Bo al MN We ET. 
the upper part of the head, throat, fore part and fides of the 
neck, breaft, and upper part of the belly, fides, ramp, and upper 
tail coverts, are of a vinaceous red colour: the lower part of the 
belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, greenifh brown: the hind 
part of the head and neck, the back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, 
are brown: the tail black: the legs pale grey. 
This inhabits Sevegal. Buffon mentions one of thefe having 
been killed at Cayenne; but it is moft likely that it had been a 
caged bird: it was a trifle different from the above-defcribed, as 
the wings were lightly edged with red, and the bill entirely of 
the laft colour: the legs reddifh: it had alfo the breaft and fides 
{potted with white. There is likewife mentioned one brought 
from Abyfinia, by M. Bruce, which he calls Dandik, in which 
the red covered the neck and wing coverts, as well as the under 
parts; and it was fpotted on the fides of the breaft and wing co- 
verts with white. 
- Buffon obferves, that thefe birds do not change the feathers 
more than once in a year in this climate, though they do in their 
native one: however this may be, I have now one of this laft 
fpecies by me, which has not a fingle fpot upon it, and was once 
full of them: it belonged to a young lady of my acquaintance, 
to whom it was given, two or three years fince, along with an- 
other, as Amaduvades. The firft did not live long ; the other died 
without even the trace of a white fpot; and fhe affured me, 
that it had white fpots at one time of the year, and at another 
none. I cannot fay that this circumftance I faw»myfelf, but I 
have no reafon to difbelieve it. 
The Bengalis and Senegalis, as they are called, are natives of 
Senegal, and feed on Millet, This affords the natives an eafy 
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