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sider its appearance as an indication of wind, and blowing weather, 

 and that its frightful scream is through fear, as it is not a bird of very 

 active, or quick flight. It is not easily tamed, for Mr. White observes, 

 that he kept a wounded one alive for two days, during which time it 

 would eat nothing, but bit every thing that approached it very 

 severely. 



A. — Length two feet. Bill an inch and three-quarters long, per- 

 fectly smooth every where, without any appearance of groove or 

 channel, but curved at the tip ; head and neck pale ash ; crown 

 mottled with brown ; body and wings above cinereous brown ; end of 

 each feather reddish bufF, with a bar of black a little within ; greater 

 quills glossy black, with white ends ; tail as in the other, but the 

 black bar much broader, and the outer feather serrated with white on 

 outer web ; all the under parts of the body pale ash-colour, barred 

 with dusky brown ; thighs the same ; legs white, like those of some 

 chickens ; thigh feathers reach some way over the joint. 



Inhabits New-Holland. A fine specimen in the collection of Mr. 

 H. Brogden, of Clapham. This seems to vary much from the first 

 description, but from the inferior size, the want of channels on the 

 bill, and difference of plumage, it may be considered as opposite in 

 sex, if not a young bird. 



