4i8 GO AT- SUCKER. Class IT. 



Descrip. The weight of this bird is two ounces and a 

 half: length ten inches and a half: extent twenty- 

 two. Bill very ihort : the mouth vafl : irides hazel. 

 Plumage a beautiful mixture of black, white, 

 adi-color and ferruginous, difpofcd in lines, bars 

 and fpots. The male is diftinguifned from the 

 female by a great oval white fpot near the end of 

 the three firft quil-feathers ; and an-bther on the 

 outmofl: feathers of the tail : the pkmiage is alfo 

 more ferruginous^. 

 • * The legs fliort, fcaly and feathered below the 



knee : the middle toe conneded to thofe on each 

 lide by a fmail membrane, as far as the firft joint : 

 the claw of the middle toe thin, broad, ferrated. 



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