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and the edges of the feathers with a pale cinereous 

 brown : the middle of the belly is white, marked 

 fparingly with fimilar fpots. 



The lefler coverts of the wings are of a light 

 brown : the greater tipt with white : the fhafts and 

 lower interior webs of the greater quil-feathers are 

 white : the exterior webs and upper part of the in- 

 terior black : the upper half of the fecondary fea- 

 thers are of the fame color ; the lower half white : 

 the coverts, and the lower part of the feathers of 

 the tail are white ; the upper part black ; the 

 white gradually leffening from the outmoft fea- 

 thers on each fide : the legs are black, and four 

 inches long : and the thighs above the knees are 

 naked for the fpace of an inch and three-quarters. 



Thefe birds vary in their colors, fome that we 

 have feen being very (lightly marked with red, or 

 only marbled with it on the bread : but the re- 

 flected form of the bill is ever fufficient to deter- 

 mine the fpecies. This is not a very common fpe- 

 cies in England; we have known it to have been 

 fhot near Hull; and have once met with it in a 

 poulterer's mop in London. Mr. Edwards has fi- 

 gured a bird from Hudfotfs Bay, that feems related 

 to this ; but the difference in the colors of the 

 tail, forbids our placing it among the fynonyms. 

 And Linnaus omitting a defcripnon of that part, 

 in his Fauna Suecica^ obliges us to queftion whe- 

 ther it be the fame with the above. 



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