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three flender fliafts ifTuing from the greater feathers of each 

 wing, and extending to the tail, and finifhed with webs hke 

 other feathers. 



The bird called by M. Sonnerat, p. 86. tab. 49, Le Paon Sau- 

 vage de I'i/le de Lticon, is evidently a plover ; the bill is long, a 

 little thicker near the point ; on the head is a very long crefb, 

 paffing horizontal far beyond the hind part of the head, and 

 ending in a point ; thighs naked far above the knee ; it has only 

 three toes, and thofe are nearly femi-palmated ; creft, head, neck, 

 and bread, bright grey, barred with black ; the top of the creft 

 quite black ; belly white ; back, wings, and tail plain brown ; 

 length from the tip of the tail to the end three feet. M. Son- 

 nerat fays, that this fpecies is found near the Cape of Good 

 Hope; but furely he miftakes the Umbre^ Brozmi\ Ilhijlr. tab. 35, 

 for this bird. 



he Secretaire, tab. 50. Latham^ i. p. 20. tab. 2, that fingular 

 vulture, a compound of many genera, is found here as well as 

 in the Cape of Good Hope. 



The crejied Spoonbill, tab. 52, has its head ornamented with 

 a large creft, beginning a little beyond the bill, and falling be- 

 hind the head in a great bufli ; the feathers have unconneifted 

 webs, like the plumes of the Egrets. \ 



In Panay, is a very fmall Thrup, tab. 73, not bigger than our 

 Hedge Sparrow, of a moft beautiful violet color, blue and black, 

 all changeable ; it has a moft charming note, for which reafon 

 it is called the mufician ; they live in flocks of thoufands, and 

 make their nefts in the pigeon-houfes. 



The ColioUj tab. 7/}., and the crefted Coliou of Panay, tab. 75, 



are 



