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Its length is about fifteen inches, and its fize that of a jay. Its colour 

 is an uniform deep cinereous or rather nearly black j the front of the head 

 is of a deep black, and from beneath the lower mandible on each fide 

 hangs a rounded wattle, of confiderable fize and of a red colour j in fub- 

 ftance not ill refembling the fame part in the common cock. The bafe of 

 each wattle is blue. The irides of the eyes are alfo of a bright blue. 

 The tail is rather long, and in fhape flightly cuneiform. In its manners it 

 feems much to refemble the birds of the genus Corvus. 



LANIUS 



