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thirteen inches, but to the claws nearly one foot and a half. The 

 bill is two inches and a half long, flender, and black : irides 

 red : the forehead, round the eye, and all the under parts, are 

 ■white : the crown of the head, back, and wings, glofiy black : 

 the hind part of the neck marked with dufky fpots : rump white i 

 tail the fame, inclining to grey j the outer feather quite white : 

 legs red : the outer and middle toes connecled at the bafe. 

 PtACE., This is now and then met with in England, but is far from 



common. Sir R. Sibbald mentions two being {hot in Scotland-, 

 the Britijh Zoology, one*killed near Oxford; and Mr. White of 

 Fleet-Jlreet is in pofleffion of another, which was fhot out of a 

 flock of fix or feven, in Frencham ponds, in Hampfhire. The 

 plumage of this bird was wholly white, except the wings, and 

 the back as far as the rump, which are black : bill and legs as 

 the other. We believe this to differ in fex merely ; the more fo, 

 as two birds, anfwering to the above defcriptions, are placed in 

 the Leverlan Mufeum as male and female. 



It is common in Egypt, and is found in the marihes there in 

 ORober ; the food faid to be chiefly files. It is likewife plentiful 

 about the fait lakes, and often on the fhores of the Cafpian fea, 

 as well as the rivers which empty themfelves into it ; and in the 

 fouthern defarts of Independent Tartary : we have alfo feen it in 

 Chineje paintings; and it is known to be at Madras, in the Eafi 

 Indies *. 



In the warmer parts of America it is fufficiently plentiful ; and 

 k feen as far north as Connecticut. We have received, it from 

 Jamaica, where Sloane tells us it is not uncommon. The fpe- 



• Ray. — It is there defcribed under the name of Red-hgged Crane, 



eimens 



