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paler : over the eye a ftreak of white, palling no further, and not 

 accompanied by a black one : hind pare of the neck dufky black : 

 it had only a rudiment of a fpur : and the red caruncle on the 

 forehead was lefs, and laid back on the forehead. I conjecture 

 this to differ either in fex or age from the other. 



The fpecies above-mentioned inhabits Brafil -, and is faid to be Plac8>. 



plentiful about Carthagena, in South America. 



Le Chirurgien de l'lfle de Lugon, Sen. Foy. p. 82. tab. 45. 6. 



LUZONIAN J. 

 "DAT HER lefs than a Lapwing. Bill of a greyifh colour. Description. 



ftrait, and a little enlarged at the end : top of the head deep 

 brown : over the eye a ftripe of white, paffing down on each 

 fide the neck, and changing into pale yellow behind the eye: 

 through the eye another ftripe of an afh-colour accompanies the 

 firft quite down to the wing : the back is brown : the under 

 parts, from chin to vent, white, except a large fpot of brown on 

 the breaft : at the bend of the wing is a fharp fpur : the leffer 

 wing coverts are white, the others pale brown, tranfverfely barred 

 with black : the fecond quills white ; the prime ones black : 

 from the three laft of thefe arife three naked fhafts, two inches 

 long, and ending in a launce-fhaped feathered point ; they fpring 

 from the middle of the fhaft of the feather to which they belong, 

 the fhaft appearing as divided or branching into two at that 

 part : the toes and claws are very long, as in the others, and of a 

 dufky black. 



This is found in the ifland of Manilla j chiefly frequenting the Placik 



low moift places, borders of the fea, lakes, and rivers ; and has 

 the manners ufual to others of this genus. 



