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I refer the reader to the Philofopbkal ^tranfaBions for my ac- 

 count of this gigantic fpecies. The figure there is bad, taken 

 from an ill-ftuffed fkin ; that in my Genera of Birds excellent, 

 done from one taken from the life by Dodor Forjler. This fpe- 

 cies extends from near the equator to the moft frozen regions of 

 the fouth. 



Collared', Latham^ vi. 571; Sonnerat^ 181. tab. 114. This 

 fpecies has the neck, and all the upper part of the body black ; in 

 front of the neck is a collar of white, reaching only half round ; 

 the eyes furrounded with a naked fkin of blood red ; breaft and 

 belly white : length eighteen inches. 



Papuan ; Latham, vi. 565 ; Sonnerat, 181. tab. 115. The head 

 and whole upper part of the body black ; the hind part of the 

 head marked with a white fpot j breaft and belly white : length 

 two feet and a half. 



I WILL conclude this incomplete lift by faying, that the cir- 

 cumambient feas of New Guinea, as well as the Spicy Sea, have 

 all the pelagic birds of the tropical regions, befides thofe which Pelagic Birds. 

 wander within them from the north and from the fouth. Tropic Tropic Bird?. 

 birds are here feen hovering at amazing heights, or darting on 

 the flying fillies, driven out of their element by the purfuit of the 

 Bonito, Albicore, and other of their congenial enemies ; fometiraes 

 refting on the water, or on the backs of the fleeping tortoifes, 

 ftupidly fufFering themfelves to be taken by the navigators who 

 happen to pafs by. They breed in feveral places within the Tropics, 

 in the Atlantic and Pacijic Oceans, both on the ground, and in 

 trees along with the frigates, and in fuch numbers, that the 



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