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equal to that of a dare. The bill at the point is 

 black, at the bafe a dirty flefn color : the head 

 is adorned with a creft hanging backwards. The 

 head, creft, neck, wings, and tail are black, gloried 

 with a changeable blue, purple and green : the 

 bread, belly, back, and leffer coverts of the wings, 

 are of a rofe color, mixed with a few fpots of 

 black : the legs of a dirty orange color. 



This bird is found in Lapland, Italy, and Syria. 

 About Aleppo it is called the locuft bird, pofnbly 

 from its food ; and appears there only in fummer*. 

 In Italy it is (tyled the fea-ftare ; and as Aldro- 

 vandus fays, frequents heaps of dung 7. And Mr. 

 Ekmarck J informs us, that it reticles in Lapland, ne- 

 ver paffing beyond the limits of that frozen region. 

 We have mentioned very oppofite climes, but be- 

 lieve it to be a fcarce bird in all, at, left in Europe. 



* Rujel's hift. AUp. 70. Ta-vermer, 146. 

 f Aldr. av. IL 283. 

 \ Migr. civ, Amaii. acad. IV. 594. 



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