AME BIRDS 



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THE BLACK 



The female bears the most unobtrusive colours, which run through 

 this sex, in the rest of the group, and has a chaste and beautiful 

 arrangement of brown, black, and grayish yellow. The fork of 

 the tail is very slightly seen. She weighs only two pounds ; her 

 length is one foot six inches : her breadth two feet six. The head 

 and neck are marked with alternate bars of dull red and black, 

 the breast with dusky black and white, but the last predominates. 

 The back, coverts of the wings, and tail, are of the same colours 

 as the neck, but the red is deeper. The inner webs, of the quill 

 feathers, are mottled with black and white ; the inner coverts of 

 the wings are white, and in both sexes, form a white spot on the 

 shoulder. The tail is slightly forked, and variegated with red 

 and black ; the feathers under the tail are white, marked with a 



