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figs and bread mixed together. Vurro informs us 

 that they were birds of paflage, coming in au- 

 tumn, and departing in the fpring. They muft 

 have been taken in great numbers, for they were 

 kept by thoufands together in their fattening avia- 

 ries *. They do not arrive in France till the be- 

 ginning of December, 



Thefe birds v/eigh generally about four ounces-, Descrip. 

 their length is ten inches, their breadth feventeen. 

 The head is a£h- colored inclining to olive, and 

 fpotted with black -, the back and greater coverts 

 of the wings of a fine deep chelnut; the rump 

 a(h-colored : the tail is black : the lower parts of 

 the two middlemofl: feathers, and the interior up- 

 per fides of the outmoft feathers excepted ^ the 

 firil being a(h-colored, the latter white. The legs 

 are black j the talons very ftrong. 



* Farro, lib. III. c. ^. 



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