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cfible fprings a band of black, which pafies through the eyesi 

 almoft to the hind head, and is broad in the middle : fcapulars, 

 upper wing and tail coverts, deep brown, marked with fmall 

 white and pale cinereous fpots : quills brown ; each of the fe- 

 eondaries marked with a; pale cinereous fpot : tail cuneated, 

 blackifh ; all but the two middle feathers tipped with white : 

 legs and claws black. 

 Ps.aci. Inhabits Andalufia. The fpecimen from which this defcriptioa 



was taken, was fhot on the Rocik of Gibraltar* 



4. Le Coucou brun varte de noir, Buf. cif. vi. p. 376. 



+• SOCIETY Ara Wereroa, Cocke's Foy. vol. iv. p. 272. 



Lev. Muf, 



Description.. QIZE of a Magpie, or very little lefs : length nineteen inches, 

 Bill an inch- and a cuiarter long, ftout, and fomewhat curved' 

 at the point : the upper mandible blackifh; the under one pale : 

 irides pale yellow: the upper parts of the body are brown : the 

 head dafhed with perpendicular ferruginous ftripes : the reft of 

 the plumage above tranfverfely barred and blotched with the 

 fame : the middle of each feather of the neck darkeft : over the 

 eye is a white ftreak, and a dafh of the fame along the under jaw, 

 arifing at the noftrils : the quills marked with ferruginous fpots : 

 the chin and middle of the throat white : fides of the neck, the 

 breaft, belly, and thighs,, white, ftreaked perpendicularly with- 

 brown ; the ftreaks broadeft on. the breaft and belly : the vent 

 plain white: under tail coverts pale buff; the upper ones as the 

 back, reaching to one-third of the tail, which is nine inches 

 long, and much cuneated ; all the feathers are crofTed with nu- 

 merous- 



