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LA Muf. Lev. Muf. BREAS TED 



C IZ E of an Hobby, length fifteen inches. The bill is three 

 quarters of an inch in length, and rather ftout for the fize of 

 the bird ; it is of a lead-colour, with the bafe very pale, nearly 

 whice : the plumage above is of a very dark brown : the hind part 

 of the neck, the top of the head, and the wing-coverts, are of 

 one plain colour, but the reft of the upper parts are crofTed with 

 tranfverfe interrupted narrow bars of a whitilh colour, not very 

 numerous : the feathers on the chin very long and narrow, al~ 

 moft like hairs, and of a whitifh colour: throat orange, inclining 

 to brown, marked with roundifh fpots of white : breaft orange : 

 belly dark brown, with interrupted bars of dirty buffj which 

 are made -up of the fpots which each feather is marked with : 

 thighs ferruginous, dafhed with brown on the fhafts: under tail- 

 coverts the fame, befides which are fome tranfverfe duiky bars : 

 the tail is of the fame colour as the backs the half next the 

 bafe is crofted with narrow bars of white, much like the back ; 

 the end half of one plain colour, or dark brown : the legs are of 

 a lead-colour, long and (lender, like thofe of a Sparrow Hawk, 

 and the toes and claws ftill longer in proportion ; the colour of 

 the laft is black : the wings reach to the middle of the tail. 



The fpecimen in the Britijh Mufeum is faid to have come from 

 Surinam ; that in the Leverian Mufeum, fimply from the South 

 Seas, without fpecifying any place. I believe this fpecies has 

 not been noticed before. 



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