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verts black and white mixed : fome of the fecondaries black, fome 

 -white : the outer edge of the wing, and the greater quills, wholly 

 black: the tail is five inches long, even at the end, and black j 

 all but the two middle feathers tipped with white : the legs are 

 lead-colour : the claws flout, fharp, and black. 



Notwithftanding it is faid in the PL enl. to have come from 

 New Guinea ; Buffon, to whom we are indebted for this defcription, 

 does not feem fure of the fatt ; and in courfe the manners mufr. 

 be unknown. It feems to me of a genus not well defined : if we 

 are guided by the plate in Buffon 's work *, we may moll; likely 

 think with him, that it hangs between the genera of Oriole and 

 toucan ; but on turning to the PL enl. the figure of it bears a 

 much greater affinity to the Roller genus ; in which we have ven- 

 tured to place it j having this in our view, that the plates in this 

 laft-mentioned work are in general much more to be depended 

 ©n, than thofe of the former. 



* Hijl, -dei oif, vol. vii. pi. 7» 



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