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irides. This is faid to be called by the EngUflo " Chough ;" but* 

 Sibbald is the only one who names it thus. I cannot place it 

 here, but as a variety of the common. 



Befides the above, I find one mentioned by Schwemkfield, which 

 was like the common Jackdaw, except in the wings, which were - 

 white, and the bill crooked. 



One, now in the Leverian Mufeum, was like the common ones 

 in all things, except the bill ; both mandibles of which croffed 

 each other, as in the Crofsbill : and in the mufeum of Dr. Hunter 

 is a bird of this fpecies, whofe plumage is of a buff-colour, but 

 darkeft about the head : the bill is quite pale, but natural j and. 

 the fhoulders white. 



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Corvus Hottentottus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 155. N°'i. 

 HOTTENTOT Le Choucas du Cap de bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. ii. p. 33. pi. 2. £.2. 



CROW. PL enl 2z6 . 



Le Choucas mouftache, Buf. oifi iii. p. 79. 



Description. ClZE of a Blackbird : length eleven inches and a quarter. Bill 

 an inch. and a half long, black, and a little bent: the feathers 

 about the noftrils are like black velvet : above thefe, at the 

 corners of the mouth, arife fome long hairs, above three inches in 

 length ; and befides thefe, at the corners of the mouth are 

 others, which are much fhorter, and ftiff, like bridles : the fea- 

 thers on the head, throat, and neck, are of a fhining black green t 

 thofe on the upper part of the neck are narrow, and longer than 

 the reft, falling over the back, and waving with every motion 

 thereof : the reft of the plumage is greenifh black, changing to 

 blue in fome parts : the legs and claws are black* 

 ?eacje; Inhabits the Cap of Good Hope. 



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