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upper part of the back darker than the reft; the reft of the 

 back, and fcapulars, yellowifh brown ; fome of the laft tipped 

 with white : wing coverts like the back} but the lower order of 

 them much paler, giving the appearance of a broad bar : all the 

 coverts white down the fhaft, which fpreads out to the tip, 

 and forms a longifh triangular fpot : quills the colour of the lefler 

 coverts: the primaries and baftard wing tipped with white; the 

 fecondaries plain : breafl and belly white, ftreaked with obfcure 

 pale brown: vent white: legs brown. 



This bird I received from Jamaica, where it goes by the name Place. 



of Clucking Hen* : it frequents woods, contrary to the generality of 

 the genus, which haunt morafles : is a fcarce bird, and very fhy. 

 Has a great affinity to the female Night Heron, but is larger. 



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J ENGTH twenty- two inches. Bill ftrait, fhaped like that CALEDONIAN 



of the Night Heron, and black : between the eye and bill 

 bare, and green: irides yellow: from the nape behind fpring Descriftion, 

 three long feathers, as in the abovementioned bird : the crown of 

 the head is black : over the eye, between that and the creft, a 

 ftreak of white : the general colour of the plumage ferruginous, 

 inclining to brown ; neck the paleft ; the feathers of it loofe on 

 the fore part : breaft, belly, and under parts, white : legs yellow : 

 claws dufky. 



Inhabits New Caledonia f. Place. 



* Dampier obferves, that there are many clocking Hens in the Bay of Campeachy, 

 and elfewhere in the Weft Indies, which make a noife like our brood Hens,, 

 when they have chickens ; but does not determine the fpecies. 



t See Cooi's Voy. vol. ii. p. in. pi. 50. — I do not find it there defcribed 

 but Dr. ForJIer was fo obliging as to fupply that defeft. 



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