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"DIGGER than a Snipe. Bill black: forehead pale reddilh 

 white : plumage on the upper part of the bird dufky ; the 

 feathers with pale edges : chin and fore part of the neck dufkjr 

 white : lower part of the neck, breaft, and under parts, dufky 

 yellow oker-colour, with a tinge of red: the neck marked with 

 pale and dufky ftreaks, and tranfverfely mottled on the fides 

 with narrow lines : quills dufky : legs blueifh : claws black. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Found at Dujky Bay. The name 

 given it by the natives Hapoho-era. From the collection of Sir 

 Jofeph Banks. 



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 DUSKY PL. 



Description. 



Place. 



T ESS than the Lapwing : length twelve inches and a half. 

 Bill dufky : irides blueifh black : the plumage above, from the 

 crown of the head to the rump, black ; the feathers margined with 

 fulvous yellow : the forehead and throat dufky white : breaft 

 fulvous, fpotted with black : the reft of the under parts dufky 

 white, fpotted with black : the wing coverts are black, fpotted 

 with fulvous j the lower order brown black, tipped with white : 

 quills brownifh black ; the fhafts white : tail the fame colour, 

 crolfed with whitifh bands : legs blue : claws black, and blunt. 



Inhabits the fhores and marfhy places of Otaheite. Communi- 

 cated by Dr. Forjler. 



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 FULVOUS PL. 



Description. 



Place, 



Lev. Muf. 



I" ENGTH eight inches. Bill one inch, dark brown; the 



noftrils pervious : the plumage on the upper parts of the body 



brown; each feather margined with a golden yellow: the under 



part of the body white, except the breafl, which is of a dufky 



E e 2 pale 



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 Var. A. 



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