name of Pindéramcoli; in China called Chinka: are common at Rofétfa, and other parts of Egypr, called there Sy/tanas *.
Porphyrio alter, d/drov. dv. til. p. 438. t. 440—Faun. Arag. p. 78.
THIs M. Afo thinks a remarkable variety, if not a new fpecies ;
it is of a violet black colour: fore part of the neck blue: fore- head and legs red: vent white.
[N New Holland is a fine variety of the Purple Gallinule, of the ufual
fize, and differing very little from the laft defcribed: general co- Jour of the plumage deep black, except the throat, fore part of the neck and breaft, outer part of the wing coverts, and the quills, which are of a deep blue: the bill, bare part of the crown, legs, and bare part of the legs above the knee, are red; but the knees and joints of the toes are black: the vent white: irides orange.
This bird is feen in the {wamps about New South Wales, in duguft, but is rare: native name Goola-warrin.
° Sonnini’s Trav. (Engl. ed.) it. p. 56.
GALLINULE.
Gallinula alba, Jad. Orz. ii. p. 768. 8. White Gallinule, Phi. Bot. Bay, t. p. 273.—White’s Fourn.t. p. 238.
IZE ofa Hen; length two feet: bill very ftrong, and much the fame in fhape and colour as in the Purple Gallinule: a bare red fpace in like manner is alfo on the crown: irides red: round the eye, the fkin vifible through the flender covering of feathers: the whole of the plumage in general-is of a pure white: legs red: claws brown: at the bend of the wing a fharp fpur.
Some of thefe, fuppofed to differ in fex, are of a bright blue between the fhoulders, and fpotted on the back with the fame.
Thefe inhabit Norfolk I/land, and are there very common; are ex- ceedingly tame, infomuch as to be eafily knocked down with a ftick. They feéd on various things, and have mofre'than once been obferved to be content with the ejected food of the Booby, It is much to be fufpected, that this is no other than a cafual variety of the Purple fpecies, and the more {o, as that bird is in fufficient plenty in Zongo- taboo, Tanna, and other iflands of the Pacific Ocean, independent of _ Fava, Madagafcar, and various parts of the Ea Indies, as well as China. 1 have likewife obferved fome fpecimens, which appeared to belong to this fpecies, in which the plumage was of a general brown colour, with a ftrong glofs of blue and green when expofed to different reflections of light, and fuch I apprehend to be young birds not yet having attained their ftate of perfection.
327
Qa WHITE G.
DEscRierion,
PLACE.
328 Co .orr,
Orvzer VIL. ‘WITH PINNATED FEET.
Genus LXXXIII. COOT.
Fulica atra, Ind. Orn. il. p. 777. 1.—Gerin. Orn. v. t. 425. Common Coot, Gen. Syz. ve p. 275. 1.—ld. Sup. p.259-
HIS bird is no where in greater plenty than in the De of Sheppey;
and the inhabitants receive great benefit therefrom, and in courfe will not fuffer the eggs tobe taken. The birds are a great article of food, being eaten by moft people there, and thought very good; they are firft {kinned, after which they are drefled in various ways like pigeons.
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Genus LXXXIV. GREBE.
Podiceps cafpicus, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 784. 7.—S. G. Gmel. It. p. 137.—=N. Nord. q Beytr. iv. p. 9. -
HE body on the upper part is dufky brown, beneath filvery Descrtrrion. white: bill lead colour: throat and cheeks white: wing coverts brown. Inhabits the Ca/pian Sea. We fufpect that this bird has fome affi- PLACE. nity to the Red-necked Grebe. ; A fpecies of Grebe is found in New Holland; it is about the fize of the White-winged Grebe, and not unlike it in plumage. ‘The head 1s more like P/. Exlum. 945 *, but the chin is not white. Sonnini mentions one found in Egypt, where it is called Farha reheit, varying but little from our own; the firft and laft of the quills are. blackifh, the reft white.
* Caftagneux des Philippines.
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CHILE FL,
“DsscRIPTION.
FLAMINGO.
Orver IX. WEB-FOOT ED.
* Wito Lono Lees.
Genus LXXXVII FLAMINGO:
Pheenicopterus chilenfis, Jzd. Orz. ii. p. 789; 2.—Molin, Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 222:
THE height from the point of the bill to the tips of the claws is: five feet; and the body itfelf'about one foot: the back and the: wings are of a fiery red colour, the reft: of the plumage of a beautiful: white: the head is very fmall, oblong, crowned with a fort of creft:: bill five inches long; it differs in many things from ‘the fpecies gene- rally known, but in none more than the quills, being in this-of a pure white, which in the common American and African fort are quite black: the young faid to differ from the adults,.in being of a grey colour.
It is probably. one of the fineft birds in Chi; frequents only the frefh waters. The inhabitants fet great {tore by this bird, as it fur-- nifhes them with the beautiful feathers with which they adorn their helmets and fpears: the wings alfo are converted into fans, and ufed. for the fame purpofe.
G Uy BE,
** Witu SuHort Lees:
Genus XCIV. G Puig oe
N° 1. Brown G. N° 3. Pulo Condor G, 2, Pacific G. 4. Skua G.
Sterna obfcura, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 810. 25- Brown Tern, Gez, Syz. vi. p. 368. 23.
Bird which we have very little doubt is the Brown Tern, hitherto fo cailed, fell under the obfervation of ray friend Mr. Boys, of Sandwich, a few years fince. He obferves that it is a beautiful {pe- cies, but without a fingle character of the Tern; the bill like that of the Cinereous Tern, but longer and more flender, yellow to the hook in the upper mandible, and to the gibbous part of the lower ; from thence black: length to the toes and tail fifteen inches and a half; to the tips of the wings eighteen inches; breadth eighteen inches; weight eight ounces and a half avoirdupois: the hind head and nape dufky : at the anterior angle of the orbit, a black fpot; another of the fame behind the ear: forehead, throat, fore part of the neck, belly, vent, and rump, pure white: back, fcapulars, upper range of coverts next the body grey; middle feries of coverts brown, edged and tipped with white; lower feries grey, with white tips: baftard wing com- poled of three feathers black and white: quills deeply tipped wich black, fringed with white : middle of the feathers and the fhafts white ; outer web banded with black ;. inner webs with dufky, but deeper; fecondaries dufky, tipped with grey: tail of twelve feathers; the two external ones white, the reft white with a bar of dufky; legs dufky orange: claws black. Uue Should
i. BROWN G
DESCRIPTION.
& Loe) b>
2 PACIFIC G.
DescriFTion»
PLACE.
3. PULO CONDOR G.
DESCRIPTION.
Gt Un nk Should this prove what Mr. Boys fufpects, it ought no longer to be:
retained as a Tern, as it manifeftly belongs to the Gu// genus: it was: met with in the neighbouring fhores of Sandwich...
HE general colour of the plumage in this bird is deep browns: but the under parts, the rump, and tips of the-leffer wing coverts are very pale brown, approaching to white: tail rather fhort, rounded: at the end: bill dirty orange, fwelling near the point, where it is. croffed with dufky or black: legs dufky: Inhabits New South Wales; where-is alfo found the Black-backed: Gull, or a fpecies fo-fimilar thereto, as not to merit defcription.
Larus Pulo Condor, Muf. Carl/. fa/c. iv. t. 83.
HE forehead: in this bird is afh colour; crown-the fame, with a mixture of white: the plumage on the upper parts rulty afh co- lour and brown mized ; beneath white :. bill, hind. head, nape, {hould-. ers, and claws, black: legs yellow.. Inhabits Pulo Condor...
Larus Catarractes, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 818. 12--
Skua Gull, Gen. Syz. vi. pe 385- 14. WE fufpeé that this is the fpecies called at. St, Kilda, Fuilag *,.
which 1s faid to be a large Gull, infefting the birds, by break- _ ing their eggs, and often. killing their young, and many of the old’ fowls. The inhabitants difcover the greateft rage at fecing or hear- ing of this cruel enemy, and. exert their whole addrefs to catch it; when they excel the Jvdians.in torturing it, they pluck oué its eyes, few the wings together, and fend it adrift; at other. times, they. extract. the meat out of the egg, on a fuppofition that the animal may fit till it pines away ; and for any one to eat the egg, would be accounted flagitious.
‘ le * Buchanans Trav. in the Weftern Iles, p. 139.
RAs TT REE. E.
Genus) XCVs oP EY DoRe Ei:
N° 1. Great black P. N° 3.. Cinereous P. 2.. Norfolk Ifland. P..
Procellaria equinoétialis, Ind, Orn. il. p. 821. 3. Faliginous Peterel, White’s Voy. pl. p. 252. Great Black Peterel, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 398. 3. Var.
’T HIS is nearly as big as a Raven: the whole bird of a deep footy
brown or blackifh colour, except that on the chin is a fmall patch of white, running down on each fide the lower mandible: the legs are dufky: bill pale dirty yellow.
{nhabits the fea in the neighbourhood of Port Fack/on, in New South F¥ales, and. has the fame manners with its congeners.. No one is a greater enemy to the 4/datro/s than this bird, whenever it is feen on the wing, but quits it as foon.as the A/batro/s takes to the water, fenfible no doubt that an encounter on this element would end to its difad- vantage. It is however a. ftill greater fcourge to the Broad-billed Peirel*, for although multitudes of thefe are deftroyed by it, it only devours the heart and liver, leaving the reft untouched; hundreds of them thus evifcerated have been. found lying upon the ground in this firuation +.
* Precellaria Forfteri, Ind. Orn. + Embaff. to China, i. 223,
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I. GREAT BLACK P.
DescRIPTION,.
PLacm
NORFOLK ISLAND P.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
Bok |. Bw £
Procellaria alba, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 822. 6. White-breafted Petrel, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 400. 6. Norfolk Ifland Petrel, PA:H. Voy. pl. p. 161.
ENGTH fixteen inches: bil] one inch and a half long, black, and very hooked at the end: the head, as far as the eyes and the chin, mottled brown and white in waves: the reft of the bird on the upper parts of the body of a footy brown, and on the under, of a deep afh colour: the inner part of the quills white, efpecially next the bafe: the wings, when clofed, exceed the tail by nearly one inch: the tail is rounded at the end, compofed of fixteen feathers, of the fame colour as the upper parts: the legs pale yellow: the outer toes black the whole of their length; the adjoining web the fame, except juaft at the bafe, where it is pale ; the inner toe and: web black for about one third: the claws and fpur behind black.
This inhabits Norfolk land, where it is ingreat plenty, and burrows in the fand like a rabbit. On Mount Pitt, the higheft land in the ifland, the ground wasas full of holes as a rabbit warren, and an immenfe number of aquatic birds burrowed: and built their nefts in them *. Thefe, during the day, were at fea, but as night approaches; they re- turn in vaft flocks. The fettlers lighted {mall fires every night on this mount, about which the birds dropped as faft as the people could pick them up and kill them, for the wings of fea birds are generally fo long, as to prevent their rifing till they can afcend fome {mall eleva- tion ; hence the difficulty in the d/batrofs to detach itfeif from the furface of the water, which it can never do without the greateft ex- ertion. When, however, it is fortunate enough to gain a {mall rock or fhelf, it has only to throw itfelf therefrom, and take wing immedi- ately.
* Hunter's Hift. of Port Fackfans 18,000 faid to have been taken in the {pace of about fix weeks,
Bin TA Rae! TS
Procellaria cinerea, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 824. 10. Cinereous Petrel, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 405. 10.
HIS, or a flight variety, is found about Port Fack/on, in New Hol-
land, and parts adjacent: it is wholly of a dufky black; but the fides of the head, the neck, and all beneath, are ath colour: the bill and legs dull yellow. In a fpecimen of this, we obferved the whole of the under parts from the breaft to the vent occupied by an afh colour- ed down, projecting greatly more than the feathers, which we fup- pofed would afterwards fupply its place, for it may be conjeétured, that birds in this ftate are no other than in.their firft feathers and. imperfect plumage..
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Ree CINEREOUS Bs
DESCRIPTION.
i. GOO@SANDER M.
M E REG A NES ER.
Genus XCVI MER’GA NS ER,
N° 1. Goofander M. N°'5. Forked M. 2. Red-breafted M. - 6. Brown M. 3. Imperial M. 7. Blue M, 4. Smew M.
Mergus Merganfer, Ind. Orz. ii, p. 828. 1——Ger. Orn. v. t.508.
Goofander, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 418. 1.——Lewin’s Br. Birds, vi. p. 30. pl. 231. —Nat. Mic. pl. 445-
Greater Goofander, Linn. Tranf. iv. p. 122. 26.
UR reafon for mentioning this bird again, is to requeft that na- turalifts will be more diligent than ever in regard to fuch birds,
whofe identity as fpecies may be afcertained by diffection. We have in more places than one remarked the uncertainty in refpect to the
external appearance of birds, till arrived at the adult ftate. The Dun
Diver, amoneft others, has caufed us to waver greatly ; for naturalifts having fet this bird down for certain as a female of the Greater Goof- ander, and finding that fome of thefe fuppofed females were endowed with the fame conformation of trachea as the male adult, known to be fuch, doubt arofe, whether, as there were both fexes under this livery, it might not be totally different in fpecies. The faét however feems, that both fexes, for the firft feafon at leaft, have the appearance of the Dun Diver, which the female retains throughout life, whilft the male gradually gains the beautifully white plumage he is known by ; but the diftinguifhing character of the windpipe, wherein he entirely differs from the otner fex, will be detected at any age whatever *.
® Scea figure of it in Beek. d. Berl. Nat. Fr.iv.S, 594. tab. 18. f. 3.
MERGANSER.
Mergus Serrator, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 829. 4.—Sepp. Vog. iit. tab. 124. 125.—=
Ger. Orne v. t. 509- Der Haubentaucher, Schr. d. Berl. Nat. Fr. iii. S. 374. t.7. f. 5.
Red-breafted Merganfer, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 423.—Edw. t. 95.—Lin. Tranf. iv. p- izi. tab, xvi. f, 1.2. the windpipe of the male.
