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board of fhip, in the paffage from that port to China, 

 The character and hiftory of this bird, as they then 

 occurred to me, and were immediately noted down 

 in my journal, in the manner of the great Linnaeus, 

 are as follows. 



TAB. I. 



Mas. Magnitudo perdricis vulgaris, corpus fupra 

 virefcens, fubtus nigricans, remiges primores 

 grifeae, cauda brevis rotundata, apice nigro. 

 Frons calva, crifta coccinea ex occipite orta, 

 e 15 circiter plumulis fefquipollicaribus, refpectu 

 capitis, fuberecla, divaricata. Roftrum convexum 

 breve 5 mandibula fuperior nigra, fupra inferio- 

 rem, margine rubro cerato, imbricata ; nares ob- 

 longae, orbitae rubrae, oculi purpurei 5 ad bafin 

 roftri myftaces aliquot albefcentes. Femora 

 feminuda, tibiae longse, rubrae, graciles. Pedes 

 tetrada&yli, fiffi incarnati, fubnodofi, digitus 

 pofticus reliquis craffior, brevior, truncatufque. 



Fcemifia, Mare paulo minor, crifta nulla, remiges 

 primores & tectrices alarum rufo ferrugineae. 



Puilf. Pulli lanuginofi atri, aqua delectantes. 



Vox. Mas & foemina voce fonora frequenter fibi- 

 lant. 



Nidus inter gramina, arundinefque. 



ViMm, Oryza, pane in aqua miffa vefcitur. 



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