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«J5' , Le Courly hupe de Madagafcar, PI. Enl. 8±i.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 33. 



Description. HP HIS is a moft beautiful fpecies : in length twenty inches. 

 The bill is four inches long, not greatly bent, and of a 

 brownifh yellow : fides of the head, round the eyes, bare of fea- 

 thers, and of a pale colour : the head and part of the neck are 

 black ; the back part furnifhed with a tuft of very long feathers, 

 half of them white, half black; the reft of the neck and the 

 body are ferruginous : the whole wing dirty white : vent and 

 tail black : legs pale yellow brown. 

 Place. This inhabits Madagafcar. 



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