NX7E do not find that externally the male and female of this {pecies
have been at all miftaken by authors, but ftill the intuitive naturalift will obferve the fame internal difference to exift as takes place in the greater fpecies. The male has an enlargement of the trachea about the middle of its length, confifting of bony plaits of the fame texture as the reft of it, the lower part of it ending in a large and remarkable bony cavity, of an irregular heart fhape, with two openings on one fide, and one on the other: all of which are covered with fine membranes *, and from the bottom of this the two bronchiz fpring, which there dividing, lofe themfelves in the lungs.
Mergus imperialis, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 829. 3.—Cett. uc. Sard. p. 326.
HIS is the fize of a Goofe: the body is variegated with black,.
brown, and grey: the head is without a creft: the prime quills are black, and without any fpeculum: bill and legs rufous white: tongue ciliated. Inhabits Sardinia.
* See the plate in Liz, Tran/. above referred to.
Supp. If. | Xx
337
2. RED- BREASTED
M.
DescriPrion,
$. IMPERIAL M
DESCRIPTIONs
PLace,
338
4. SMEW M.
DeEsCRIPTION.
MERGANSER.
Mereus albellus, Ind. Orn. it. p. 831.6. Male.
Merganfer minor monialis alba diétus, Ger. Orz. v. t. 513.
minor femina, Ger. Orn. v. t. 514.
cinereus capite rufefcente, Ger. Orz. v. t. 511.
Petit Harle huppé, La Piette, Buf. O7/ vill. p. 275. pl. 24.—P/. Enl. 440,
Mergus minutus, fzd, Orn. ii. p. 832. 7. Female.
Smew, or white Nun, Gen. Syx. vi. p. 428. 5. (Male. J—Lewin’s Br. Birds, vic t. 234.—Lin. Tranf, iv. p. 234. pl. xvi. f. 3. 4.
Minute Merganfer, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 429.6, (Female, or young bird.) Lewin’: Br. Birds, t. 235
E have obferved in another place *, that the Minute Merganfer, with its fynonyms, and the White Mergan/er, all make up but one fpecies, occafioned by the male having the female plumage for fome length of time after growing to fize; for having attentively examined and compared the windpipe of a fuppofed male Minute Mer- ganfer, with the fame part of a full grown Smew, the fimilarity at once was manifeft, no other difference whatever being vifible, further than that the parts were lefs offified in one than the other; henceforward therefore we may venture to affirm, that three diftiné& fpecies only. of the Smez genus will be found in England,,inftead of the five now on record. The trachea or windpipe of this {pecies is fmalleft near the upper part, but enlarges as it approaches towards the middle, from whence to the bottom it continues of nearly equal dimenfions, the texture confifting of completely bony rings, with fcarcely any carti- lage intervening; at the bottom isa bony cavity, as in the others,. {maller in proportion, and differing in fhape, the greater expanfe- be- ing from fide to fide, whereas in the others it is almoft upwards and downwards; on one fide is a round hole, covered by a drum-like mem- brane, and on the oppofite, an oval. fmooth hollow bone uniting with it: from the bottom arife the bronchize.
* Lia. Tran...
MERGANSER.
Mergus furcifer, Ind. Orn, iis p. $32. 8.—-Schr. d. Berl. Nat. Fr. vii. S. 458. 32.
HE bill in this bird is black at the tip and bafe; but the middle
is reddifh: the irides pale brown: the forehead and back are light brown: from the ears, down the fides of the neck, quite to the breaft, a black ftripe, fhaded for half the length with chefnut: hind head and neck white: breaft, back, and rump black, the feathers ap- pearing fcaly: belly and vent white: tail forked, as in the Swallow ; the outer feathers white: wing coverts fhaded not unlike the back : leffer quills like the back, part of them white, making a long fpot of that colour between the back and wings.
inhabits Courland.
Mergus fufcus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 832. 9. Brown Merganfer, 4r@. Zool. ii. Sup. p. 74.
HE length of this is feventeen inches and a half; weight twenty-
three ounces: the head is dark brown: from the orbits a whitifh brown ftreak, extending backwards, and ending in a large pendent creft; the upper part of it brown, the lower black: creater and leffer coverts, fcapulars, and tail, black: fecondaries the fame, but each web broadly mottled with white: belly white: vent tawny: beyond the junction of the thighs with the body, a few black feathers marked with red: legs dufky yellow...
This fpecies arrives at Hudfon’s Bay in May, as foon as the rivers are open: makes its neft about the lakes, with grafs, lined with feathers pulled from its own breaft: retires when the rivers are frozen.
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339
5. FORKED M
DrscRirrion.
Place.
6. BROW M.
DEscRIPTILON.
Proacs.
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340.
7. BLUE M.
PLacg.
MERGANSER,
Mereus ceruleus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 833. 10. Blue Merganfer, Ar. Zool. ii. Sup. p. 74. White-faced Duck, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 504. 50. Var. A.
HE defcription of this bird will be found fufficiently detailed in the Gen. Synopfis, as well as in the Aréfic Zoology above referred to. Mr. Pennant has thought right to rank it in the prefent genus,
and we need not hefitate to let it ref{t upon fuch good authority. Our late friend Mr. Hutchins met with this bird at Hud/on’s Bay.
Be. U Cook, 341 Genus XCVII. D UC K. N° 1.. Whiftling Swan. N° 21. Shoveler D.. 2. Mute Sw. 22. Gadwal D. 3. Black Sw. 23. Wigeon. 4. Black-necked Sw.. 24. Pochard D. 5. Black and White Goofe, 25. Pintail D. 6. Hybrid G. 26. Golden-eye D. 7. Cofcoroba G. a7. Tufted D. 8. Blue-winged G.. 28. Sparrman’s D. g. Common G. 29. Gmelin’s D. zo. Semipalmated G, 30. Kekufchka D. tr. Mufcovy G. 31. Arabic D. 12. Lobated Duck. 32. Alexandrine D. 13. Torrid D.. 33. Gattair D.. 14. White-fronted D. 34.. Sirfeein D. 15. Royal D.. 35. Hawkfbury D. 16. Solitary D.. 36. New Holland D. 17. Velvet D. 37- New Holland Shoveler. 18. Mallard D.. 38. Garganey D._ 19. Scaup D. 39. Teal. 20. Shieldrake. Anas Cygnus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 833. 1==Gers Orn v. t. 554.——Blafii Anat. t. i 42. (Scelet.) WHISTLING: SWAN,-
Whillling Swan, Gen. Syx. vi. p. 433.—Jd. Supp, p. 272.—Lin. Tranf, iv. p. 105. pl. xii. f. 1.2. The trachea, &c: TT HE Wild Swan is now known to be an. inhabitant of Dor/etfhire,. as Dr. Maton* faw them in their wild ftate, on the eaft fide of Chefil Bank, in Auguft.
2 Obfervations on the Weftern Counties, by Dr. Maton, i, p. 68, In.
342
2. MUTE SW.
Manners.
Bb VY) C.K.
In the neighbourhood of Tzaritzin, on the Lewer Volga, a great number of Swans appear about the 20th February, particularly upon the Sarpa, and towards the lower grounds of the 4chtuba: they are of two kinds; but that which diftinguifhes itfelf by its very fharp {cream, and has the lower part of its bill yellow, is the moft nume- rous *. Among the Kalmucs, the Lama Dardfba had for his title Erdeni Lama Baatur Khan Taidfhi, which fignifies noble father of fouls, brave prince of Swans +.
The circumftance of the trachea entering the keel of the breafi- bone, has been before noticed in this work, as well as by many authors before ; but as no words are able to convey a fufficient idea without engravings, Dr. Parfons has given a good reprefentation in the Pbil. Tranf.; another will be alfo found in the Lin. Tranfaftions above re- ferred to.
Anas olor, Ind. Orn. ii. p.824. 2.—Ger. Orn. v. t. §53- Mute Swan, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 436. 2.
RIRDS of this fpecies fometimes live together in fociety with per-
fect complacency: two female Swans have for three or four years paft agreed to affociate, and have had yearly each a brood, together bringing up-eleven young. ‘They fate by turns, and never quarrelled. This is not the only inftance which has come under our obfervation ; and numbers are to be feen together in many waters in this kingdom ; but the moft noble fwannery is, we believe, very near ALbot/bury, Der/et,
-about a quarter of a mile to the weft of which, in the open part of the
fleet, are kept 6 or 7oo—formerly 1,500 Swans tf, the royalty be- longing anciently to the abbot, fince to the family of Strangeways, and now to the Earl of I/cheffer. ‘That this fpecies is very pugnacious, is
* Ruffia (8vo. 1783) vol. iv. p. 283. + dd. p. 205. Z As far as 7000,—Maton’s Tour, 1. p. 726 known
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known to moft people; and it muft be a powerful man who is able to withftand the fury of an enraged one. A circumftance has come to our knowledge, fhewing at leaft the fuperiority the Swaz has on its own element, for a female of one of thefe, whilft fitting, obferving a fox fwimming towards her from the oppofite fhore, inftantly darted into the water, and having kept the fox at bay for a confiderable time with her wings, at laft fucceeded in drowning him, after which, fhe retired in triumph, in the fight of feveral perfons. This happened at Penjy, in Buckinghamfbire.
Anas atrata, Jad. Orn. ti. p. 834. 4. ; Black Swan of Van Diemen, D’Entrecafteaux Voy. 8vo. i. p. 140. pl. iX— Nat. Mifc. pl. 108.—Phillips’s Voy. p. 98.—White’s Fournal, p. 137.
"THIS is a large bird, not inferior in fize to our European {pecies,
and extends from the tip of one wing to that of the other, four feet eight inches: the bill is large and red; towards the end paler ; on the bafe of the upper mandible, at the noftrils, a bifid protuberance ; the under mandible white beneath, and red on the fides: irides red: the general colour of the plumage is deep black ; but the greater part of the fecond quills, and all the prime ones, are white; alfo two or more white feathers on the coverts: belly and thighs afh colour: legs flefh coloured brown.
In what other particulars the female differs from the male, we are not told, further than that the protuberance at the top of the bill is wanting.
Inhabits various parts of New Holland, where it has been long no- ticed. I find it firit mentioned in a letter from Mr. Witfen to Dr. M. Lifter, about the year 1698, which fays, here is returned a fhip, which by our Eaf India company was fent to the fouth land, called Hollandia Nova, and adds, that Black Swans, Parrots, and many Sea
2 Cows.
343
%. BLACK SWAN.
DESCRIPTION»
PLACE.
St4
7% BLACK- NECKED
SWAN.
DeEscriprion.
50 BLACK AND WHITE GOOSE.
Description,
DUC) Kh.
‘Cows were found there*. In 1726, two of them were brought alive to Batavia, as confirmed by Valentyn +: feveral being found in New Holland, near Dick Hartog’s Bay.
Since that time, our later circumnavigators, from Captain Cook to the prefent time, have found them every where in thefe parts, eight or nine having been met with together, and they are faid to fly one afier another like Wild Geefe; but the general manner, &c. remains yet to be afcertained.' ‘The natives of New Holland call this fpecies Mulgo.
Anas nigricollis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 834. 3. Anas melancorypha, Cygne Chilien, Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 213. Black-necked Swan,.Gen. Syn. vi. p. 436. 3.
OLINA -obferves, that it is the fize of the European Swan: the
head and half the neck black; the reft glofly white: the female
has commonly fix young, which it never leaves alone in the neft, but carries them on its back every time it goes out in fearch of food.
THE fize of this bird is uncertain: the bill is not unlike that of the Wild Swan, extending far backwards, and taking in the eyes: it is yellowifh at the bafe, red in the middle; the point as well as the
under mandible pale: the head, neck, beginning of the back, major
* Phil. Tranf. v. 20. p. 361.
+ See Valentyn Oud en Nieuw Oof Indien. Amf?. 1726, where it is obferved that two, and afterwards more black fwans were found in Nea Holland: two of them were brought alive to Batavia. This account accompanied by an engraving, reprefenting the Lagoon, with the black fwans fwimming init; and the catching of one by the boat’s crew.
part
DS. Ciek,
part of the wing and quills, tail, and thighs, are black: fome large fpots of black are alfo on the laft; the reft of the plumage white. It ftands high on the legs, which are yellow: and the webs do not reach above half way between the toes.
Inhabits New South Wales: were it not from the extreme diftance
between Chili and New Holland, one might think it a variety of the Black-necked {pecies.
Anas hybrida, Jnd. Orz. ii. p. $35. 6. Le Cage, Moliz. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 221. ‘THIS is about the fize of a Dome/fic Goofe; but the two fexes dif- fer exceedingly in colour: the ma/e is of a pure white, with the bill and legs yellow: the bill is half cylindrical; the cere red: the female is black, except fome ftreaks of white, arifing from the tips of feveral of the feathers being bordered with white: bill and lees red: the neck is fomewhat fhorter than in the Common Goofe, but the wings and tail longer; and the legs of nearly the fame fhape and make. This fpecies inhabits the Archipelago of Chiloé, in South America: may be called monogamous, for the male and female are never apart, never being found in flocks, as other forts: during the time of incu- bation, they retire to the rivers, where the female generally lays about eight white eggs, in a hole formed out of the fand.
Anas Cofcoroba, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 835. 7.—~Molin. Chil, (Fr. ed.) p. 283. "THIS is probably the fize of a Goofe, at leaft Molina calls it by that
name, and fays itis of a large fize: that it is wholly white, ex- cept the bill and legs, which are red: the eyes of a fine black; whe- ther the female differs from the male is not mentioned.
This inhabits Chili, and is valuable for its extreme docility and tamenefs in confinement and domefticity, particularly attaching itfelf to the perfon who brings it food.
Supp. II. Yy
345
Pracs. °
6. HYBRID GOOSE.
Description.
PLACE,
7s COSCOROBA G
DEscRIPTION»
PLacg,
346
8. BLUE-WINGE G.
DescRipTion.
COMMON
°
Di °C ke
Anas c#rule'cens, Jad Orn. ii. p. 836. 13- Blue-winged Guofe, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 469. 28.—Bartr. Trav. p. 292.
