Geresie. Pasa R TR DY DUG EF: 
_a broad mark in form of a horfe-fhoe, of a deep 
orange hue; in the female it is lefs diftinct. 
Fach feather on the back 1s finely marked with 
feveral femicircular lines of reddifh brown and 
black: the fcapulars with a narrow white line along 
their fhafts, and with black and cinereous undula- 
ted lines on the webs; whofe fides are marked with 
a large fpot of ruft color. The greater quil-feathers 
are dufky, fpotted on each web with pale red: it 
has eighteen feathers in the tail; the fix outmoft on 
each fide are of a bright ruft color tipt with white; 
the others marked tranfverfely with irreeular lines 
of pale reddifh brown and black: the lees are of 
a whitifh caft. 
The nature of this bird is fo well known, that it’ 
will be unneceffary to detain the readers with any 
account of it: all writers agree, that its paffion 
for venery exceeds that of any bird of the genus; 
fhould the reader’s curiofity be excited to feea more 
particular account, we beg leave to refer them to 
thofe authors who have recorded this part of its 
natural hiftory *. 
The Briti/h name of this bird is Kor-idr, a word 
now obfolete; that now in ufe is Pertrifen, bor- 
rowed from the Normans. Sadr is the generic name 
for the tribe. 
* Pliny \ib. 10. ¢. 23. Wil. orn. 168. Edw. preface to Glean- 
ings, part 2. 
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3) 
SALACIOUS. 
