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457 



Le grand Mainate, Brif. orn. ii. p. 308. N° 50. 

 The greater Minor, or Mino, Ediu. i. pi. 17. 



-Bitf. oif. iii. p. 419. 



'"PHIS exactly refembles the laft in colour, but exceeds it much 

 in fize, being equal to a Jackdaw. 



This inhabits the IJle of Hainan, in Afia. 



One defcribed by Bontius is faid to " referable our country 

 Stare in the fea-green and dark blue feathers, marked with cine- 

 reous fpots ; but it has a yellow creft on the neck, and its head is 

 fet with black foft feathers, that feeling of it you would think 

 you touched velvet*." Whether that with the cinereous fpots 

 was a variety, or a diftindt fpecies, is not yet determined. 



Var. A. 



GREATER 



MINOR 



GR. 



Descriptioiiu. 



Place. 



Gracula calva, Lin. Syji. i. p. 164. N° 2. 



Le Merle ehauve des Philippines, Brif. orn. ii. p. 280. N° 36. pi. 26. f. 2. 



— PL enl. 200. 

 Le Goulin, Buf. oif. iii. p. 420. 

 Iting, Tabaduru, vel Gulin, (Palalacs fpecies) Ph. Tranf. vol. xxiii. 



p. 1397. N°43. 



'"TpHIS equals a Blackbird in fize : and in length is ten inches. 

 The bill is thirteen lines in length, of a brown colour : on 

 the middle of the head, from the bafe of the bill to the hind 

 head, is a narrow lift of fhort brown feathers ■, the reft of the head 

 and cheeks are bare of feathers, and flefh-coloured ; but when the 

 bird is irritated, becomes, like the laft fpecies, of adeep red: 

 -the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts of the 



* See Wilhjrh. p. 106. § 2. 



3 n" 



2. 



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Description, 



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