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equal to that of a (tare. The bill at the point is 

 black, at the bale a dirty flefh color : the head 

 is adorned with a creft hanging backwards. The 

 head, creft, neck, wing?, and tail are black, glofied 

 with a changeable blue, purple and green : the 

 bread, belly, back, and leifer coverts of the wings, 

 are of a role color, mixed with a few fpots of 

 black : the legs of a dirty orange color. 



This bird is found in 1 , Italy, and Syria, 



About . it is called the locuft bird, poflibly 



from its food ; and appears there only in fummer*. 

 In Italy it is- ftyled the fea-ftare; and as Aldro- 

 \lv.s fays, frequents heaps of dung f. And Mr. 

 EkmarckX informs us, that it reticles in Lapland, ne- 

 ver paffing beyond the limits of that frozen region. 

 We have mentioned very oppofue climes, but be- 

 lieve it to be a fcarce bird in all, at left in Europe, 



■ RujfeV shift. Alcp. 70. Tanermitr % 146. 



t .-; . if. 283. 



J Migr. av, Aman. acad. IV. 594. 



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