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fprings a long black creft, the feathers which compofe it narrow, 

 and end in a point ; the middle ones are fix inches in length, the 

 others lefTen by degrees, the outer ones being not more than one 

 inch : between the bill and eye the fkin is bare and dufky ■, the 

 plumage on the forehead white ; the reft of the bird of a pale 

 blueifh afh-colour : acrofs the lower part of the neck behind is a 

 tranfverfe band of brownifh black, which pafles forwards on each 

 fide towards the breaft, ending in a point, but does not encompafs 

 it : the fore part of the neck, and under parts, are blueifh white, 

 except the belly and thighs, which are rufous : the feathers 

 which hang over the breaft are loofe, like thofe of the Heron: the 

 tail is three inches and a half long, and the wings, when clofed, 

 reach nearly to the end of it : the leg is three inches in 

 length ; and the thigh, from its infertion to the knee, four; the 

 middle toe two inches and a half; the bare part above the knee 

 one inch and a half: the colour of the bare parts yellowifh 

 brown ; claws black : the toes are connedted at the bafe by a 

 membrane, which, as in the Umbre, is deepeft in the outer one. 



This defcription is taken from a fine fpecimen now in the 

 Leverian Mufeum, 



1. 



La Cuilliere tachetee, Sri/. Orn. v. p. 508. A. V*r. A. 



SPOTTED B. 

 *T*HIS differs from the laft, in being varied with fpots of 



brown. 



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