‘HITS fpecies is apt to vary much. I have received feveral from Hudfor’s Bay; one of them correfponded exactly with our de- feription in the Synopfis ; another had the head and a little part of the neck white, behind mixed with black; half the neck before white ; the reft of the bird much the fame as in common. In a third, the head, all the neck, the whole of the body, except between the wings, of a pure white: at the lower part of the neck behind, and between the wings, dufky black, or deep lead colour: fcapulars the fame, margined with white: wing coverts as generally feen in this fpecies, but paler, and inclined to white: the fecond and third greater quills black; all the fecondaries black, beautifully fringed on each fide with white, purer than in the others, but not unlike: tail white; the four middle feathers pale lead colour, down the middle, half way from the bafe. A ticket affixed to this laft bird, fays, that it is produced from a Blue anda White Wayway *; but this is only according to the tra- dition of the Indians.
Anas anfer, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 841. 26.—.Ger. Ora. y. t. 561. 1. 558. 559. 560. — Sepp. Vog. iii. t. 105. Grey Lag, and tame Goofe, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 459. 21.—IZd. Sup. p. 273.
N the ftricteft examination of the trachea of both fexes of the Goo/ey {carcely any difference can be found between them, ex- cepting that of the male appears to be the thicker and larger of the two. Every one experiences the utility of the feathers of the Goofe; all of which are applied to the various wants in life; and the quills in
= Snow Goofe, Gen. Syn, vi. Pp. 445. 10. particular,
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particular, now in fo much demand for writing-pens, were formerly in the greateft repute for the feathering of arrows. In 1417 and 1418, king Henry V. attributes his victory at .4gincourt to the archers, and directs the fherives of many counties to pluck from every Gog fix wing feathers *, for the purpofe of improving arrows, which are to be paid for by the king.
The feeding of Geefe fhould be a bufinefs of fome notice, as we find in the London Gazette, Fanuary 31ft, 1793, the name of Thomas B. of Plaiftow, in Effex, Goofefeeder, among the lift of bankrupts.
Semipalmated Goofe, Liz. Lran/.iv. p. 103. N° vi.
Ss! ZE nearly of a Wild Goofe: bill brown; the cere at the bafe of it paffing on each fide to the eye: the head, neck, and thighs brownifh black; round the lower part of the neck, a collar of white : the rump and under parts white: legs red; toes only webbed half way from the bafe: the external plumage does not feem to have any great peculiarity, but on diffection, the fituation of the trachea offers a great fingularity, for after paffing on the fore part of the neck in the ufual way, it forms feveral circumvolutions on the outfide of the mufcles of the breaft, under the fkin, before it enters the cavity, which circum- ftance is figured on the plate beneath the reprefentation of the bird, and will afford no doubt to the curious matter for great admiration. For the drawing of the bird, we are indebted to our friend Mr. Lambert, and for that of the trachea, to Mr. Heavifide, in whofe Mu- feum, amongft very many profeffiona! and other fubjects, may be feen well-preferved {pecimens of this organ. Inhabits New Holland, being found in flocks near Haw/kbury River, and called New South Wales Goofe; its note {aid to be tuneful and me-
s Thefe feathers fhould confift of the fecond, third, and fourth of each wing.— Archagl. vii. p» 52. [u.] Yy2 lodious,
10. SEMIPALMAT- ED G. DeEscRIPTIONs
Pace.
rl. MUSCOVY
DeEscRIPTION.
DU PCiKt
lodious, and the bird obferved fometimes to perch on trees, in the manner of the hifling Duck: the native name is Newal Gang,
Anas mofchata, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 846. 37-
—— indica, Ger. Orn. v. t. 568. 569.
Mufcovy Duck, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 476. 31.—Lin Tran. iv. p. 13. pl. xvi. fi Ga1Gre
HE male of this differs in the formation of the trachea from the
female, as in feveral of the Duck genus: the windpipe is ftout, nearly equal in diameter, but a trifle fmaller towards the bottom; the bony arch, as in others, finifhes the bottom part, and appears as if furnifhed with rings, but they are not moveable as in the reft of the trachea: the orbicular labyrinth is attached to the fide of it: this is not fmooth on the furface, as in the Pimtail and Wigeon, but univerfal- ly rough and irregularly furrowed with fine indented lines ; the oppo fite fide runs into a pear-ihape, and is placed obliquely, with the point loweft, but is flatted confiderably on the furface: the bony arch is on this fide fmooth, having no appearance of rings, and is bent at a fmall angle from the trachea, although it conftitutes a continuance of it. In old birds, the bony labyrinth is more rounded, and larger, but ftills retains the roughnefs on the furface; in a very old bird, furnifhed to me by Mr. Boys, the labyrinth is not only much larger, but nearly globular, and the bony arch quite fmooth, yet is finely granulated and faintly wrinkled, and the texture more bony. That figured by Dr. Block, in the Berlin Tranfattions, appears by much tco large, but it is not for us to fay that it is faulty, for in cafe his figure is taken from a foreign fpecimen, and fuppofing that the Mu/covy Duck arrives at twice the fize we fee them in England, and which they are faid to do, no doubt but the labyrinth and its trachea would bear a due proportion.
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DU C XK,
Lobated Duck, Nat. Mif. pl. 255.
IZE of the Mallard: the bill large, bent at the tip; colour dufky black ; from the under mandible fprings a roundifh large flap or wattle, of a very dark colour, hanging downwards: general colour of the plumage dufky black, crofled with numerous tranfverfe pale or whitifh lines, intermixed with minute irregular markings and fpots of the fame: the chin, fore part of the neck, and: belly, have the ground white, marked and irregularly fpotted with dufky black:: quills. and tail dufky black, the laft fomewhat pointed. in fhape: legs lead colour. Inhabits New Halland.
Anas torrida, Ind. Orn. i. pe 84§. 33- Branta torrida, Scop. dun. H. Nat. i. N° 86.
IZE of a Crefted Duck: the head white: the upper part of the neck black; beneath chefnut.
Anas albicans, Ind. Orm. i. p. 845+ 34> Branta albifrons, Scop. Ann. Hif. Nat. 1. N° 87. IZE of a Cock: general colour of the plumage brown: head and neck inclining to rufous: forehead and beneath white: the upper part of the breaft cinereous; the feathers margined with pale ferru- ginous, with a rufous band towards the tip: quills within and at’ the tips white.
Anas regia, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 847. 39. Canard royal, Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 212.
HIS isa trifle larger than a Mallard: it has a compreffed ca- runcle on the forehead, forming a fort of creft or comb: all the
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349 12. LOBATED D
DescriPriom
Place
13. TORRID
DesscRIPTIONS
T4e WHLTE- FRONTED D. Descrir Pion.
15, ROYAL D
D5scRiFTion,
35°
PLAce.
16. SOLITARY D
DEscRIPTION.
17. VELVET D.
DescriPTione
DUC XK.
upper parts of the body are fine blue; the under grey: about the neck is a beautiful white collar. Inhabits Chil,
Anas monacha, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 847. 40.—Scop. Ann. i, N° $6.
"THIS is larger than the Mallard: bill yellowifh, with a black
tip: lore grey: plumage varied black and white: head and be- ginning of the breaft {potted with black: prime quills white ; tips variegated with brown: fpeculum violet green: tail pointed; the feathers white, marked with a brown {pot at the tip.
Anas fufca, Ind. Ora. ti. p. 848. 44.—-Gunth. Nef. und Ey, t. 90. Egg.—Schre des Berl. Nat. iii. p. 374.t. 8. f. 1.
Velvet Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 482. 37.—Ld. Sup. p. 274.—Lin. Tranf.iv. p. 119. pl. 15. £. 3—7. the trachea.
HIS bird being for the moft part black, excepting a white mark
on the under eyelid, and a fpot of the fame on the wing, carries nothing interefting outwardly ; but on diffection, the windpipe of the male will be found curioufly conftruéted: juft below the larynx, is a bony cavity, of almoft an inch long, from this the trachea defcends for nearly two-thirds of its length, when it fwells out into a ftrong bony hollow, about the fize of a {mall walnut, flat on one fide ; and at the bottom, where the trachea divides, the parts again become bony, but not much enlarged ; at the under parts of this, the two bron- chiz take their rife: fome diverfity takes place in birds of vari- ous ages, but not enough to caufe any miftake in regard to the {pecies.
D'U C’K,
Anas Bofchas, Jud. Orn. ii. p. 850. 49: Wild Duck, Gex. Syx. vi. p. 489. 43-
T has been mentioned before, that this fpecies is found common in very many places. In India, about the neighbourhood of Cochin, it is called Tarava*: the flefh however is almoft unfit for food, as they chiefly live on Pilchards: on board a fhip therefore, thefe are kept a long time on different food before they are killed. An immenfe trade is carried on with them in the maritime towns of India, giving employment in particular to the Chriftians, Mahometans, and black Fews. Sir George Staunton + affirms, that the Wild Ducks are caught by the device of empty jars or gourds put over the heads of the divers, who wade for them upon the Wee-chaung-hoo Lake, in the manner we have before noticed =. The windpipe of the male of this fpecies differs from that of the female, by having a globular or labyrinthic caviry, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, juft before the entrance into the lungs; for the fhape of which, fee Lin. Tranfaé. voliv. p. 112. N° 17. tab. xiii. f. 10. whether the Hook-billed Duck is diftin®, or a variety only of the Mailard, remains to be de- termined; perhaps an accurate infpection and comparifon of the
trachea may determine the point.
- Anas marila, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 853.54. Male. Anas hyberna mas, Ger. Ora. v. t. 577° Scaup duck, Gen. Syn. vi, p, 500. 49. Male.—Lin. Tranf. vol.iv. p, 115. pl. xiv. fi 3. 4. Anas frenata, Muf- Carlf fafe.ii.t. 38. Femak. Le Canard brun, P/. Ex/. 1007. Female. Duck with a white circle of feathers round the bill, Ray’s Lesrers, p- 654 (female. )—Lewin’s Birds, 7. pl. 250 *. T HE defcription of the male of this bird has been already given, which is known to vary in colour moft exceedingly
® Bartolom. Voy. to the Eaft Indies, 8vo. Engl. ed. + Embaff. to China, ii. p. 400. 1 Gen, Syn. vi. p. 492.
353
18, MALLARD D
cS
19. SCAUP D.
DrscriptTion,
352
Doe. Cy Ka
in different ftages of life, and no doubt but fome of the males of infe- rior plumage have been taken for females: but the true female has only of late been precifely determined. I owe the firft hint of this to my valued correfpondent the late Mr. Tun/ftal, but the pofitive certainty of the circumftance to that indefatigable naturalift Mr. Boys, who was at the pains to procure for me feveral {pecimens.
The length of the female bird is eighteen inches and three-quarters ; from the bill to the end of the toes, twenty inches and a half; breadth thirty-one inches ; weight thirty ounces: the bill is broad, flat, of a pale blue, with a black knob: irides yellow: head dark brown: at the bafe of the bill is a band of white, nearly half an inch broad, paffing quite round the forehead, cheeks, and throat: breaft dark brown, the feathers tipped with darker brown: back and {fca- pulars light grey, tranfverfely waved with irregular dufky lines: belly dirty white; vent the fame, waved with narrow dark lines: rump and tail very dark brown; the latt very fhort, confifting of four- teen feathers: greater quills the fame: fecondaries white, tipped with brown ; but the ends of the greater quills are darker than the reft: legs dufky blue : webs black. ‘The tracheal Jabyrinth in the male of this {pecies, is placed the fame as in the MadJard; it 1s rounded on one fide, and flat on the cther; in fhape irregular: the flat furface is for the moft part open, except round the rim, and an wregular bony arch croffing it from fide to fide: independent of theie, the furface is covered with a delicate fine elaftic membrane, ftretched over the fur- face, giving the appearance of the head of a drum: a juft idea of the ftru@ture may be formed by infpecting the plate above referred to in
the Lin. Lran/.
Dt Wi CHK.
Anas Tadorna, Ivd. Orn. ii. p. 854. 56.—Ger. Orn. vit. 576.— Sepp. Vog. ii p- 192. t. 9G. 109. Shieldrake, Gen. Qe er 248.—Lin. Tranf. iv. p. HIS bird has been fully treated of by moft authors. We have only to add here, that the ae is to be diftinguifhed from the other fex, by the addition of a labyrinth in the trachea at the loweft part, and is unlike that of any hitherto mentioned, confifting of two roundifh bladders, the one bigger than the other, of unequal furface, and moft delicate beny texture, being of fo tender a fabric, as fearcely to bear the preffure of the finger, without indenting in young fubjects or breaking in old ones. For the figure, fee the Lisnean Tranfatiions above quoted. é
5)
Be st.—ld. Sup. p. 275.—Lewin’s Birds, vii. pl. 17. pl. xv. f. 8 Q.
Anas clypeata, ind. Orn. ti. p. 856. 60.—Ger. Orn, v. t. $72. 573.—Sepp. Vog. t. 130. 131.
Shoveler, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 509. SS ery s Birds, 7. N° 252.—Lin. Tranf- iv. p- 109. pl. xiii. f. 4. 5.
E have nothing to add concerning this bird, further than to no- tice the labyrinth in the trachea of the male, which confifts of a roundith bony arch, but very fmall in proportion to the bird, as
may be feen in the plate in the Limnean Tran/attions above referred fo.
Anas ftrepera, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 859. 69.—Ger. Orn. v. t. 574. 575+
Gadwal, Gen, Syn. vi. p. 515.—Linn. Tran/. iv. p. 111. t. 13. f. 7. 8. "T HE windpipe of the male has a bony bladder and arch, fomewhat
like that.of the Pixtail Duck; but the globular part not quite fo large: we may obferve too, that it adheres to the fide of the arch, quite to the bottom, whereas in the Pintai/, it is attached to the fide of the arch by.a {mall portion only.
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20%
SHIELDRAKE.
DescRIPTION.
2. SHOVELER D.
DEscRIPTION-
22, GADWAL D. DsscrirpTione
354 23. WIGEON.
DESCRIPTION:
24. POCHARD D
DES€RIPTION.
25. PINTAIL D.
DescriPTi1ONn.
pm UChr.
