134 BU NG ERT NU G: 
20. La Veuve 4 epaulettes, Buf. oi. iv. p. 164.—Pl. enl. 635. 
+ ORANGE- Cape Sparrow, Kolb. Cap. ii. p. 159. pl. 7. f. We 
ger aa Yellow-fhouldered Oriole, Brown’s Iluj?. pl. 110 
Loxia longicauda, 7. F. Miller, pl. 3. A. 
y Br, Muff. Lev. Muf. 
Description. SIZE of a Song Thrufh: total length twenty inches; from the 
bill to the fetting on of the tail only five. The bill is 
ftrong and dufky ; the noftrils nearly hid in the feathers: tongue 
fharp : the general colour of the plumage deep glofiy black: 
the leffer wing coverts are crimfon, below this a bed of white ; 
fome of the quills are white at the bafe, but hid when the wing 
is clofed; the fecond quills are as long as the prime ones: the 
tail is compofed of twelve feathers, which hang fideways, like 
thofe on the fides of a Cock’s tail; fix of the middle ones are 
very long, but unequal in themfelves, the two longeft are fifteen 
inches long, the next on each fide fourteen inches, and the 
next only eleven inches and a half; the others much fhorter : 
the legs are brown, of the fize of thofe of a Thrufh: all the 
claws long and hooked. 
Pracz. This is indigenous to the Cape of Good Hope. 
21. ‘La Veuve en feu, Buf. oif. iv. p. 167. 
PANAYAN B. La Veuve a poitrine rouge, P/, exl. 647. 
de I’Ifle de Panay, Son. Voy. p. 117. pl. 76. 
Description. IZE of the Whidab Bird: length twelve inches: colour 
wholly black, except a large fpot of a bright red colour on 
the breaft: four of the tail feathers are very long, pointed, 
hanging 
