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a broad mark in form of a horfe-fhoe, of a deep 

 orange hue ; in the female it is lefs diflindl. 



Each feather on the back is finely marked with 

 feveral femicircular lines of reddifh brown and 

 black: thefcapulars with a narrow white line along 

 their (hafts, and with black and cinereous undula- 

 ted lines on the webs-, whofe fides are marked with 

 a large fpot of rufl: color. The greater quil- feathers 

 are dufky, fpotted on each web with pale red : it 

 has eighteen feathers in the tail ; the fix outmoft on 

 each fide are of a bright ruft color tipt with white; 

 the others marked tranfverfely with irregular lines 

 of pale reddifh brown and black : the legs are of 

 a whitifli cad. 



The nature of this bird is fo well known, that it 

 will be unneceflfary to detain the readers with any Salaciousv 

 account of it : all writers agree, that its pafllon 

 for venery exceeds that of any bird of the genus ; 

 fiiould the reader's curiofity be excited to fee a more 

 particular account, we beg leave to refer them to 

 thofe authors v;ho have recorded this part of its 

 natural hiflory *. 



The Britijh name of this bird is Kor-idr, a word 

 now obfolete ; that now in ufe is Perlrifen, bor- 

 rowed from the Normans. Sdr is the generic name 

 for the tribe. 



* Pliny lib. lo, c. 23. Wil. orn. 168. Ed^-w. preface to Glean- 

 ings, part 2. 



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