Anas Penelope, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 860. 71.—-Ger. Ora. Ve te 585. 586.—Sepp. Fog. iii. tab. 109. 110. Common Wigcon, Gen, Syx. vi. p. §18.—Lin. Tranf. iv. p. 111. tab. xiii. f. 9.
HE only reafon for mentioning this fpecies here, is to notice the
windpipe, which at firft fight does not feem materially to differ from that of the Pintail; the bony orb is moft perfectly globular, and differs fomewhat in refpeét to the attachment at the fides, which may be noticed by comparifon of one figure with another, better than by words.
Anas ferina, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 862. 77.—Ger. Orn. v. t. 583. 584. Pochard, Gen. Syx. vi. p. 523. 68.—Lin. Trav. iv. p. 116. pl. xiv. f. 5. 6. HE trachea or windpipe of this bird is like that of the Scaup, but two inches fhorter, and of nearly the fame diameter through- out, The drum-like labyrinth is more round on the upper fide, but croffed with a fmall bony partition, as in that bird. The bony box of which the other portion confifts, is fcarcely elevated on this fide, and on the other much lefs fo than in the Scaup; it likewife forms an obtufe angle with the reft of the trachea, but in the Scaup, it does not
deviate from a continuation of a ftraight line, though forming a con- fiderable enlargement.
Anas acuta, Ind. Orn, ii. p. 864. 81.—Ger. Ora. v.t. 581.—Sepp. Vog. t: 92. 93: Pintail, Gen. Sym ii. p. 526. 72.—Lia, Tranf. iv. p. vi10. pl. xiii. f. 6.
THE trachea of the male of this bird ends in a bony arch, and at- tached to it a nearly round bony bladder, about the fize of the
end of the thumb; the upper part is about even with that of the bony arch, but the bottom greatly below it; from one of thefe one of the cy tons arifes to pafs into the lungs, and from the other the fecond. An
Bi Ur Cy K:
An infse€tion of the figure in the plate of the Linnean Tranfaltions, will make further de{cription unneceflary.
Anas Clangula, Ind. Orn. it. p. 867. 87.—Ger. Orn. v. t. 593-594.
Golden Eye, Gea. Syz. vi. p. 535. 76.——Lin. Tran/. iv. p. 118. pl. xv. f. 12. "[ HE windpipe in the male of the Golden Eye, is of a curious con-
ftruction, and the labyrinthic part different from any other, a fingular enlargement taking place about the middle. This fwelling or ventricofe part, confifts of divers plaits or joints placed obliquely, not differing in texture from the other parts of it, and folding over each other, fo as to admit of being contracted into a very fhort compafs, or dilated to a great diftance, as the lengthening or fhorten- ing of the neck may require. In the recent ftate, thefe rings are by compreffion capable of being folded into a fpace of little more than an inch, but by extending, may be made to occupy four inches or more, and being cartilaginous, eafily recover their tone when left to themfelves. A perfect idea may be obtained by infpecting the plate in the Lin. Tranfaétions above referred to.
Anas Fuligula, Jud. Ora. ii. p. 869. go.
Anas Glaucia minor, Mas criftata, Ger. Oru. v. te §91. 592-
Tufted Duck, Gen. Syz. vi. p. §40.79.—Lin. Tranfciv. p. 117. Xxi. OUas trachea of the male of this bird greatly refembles, in the drum-
like portion of it, that of the Pochard*, but the bony box-like portion is elevated, and fcarcely to be diftinguifhed from that of the Scaup +, except in being fmaller. The trachea alfo itfelf is of {maller dimenfions throughout: thefe comparifons cannot fail to identify the fpecies, if properly attended to.
* Lin. Tran/, iv. pl. xiv. f. 5. 6, + Id. pl. xiv. fi 3. 4. Zz 2
355 26. GOLDEN-EYE D.
DeEscrRIpTiON.
27. TUFTED D.
DescripTion.
356
28. SPARRMAN’S D
DESCRIPTION.
PLacs.
29. GMELIN’S D.
DEsCRIPTION.
Place.
30. KEKUSCHKA D
DEsCRIPTION®
PLACE.
Dy CiiCeeK:
Anas Sparrmanni, Jd. Orz. il. p. 876. 110. Anas alandica, Mu/. Carl. fa/c. f. iii. tab. 60. ‘HIS is twenty-three inches long: the bill and legs black: the upper parts of the plumage varied with black, ferruginous, and white : fcapulars black, margined with ferruginous white: breaft and belly dirty white: tail ferruginous, fafciated with black. Inhabits Aland, in Sweden, towards Abo.
Anas Gmelini, Ind. Orz. i. p. 876. 111.—S. G. Gmel. reife, 1. p. 70.—Id. ii. p: 182. t. 16. HIS is larger than a Teal: at the corners of the mouth a fpot of white: the general colour is black: the head chefnut: the breatt croffed with reddifh lines: belly whitith, with dufky {pots : fides and vent fnow white: the firft four outer quills are black, but within cinereous; from the fifth to the tenth wholly cinereous; eleventh to nineteenth white; the twentieth, on the fore part half white half dufky, at the hinder part cinereous; all of them tipped with black; from the twenty-firft to twenty-fifth, as alfo the wing coverts, wholly black: tail black. \nhabits the Ca/pian Sea, and the neighbouring parts of the South of Rufia.
Anas Kekufchka, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 877. 112.—S. G. Gmel. reife, iil. p. 249. t. 26.
HIS exceeds nineteen inches in length: the general colour is an
oker yellow ; the under parts white: the back afh colour: rump
and tail deep black: quills from the fifteenth to the nineteenth white at the tips.
Inhabits the neighbourhood of the Ca/pian Sea: itis eaten by fome ; but the flefh is faid to be rancid.
Dy Om, Conk: 357
nas Arabica, Jnd. Ora. ii. p. 877. 113. gi res Scharchir, For/e. Pane p- . 7s Bach ie THE bill is yellow, with the middle part black: the body fpotted Descaiprion. with grey : beneath and on the rump whitifh, with cinereous {pots : fpeculum or wing-fpot dufky, banded before and behind with white : legs yellowifh afh colour. Inhabits 4radia. Pace.
Anas Alexandrina, Ind. Orn, ii. p. 877. 114.
32. —— Sau Sarai, For/e. Faun. Arab. p. 3. 8. NE Ne
N this, the bill and vent are black: the neck afh colour, marked: Descrirrion. with black crefcents: belly white: legs yellow afh colour.
Inhabits Alexandria. Puiacz. 22. Anas Gattair, Zid. Orn. ii. p. 877. 115:—Forfe. Faun. Arab, p. 3. 10. GATTAIR D
ILL brown: plumage brown: wings black ; beneath white, mar- Description. gined with brown: the quills from the fourth to the twentieth
white in the middle: belly and tail coyerts white: legs blueifh afh
colour.
Inhabits Alexandria. Pack. Gees Fda, Or. 3is ps 8970 11Ge—Farff., Fadns Arabi p. 3. vs 34° Anas Sirfeir, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 877. 116.—Forfk. Faun. Arab, p. 3. 11 SIRS EIR
é : 1D}. ILL lead colour; beneath yellow: chin white: crown brown: Dsscrirrion.
back brown, the feathers whitifh on the margins: bel!y whitifh fpeculum of the wings divided obliquely, above filky green, beneath black; before and behind white: legs grey. Inhabits Arabia. Pantce:
“358 35: HAWKSGURY
IDS
DeEscrIPTiON.
IF NONTISPIEGE.
PLACE»
DS PC i.
LENGTH twenty-two inches; fize of a Wigeon: bill ‘rather fhorter than in that bird, colour black: head and neck choco-
Jate brown; at the back part of the nape, the feathers are much lengthened, fomewhat paler, and black at the ends: the upper part of the back and wing coverts brownilh afh colour, the laft palett: the lower part of the back, rump, tail, and middle of the belly, vent, under tail coverts, and quills, are black; but the fides of the breatt and belly under the wings are grey, crofied with minute unduiatc 4 lines: fpeculum of the wing green, bounded on each fide with » but beneath the white is broader than above: the outer wels 01 ‘he fcapulars are black: but the moft diftinguifhing charaéter is, that the feathers of the breaft have the ends of a pale Silvery grey, and on €ich fide of the grey a fpot of blackith, giving that part an undu- lated appearance, fpotted with black: the wings when clofed do not reach quite to the end of the tail: the Ic
The female differs in having the vent white inftead of black, and the green fpeculum on the wi a
OS are Drown.
maller and lets confpicuous,
Inhabits New South Wales ; ivccuently rnet with about Lawkbury River, and now and then ob{crvec perched on trees.
The male is now in my own collection, but among the drawings of Mr. Lambert, 1 ooferve fome variety, for the elongated feathers at the nape take up much more {pace in fome than in others: the head and neck too in fome are fine rufous, not unlike thofe parts in the Pochard : from the lower part of the breaft to the middle of the belly ath colour, beautifully marked with curved lines of brown: on the back four or five irregular large patches of black: legs black.
BU C K.
HE length of this bird is about nineteen or twenty inches; and is
nearly the fize of our Duck : the bill is large, growing broader at the end, which part is foft and membranous; colour black: irides blue: the upper part of the head, a large patch round the eye, and the back part of the neck, dufky: back and wings ferruginous brown: above and behind the eye a ferruginous ftreak: fome of the inner feathers of the wings have very pale tips, as well as the lower part of the rump, and acrofs the tail: the under parts from the noftrils, fides and front of the neck, and all beneath the body, dirty white, tranf- verfely mottled with grey ; towards the vent, and the fides under the wings, nearly black.
Inhabits New South Wales ; but is rare: the native name is Wrongi, A bird with a bill of a fimilar foft texture is found at New Zealand* ; but as the colours of the plumage do not by any means correfpond, I dare not venture to fay they are allied to each other.
HIS fpecies is about eighteen or nineteen inches in length, and refembles in colour the Biue-winged Shoveler, but the plumage
is in general darker, and is deftirute of the white crefcent obferved’
behind the eye of the ma/z of that bird: the bill is full as large as in the Shoveler: the vent is black, with many mottlings of black conti- guous thereto: legs pale flefh colour. The female faid to differ in not having the vent black; in other things both fexes fufficiently, agree,
%. Soft-billed Duck, Gew. Syx. p. 522, 67. Inhabits
359°
36. NEW HOLLAND D
DescriPrion.
Prack.
She ls NEW HOLLAND SHOVELER..
DeEscriprion,
GARGANEY iD)
DESCRIPTION.
39° THKAL,
DrEscRiPT10y.
DP Oia Crass,
Inhabits New Holland: was fhot at Beteny Bay, in May, sears to aeree in fo_many thines with the Blwe-wineed Shoveler, that Pp te) oS & 3
£ ap- with many it might pafs for a variety only of that bird.
Anas Querquedula, Ind, Orn. i. p. 872. 99.—Ger. Orn. v.t. 595. Anas Circia, Sepp. Vog. 2. tab. 94. G5. Garganey, Gea. Syn. vi. p. 550. 87.—Lin. Tran/. iv. p. 108, pl. xiii. f. 2. 3.
HIS bird, though no more than three inches longer than the Teal, hasthe bony labyrinth of the windpipe comparatively of a much larger fize: it is nearly oval in fhape, of the fize of the finger’s end, and appears in one view as a continuation of the end of the tra- chea, but a trifle flatted on one fide, to admit of the infertion of the ufual mufcles: at the upper part, on the fide next the breatft, it is
alfo flatted, and from thence the two bronchiz have their origin.
Anas Crecca, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 872. 100.—Ger. Orz. t. 598. Teal, Gen. Syn, vi. ps 551. 88.—Lin. Tran. iv. p. 108. pl. xii. f. 1. HE male of this bird has not only a fmall windpipe in proportion to the fize of its body, but it has alfo a very fmall labyrinth, being fcarcely bigger than a pea. Nothing more needs here be added: a bare infpection of the figure in the plate of the Liznaan Tranfattions, will explain every thing neceflary.
Pa EEN aG a. TM:
Genus XCVII. PENGUIN.
N?’ 1. Chiloe P. N° 2. Three-toed P.
Aptenodytes Chiloenfis, Ind. Orn. il. p. 881. 10. Diomedea Chiloenfis, Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 219. "THIS is about the fize of a Duck: the body not unlike that of other Penguins in fhape, and covered with a kind of afh coloured down, which is of fo fine a texture, as to be made great ufe of by the natives, for it is capable of being {pun into threads, and made into garments, which are greatly valued. This is found in the Archipelago of Chilce, and is a very common fpecies : the native name of this bird is Quethu.
Aptenodytes Molin, Id. Oru. ii. p. 881. 11.
Diomedea Chilenfis, Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 217, SIZE of the laft; but the neck larger, and the head comprefied at
the fides, and {mall in proportion: bill flender, a little bent to-
wards the point: the feathers on the upper parts of the body are blue, changing into grey, according to the licht; thofe of the breaft and belly white: the tail not diftinguifhable, being a mere elongation of the feathers of the rump: legs furnifhed with three toes only, and placed almoft in the vent, as in others of this tribe.
Inhabits Chili; but the flefh is not efteemed there: it lays five or fix white eggs, {potted with black, on the fand: the fkin is faid to fe- parate eafily from the body, and perhaps, as the plumage confifts of fine hair rather than feathers, might be made ufe of for coverings. The natives give it the name of the Jnfant, from its manner. of walk- ing, its gait being unfteady like that of a child.
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361
k 1. : CHILOE 1 DescerrtTion.
Praes.
2. THREE-TOED Ie
DescRiIPTioN,
Puacs.
us ON t2
i. WHITE ie
DeEscRIPTION.
PBs) Ce) ACNE
GEN U's | NC DO Pr iT CARN,
N° 1. White P. N° 3.. Chinefe C, 2. Corvorant. 4. Gannet.
Pelecanus Onocrotalus, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 575. 1.—Ger. Orn. v. t. 499.
Great White Pelican, Gen. Sya. vi. p. 575. I.
