290 RUFFED HONEYSUCKER. 



177. Ruffed. Latham, 1. 785. 



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With long ftrait flender bill : head of a rich variable green 

 and gold : the feathers on the neck long, and difpofed on each 

 fide in form of a ruff, and of a moft brilliant critnfon and copper co- 

 lor : back, and coverts of the tail, ruft-colored : breaft and belly- 

 white, the laft dafhed with red : feathers of the tail pointed ; the ends 

 brown, bottoms ferruginous : coverts of wings green : primaries 

 deep blue. 



Female. Crown, upper part of the neck, back, and coverts of wings and tail, 



green and gold : . throat white, fpotted with brown and variable cop- 

 per : belly white, dafhed with ruft : primaries deep blue : middle 

 feathers of the tail green ; thofe on the fide ferruginous at their bot- 

 f. toms, black in the middle, and tipped with white. 



Placi. Inhabit in great numbers the neighborhood of Natka Sound. The- 



Indians brought them to our navigators alivcj with a long hair faftenp- 

 ed to one of their legs. 



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