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C UC Ko O' OD . Gixseit 
neck are of a pale grey; the breaft and belly white, 
croffed elegantly with undulated lines of black. 
The vent feathers of a buff color, marked with a 
few dufky fpots. The wings are very long, reach- 
ing within an inch and a half of the end of the 
tail; the firft quil feather is three inches fhorter 
than the others; they are dufky, and their inner 
webs are barred with large oval white fpots. 
The tail confifts of ten feathers of unequal lengths 
like thofe of the butcher bird: the two middle are 
black tipt with white; the others are marked with 
white fpots on each fide their fhafts. The legs are 
fhort; and the toes difpofed two backwards and 
two forwards like the woodpecker, though it is 
never obferved to run up the fides of trees. The 
female differs in fome refpects. The neck before 
and behind is of a brownifh red: the tail barred 
with the fame color and black, and fpotted on each 
fide the fhaft with white. ‘Fhe young birds are 
brown mixed with ferruginous and black, and in 
that ftate have been defcribed by fome authors as 
old ones. 
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