36 AVOYAGETOTHE 



^ ^ii'* ^' '^'^^ feathered tribe which inhabit thefe iflands are ver^tr 

 * — - — -» numerous and in great variety^ but moft of them are al- 

 januar'y. ready well known : however, I procured fpecimens of the 

 '^ ^^ '^' yelloijo -winged bunting,^ the rujiy-crowned plover^ and the 

 cinereous lark. Since my arrival in England I have got 

 cor re6t drawings, from which the annexed engravings are 

 taken, and a defcription of them may perhaps not be im- 

 properly introduced in this place. 



Ta^ yellow-winged bunting is nearly the fize oi z. yellow- 

 hammer \ length five inches and a half ^ the bill is brown; 

 the plumage on the upper part of the body, a reddifh 

 brown ; the fides of the head, quite round the eye, the 

 cheft and fore -part of the neck, white ; at the lower part 

 of the laft a bar of reddifh brown ; the breaft yellowifh ; 

 the reft of the under-part dufky white ; the lefier wing- 

 coverts yellow ; the reft of the wing, like the back and 

 edges of the feathers, yellowifh ; the tail reddifh brown, 

 all but the two outer feathers on each fide, which are 

 yellow ; legs yellow. 



Tn'& female is much like the male, but- the leiler wing- 

 coverts incline to yellowifh afh-colour ; the fides of the 

 head, the cheft, and throat, dufky white^ 



RuJly-crowned plover. — Size of the ringed plover', 

 length feven inches and a half ; bill three quarters of an 

 inch long, and black ; the forehead, cheft, all the fore-part 

 of the neck, the upper part of the breaft, and the belly,, 

 white ; acrofs the top of the head is a bar of black pafTing; 

 downwards on each fide of the neck in an irregular manner 

 to the wings, and from thence forwards acrofs the lower part 



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