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mixed with white, afh-color and red: the back 

 and fcapulars are of a moft elegant glofTy green ; 

 and the latter finely varied with purple : the lefTer 

 covert feathers of the wings are of a refplendent 

 black blue and green: the greater quil-feathers 

 black, but the ends of the four firft are marked 

 with a white fpot : the upper half of the lefTer quil- 

 feathers are black, the lower white : thofe next 

 the body of the fame colors with the fcapulars : 

 the breaft and belly are white : the vent-feathers and 

 the coverts of the tail orange color : the tail con- 

 Ms of twelve feathers ; the outmoft on each fide is 

 white, marked on the upper end of the inner web 

 with a dufky fpot ; the upper half of all the others 

 are black, tipt with a dirty white ; their lower half 

 of a pure white : the legs are red: the irides hazel. 



The female is rather lefs than the male. 



Merret, in his Pinax, p. 182. fays, that there is 

 in Cornwal a. bird related to this ; but lefs than a 

 thrum, having blue feathers, and a long creft. 



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