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blended, and the ferruginous on the neck only jufl: breaking forth. 

 Mr. Boys, o( Sandwich, alfo obliged me with a third, the begin- 

 ning- vof hit Ortoher : his bird, he informed me, weighed nineteen 

 ounces and a halfi the length twenty-one inches and a half; 

 breadth twenty-eight. The bill yellow at the bafe, dufky olive 

 towards the tip: lore dufky: irides pale brown: head quite 

 fmooth. The defcription differed not much; but the ferrugi- 

 nous colour of the neck was much blended with dufky ; the white 

 on the under parts greatly mottled with the fame : legs, without, 

 dufliyi within, greenifh yellow: the middle toe united to the 

 inner, as far as the firft joint; and to the outer, to the middle of 

 the fecond *. 



The two laft-mentioned are, no doubt, birds not in full plu- 

 mage. That defcribed by Dr. Sparrman is clearly under the fame 

 predicament J perhaps a ftill younger bird than either of the 

 others, as the cinereous parts on the throat appear white, with 

 three or four lines of black, and acrofs the lower part of the 

 neck is a band of white. The bird figured in Jacquin feems an 

 adult. 



* This circumftance appears to prevail throughout the genus, and fhould be 

 added to the chara£lers of it. 



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