FE have elfewhere mentioned doubts, whether the various co=
loured Pelicans of the eaftern and fouthern oceans were truly diftin&, mere varieties of each other, fexual differences, or arifing from age only. In Lady Jmpey’s drawings, is the figure of one met with in Jadia, with the-head white, fpeckled with black : wing coverts reddifh brown: prime quills and tail dufky: breaft and belly white, marked with great fpots of pale yellow: legs whitifh, ‘This fame bird, in Mr. Middleton’s drawings, is named Gungunneer. I obferved alfo among the drawings of Mr. Bruce, one fimilar, by the name of Gunguunah: the general colour of this was white: belly even with the thighs; the thighs themfelves, and vent black ; wings black and white fpoited: bill pale red, much hooked at the tip of the upper mandible: irides red: legs black.
The New Holland one is feven feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other: the bill yellow: round the eye bare and yellow; but - between the bill and eye feathered: the plumage in general is white: the beginning of the back, and all the quills black: legs blue.
It is called by the natives Karrangaba. I muft not omit to mention the beautiful foft down which lies immediately under the feathers of this fpecies, Mr, Barrow* notices the circumftance in refpect to the
© Travels in South Africa, p-72% : Pelisans
PEO LOT Me.) Aone
Pelicaus of the Cape of Good Hope; and we have heard it remarked, that this down is at leaft equal, if mot fuperior to that of the Swan.
Pelecanus Carbo, Jed. Orn. ii. p. 886. 14. Phalacrocorax, Ger. Orz. v. t. 501. Corverant, Gez. Syn. Vi. D. 593. 13- OTH the Corvorant and Shag are frequent at Lougharu, and eels are fuppofed to be their chief food; but the Sea Geby has alfo been taken from their ftomach, hence it may be ~fuppofed, that they prey at times on Fi/h alfo*. It is no uncommon thing to fee twenty of thefe birds together on the fand, by the river fide, with extended wings, drying themfelves in the wind, and in this pofition to remain fometimes for near an hour, without once clofing them; and as foon as they are fufficiently dry, to enable the feathers to imbibe the oil, they prefs a portion thereof from the receptacle on their rumps, and drefs the feathers with it; and it is only in one particular ftate that the oily matter can be fpread thereon, by no means when quite dry, but in a ftate of dampnefs, and Bus proper moment known to the birds by inftiné alone.
It has been obferved, that the Corverant builds at Ramf. 2y Tland, in the higheft cliffs and moft inacceffible places; the Shag much lower, and is by much the more familiar bird of the two. Inftances have been noticed, of the Corvorant not being eafily frightened from any place on which it perches ; in addition to which, I have been credibly informed, that the end of Fuly 1793, one of them was found fitting on the vane of St. Magdalen’s Church fteeple, on Ludgate Hill, in London, and was fhot from thence in the prefence of a number of people +.
= Colonel Montagu.
+ A further defcription of the manners bfthe Corworane may be feer, well drawn
up, in Gilpin’s Remarks on Foreft Scenery, z vols. 8vo, 1791.
3A 2
CORVORANT.
Description.
364
3. CHINESE. C.
DescrIprTion.
PAE ee Gara GN:
Louwa, Ogslly. Chin. pl. in p. 92.—lad. pl. p. 699.
Loufoo, Da Hald. Chin. vi. it, 142. pl.in p. 10z.—Ofbeck. Voy. it. po 35%
Leu-tze, Emb. to China, ui. p. 358, 412. pl. 72. ¢
AUCH has been faid heretofore concerning the bird ufed by the
Chinefe for fifhing: we were led to think, from what Linnaeus had been informed, that at leaft one of the fexes was white, but we- owe to Sir George Staunton, the intire development of the true fpe- cies, not only by his obfervation on the mode whilft in Chine, but by having brought home various fpecimens for examination, from whence it appears that the bird is ftrictly neither a Corvorant nor
‘Shag, though approaching thereto, but a diftinét fpecies: the bill is
yellow: irides blue: the general colour of the plumage brownifh black: chin white: the body whitifh beneath, fpotted with brown: tail rounded, confifting of twelve feathers.
In the journey to Hax-choo-foo, on the river Luen, fir George ob- ferved, on a large lake clofe to this part of the canal, and to the eaftward of it, thoufands of fmall boats and rafts, built entirely for this fpecies of fifhery; on each boat or raft were ten or twelve birds,. which at a fignal from the owner plunge into the water, and it is afto- nifhing to fee the enormous fize of fith with which they return grafped in their bills. They appeared to be fo well trained, that it did not require either ring or cord about their throats, to prevent them from. {wallowing any portion of their prey, except what the mafter was pleafed to return to them for encouragement and food. The boat ufed by thefe fifhermen is of a remarkably light make, and 1s often carried to the lake, together with the fifhing birds, by the men who are there to be fupported by it*.
© See vignette in Zmb, so Céing, il. p. 389. at the bottom.
PWR eL Cy AY oN,
Pelecanus Baffanus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 891. 26.—-Ger. Orn. Vv. t. 515, Gannet, Gen. Syn. vi. p» 608. 25.——Tour in Scott. 1769, pl. inp. 199. T has been obferved, that when thefe birds pafs from place ta place, which they are fomctimes obferved to do in flocks, from five to fifteen each, they keep low, near the fhore, but never pafs ever the land, on the contrary, doubling the capes and projecting parts, keeping at.nearly the fame diftance. It has been before men- tioned, that at Saint Kilda, the inhabitants hold them in much eftima- tion. Mr. Pennant fays, that the natives tie a herring toa board, and fet it afloat, fo that the Gawwet, by falling furioufly upon it, may break its neck in the attempt, This, however, appears to be unlawful, for the fattening herrings thus to planks at fea, to catch the Soland Goof, is forbidden under a fevere penalty. It is an unfatiably voracious bird, difdaining to eat any thing worfe than Herrings or Mackarel, unlefs it be in a very hungry place, which it endeavours to avoid or abandon: an hundred thoufand of them are fuppofed to be round the rocks
of Saint Kilda, which is far too moderate, as 20,000 of them are _
killed annually for food, including the young ones ; and we {hall fup- pofe that the So/and Goofe fojourns in thefe feas for about feven months of the year, and that each of them deftroys five herrings in a day, a fubfiftence by no means adequate to fo greedy a creature, un- lefs more than half fupported by other fifh. Here we have 105,c00,000 of the fineft fifhes in the world devoured annually by one fingle fpecies of Saint Kilda birds *.
The Gannet, before it gains its white plumage, is brown, moft beautifully fpotted all over with white; one of thefe was taken alive near me in September 1798: it weighed three pounds and a quarter; length three feet ; breadth fix feet: irides blueifh grey. It was on the whole fo exactly like the bird reprefented in pl. 986 of the P/, Ea- tuminées, as to render any further defcription unneceffary.
© See Buchanan’s View of the Fithery of Great Britain.
365
4. GANNET.
DescriPTion.
TROPIC B.
PLACE.
2 ROMP TRB Tt Ron,
Ginus Co TRIOPTC BIRD:
IN our Syaopfis, we have mentioned three fpecies of this genus, with
their varieties, but 1 fufpect that there is at leaft one more fpecies, having been fhewn a long tail of a Tropic Bird, the fhaft of which is black, and the web buff colour: it is about the fize of the common one, but much fuller webbed, and does not end in a point, as is the ufual manner.
Tt was faid to come from fome part of the Sovth Sea, but the place uncertain.
Die Ter ee
Gexos Clo (AIR ERS
Plotus anhinga, Ind, Orz. ii. p. 895. 1- Colymbus colubrinus, Snake Bird, Bartr. Trav.. 130. 243. White-bellied Darter, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 622, 1,
[R. Abbot, of Georgia, feems to think that this bird ftays through- out the year in his neighbourhood, having feen it at times the whole of the winter. :
Mr. Bartram, after defcribing the bird, adds, that they have a way of fpreading out the tail like an unfurled fan: they delight to fit in little peaceable communities, on the dry limbs of trees, hanging over the ftill waters, with the wings and tail expanded, and when approach- ed, they drop off the limb into the water as if dead, and for a minute or two are not feen, when on a fudden, at a yaft diftance, their lone flender heads and necks only appear, and have much the appearance of Suakes, as no other part of them is to be feen when fwimming in the water, except fometimes the tip of their tail; in the heat of the day, they are feen in great numbers, failing very high in the air, over lakes and rivers,
367
WHITE- BELLI£D D,
368
CHINA oO.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
UNDULATED O
DescriPTioNn.
PLACE.
AL SOD ID Gis AS OB: Ss
Genus II.° O W UL. J_ENGTH feventeen inches: bill dufky black : the head is {mooth;
the face pale, with dufky markings; the feathers furrounding it margined with dufky: the general colour of the upper parts of the plumage is ferruginous chefnut, with dufky markings, but at the back part of the head and neck, with black and white irregular fpots: the quills and tail powdered with darker chefnut dots, and croffed with bars of the fame, at half an inch diftance: the chim and throat are white; the reft of the under parts of the body and thichs are white alfo, but croffed with numerous fine dufky lines: legs feathered to the toes, and of the fame colour; claws dufky. Inhabits China: for this, and many of the following, I am indebted to General Davies.
ENGTAH twelve inches: general colour on the upper parts like that of the Brown Owl; but moft of the wing coverts and leffer quills are marked at the ends with white: the whole head and throat are of one colour, but from thence to the vent each feather is mar= gined with white, giving an undulated appearance: the bill is large, _ ftrong, of a blueith lead colour, befet with ftiff briftles at the bafe: legs yellow; toes bare of feathers ; claws black. Inhabits Norfolk [land.
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Piva ROR JOredls
Genius V.0 P ARR OLE:
ENGTH eighteen inches: bill large, blue, with a black point: general colour of the plumage dark green, under parts paler: forehead and middle of the crown crimfon: quills deep blue: tail Jong, dufky, greenith brown above, brown beneath: legs brown. Found at Port Fack/fon. \t appears moft to coincide with the Var. A. of the Pacific Parrot, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 253. 56. A. but feems to be of nearly twice the fize.
IZE of the Grey Parrot; length thirteen inches: general colour dufky, with a flight glofs of green, and the margins of the fea- thers very pale: the head feathers are full, and the bird thereby en- abled to erect them as a creft at will; the whole of thefe are a deep fcarlet, except the chin, which is dufky: the under parts of the body are paler than the upper, and undulated with a mixture of reddifh and green, arifing from the margins ofithe feathers being of that co- lour, but not very confpicuous, except juft at the bottom of the belly, where the red predominates: the quills and tail are plain dufky, but appear fomewhat undulated with darker in a ftrong light: the bill is yellowifh: legs dufky: the tail is fhort; the wings reach three parts thereon. Another, fuppofed to be the female, was fifteen inches in length; on the upper parts much like the other, but the feathers more confpicu- oufly barred with a pale colour, more particularly the quills and tail, in which laft the bars are fix or feven in number: the head is tufted with feathers as in the other, but the feathers the fame colour as the back: the chin dufky green: breaft and belly barred acrofs beauti- Supp. I]. ~ nh, i412 B fully
369
RED-TOPPED Pe
DEscriPTION:
Prac.
RED- CROWNED P.
DescripTion.
37°
PLAGE,
—
HELMET
HORNBILL..
DESCRIPTION.
HORNBILE.
falty with red, yellow, and brown, growing more dull towards the vent.
Befides the above, I faw another at Mr. Tbomp/on’s, in which only part of the head had the red creft, feemingly an intermediate ftate be- tween the former two, and may be fuppofed a young bird not yet in adult plumage.
Thefe inhabit New South Wales
Grnes Ee avo BR NOE LLL.
Buceros galeatus, Zzd. Orz. i. p. 142. 2.
Helmet Hornbill, Gex. Syn. i. p. 343. 2. S the bill in this bird has been before defcribed at large, it is ne= ceffary here only to fay, that it is about eight inches long, and has a prodigious fquare callofity, rifing three inches and a half in height above the bafe of the upper mandible, projecting over the
_ eyes*. ‘The plumage on the head, breaft, back,. and wings, is black;
belly, thighs, and vent, white: the tail is long, cuneiform in fhape, and white, with a broad bar of black near the end of each feather. The total length of the bird is four feet, of which the tail meafures two, for the two middle feathers occupy that fpace, the two next on each fide are twenty-one inches, and the three outer ones one foot: the wings reach about three inches on the tail: the legs are flout, {caly, and black. A pretty complete fpecimen of this bird is in the Britifh Mu/eum.
® Good figures of it may be feen in Edavards, pl. 281, CPi. Exl, 933>
© R.O°Wais-R O LEbsEeR.
Buceros plicatus, Jzd. Ore. i. p. 146. 12.
Calao of the Ifland of Waigiou, D’Eutrecaft. Vey. (Engl. ed. 8vo.) ii. p. 304.
Weed Hornbill, Lath, Syn, i. p. 358.——La. Supp. p. 76. BY the defcription given in the above voyage, it will be found ta
tally not unaptly with that given by Dampier. The bill is faid to
be arched, of a dirty white, each mandible unequally indented; the upper one furmounted by a fort of yellowifh creft, which is fattened and grooved: the wings and body are black; the tail is white; and if we may judge by the figure, fhort, and even at the end: the neck of a pretty bright rufous colour.
Genus XIII. CR OW.
ENGTH ten inches: bill and legs black: upper parts of the
plumage in general, from the crown to the tail coverts, as well as
the wings, fine pale blue grey: the face, to beyond the eyes, chin,
throat, and breaft, full black; all from thence beneath, thighs and
vent, pure white; the outer edge of the wing and quills black, edged with white: tail black.
Inhabits Port Fack/on. It has much affinity to the Black-faced Crow”; but the black proceeds as far as the breaft, not finifhing on the feet and the under parts are not of fo pure a white as in the one here defcribed ; however, we cannot be pofitive that it may be only a variety.
Genus XIV. ROLLER. JLENGTH nine inches: bill and legs red: head and neck chef nut; chin and throat, down the middle, black, bounded on each
* Supp. ii. p. 116. 19. ; 3B 2 j fide
37
WREATHED HORNBILE.
DESCRIPTION.
BLACK- BREASTED - CR.
DEsCRIP TION.
Prace.
ie er
Her Erion.
PLACE.
GORGET W.
DESCRIPTION.
PLACE.
AZURE K
DESCRIPTION.
