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Great Brozvn ; has been mentioned at p. 124, among the birds King-fisher. 

 of New Holland. 



I'be Spotted', Sonnerat, iji, \i2h. 107; or the New Guinea, 

 Latham, ii. 614; is moft remarkable in its colors, being black, 

 univerfally marked on head, back, wings, and tail, with fmall 

 round fpots of white ; and on the neck, breaft, and belly, 

 with fliort downward flreaks of the fame color. On the fides 

 of the cheek is a large elegant pear-fliaped white fpot, and be- 

 neath that, another exadly circular. This fpecies is as large as 

 a crow. 



New Guinea ; Lathatn, iv. 789. Sonnerat, 170. tab. 105. This Quail. 

 is a dwarf fpecies, of half the fize of the EngUjJo Quail ; color 

 brown ; coverts of the wings edged with dirty yellow ; primaries 

 black. 



Great crowned \ Latham, iv. 620. Ldw. 338. Columba Coro- PioEott. 

 nata', Lin. 282. PI. Enl. 118. Sonnerat, 169. tab. 104. The head 

 of this fpecies is adorned with a vaft fuperb circular creft of fea- 

 thers, Handing erecft, and compofed of loofe unconne^led webs 

 of a fine pale bluhh afli ; the eyes lodged in a fliuttle-fliaped 

 band of black ; the leflfer coverts of the wings, and upper part 

 of the back of a dark reddifli purple ; the firft greater coverts 

 white, edged with red. All the reft of the plumage, wings, and 

 tail, of the color of the creft. 



This is the giant of the kind, being equal in fize to a com- Mannerj. 

 mon turkey. It has been mifnamed a pheafant, but befides the 

 generical marks, it has the manners of a pigeon, billing, inflat- 

 ing its breaft, and cooing ; but the laft (as might be expeded 

 from the bulk) is fo fonorous, as to approach, when in fulnefs 



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