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DESCRIPTION, 
CR Giew. 
parts of the body and wings green for the moft part: fhoulders, 
rump, and tail greenifh blue: the greater wing coverts and quills 
black, on the latter a bar of white: throac, breaft, belly, thighs, and 
Jegs pale ruft colour: vent rofe colour, inclining to white under the 
tail, which is very fhort, and moftly black, with the end of a glofly 
blue. 
MM. Thunberg is faid to have brought this variety from fome of the 
Foaft India Mlands: fize of our Var. C. 
GIZE of a Jay: bill flout and black; tongue rounded at the end: 
the face and throat black: the plumage on the upper parts is 
blueifh afh colour for the moft part; beneath paler: quills blackith, 
with pale edges: tail fix inches and a half long, and dufky brown, 
all but the two middle feathers tipped with white: legs dufky blue. 
Inhabits Mew Holland, where it is called Kai-a-lora; faid to bea 
bird of prey. Iam obliged to Mr. Lambert for the above defcrip- 
tion; among his drawings I likewife obferved another which had a 
ftouter bill; the head black much beyond the eyes, and the plumage 
rather of a darker hue, and the tail feathers not tipped with white. 
Magpie of New Caledonia, D’Extrecafteux’s Voy. ii. p. 226. pl. 35. 
ENGTH twenty inches: head black, feathers of it filky and 
diftiné&t, round the eye fomewhat bare; all the neck white, and 
in the middle of the belly a little of the fame: the general colour of 
the plumage otherwife black: the bill is black and ftout, the end of 
it for one third yellowifh, and flightly notched: tail very cuneiform, 
the two middle feathers el¢ven inches long, the next on each fide nine, 
diminifhing regularly to the outer ones, which meafure no more than, 
three inches and a half: legs dufky. 
Inhabits 
