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green, with a yellowifh tinge : the throat is yellow : the under 

 parts of the body blue green, growing paler towards the belly: 

 the leffer wing coverts are dull green ; the middle ones rufous j 

 and the greater ones of a rufous green : the quills for the molt 

 part fea-green without, and many of the inner ones rufous j the 

 firft very fhort; the fecond the longeft of all: the tail is wedge- 

 fhaped, and confifts of twelve feathers, the fbafts of which are 

 brown above, and whitifh beneath ; the two middle feathers are 

 fea-green, with a {hade of rufous ; the reft the fame, but margined 

 with cinereous within ; the two middle feathers exceed the outer 

 ones by three quarters of an inch : the legs are of a reddilh 

 brown : claws reddifh black. 

 Places and This bird inhabits various parts of Europe, on the continent, 



Manners. . .-'*-.... , r . 



though not in England ; yet is faid to have been iem in Sweden j 

 and flocks of them have been met with at Anfpach *, in Germany, in 

 the month of June. They are now and then feen in Lorraine -f> 

 though only in pairs; and are not unfrequent in other parts, fince 

 Kramer talks of their building the neft in the fandy crags of the 

 T>anube\. They are met with in Italy, and the fouth of France ; 

 and in Candia ||, and other iflands of the Mediterranean, likewife, 

 they are in plenty, as well as in Palejline and Arabia ; being very 

 common in the woods about Yemen, where they are called 

 Schaghagha §. We likewife receive this fpecies from Bengal** ; 

 and, no doubt, could it be traced, may be found in more places 



* Hifi '. <fes oif. vi. -485. + Id. X Eleit. p. 337. || Willugb. 



am. p. 148. § Faun. Arab. p. 1. 



•* I have one from this place, exaftly like the European fpecies, which 

 laft I received from Minorca. This laft has an even tail, without the elongated 

 middle feathers ; but in that from Bengal they were longer than the reft, according 

 10 the above defcription. 



10 than 



