Bie el vO ee hee INL G. 
Emberiza regia, Lin. Syft. is P. 313% 23. 
« La Veuve de la Cote d’Afrique, Brif. orm iii. p. 129. 28. pl. 9. f. 1.—=Pl 
enl. 8. f. 16 
Le Veuve 4 quatre brins, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 158. pl. 5. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/f. 
SIZE of a Linnet: length to the fhorter tail feather near four 
inches and ahalf. Bill red: the upper parts of the plumage 
are black : fides of the head even with the eyes, the under parts, 
and round the neck, are rufous; the hind part of the neck. 
{potted with black: lower part of the thighs and vent black : the 
four middle tail feathers are nine or ten inches long, and are 
webbed only for about two inches at the ends; the reft of them 
are fimple fhafts, with fcarcely. the leaft perceivable rudiment of: 
a web; the others are even, fhort, and black: : legs red. 
The female is brown,.and has not the long tail feathers. 
Thefe birds moult twice ina year, and in the winter moult 
the male becomes very. little fuperior to a Linnet in colour,, 
having the plumage nearly like it,, only the grey. a little. 
brighter. | 
Inhabits Africa, from: the coafts of which thefe birds. are im-- 
ported into England; but is.a much fearcer fpecies than. the 
Whidab one. . 
I have one of thefe birds in my collection ; but the upper parts. 
of the plumage are not black, confifting only of two kinds of 
brown, the darkeft occupying the middle of the feather, not 
greatly unlike the back of a hen Houfe Sparrow : the tail dufky, , 
with pale rufous. margins. . 
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