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whole body, is of an uniform brown colour, moft like that of 

 Umber, but rather paleft beneath, and the neck feathers palefl 

 down the {hafts' the wings and tail are even ; the laft is barred 

 with three or four bars of deeper brown, and tipped for about an 

 inch with the fame : the legs are long, and the thighs bare for 

 two-thirds of the length ; the colour of both dufky : between 

 each toe is a membrane, about a quarter of an inch deep between 

 the middle and outer, and fomewhat lefs between that and the 

 inner : the claws are fmall and bent. 



I fufpecl: the bird figured in the PL Enluminees to be a female, 

 as there does not appear the leaft rudiment of a creft. The tail 

 irt» this bird is of a paler brown, and crofted with five narrow 

 bars of darker brown, with the tip of this laft colour. That de- 

 fcnbed by Briffon is alfo without a creft. The bird figured in 

 Brown's work, gives a falfe idea ; it there appears a heavy, fquaf 

 uncouth figure, the legs much too fhort, and the membrane 

 between the toes nearly as much webbed as in a Duck. 



At Sir Jofeph Banks's is a moft perfect fpecimen of the male, 

 which came from the Cape of Good Hope. Buffo it's, bird came from, 

 Saiegal, 



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