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M. de Buffon * fays that, this bird, our Merlin, and that of St. 

 "Domingo, or next fpecies, are all varieties of the Gry Gry } or. 

 Caribbee. M. N° $$. B. 



QC 



L'Emerillon de St. Domingue, BHf, orn. i. p. 389. N° 26. X. 32. f. 2. female- ST. DOMINGO 



Lev. Muf. F. 



^HE bill in this is yellow; the tip black : cere luteous : irides Description*. 



yellow: parts above moftly red brown, fpotted with black: 

 beneath dirty white, fpotted with black : head cinereous : the 

 eight middle tail-feathers are chefnut, at the ends black ; the 

 very tips white; the two outmoft on each fide are different, the 

 one having fome white near the end, and a black fpot in it, the 

 laft white on the outfide, and marked with five black fpots, and. 

 one of chefnut on the inner webs: legs yellow : claws black. — This 

 defcription is of the female. 



The male differs, the fpots of black on the upper parts being 

 iefs numerous than in the female : throat and fore part of the 

 neck more inclining to red brown. Ten of the middle tail-fea- 

 thers are chefnut, with the ends black, and very tips white, as in 

 the female : the outer tail-feather, on the outfide and tip, is 

 white, on the inner web chefnut, marked with a tranfverfe fpot of 

 black near the end. 



This inhabits St. Domingo. 



• Biftides Oif. 5. p. 293, 



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