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The Hen of the black Game. Grygallus miner* 



Numb. XXXiV. 



TS Weight was forty feven Ounces; Length fron^. 

 the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail twtnty 

 three Inches; Breadth, when the Wings were expanded^/ 

 thirty four Inches: It is the Colour of a Woodcock, but 

 darker, of a rediili brown, intermixed with tranfverfe' 

 Lines of black; the Chin yellowiili white ; the Breaft and; 

 Belly had a Mixture of yellow/ brown, and black tranf- 

 verfe Lines, which made it appear hoary and higher 

 coloured than the upper Side. It had a large white 

 ^'pot on the fcapular Part of the Wings, in- each of which* 

 were twenty fix beam Feathers ; the exteriour Webs of a 

 yellowiili white, as was alfo the exteriour Webs of the 

 firfl: Row of Coverts ; the under Side of the Wings white,. 



The Tail confifts of iixteen Feathers^ the outmoft: 

 fomewhat longer than the reft, but not fo much relied:'- 

 ed as thofe in the Cock, and is of the fame Colour o£ 

 thofe of the Body. See Plate the twenty fecond, Vol. I^. 



This Bird I had from Sir Robert Abdy._ 



