44^ 



ORIOLE. 



Place. 



41. 



SHARP. 



TAILED 



O. 



Pl.XVII. 



Description, 



Place. 



Inhabits Joonala/kka j from whence it was brought by the late 



royagers on difcovery. 



CIZE of a Lark. Bill dulky: crown brown and cinereous; 

 cheeks brown, bounded above and below with deep dull yel- 

 low : throat white : breaft, fides, thighs, and vent, dull pale yel- 

 low, fpotted with brown : belly white : back varied with afh- 

 colour, black, and white : wing coverts dufky, with ferruginous 

 edges : quills dufky : the tail confifts of narrow, fharp-pointed 

 feathers, of a dufky colour tinged with olive, and obfeurely 

 barred : legs pale brown. 



In Mrs. Blackburn's collection, who received it from New Tork. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Pennant for the whole of this account, as 

 well as a drawing of the bird. 



42. 



KINK 



o. 



Le Kink, Buf. eif. iii. p. 855. 

 Le Kink de la Chine, PI. enh 617. 



Description. 'T^HE bill is reddifh brown : the head, neck, upper part of the 

 back, and the breaft, of a greyifh afh-colour : the reft of 

 the body above and beneath, wing and tail coverts, are white : 

 ' quills the colour of polifhed fteel, changing to green and violet i 

 tail fhort, rounded, partly of the fame colour as the quills, and 

 partly whi|e, viz. the two middle feathers are of the fteel- 

 colour, with a white tip j the two next have more white, and lefs 

 of the other; and proceeding in that manner to the outfide fea- 

 thers, which are almoft totally white, having only a fpot of fteel- 

 colour at the bafe : the legs flefh-colour. This fpecies is between 



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