PLacE.
BLUE-FACED CR.
DEsCRIPTICNe
~WOODPECKER. KINGSFISHER, CREEPER.
fide with a line of white: the lower part of the neck from the chefnut changes to green, and from thence all beneath is paler green: wings fine blue; bafe of the quills white, forming a {pot of white when expanded: rump and tail coverts green; tail itfelf, and ends of the quills, dufky blue black. Inhabits Port Fack/on. XXII.
GENUS WOODPECKER.
_ENGTH about nine inches: bill pale horn colour: head, neck, and upper parts deep cinnamon or chefnut, growing very pale on the rump: back and wings marked with numerous curved tranf- verfe black crefcents ; acrofs the breaft a large black crefcent; from thence to the vent pale dufky rufous, fpotted with black: rump and vent paler than the reft, marked with black : tail feathers black, Anhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound: it comes neareft in colour to the Rufous Woodpecker, but is a larger bird, and moft probably is a dittinct fpecies.
~
Genus XXIV. KINGSFISHER.
_ENGTH ix inches and a half; fize of the European fpecies: bill an inch and three-quarters long, and black: the plumage on the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, is of a fine deep blue: between the bill and eye a buff coloured ftreak : on each fide of the neck, a long oblique ftreak of white; all the under parts of the body, from chin to vent, deep buff colour: quills brown: legs red. Inhabits Norfolk Mand,
Gees XXX CR EE PE R
ENGTH five inches: bill three quarters of an inch, black : ge- neral colour of the plumage dufky, nearly black on the under eee parts,
T HO - RE, Sn.
parts, but on the crown of the head and the back brown: quills and * tail wholly dufky black: the face, all round the bill, and the chin and rump, are fine blue: legs dufky black.
Inhabits 4frica. Detcribed from a fpecimen found preferved in the collection of the late Mr. Bailey, of the Hay Market.
Guvus XXXL Cree Ro SEL
JUENGTH feven inches and a half: bill and legs yellow: general
colour of the plumage dufky or purplith black : head and neck pale afh colour: one fuppofed to be the hen, thas the head and neck _ ofa darker afh colour, and the reft of the plumage fomewhat paler, otherwife not unlike.
inhabits Norfolk [iand.
ENGTH feven inches and a half; fize of the Black-eyed Thrujb: top of the head above the eyes, and nape, fine blue grey: chin, fore part of the neck and breaft, black: behind the eye a large white patch: the lower part of the neck, the back, wings, and tail, fine pale green: belly, thighs, and vent yellow : bill and legs black. This inhabits the fame parts as the Black-eyed Thrufh, and is fup- pofed by fome to be the othef {ex of that bird.
ENGTH feven inches and a half: head, neck, back, wings, and tail, black: a large patch of white on the lower coverts or fe- condary quills: the under parts of the body from the breaft white : over the eyes a long ftreak of white, like an eye-brow: thighs black, dotted with white: wings when clofed reach half way on the tail: bill and legs black.
Bound at Port Fackfon: defcribed from a drawing made from a fpecimen
373
Piacs,
ASH-HEADED THR.
DeEscRIpTion.
Puack.
WHITE-EARED THR.
DESCRIFTION.
Prace.
_ WHITE- BROWED THR. DeEscriPTion.
PLACE.
374
COCHIN FL,
DiscrrPTioNn.
PLACE.
GOLD- BREASTED M
DescriPpTION,
PLACE.
WORFOLE P.
DESCRIPTION.
FLYCATCHER. MANAKIN. PIGEON.
fpecimen brought from-thence by Governor King: in appearance it moft refembles the Re/fle/s Thrufh, N° 11.5 but in this laft, the white, trace over the eye, and white patch on the wing, are both wanting.
Genus XL. FLYCATCHER.
LENGTH four inches and three quarters: bill dufky, with feve-
ral hairs at the gape: crown above the eye, nape, hind neck, back, and wings, olive brown, darker on the forehead; all beneath, level with the eye, to the vent, pale rufous; very light about the throat and neck: quills dufky: at'the outer edge of the wing a white {pot : tail brown, but paler than the back, and greatly cuneiform; the middle feathers being two inches long, the outer ones five eighths of an inch; the three outer feathers are white at the ends, with a crefcent of black juft within the white: legs pale red.
Inhabits Cochin China.
Genus XLIV. MANAKIN.
ENGT H four inches: bill pale: head, neck, breaft, back, wings, and tail, deep blue black; acrofs the breaft a band of fine yellow, curved upwards on each fide of the neck; from thence, the belly, thighs, and vent, are deep ferruginous: legs pale ath colour. Inhabits Brazil.
Genus XLVI. PIGEON
LE N G TH fourteen inches: head and neck, as far as the breaft, white; from the laft to the vent black: quills black: back and wings deep dufky purple, with a few darker-markings: tail dull pur-
ple, with the inner webs of the feathers dufky : bill black: legs red. 4 : With
GV ATEPE TN" UF Lk
With this was another, faid to differ only in fex. Init, the head, neck, and breaft were ferruginous: back and wings green: quills dufky : belly, thighs, rump, and vent, brownifh purple: the two middle tail feathers ferruginous, the reft pale brownifh purple: bill and legs as in the other.
Inhabits Norfolk Ifland.
LENGT H twenty inches: bill deep red; towards the tip yellow: irides crimfon: head and fore part of the neck, as far as the
breaft, fine glofiy deep green; towards the breaft paler: fhoulders
deep chocoute red, or chefnut; behind the neck gloffed with copper :
the lower part of the back, the wings, and tail, pale blue: quills within
_ dufky: breaft, belly, and vent, white: legs red.
Inhabits Norfolk Ifland.
ENGTH eight inches: head, neck, and breaft, pale grey:
belly, thighs, and vent, white: back and wings light fandy brown: wing coverts marked with white fpots: quills deep brownifh grey: tail cuneiform in fhape; the two middle feathers three inches and a half long, the outer, one inch and a quarter ; the end half of all but the two middle ones white.
Inhabits New South Wales.
Genus LXXX, GALLINULE.
ILL red and large, as in the Purple Gallinule, and rifing. on the forehead: head and neck blue grey, growing to azure towards the chin: back purple: wings and tail deep indigo: breaft and belly verditer green: vent white : tail indigo: legs fcarlet. Draven from one in Exeter Exchange, by General Davies.
Another, -
3758
PLAce, CHESNUT- SHOULDERED ie
DESCRIPTIONs
Pracg, GREY-NECKED P
DEscriPTiION>
Pracg:.
GREY- HEADED: G .
° DEscriPpTion.
976
GALLINULE. Another, faid to come from Madagafcar: bill the fame, but not
coming fo high on the forehead: head and neck pale grey: back deep _
green and black intermixed: chin, breaft, and fhoulders of wings, verditer green: belly and fides blue: vent ultramarine: legs and bare part of the thighs fcarlet. Thefe feem to be varieties only of each other, if not of a different fex.
INDEX.
A. ASS Vogel -
Abba Gumba Acoli - - Aigle, blagre -
— blanchard - — de Gottingue -= de la Guiane — de Pondicherry == deftrufteur
= ecaude -
= grande de la Guiane
— gritard
=< huppard —= moyen
== nonette
= yautourin — vocifer Alauda arvenfis = Bengalenfis = Coromanda — gigantea == obfcura
=— Gorenfis ~ -
Geta et: Teongee eee cee 8
=~ Nove Zelandiz
= pantherana - — Yeltonienfis Alouette pipi Ampelis criftata —_— cuprea
-— garrulus — lutea
Anas alandica =~ albicans
we acuta -«
Surry. II.
Vi Yan Pa Ws 1s Le ot |
4 ’ 0 ‘ iT 4 iPod t
emia i) “OS he (Veet ia Tei Be leet Mined ee Yo aie Rte 7}
U0: 10's Dee Qt el Ch ek et a eet et eae rail Feat Hirt J"oee! Jeccat Fam Joo) Lae Jet mel Jom feat ree | oka We) aoa peer |
CO i cele = aD TT a oraal tL tessa Weta Dost: St Yona Foca Fi Wee lel Jive Heal Ct Pent Yat Yok feet tena t jae eet Dear)
Anas Alexandrina — Anfer Arabica atrata Bofchas cerulefcens Circia Clangula clypeata Cofcoroba Crecca Cygnus ferina frenata ~ Fuligula -fufca Gattair Glaucion Gmelini hyberna, Mas Hybrida ss - Indica ~ Kekufchka - marila - melancorypha Monacha - mofchata - nigricollis -
ae ee Jee Yee Von oom VSI ae MEST Vig let jue Waal Uiek Dea fener Joteet |
Olor - Penelope Querquedula Sau Sarai - Scharchir = Sirfeir - Sparrmanni - aS
REEEREREET EERE EREIRIREP Ptr REE
C= fh a Pe Ci Qe "0. SC a Car Ek il Stet) ak Le Tin CAD) Sree et mere er pete cls ite (yest Wey than
{ CVE Tis Vir = oC re aed Beal a isl ft Jel al sal Leet Vocal Leet ot Vent Mant Nem Jol Paani Val Sean )-of Yea Tamed et at saat 1
(YSN roent WR Saat Facet Bees bd "cal SUNT Wl Yana Wea Ma Yat Vine’ Pie ye] Yateley Pac Rl Yara Poet Jat Viral Yorwal bday Vink fecal Yoel Laat bosteh
Anas ftrepera- —regia - - — Tadorna =~ — torrida - Ani - -
Aptenodytes Chiloentis
— Molinz - Ardea Antigone Caledonica Canadenfis cinerea comata - cyanocephala erythrocephala fufca - Galatea = minuta - N. Hollandiz ob{cura - ftellaris - Thula ~ torquata - variegata s Virgo -
' ob bs 0
PaaS Epis ee
Arrian geyer Afilus - Asfour Dsjebali - Afimoch - - Avis a Corarao - Autour = < = de Ja Guiane
— de Mauduit - |
Bacha - Bachbakiri Balgonera Bana will will Barbet, Gerini’s Barge, grande Baftardnachtigale Bateleur - - Baumfalke - 4 Baya -
G 0-0 Dat 5
Bee-cater, black and yellow
Chast Lepad eee eal Desa Soret Nene Pere esl eee I
OO 7 OO th
tod Pest BY heed Sie Feed Joo ed J
353
loN DD 4E Xt.
Page Bee-eater, black-eared
— blue-cheeked — blue-green - chattering - cowled Ealtern European gold-winged hooded = knob-fronted red-throated red-winged - fuperb - variegated ~ wattled - white-fronted yellow-tufted Beef-eater -
fetaleverer tet tee tl
Bengali a front pointill
— myftacin - Berbera - = Berghaan < 2 Bir-reagel - - Bittern = = — little - - Blac - - Blagre - Blanchard = Boaddang - Bolbol = Boobook -
Boora morang Boubou - -
Bouvreuil d’?Hudfon.
— prafin - - Branta albifrons - — torrida - Brubra - Buceros Be aiciens — galeatus - — Indian
— plicatus Bucco Gerini Buphaga- Bunting, Baden = Cirl o
eo 8 » 8 8
2 = =
hy UU Sth 1
FET Yororsl Jorset Pres eae Visa esoet Viren loreal Serent deeced Watts Weil boost Io b( Yes foc bree econ Desai ml Jeter Jinan tia Hoan dace J
Closet ee Noss Pec feel Totck Samet peso Mead med er cre See eee Ye Jeeant seed ee feat ete Dd Fed Joes sted |
(AK Wincal rsrt Jet, Wiest Fase! Doon Focal Foot Jaccs( feted foveet Jose Bee) Sueurl Jaen puecn( peeul feta Saeed J
Page 153 194 15z 154 155 152 148 153 152 151 157 149 152 155 150 156. 149 102 197
ib. 193 22 263 300 30 28 34 20 216 7 64, IE 180 19z 195. 349, ib. 78 99 370° 100 371 132 102 200 199 Bunting,
Peery | 2S fen eet bd de | sed Sonal Vm York mse ete Vostr| Jlsee| bares Dies Parl Komal ise 3
[ei Tet fete) Jamo Event feet Patent |
i] > © o 8 8 9 6 @ 1 1 too ‘ '
Bsntiag, coloured
= crimfon-bellied
— )Dauurian — dwarf — foolifh — luteous =— painted e=— ruddy — roftic
— varied
— yellow-browed —- - - winged
Burril : Bufard efclavon e— roux =
— grenouillard Bufe_gantée
= Jackal
— tacharde Buferay - Bufon = Buftard, Arabian — Chili
Buzzard, American
= hobby — honey - Buzzaret -
Caffre 2 Cage =
Cajao of Waigiou ; Calidris viperino coloris
Canard, royal Canaribyter_
«<
bok ORE seers
RD eit athe: te 8
«
Caprimulgus Afiaticus «
= macrodipterus
~~ Nova Hollandiz -
(Caffowary bird
—~ New Holland
_ =o Southern Cart bird
Cedar bird
Cercoplis
gs Ae
t} OP Aes de ds te a oo 8 4
CN DUE xX
Chey Vie amet Weer eesti Jot ) LEE Jerk Teaiae SR ead Yossi Pr) Je" Flee Wiese Jams er pe Vac PORT (PORT Femi Posey nn |
Page 202 200 202 201 200 203 201
ib.
