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the neck; another black line nearly joins this, on 

 the cheeks, and falls down on the side of the neck, 

 where it inclines forward and meets those feathers, 

 marked with lengthened black and white spots, 

 which occupy the front of the neck; there, joining 

 with those very long pendent ones, striped in the 

 middle with black, and edged with white, that 

 cover the lower part of the neck, they fall over the 

 breast, and, ending in long loose white filaments, 

 reach nearly to the thighs : the breast is of a bright 

 rich deep reddish chesnut; thighs and ridge of the 

 wing, pale chesnut and white: from the lower part 

 of the breast, to the vent, is a stripe of black, some- 

 what broken, with others of bay and white; the 

 under tail coverts are streaked with black and 

 white; the upper plumage is ash, of deeper and 

 lighter shades, and somewhat tinged with brown; 

 the scapulars are terminated with long narrow 

 feathers of a light rufous chesnut; the secondaries 

 are of an ash-blue, and so long as to cover the tail, 

 which is also of the same colour; the primaries are 

 deep blue black; the legs appear dusky before, and 

 are yellow behind, and above the knee the same: 

 the toes are dusky and long, the nail of the middle 

 ones serrated. 



The bird from which our figure was made was 

 lent to this Avork by the Rev. Keir Vaughan, rector 

 of Aveton Gifford, Devon : it had not any purple in 

 its plumage, and why ornithologists have named it 

 as above, we are at a loss to know. 



The author was favoured, by Jonathan Couch, 

 Esq., F.L.S., of Polperro, Cornwall, with a coloured 

 drawing of a bird, which is supposed to be of the 

 same species as the foregoing. Mr. Couch says, 



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