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this, of a yellow buff-colour: between the neck and back gilded 

 brown : all the under parts, from the breaft, deep purple : back 

 and fcap'jlars reddilh brown : wing coverts white : quills brown j 

 the fecondaries edged with white ; the ends of fome of the prima- 

 ries grow very narrow towards the tips, and end almoft in a point ; "- 

 at the bend of the wing a fliort, fharp, horn-coloured fpur : the 

 two middle tail feathers half the length of the bird, and fhaped 

 like thofe of the Gold Pheafant -, one of them longer than the 

 other, ending in a point ; the adjoining one lefs fharp at the end, 

 and marked near the tip with an oval fpot of white* : legs green ; 

 toes and claws very long, as ufual in this genus. 



Inhabits India, where it is called Vuppi-pi. From the drawings Place. 



of Lady Impey. — It is, no doubt, alfo known by another name, as 

 I obferved one of them, among fome drawings Ihown to me by 

 Major Roberts, which was called Sobna. 



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I Z E of the common Water Hen. Bill yellow ; bafe of the up- INDIAN j. 

 per mandible dufky blue ; near the gape a red fpot : head. 



neck, and under parts, deep blueifh black : back and wings dirty 

 cinereous brown: quills the fame, but darker, and inclining to 

 violet : over the eye, and reaching fome way beyond it, a broad 

 white ftreak : legs dirty luteous brown : toes and claws long, and 

 fhaped as in others of this genus. 



Inhabits India. Called, at Bengal, Peepee and Mowa ; at Hift- Place. 



dojlatif Coudey. It is called alfo Dullpee, from its living in a 



• I apprehend that there fliould be four long tail feathers, and that the two 

 middle ones are alike, as well as their adjoining ones ; efpecially as I do not 

 recoiled any bird in which the tail feathers do not arife by pairs. 



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