Certhia 2nea < afra - z armillata = Afiatica - bifafciata - cinerea - Cruentata <« erythronotos
falva = - gularis - ignobilis = incana =
Nove Hollandiz peregrina - polita - prafinoptera trochilea - — undulata S Channel-bill - Chantre - =
HAE EI are
Charadrius Alexandrinus
— calidris = = Curonicus - — Falklandicus == Nevius - — Sibiricus <- Chaffe-fiente - Chatterer, Carolina
— crefted - — cupreous = — yellow . Chagoun ~
Chevalier commun Chevechette -
Cheugue - - Chicquera - Chili . = Chincou - = Chinka - . Choucas commun Choucon - - Choucouheou - Chouee - = Choueite 4 aigrettes — a collier a
=— A mafque noir 3C2
Ch STi HO Fe, ST pM REST VISTI ss ar Feit ar nt fied reed foe
ib: F
iT
a Foe Ore |
Fen ay Poet area deel Wie fel Yoel Srna
ib) mee low °
Cetra rs al Ww
ss BTS YT Tonal Fase ig ett eet hated Var Fest ie Ee =)
Chae
-6
tts
Chouette blanche — cheveckette - choucou e — de Cayenne - Harfang - nudipede = — Phalenoide - Ciconia Numidica
—
—
Cockatoo, Bankfian
— cretfted = — fvnereal -
Columba Algyptiaca
— brannea - — chalcoptera -
Colymbus colubrinus
Coct = -
Coracias Bengalenfis
—— Cartaginienfis
Corb Corn
docilis - ftrepera - eau = - eile -
Corvus albicollis
ef S's GL fs C(t
calvus
Canadenfis carnivorus clericus
corax =
cornix
corone
cyanus
dauuricus Eremita - erythropterus. frugilegus = gracolinus < graculus = loripes ~ maritimus - Monedula - Pica - - Pyrrhocorax rufus ~ feapulatus - Senegalenfis Stelleri -
5
‘dees Feat frm Poet fos Jar] font §
=
cre:
Tyan kof ower)
POSTS Oa a Bat Jol)
- 108, 109,
PN Be Xe
Corvus torquatus -
Corvorant
— Chinefe Cotinga cuprea Coubla = Coucou criard — indicateur Couit-couit Crane, brown — commoa — Indian — Savannah Crave Coracias — des Alpes — huppé
Creeper, African
ISI TT Ine ee a
agile - - black-eyed - - - - fronted - - - headed blue-faced - - - throated cerulean chirping = Cinereous = cochineal - crimfoa-bellied cupreous = = Dirigang - fulvous - gartered == green-winged
hoary - - ignoble - Leona - Mahratta - mellivorous - New Caledonian New Holland peregrine - polifhed =
red-backed - red-rumped - red-fpotted - flender-billed fogar- =
"th the te te tht)
Tit) By poe) te Oh 8:
Page 107 363 364 190 ~
73 136
SSS:
+179
= 299
=. 208
=< tbs
Tey =rTs - 14 - ¥15 - 158 - +368 - 165 =) RI69 | - 167 mane y/e2 S 163 - 169
- 166
- 160
- 167
Tt yaa PTF TVR
164, 162 166 - 159 - 162 - 163 - 168 - 160 - 164 - ib. - 166 - 161 - ib. - 162 - 15 - ee - 169 - 161 - 165 fm dy ee | Creeper,
Creeper, undulated
~~
—
wren - - yellow-eared - - - - winged
Crotophaga - Crow, Alpine -
—
MGA IA ITAA Aa eel
black-breafted - - - faced = - - ~ and white blue - = - - and white Caledonian - carrion - changeable - Hermit = hooded - red billed - - - legged - rafous bellied fhort-tailed -
Steller’s - variable = wattled = white-breafted - - - cheeked - - - vented wood - = Crown bird =
Crying bird = Cuckow, Saas
ete Steel tele
bee -
Bike headed’s - common cupreous fan-tailed gilded glofly - honey - noify «= pheafant
Guculus auratus
co = a2) ins) a ow 1 Sr ek |
canorus
re) Yee eb es ee te aot te a ee a) age gh era
Le |
Ue ee Re Be we Ae Ea te het by 0 e8 Be heh ee Orr
PoN? “Diy Bt,
ri-Sat Wie Deca eat Quid (eee Vien elt Do Tat SoS bs Wah ap eed ical Worl Sepeal foeat Sree Tet (er Scat hoy hae
Page 160 163 169 1638
103
114 371 116 ib, TIt 116 ib. 108 119 115 109 112 115 118 115 Ill 116 119 TIO 118 121 115 189 306 139 ib. 137 133 134 133 134 138 134 136 137 135 104. 138 136 135 133
Cuculus Indicator —perla - - — Vetvla = Curlew, common — crying = Curruca fepiaria = Curucui, Leverian Cygnus cucullatus
Darter = Darwang - Dee-weed-gane Dancers Didus ineptus Dilbong - Djou - - Diomedea Chilenfis — Chiloenfis - Dirigang -
Dodo - By Dodar - - Dornegas + - Dourra = « Duc 2 courtes oreilles — grand - = — moyen
Duck, Arabian = — Alexandrine — Gadwal
Garganey
Gattair
Gmelin’s
Golden-eye
Hawkfbury
Kekufchka
lobated
Mallard
Mofcovy -
New Holland
| boo ry
Pintail - Pochard = -
Be ae
Poet Uh Baw e hes ret wie at ah og
Viet kU er ke Brake:
New Holland thoveler
Lied Saal ler Some Sa
Geter we 8
USS Oa ee sO oe oe Beth Ik N oo oO
Ez. Eagle, Blagre - 5 — Cinereous - - — deftruétive - - =— martial - - — noily - = = p= cccipital = ° — pifcivorous - - —» Pondicherry : — vulturine < Ecorcheur - - ©
Effraie - 2 a Einfiedlergeyer - - Emberiza Badenfis -
rutila - ° . fpodocephala e Engovulevent 4 collier «
== a queue fourchue - Epervier a ventre roux =
w= Cla - ° = — ciris - - ° —— Cirlus 5 = =— chryfophrys - » — chryfoptera - > = coccinea ° . =— flavipes AU == fucata - - . == luteola FS O = mixta ° ? ° = pufilla - e e= rnftica - S ee
= pie vc - 2
= tachera 2 e
Ephoufkyca ° =
Erkoom 2 °
Etourneau de la Daonrie
s= More -« = 2 PF,
Faico Albicila » « _s~ apivorus
er aquilinus a= bidentatus
a 1}
NDE.
Page eres 4 138 Bi) Be) - 16 ie P14 a Os 5) e 32 2 i - 69 GO - 3 - 200 e ib. = 261 - 199 - 203 - 199 - 200 > .204. 2 202 - 203 - 202 = 201 wi Oe e ib. 2 202 - 260 - 264 e- 39 Le 40 s gt = 306 e . 99 » 175 > 376 e 18 ri zu3 oa 34 > 28
PEAT VTAT TAA ade
Falco, Bohemicus
borealis brunneus cirrhatus deferti difcolor furcatus glaucopis gytfalco Hyemalis Javanicus incertus Lathami marginatus maritimus
melaneleucus
Milvus Nifus -
palumbarius
pennatus
ponticerianus
rubiginofus rnfipes Sclavonicus fubbuteo Tharus tigrinus
— Tinnunculug Falcon, axillary
Cd
-=— black and white
Te eee ee ee ee De ee |
Racha.
- - - eyed
=
- > « thighed 2 - ~ winged
Bohemian booted chanting Chicquera Courland
=
es
c
e
2
crefted Indian
-dwarf = fair glaucous Jackal - Javan =
Iceland.
= ba 2
e
i)
a &
Page
- 43 bce - 44 < 25 3 50 A BSS) + 28 RRO 5 27 2 39 = 36 BUNA ea A 27 0-37, Sei. = 23 - 4a o 30 43.5% =t 237 > 24 td 32 ye ays) - 46 46, 47 spinels - 9 ots = 42 ° Zz ° 4a Bods Ges 2 49 > 43 as By HG) °. 48 v 59 49 » 36 27
Falcon, Kite - — lunated = margined - maritime - Manduit’s - northern = notched - Pacific - Parafite - yadiated = red-legged - rufous-bellied Tufty - - and gray Sclavonian - fhort tailed - Sonnini’s -
fwallow-tailed
Tachard teftaceous
Tharu - tiger - - winking == Falke, braunrothe — bunte - - — getieperte - — rothfuffige - — rothlichweiffe Farha reheit -
Faucona croupion blanc
— a culotte noire —— chanteur = — huppé -- = Fauvette tachetée Ficedula cinerea - — pectore fufco Finch, bearded - — Chili - = —~-crimfon-headed
— foreft - - — Georgian - —nitid - é — painted - —pine -- -
— red-crowned — red-pole =
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Finch, rofy -
— — — —
Fife
fharp-tailed - fultry - - {wamp - - temporal white-headed al - -
Flamingo, Chili -
Flycatcher, black breafted
black-cheeked black crowned Cambaian -
— cat - - — coach-whip - — Cochin - — crimfon-bellied — deferc - - — ferruginous - — grey - - — hooded -
melodious - multachoe -‘ - orange rumped Paradife - particoloured red-bellied - “rofe-breafted - - winged - -rufous- fronted foft-tailed - fouthern ~ fupercilious - white - =)5 yellow-eared - - - tufted
Fowl, Moor - Fringilla-barbata
caffra - cannabina caudacuta Diuca - Georgiana ilidca - Pinetorum rofea - ruticapilla
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Fringilla, fylvatica ° - 207 Fulica atra - = . = - 328 Full doon - ~ - ~ - 217 w= tail - - ~ - ~ ib.
G.
Gabar 2 - - ° = a4 Galbula - ° = = 126 Gallinula alba - 2 < = 327 =— Porphyrio - - - « 320
Gallinule, grey-headed - ® 375 == purple - - = ~ 326
— white - - ° © = 327) Gannet - - < - ngos Garganey ~- - - - - 360 Garroora - © - - ~ 32 Geai de Steller ~- - - o> iin Ghaip - - < - mj Al Girrenera - 2 5 “ cy. 2483 Gnat-fnapper - = - = 3148 Goadgang ~ - : ° = 207 Goat-fucker, banded - - = 262 =- Bombay - ° - > 260
a= fork-tailed - - ° ~ 264
ee gracile - ° ° = 263
= great-headed ° ° Saabs
== Leona - - ” . - 264
z= New Holland - . - 261
— ftrigoid ’ . ° = 262
Godwit, ~ - . ° * 309 «=~ Barbary < ° » «= ib.
Goe-re-e-gang = ~ . ~ OF Gonolek ee : ° ° S - 92 Goo-gwar-neck - Seay ie = 151 Goo-gwareruck ~ ° - 153. 166 Goola-warrin ¢ DS ° 2 4326 Goolingnang = OS Bl ae an Sir Goora-a-gang = wit Ne a BG Goo-roo-wang se ° = wir Goofander < ° e : » 330 Goofe, black and white - = 344 w= blue-winged 2 . = 340
== common ° ° ° Sy silts
se Gofcoraba - © ~ ™ 348
Goofe, grey lag - — hybrid - — Mufcovy - — femipalmated
Gofhawk - -
Grakle, Abyffinia — egyptian - — black-headed =— blue-eared - = crefted — green - — Paradife — pied -
Gracula Atthis — criftatella Grebe - Grenouillard Grifard - - Grofbeak, afh-eoloured e= black-lined - blue-winged Caffrarian fafciated ferruginous frontal fafcinating Grenadier Hudfonian Mutftachoe nitid - Philippine
prafine
fociable
Sumatran == Sunda. = three-toed ==. waxbill == white-throated
Grous, gooto 2° w~e- hybrid °
Grus freti Hudfonis -
Grutto By os
Guifso balito =
Gull, browa eS =~. Pagific ° ==. Pulo condor -
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Gull, Skua - - 332 Humming-bird, Ekeberg’s
= as - - 170 Gungunnah - - - - 302 -— gilt-crefted - - - - 171 Gungunneer - - - - ib — great - - - - - 173 Gypaete des Alpes - - - 6 — Mango : : - - .7I
— orange-faced - - - 172 Huppard - - - - mel? H.
Harfang - : - - - 59 Tand J.
Harle huppé - - - - 338
Hauben taucher - = - - 337 Jabiru, American - - - 204 Hawk, red-tailed - - - 34 — guacu - - > - ib. Henharrier, long-legged - - 43 — New Holland - - =oeibs Heron, black-breafted - - - 302 — Senegal - - - - 295 — blue-headed - - - - 303 Jacana, Chinefe - - - 324 — brown - - - - - 304 = Chili - - - - - ib. — brun - = - - ib. Jay, red-billed - - - +4) Siz — Caledonian night - - - 299 Ibis - - : - - - 9 — common - - - - 303 Jentje-bibi - : - - 179 — Demoifelle - - - - 297 Jilguero - - - - - 208 — lacteous - - - - 304 Jing-was - > : - - _ 92 — obf{cure - = - - 300
— Pacific > - - - 305
— red-crefted - . - - 302 K.
— Squacco - - = =\)2gb.
— fpotted = - - - 305 Kai-alora » - > - - 416 — Thula - - - - - 30z Karrangaba - - - =agoz — variegated - - - - 304 Karrat - - - - - gr — white-fronted : = - ib. Karrock - - - - - 117
. Hirundo efculenta - - - 257 Keftril - - - - 43544. — javanica - - - - 259 — rufous-backed - - - 45 — pelafgia = = = - 258 Kikvors-vanger - = = Fy oe Hobby, greater - - = - 47 Sing’s-fihher, azure - - 372 — orange-legged - - - 46 — brown . - - - 143 Hornbill, Abyffinian - < - 99 — Coromandel = = =| abs — African - - - - 100 — little Indian - - - 144 — anomalous ~~ 5 5 - 96 Kolibri der grofste - - = 1G} — crimfon - - - - 100 Kuerouden - te eh - 32 — helmet > - - = | 370 — Indian - - - - 100 — pfittaceous - - - - 96 L — wreathed - - - - 371 Hornvogel - = - - =. (>) 100 Laemmergeyer 2 = = +. @ 6 Huhul, chouette - - - 62 lLanius barbarus - - - 72 Huamming-bird, blue-eaded - 172 —= collaris ro ati DLS ay 68 — Chili - - eu Ae yO == \colluria 1) <1 er ed =) 69
Supp. Il. : 3D Lanius
Lanius curviroftris
— jocofus - - — Leverianus - — picatus - — rutilus - -
— Senegalus — Tyrannus - Lark, cinereous - — Dixon’s - — dukky - - — ferruginous - — rock - — fea - - —ftky - = — Yeltonian Larus catarractes — Pulo Condor Laubvolchen Leeuwerk Vange Leu-tze - Linaria Ciris = Linnet, red-headed Lory, beautiful - Loufoo 5 Loxia Caffra =—— cinerea — fafciata — ferruginea — Hudfonica — hypoxantha — Javenfis — Orix - — Philippina — Prafina — focia -
ASA fires Fa neh Wee
M.
