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TIPPET 
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DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
Il. 
FAN-TAILED 
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DESCRIPTIONe 
Prace. 
12. 
GLOSSY 
LascriPTion. 
GU! CaO) OW. 
HIS is nearly twelve inches long: the bill brown, rather ftout, 
and a trifle curved at the point: the upper parts of the body are 
dull green, the under white: the crown full of feathers, and as far as 
the eyes on each fide black ; on the fides of the neck, the black comes 
forward, and almoft meets in the middle, giving the appearance of 
a cloak or tippet: fides under the wings yellowifh: thighs marked . 
with a few rufty fpots: quills black: tail very fhort, the outer 
margins of the feathers marked. with white fpots: legs dufky blucifn 
white, dotted with black : irides orange. 
Inhabits New Holland, where it is a rare bird. 
‘THIS elegant bird is about the fize of a Song Thrufb, and ten 
inches in length; the tail occupying at leaft one third: the bill 
is black, fomewhat bent at the tip: the upper parts of the body are 
dufky black, coming forwards on the breaft, and encircling it as it 
were with a crefcent: the cheeks and throat are ferruginous buff ; 
fides of the breaft the fame, but the middle of it and the belly are 
pale oker yellow; the tail is greatly cuneiform; the two middle 
feathers black; the others the fame on the outer webs, but barred 
on the inner with alternate black and white: the wings when clofed 
reach rather beyond the middle of the tail: legs yellow. 
_Inhabits New Holland, 
» CIZE uncertain: general colour above rufous, inclined to purple ; 
beneath dufky white, croffed with feveral broad bars of a glofly 
or brownifh copper colour: tail of a moderate length, and barred 
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