BIRD S. 12; 



tail cuneiforai, long, clufkyj edged and tipped with white ; mid- 

 dle of the belly yellow; length fourteen inches and a half. 



Horned, Latham, index, i. 276, at the bafe of the upper man- 

 dible is a fliort blunt procefs, like a horn ; head and neck thinly 

 cloathed with fetaceous feathers ; plumage dufky, edged with 

 olive ; tail lipt with white ; length fourteen inches. 



Black, Nigra, Latham, index, i. 296. Plumage black ; on the Creeper. 

 lower parts ftreaked with white ; primaries and tail edged with 

 yellow ; tail rounded : length feven inches. 



GALLINACEOUS. 



fluail, Br. Zool. i. N° 97. Partridge. 



A VERY diminutive quail is found about Botany Bay. The 

 natives catch them in a fort of decoy ; they differ only in lize 

 from the European kind. 



Wattled, Parkin/on, 145, who fays no more than that it is a 

 bird like the Tetrao, with v/attles of a fine ultramarine color ; 

 and with black legs and bill. 



New Holland, with a black band acrofs its breafl. Bustard. 



Columbine. 



Golden-winged, White, 149. tab. 8. Pigeons are very nu- pigeon. 

 merous in New Holland,hwt no particular defcription is given us 

 of any one fpecies, except the bronzed, before defcribed at p. 113, 

 and by Mr; White, p. 146. tab. 7, under the name of Golden wing 

 pigeon. It is not improbable, but that this and many other birds 

 are migratory, to and from iVor/o/y^ifland, and New Zealand. 



Passerine. 



