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and green : throat and neck brown, dotted with white, but the 

 lower part of the neck is gloried with violet, and dotted with 

 grey brown*: back, wing coverts, and fcapulars, violet brown, 

 glofled with green : rump plain brown : from the breaft to the 

 vent white: quills brown, glofTed with green and violet; thofe 

 nearefl the body, narrow, and as long as the greater when the 

 wing is clofed : tail rounded in fhape : legs of a dull red : claws 

 broad and flat. 



This fpecies inhabits many parts of Europe; but is lefs com- Place and 

 mon than the white, and like that migrates fouth in autumn. It Manners. 

 is not familiar with man ; but retires to the thick forefts and 

 marlhes, at a diftance from habitations, in order to breed, being a 

 folitary bird. Is pretty common in Poland, Lithuania, PruJJia } 

 and Switzerland; and migrates much farther north than the 

 white fpecies. In the more temperate parts of Ruffia and Sibiria 

 not uncommon; and is plentiful all along the Don. It perches 

 on trees, and makes the neft on them in the depths of forefts. 

 From its being lefs common, we hear of it among authors fel- 

 domer than the former : it is however ranked by authors among 

 thofe frequenting the Cajpian Sea f ; and by Rujfel as a bird of 

 Aleppo. Like the White Stork, it feeds on reptiles and fifh : the 

 flefh is faid to be no better tafted. 



* This is not conftant ; fome birds have no fpot. Brijfotth 

 + See Georgi.-~Dec. Ruff.\\. p. 77. 



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