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giving an odd appearance: the prime quills have each of them a ° 
{pot of white about the middle of the inner web: the tail is alfo 
black, but the two middle feathers incline to cinereous near the 
end, and all the outer ones have the end half white on the inner 
webs and tip: the legs are pale brown. 
The female is lefs bright in colour: the part between the bill 
and eye is grey inftead of black. 
This may ferve for a general defcription, but the colours vary 
much: the head in fome has the top whitifh, furrounded with 
rufous; in others wholly black: the band of the wings in fome 
is almoft white, in others grey, and again wholly wanting. 
Specimens have alfo been feen with the body wholly black: the 
breaft and belly fpotted with rufous; and the upper mandible 
the longeft: and fome have been met with which were wholly 
white, the quills excepted *. 
This fpecies is ranked among the Britifb birds; but only 
vifits thefe kingdoms occafionally, and for the moft part in win- 
‘ter, and never known to breed here ++. It is more plenty in 
France, coming into Burgundy in fmall flocks, about the begin- 
ning of April; and foon after makes the neft, which is placed 
-between the bifurcation of the branches of trees, about twelve 
‘feet from the ground: it is compofed of fmall dry fibres, inter- 
‘mixed with liverwort, and lined with finer materials. The 
-eges are of a, roundifh fhape, of a blueifh green fpotted with 
olive brown, with a few irreeular black markings interfperfed. It 
* Scopoli. 
t I once received a Grofeeat, which was fhot in the fummer months 
avithin a few miles of me. 
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