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thofe on each fide being chiefly white, while thofe on the back part are moft!'/ 

 black. 



The head is furniflied with a white pendent crcft. The neck is afli-coloured 

 and undulated with black. The general colour of the plumage on the upper 

 parts of the body is gilvous, or very pale yellowifli-brown, freckled with in- 

 numerable fpots and markings of dark-brown. The larger wing-feathers or re- 

 miges are black : each marked near the middle by a patch of white. The tail 

 is of a moderate length, and of a pale or whitifli colour, fpeckled with brown, 

 and marked by feveral tranfverfe bars of blackifh- brown. The breaft and belly 

 are nearly white. The legs are long and of a yellowifh-brown. 



The fize of this (pecies confiderably exceeds that of a com>mon fowl. It iii 

 found chiefly in the deferts of Arabia. 



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