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Emberiza vidua, Liz. Sy/t. i. p. 312. 21. 
La grande Veuve, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 127. 27.—Buf. oif. iv. p. 162. 
Long-tailed Sparrow with a fcarlet bill, W2ll. orn p. 251. pl. 45.—Rait 
Syn. p. 87. 9.—Pet. Gaz. pl. 55. f. 1. 
ESS than a Sparrow. Bill red: head, and all the upper 
parts, of a ereenifh black: fides of the head, and under 
parts, dirty white, the black coming forwards on each fide of the 
neck, like an half collar: acrofs the wing coverts a band of | 
white; the quills are fringed with brown: the tail feathers are 
twelve in number; four of the middle ones are very long, ‘the 
two middle ones being ten inches and a half in length, and the 
next on each fide nine inches; the others even; the long ones 
are wholly black; the others black on the outer webs, and white 
within; the two colours obliquely divided, having moft white on 
the outer feathers: legs black, or brown: claws pale. This is. 
the defcription of one in my poffeffion ; but Briffon mentions a 
fecond band, of a yellowifh colour, beneath the white one; and. 
that the legs are fpotted with black and white. | 
Inhabits ndia- 
Emberiza principalis, Liz. Sy/?. is p. 313. 22. 
La Veuve d’Angola, Bri/. orn. app. p. 80. 
La Veuve mouchetée, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 165. 
Long-tailed Sparrow, Edw. pl. 270. 
SIZE of the Whidah Bird. Bill red: the upper-parts of the 
head and body are black and rufous mixed, the black occu- 
pying the middle of each feather: the fides of the head, and under 
parts, are white, except the breaft, which is of a pale rufous : 
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