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 The Ring-Tail. Pygargus. 



Numb. V. 



*~f H E Male is called the Henharrier, it weighed feventeen Ounces and an half; the length, from the Point 

 i. of the Beak to the End of the Tail, was twenty two Inches; its breadth, when the Wings were extended 

 was three Feet feven Inches ; the Mouth an Inch and a half long. From the hind Part of the Head round 

 the Ears to the Chin, a Ring or Wreath of Featliers Handing up, having their Middle dusky, and their Edo-es of 

 a redifh White, encompafles the Head as it were a Crown; from this Wreath hangs down a naked Skin cover- 

 ing the Ears; the Back is of a dark ferrugineous Colour ; the Edges of the Neck Feathers redifh ; in the Crown 

 of the Head lefs red ; the Bottoms of the Feathers in the Hind-Part of the Head whitifh ; above and under the 

 Eyes were white Feathers ; the Belly and Bread: of a reddifli Yellow marked with long dusky Spots, tending 

 downward along the Shafts of the Feathers; the Middle of the Throat of a dusky or dark ferrugineous' Colour - 

 the Edges of the Feathers being red; the Rump hatli fome white Feathers with two or three Spots of a dark 

 redifh Yellow. 



The Number of Flag-Feathers in each Wing was twenty-four ; the exteriour Webs were of the fame Colour 

 of the Back, the interiour being variegated with tranfverfe black and whit; Streaks alternately fituate : In the 

 exteriour and greater Feathers, the white Strokes are bigger and broader ; in the interior and leHer, the black 

 in the inmofl whole Web is dusky, the white by degrees growing darker and darker, till at laft it comes to be 

 wholly brown or dusky ; the Tips of the exteriour Feathers in the fecond Row are white, of the interiour red - 

 the reft of tliem being of the fame Colour with the Back. ' * 



The Tail is ten Inches long, made up of twelve Feathers; the Tips whereof are of a redifh yellow to 

 which fucceed alternately redifh and black Bars, the black being much the broader ; in the two middle Feathers 

 the Red do altogether disappear, the Feathers being wholly black. * 



The yellow Skin covers the upper Chap, reaching from the Root of the Bill beyond the Noftrils elfe the 

 Bill is black, hooked and prominent; the lower Mandible ftreight, the Mouth wide when gapino- ; In the Pa- 

 late is a Cavity equal to the Tongue; the Tongue broad, flefhy, and undivided, both Tongue' and Palate 

 black; the Angle of the lower Chap, as in other Birds of this Kind, is round; the Border of the Eye-lids round 

 likewife ; the Eyes yellow. 



The Feet were yellow, the Talons black ; the outmoft Toe, for fome Space from the Divarication, is Joined 

 to the middlemoft by an intervening Membrane ; the middle Toe longeft, the inmoft iliortefl, but the Claw of 

 the outmoft leaft : The Legs are long and very flender, beyond the Proportion of other Hawks ; it hath a great 

 Craw ; fmall, round, tumid, blind Guts ; a large Gorge, in which when opened were Feathers and Bones 

 of Birds; a Gall Joined to the Liver; the Eggs were befmeared over with Red, the White here and there ap- 

 pearing underneath it. 



The Male or Tarcel of this kind differs both in Magnitude and Colour ; the Head, Neck and Back are 

 of an Afh Colour, like ^?iloiz Ring- Dove; the long Feathers growing on the Shoulders are fomewhat 

 dusky ; the Rump not fo white as in the Female ; the Breafl white with tranfverfe dusky Spots ; the two mid- 

 dlemoft Feathers of the Tail cinereous, from the middle to the outmoft, die Colour is more lanonid and dilute 

 inclining to white ; all but the middle ones marked with tranfverfe blackifh Bars : The exteriour^Flag-Feathers 

 of the Wings are black, the Tipskeing Afh-coloured, and the Bottoms white, the out- fide of the reft is cinereous 

 only their inner Limbs or Borders white ; the covert Feathers of the upper Side of the Wings cinereous of the 

 nether Side white ; the Shafts of the interiour being black ; the firft Row of the covert Feathers of the infide of 

 the Wing have tranfverfe dusky Spots: In all other Refpedts it agrees with tlie Female, the Difference of the 

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