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PLACE. 
Bip. Nea eh) Gs 
the lefler wing coverts are white, the greater black, with rufous 
edges; quills of this laft colour: the tail is compofed of twelve 
feathers ; the two middle ones exceed the others ‘by five inches 
and a half; the next on each fide are one inch fhorter, thefe are 
deep black; the others, which are fhort, and of equal length, are 
of a dull brown-colour, margined with pale brown, and marked 
each with a white fpot at the inner web: legs flefh-colour. 
I have a great fufpicion that the two laft birds are one and the 
fame, though the marks of the upper part may be different, as 
we know that all the Whidah Birds vary exceedingly, both in 
different times of the year, as well as age: whoever obferves the 
figures referred to in the fynonyms, will be of my opinion. 
Buffon thinks, that both this and the laft bird have twelve fea- 
thers in the tail, like others of this clafs, and that the four long 
feathers are fupernumerary ones, as in the Peacock; but I can 
affure him, that in the long-tailed there are only twelve in 
all; and inthe prefent one, had they been otherwife, fo accurate 
a defcriber as Edwards could not have failed mentioning its 
This laft author obferves, that the bird foon gains again the long 
feathers after moulting, contrary to the Whidab Bird, which is 
often half a year without them. 
This fpecies is found at Angola. The laft is faid to come from 
India but I have feen fpecimens of the laft, which were faid to 
come likewife from Azgo/a, and is an additional reafon for my 
thinking them the fame bird. 
Enmberiza 
