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lour, paler on the under parts ;_ two of the rniddle quills have the outer 
webs red, forming a ftreak on the wing ; and the wings when clofed 
reach a very little way beyond the bafe of it. 
This is faid to have been brought from one of the ifles of the 
South Seas. In fome fpecimens, the ftreak on the wing is white in- 
ftead of red, perhaps owing to difference of fex. 
Le Pendeur, Levaill. Oif. ii. p. 58. pl. 66. 1. 
S1zZ E of the Woodchat: length nearly feven inches: the crown, 
nape, hind neck, back, and rump, are fine blue grey; fides of the 
head, taking in the eye, the throat, and before as far as the breaft, 
black ; from the gape, paffing over the eye, isan arch of white bound- 
ing the black, as farasthe middle of the neck ; from the fame fprings 
another, pafling down on each jawto meet the firft, and including a 
black fpace between them: the wings are black: the belly, thighs, 
and vent are white: the four middle tail feathers are of equal length, 
and black throughout; the others unequal in length, the outer one 
being very fhort, thefe are partly white partly black, and the wings 
reach fcarcely beyond the bafe of it: bill and legs black. 
This is faid to come from India, and to feed on infects, fticking 
thofe it has not immediate occafion for on a thorn, in the manner of 
our European fpecies: by the colours, one may juftly fuppofe it to be 
a male bird. 
Le Rouffeau, Lewaill. Oi/. ii. p. 60. pl. 66. f. Zz 
26 HIS is about the fize of the Woodchat, and at firft fight might 
be miftaken for the female of that bird*: the top of the head 
and neck, back, rump, and wing coverts are rufous: from the fore- 
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