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parts, yellow: eye yellow ;.round the back part of it a half cref- 
cent of white: the wings are brown, edged with yellow : quills 
nearly black, edged with the fame: tail olive brown, with the 
end paleft: legs pale blue. 
This was met with at the ifland of Tanna.. 
J ,ENGT H eight inches. and three quarters. Bill black, 
three quarters of an inch in length, bent at the tip, and fur- 
nifhed with a few hairs at the bafe: irides pale afh-colour: eye- 
lids black: above, the plumage is dufky black; beneath, paler : 
middle of back and fhoulders marked with white: legs black. 
Inhabits New Caledonia. 
For the fix:laft I. am indebted to the drawings of Sir Fofeph 
Banks. . 
Lev. Muf. 
LE NGTH four inches and a half. Bill black, three quar- 
ters of an inch in length, and a little curved at the end; the 
lower mandible yellowith at the bafe: the head, neck, back, fides, 
thighs, wings, and tail, black :. forehead and lower wing coverts- 
white: the breaft and belly of a deep carmine: vent reddifh: 
legs long and flender, and of a yellowifh brown. 
The female is brown in thofe parts where the male is black 
the chin, and between the eye and bill, .cinereous brown: breatt. 
and belly pale orange: vent, fides, and thighs, yellowifh white. | 
This fpecies inhabits Norfolk Dland, in the South Seas, and, as 
Dr. : 
343. 
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