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L’Ortolan noir, Brif. orn. iii. p. 274. D.—Baf. off. iv. p. 313. 
Hortulanus, N°4. Razé Sya. p. 94.—Will. ora. p. 270+ 
HE whole body of this bird is blackifh, except the head 
and neck, which incline to green: the bill red: the legs 
-cinereous. 
Buffon alfo mentions a further variety, which had the throat 
yellow mixed with grey, a grey breaft, and a rufous belly. 
L’Ortolan de Ia Chine, Sox. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 201. 
ILL pale rufous: irides yellow: top of the head, and all 
the upper parts of the body, of a reddifh rufous colour, with 
yellowifh edges: the leffer wing coverts very light yellow; the 
fecond quills deep brown, edged with rufous grey; the prime 
quills umber-colour, edged with dull yellow : the throat, breaft, 
belly, and vent, fine yellow: down the middle of the belly a lon- 
gitudinal ftreak of brown: the tail of this laft colour, edged 
with grey: the legs pale rufous. 
This inhabits the fouthern provinces of China, i in the months of 
Offober, November, and December. 
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DESCRIPTION. 
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