

.T- s 4 i c K BE R. Chass 1 
‘The a of this bird is two ounces ake < 
half: length ten. inches and a half: extent twenty- } 
two. ‘Bill: very fhort: the mouth vaft: irides hazel. 
Plumage a beautiful mixture of black, white, 
ath-color and ferruginous, difpofed in lines, bs sa 
and fpots. The male is diftinguifhed from the 
female by a great oval white fpot near the end of 
the three firft quil-feathers; and another on the 
outmoft feathers of the tail: the plumage is alfo 
more ferruginous. 
The legs fhort, fcaly and feathered below i 
knee: the middle toe connected to thofe on each — 
fide by a fmall membrane, as far as the firft joint:~ 
the claw of the middle toe thin, broad, ferrated. 
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END of tHe FIRST VOLUME. 

