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feed on grapes where vineyards are cultivated -, are 

 efteemed delicious food : eafily tamed. 



The length of the bird I faw was eight inches : Descrip. 

 the bill fhorr, thick, and black •, the bafe covered 

 with black bridles ; from thence pafTes to the hind 

 part of the head over each eye a bar of black : 

 on the head is a fharp pointed creft reclining back- 

 wards : the irides are of a bright ruby colour : the 

 cheeks tav/ny: the throat black, with a fmall brift- 

 iy tuft in the middle. 



The head, creft, and back aih colored mixed with 

 red : the rump a fine cinereous : breaft and belly, 

 pale chelhut dalhed with a vinaceous caft-: the vent 

 feathers bright bay : the lower part of the tail 

 black J the end of a rich yellow : the lefler coverts 

 of the wings brown, the greater black tipt with 

 white : the quil-feathers black, the three firfl: tipt 

 with white •, the fix next have half an inch of their 

 exterior margin edged with fine yellow, the interior 

 with white. But what diftinguifhes this from all 

 other birds are the horny appendages from the 

 tips of feven of the fecondary feathers of the co- 

 lor and glofs of the bed red v/ax ; fome have one 

 more or one lefs : The legs are black. 



I think that the females want the yellow marks 

 in the wings. 



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