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This bird is found in Africa-, it has been brought from the Place;. 



Cape r of 'Good Hope and Senegal, and no doubt is to be found in all 

 the fouthern parts of that quarter of the globe. 



J have obferved fever-al varieties of this fpecies : in fome the 

 forehead is black,, in others not : one had a ftripe of white acrofs 

 the head r and down each fide of the neck,, a bar of white acrofs 

 the rump, and the fpots of the wings of a blue green inftead of 

 black : and in another fpecimen there was a crefcent of very pale 

 alh-colour on the breaft -, and the fides, beneath the eye, mottled 

 with cinereous and black. 



Le Tourocco, Buf.oif.il. p. 5.55. # GREAT- 



La Tourterelle a large queue du Senegal, PI. enl. 329. TAILED T. 



E N G T H twelve inches. Bill red -, bafe of it covered with Description. 

 a white eere : head, neck, and upper parts of the body, 

 reddifh cinnamon-colour ; breaft, belly, and thighs, dufky white : 

 tail very long, occupying half the length of the bird j k is cu- 

 neiform in fhape, and white at the tip : legs red. 



This inhabits Senegal. It is faid to carry the tail like the Placi. 



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