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l^he Fig-eater, 



Numb. XXVI. 



THIS is a fmail long bodied Bird, its Bill (lender, and of a 

 dark reddifli Colour j the top of the Head, Back and 

 Tail of a duiky red, cinereous and yellow Mixture j it hath 

 the fame number of Wing and Tail Feathers as in other 

 fmail Birds; the Quill and Coverts more dark than the reft 5 

 their exterior Edges white, on the Throat is a large Spot 

 of white, the Breaft yellow, fpotted with black; the under 

 part of the Belly and Thighs white, the Legs of a pale red- 

 difh Colour- This Bird I had out of the Collection of 

 Sir Thomas Lowther. 



Mr, Willoughby in his Ornithology makes fix or feven 

 Kinds of this Bird. See Chap, V. page 2 1 6. 



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