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Cock-paddy or Rice-bird. Edw. t. 41. The Mis 

 fometimes more, and fometimes lefs red ; the 

 lower-jaw is a little longer than the upper one ; 

 the tongue is fharp and lacerated / the head 

 and cheeks are black, but grey in young birds ; 

 the temples are white ; the neck, the back, and 

 feven of the quill-feathers are blue, and 

 blackifh grey on the upper fide ; the quill-fea- 

 thers are whitiih below ; the belly is reddifh ; 

 the twelve feathers of the tail are black ; the 

 vent -feathers are white ; the legs and feet are 

 of a pale colour ; the back-toe is as long as the 

 middlemoft fore-toe. 



We now got a fight of the Vatiallinga : 

 they are fmall Dutch merchant fliips, which 

 cruize hereabouts, betwen the iflands, to pre- 

 vent fmuggling on the coafts. 



Every time we heaved the lead We got 

 pieces of corals. 



Being obliged by the contrary current to 

 anchor at Topenjhutb, overagainft which is 

 Brabandjhutb, the Dutch Commodore's ftiip, 

 the Middelburgh, commanded by Commodore 

 Suavenbourg, with four other men of war, 

 cruizing about the coafts oijava, palled by us. 



They 



