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PLATE XVL 



THE BLACK OSTRICH. 



GENUS STRUTHIO, LIN. SYST. 265. OSTRICH, PEN. GEN. BIRDS 57. 



SIZE, 



HEAD, 



BACK, 



WINGS, 



PLACE, 



Oftriches are fometimes twelve feet high. 



and NECK, brown. 



lower part of NECK, breast, and rump, black. 



and TAIL, of a fnowy whitenefs. 



Africa. From Mr. pennant. 



At the Cape of Good Hope the people aflert, 

 that the males of Oftriches, when full grown, 

 are always black as the bird here defcribed, 

 and the females of a pale greyilh-brown. 



