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a little tuft ; the bill is Tubulated, (freight, 

 narrow, black ; the neck, the breaft, and the 

 head are afti-coloured ; the coverts of the tail 

 are yellow. It was one of the prettied birds I 

 ever faw ; for, when a perfon whittled to it, it 

 fang very fweetly ; and if any one offered his 

 hand when the cage was opened, it would 

 jump upon it ; if it faw a di(h of water, it 

 went and bathed itfelf, which it did almoft 

 every day ; at night it was reftlefs till we hung 

 fomething over its cage ; we fed it with rice 

 till it was devoured by rats at Canton, 



Java Turtle doves (Columba turtur.) The 

 head is reddifiVgrey ; the bill is blackifh and 

 narrow ; the upper-jaw is the longed, and ends 

 in a (harp point like a nail, but a little bent ; 

 the lower-jaw is (height ; the nojlrih are long, 

 equally broad, oblique, raifed up at the edges ; 

 the hides are red ; the throat, the breaji, and 

 the belly are of areddifh grey ; on the neck are 

 white and ferrugineous fpots ; the quill-fea- 

 thers and the tail are undulated with a red and 

 ferrugineous colour; the legs and feet are red; 

 it has three fore-toes and one back-toe, 



J av a Sparrows, FringWacapite&guIa nigra, 

 femporibus albis (Loxia oryzivora Linn.) The 



Cock-paddy 



