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the under rather more fo; the colour of both black: the chin is for 
a little way bare of feathers, and of a reddifh colour: irides yellow: 
the head is pretty full of feathers, and with about half the neck is 
black, with a tinge of green in fome lights, in others of purplifh: the 
middle of the wing coverts, and fecondary quills, as well as the middle 
of the back, are eat black ; and the tail alfo is of the fame coe 
Jour: the reft. of the plumage white: the whole of the leg and bare 
parts above the knee are of a fine red; the toes furnifhed at the end 
with pale coloured claws, fhaped not unlike thofe of the human 
{pecies. 
Inhabits New Holland. The defcription and figure which we have 
given of the bird, is taken from a fpecimen in the Leverian Mu/feum, 
drawn for me by my friend and relation, Mr. Shaw, of Great Fames 
Street.. Among the drawings of Mr. Lambert, is a reprefentation of 
one apparently ‘the fame, in which the fkin beneath the lower man- 
dible and threat is of a fine crimfon, and faid to be capable of great 
diftention: head and half the neck brownifh black, with a variable. 
green and copper glofs; between the bill and eye, grey: the general 
colour of the plumage of the lower part of the neck, the body, and 
wings, is white, except on the fhoulders, which appear blackifh, with 
the fame bronzed hue as the head and half the neck : the tail is black. 
l apprehend, that from the difference between the two birds, they 
are of oppofite fexes. Mr. Lambert informs me, that only two have 
yet been met with, but are now and then feen on the muddy banks of 
the harbour of Port Fack/on, fearching for fith, when the tide is out, 
on which, no doubt, they principally live. 
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