Maccaw, hyacinthine Maeufe habicht - Magnakli - - Magpie - > — blue - - — new Caledonian Manakin, cerulean
(esha s(t Bee (Bat |
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.
70 71 70 ib.
Manakin, crimfon-throated
— gold-breaited — long-tatled - — Miacatototl
— Picicitli = — fpeckled - -— fuperb - :
— fupercilious - Mangeur de Opa Manqgue_ - Martin acridophage Mawing - Melino-orghi - Menura = = Merganfer, blue -
— brown - =
— cinereous -
— forked - -
— goofander -
— imperial 2
— minor -
— red- Bresned= =
—- Smew - = Mergus czruleus -
— furcifer -
— fufcus
— minvtus - Merion binnion -~ Merops apiatter -
— carunculatus
— corniculatus =
= erythropterus
— fafciculatus = -
Meflager - - Milan = = — blac -<- - — parafite . Mintle - = Miffilauce - - Montagnard- - Moroc - = Motacilla alba = — Cantatrix = — Carolinenfis = — Fitis - - — Hudfonica =
[ fee loeet Or Petal ieee aor eed J
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~ 238
= 244
- 236 234 Motaciila.
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Page Page Motacilla longirofira | - - - 239 Oriole, Bonana - - weit 2 <cbis 5 — melanopa - - > 238 — Carthagena - - - - 126 — pectore ferrugineo - - - 244 — chefnut and black - - = 12 — Sibilarrix - - - - 237 0=— golden-- - - - - ~126 Maulgo = - - - 349 — olive - - - = = 4125 Matcicapa Aedon- - - - 215 Oriolus Galbula - = - - 126 —alba - - - - 219 Oftrich, American - - - 292 = bicolor - - - - 218 = black - = - - - 288 — Cambaientis - = - - 219 Otis Arabs - = = = - 284 — Carolinenfis = - - - 218 ©— Chilenfis - - - - ib. — deferti - - = - - 217 Ourigourap - - 2 = - 4 — dichroa - - - -°:218 Ouzel; Penrith - - - SS Gy, — erythrogaftra - = - - i216 Owl, bare- SERBed - - - = 65 — javanica - - - - 218 — barn - - - - 60 — meloxantha - = - - 220 — Boobook - - - - 64 — Neve Hollandie - - = 215 — booted - = - - 66 — Paradifi = - - =1 217 — China - - = = 368 — fuperciliofa - ~ - = - 220 — dwarf - ~~ Z 2 66 Mufophaga - - . - = 104 |= eared, great ~ - - Satire Mafquito Hawk = = - - 262 !— --- - long - - ° - 56 Myéteria Americana - - - 294 == --- - fhort - = - - — 1b. — ermine- - - - = ~ 60 — Falconine - - - > 61 N. — fafciated _ - - -- 62 : — Georgian - - - 64 Wharduapoa = = - - 204 — Javan - - - = = OF Nhande guaeu - = - - 292 — Marfh - = - Zz - 58 Nightingale - - - = 233 — Snowy ~ = = - - ~59 Nifler Vokoor - - - - 15 — Spedlacle - - - - - 64 — werk - - = - = 6 — fupercilious « - = = 63 Nometjes - - - - - 2: — Tengmalm’s - - - 66 Wumenius Arquata = = - 306 .— variegated = - - = -62 Numida Aigyptiaca = - - - 272 ‘— undulated < - - - 368 — Meleagris - - - - ib. © — white - - - - - ~ 60 Nun, white- = - - - 338 — white-fronted - - 58 Nuthatch, Carolina = - -- 145 — Chinefe - - - ECi = I — Grey black- Ses - =" 145 P — leat - - - - Ib. : : _ orange-winged - - - 146 Parakeet, Jonquil - - - - 83 — red-fhouidered - - 1 G0 — — fmall - . . ani La ne88 oO. :— Turcofine - * - - 89 ; Parafite < = = E = 30 Oifeaubrame - - - - -32 Parra- - - al) Gu e7eg24 Oricou - ” - - - 11 Parrot, Alexandrine - = - --86 3Dz Parrot,
pF
Parrot, black-necked Carolinas - Chili - iS crimfon-fronted Gerini’s’ + Ground os Jaguilma - Levaillant’s orange-headed - - - winged
lefslel (tell tel
Nonpareil - Pacific - — pale - =
— Pennantian - — pileated - — purple-tailed — red-topped - = - - crowned == Sparrow = — Tabuan -
— Thecau - — Van Diemen’s =— varied - = vernal -
Partridge, Afiatic =— Cambaian — Cape -
— Cafpian
= Ceylon
== common = crowned = green -
— Kakerlic w= New Hollan — violaceous Parus Alpinus — aureus
= criftatus
— indicus - = Knjaefcik - — peregrinus - Paffer Brafilienfis Pauw. wilde. 2 Peacock, wild «= Pelecanus Baflanus «= Carbo -
2
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Pelecanus onocrotalus =
Pelican, white - Pendeur - - Penguin, Chiloe - — 3 toed = Percnoptere - Perdix Afiatica - — Cambaienfis. — Cafpia = — Cinerea 2 — Coturnix - Pettichaps = Petrel, black = — cinereous - — fuliginous - — Norfolk Ifland — white-breafted
Phalacrocorax - ~ Phafianus criftatus
_ fuperbus - — varius -
Pheafant, fre- bacbed
(oe fase Deity file Jerse Josey (rere forte) taod er Saeed }
— fuperb - Pheenicopterus Chi'enfs Phytotoma - -
.— dAbyfiinie -
—— duChili -
Picbeuf - =
Picus altivolans - — capenfis - — itterocephalus — lignarius - — minor - - — pitius S =
Pie a culotte de Peau — - pendeloques = bleue - - — commune - — griefche roufle
Pies, Order of -
Pigeon, Bantamefe — black-winged
— bronze-winged
— brown =
-— chefnut-fhouldered. -
== Egyptian =
Peet. FSO ade?
(Jee Pre Nace d Yeeed prea) See
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J & = OV e
Pigeon, grey-necked leffer crowned
_ — — — — = —
Norfolk pale - pied - Southern Surat - Waalia
white-winged Pindaramcoli Pinquen - Pipra Miacatototl
Picicitli Superba
Plantain-eater Plant-cutter, Abyfinian
Chili -
Plotus Anhinga
Plover, Alexandrine
bridled brown - Courland Curonian
-
great-billed - green-headed
grifled
— high-legged -
—
Kentifh
— rufty-crowned
Sibirian
Pluvian -~
Podiceps cafpicus
Porphyrio alter Poobook - Pouillot - Procellaria alba
Phittacus Alexandri
-_
cinerea equina
Auftralis Ba: ikfit ~ capite albo Carolinenfis - chorzus cyanolyfeos elegans
Cc eS Ese a So tt Dies Sell tt Jaa ak Sate Bec Se Toe birt Poy Pon leant fe (jul)
TEN .D* EX.
Page 375 271 374 270 268
Pfittacus fringillaceus — formofus - — galeritus - — Gerini - — gloriofus - — Hyacinthinus — Jaguilma — pacificus — pallidus — Pennantii — pileatus — purpuratus — puiillus — i{plendidus — Tabuenfis =—— varius - — vernalis
Qs
Quail, Californian
— common -
— New Holland Quethu = os Quifcale Atthis -
— criftatelle -
—duChili 5
R.
Rabe alpen - Rachamah - Rail, doubtful =— dwarf -=- — Troglodyte Rallus autftralis =— dubius — pufillus - Rara - - Ravén - = SouthSea - Reveilleur de Norfolk Rhea Americana -
Roller, Bengal -
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SRoller,crimfon - -—~ docile — hairy - = — noify -- — pacific - -. — 1P1)) - — Eee teal — ftriated = Rollier tacheté - Roloul - = Rotter-vanger = - Rougris - uy Rounoir = - = Rouffeau Rufticola . - -
Sacre d’Egypte Sanderling - - Sandpiper - -- — brown-eared — equeftrian
— fafciated
— Selninger — wattled — wood - - Schwalbe chinefifche Scolopax ASgocephala Sa S2 toe — Belgica - =. Curonica = Gallina == major - — media - — paludofa Scythrops - SeaLark - Secretaire - - Sguacco - - Shrike, African — Barbary
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Shrike, Cape
aS PSE ETE ital
— yellow-bellied
clouded collared cruel - dubious erect - frontal
hook-billed -
Hottniqua jocofe - Leverian Magpie Mufiachoe
red-backed -
robuft -_ rufty - Senegal
fupercilious -
Tyrant
Sifuil Boulboul Sitta carolinenfis -
Pufilla-
Smew - Snake Bird -_ — eater -_
Snipe, Courland
— N. Holland
great o
Sonneur - Sparrow-hawk
Sparrow, {potted grafs
—
fwamp .
Spipola paluftris -
Starling, Dauurian
— magellanic -
Perfian
Stourne Spreo Strix ar@lica _ — brachyotus -
Bubo ~- flammea nyétea
Otus - paluftris
— perfpicillata -
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Strix Tengmalmi
— Ulula - - Stront Vogel - Struthio Camelus
— Nove Hollandiz
Sturnus Dauuricus — Loyca - — militaris - — moritanicus - Sugar. eater -
Sumpfeule - - Swallow, aculeated = efculent - — Javan .
— needle-tziled — New Holland — fmall grey - Swan - - = — black - - — - - - necked Sylvia Afiatica -
Locuftella - longiroftris ~
Ludoviciana Lufcinia = mediterranea melanocephala mofchita - ochrura - Platenfts - Protonotarius ftriata = -
fylvicola =~ fylviella - funamifica = Trochilus - — Tifchecant{chia
Fa TST USIET SST 1S PTY SP SI SPST ET
Cambaienfis eucullata- cyane - = Dartfordienfis gularis - Guzurata = Hippolais -- hortenfis = Kamtfchatchenfis littorea =
Taaou-yu-tchin - Tachiro ~- - Tanas ~ - Tanager, rude - — fhowy - - — filent - - — yellow-fronted Tanagra ornata - — rudis - - — filens ~- -
Tanagre de la Guiane
Tantalus pinuehs = Tchagra -
Tchil - - Tchoug - - Teal -- - Temia - - Tern; brown Tetrao Salone — hybridus - — viridis - - Thili- = - Thro#le, Heath ~- Thrush, afh-headed — Afiatic - — black-browed —- -~- eyed — blue-cheeked — - - headed - brown-crowned Ceylon - Chili - a dilute - - doubtful - Ethiopian fafcinating - fly-catching = frivolous - guttural - harmonic = locuft-eating lunulated = =- maxillary - minute -
Thrufh, Penrith - Wew Zealand Port Jackfon
— prafine - — punctated = — red-lesged — reftlefs - — fhort-winged — Song - - — footy - - — fordid - - — Thenca - — volatile - — white-browed - - - eared -
— — yellow- -bellied — white-rumped Tifferin - - Titmoufe, Alpine
— crefted -
— crimfon-rumped _
— Indian - — Kojaefcik - Todus flavigafter Tody, red-breafted — yellow-bellied Touraco - ‘Touyouyou ‘Tringa atra — equeftris — fafciata — glareola — Keptufcha — maritima — ochropus - Trochilus capenfis — cyanocephalus = galeritus = Mango = — maximus -« — varius - - Trogon - - Tropic Bird - ‘Turdus Athiopicus — auftralis - — bicolor, .
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Turdus cureus - — minutus - — moficus - — plumbeus - — Thenca - — trioftegus = — Zeylonus =
Valk nast. - - — rooye -
— Steen - - — witte - - Vantour de Malthe =—= moine - — norwege = — petit - = — Roi de, varié Vis vanger = Vocifer -
Vultur ncolenta) — barbarus - — barbatus - — cinereus - — Gryphus - — leporatius -« — leucocephalus — magellanicus — Monachus -
— Papa = = — Perenopterus — facra -
— ferpentarius ~- Volture, alpine - — Angola = — Arabian - =—— bearded - — Bengal - — bold -
— Californian — Chagoun
= cinereous
— Condur
King -
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Valture,
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st
Secretary
— Sociable — white-tailed -
*Vaddergal
Wagtail, black-crownec
~_—
— New Holland
Dauurian Hudfonian
white ~
Varbler, Afiatic -
-— black. backed
s— - - - cheeked
Se tet hE SS Tete |
- - - poll Cambaian Cafpian chafte cowled
W.
crim{on-breafted
artford dwarf -
ferruginous
flame-coloured
gold-bellied grafshopper Guzurat Indigo long-billed Louifiane .
Mediterranean
Perfian - Plata -
-
Prothonotary
Surr. Il,
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Tiga. Dee Ox:
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11
Warbler, ruddy « — rufous-crowned
— - - - vented — rufty-fided - — Sardinian - — fhore = - — ftreaked = — Swailow 4 — Terrene - — variable 5 — white-collared — -- - tailed - — woodwren -
— yellow-vented Warda - - Wayway - - Weidenzeifig : White-throat, lefler Wigeon - - Woodcock, Savannah Woodpecker, Banka — Cape - -
— Chili - — Gorget = — Guinea -
— Mahratta - — leffer fpotted — yellow-headed Wren, great -
— green - - — larger - - -— widow chirping — wood - - — yellow =
Wrongi - - Wye-wa - -
CWT West feel suueel Peatl Gata) Vid tom Wal aa Lee) tO
6 8 Bh eer Pees
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CXXXIII. Asyssintan PLantT-cuTTEr - CXXXIV. Crimson-BELLieD FuycatcHEr CXXXV. Escutent SWALLOW, AND Nest PCXXXVI. Banpdep GoatsuckeR --., - CXXXVI.* Supsae Menura “2? - - - CXMRVsy American Rupa 20-27) - CXXXVIII. New Hottanp Jap:iru *- CXXXVIII.* New HoLttanpD CEREOPSIS - -
CXXXIX. Semipatmated Goose - )-* - CXL. Rep-crownep Parror #- , - ; é ee 3 e
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