PLA Tt EVE 
Suppofed to inhabit fome parts of Denmark and Norway; has been 
difcovered, though very rarely, near the Ca/pian Sea; and was once 
received by Mr. Pennant, from Copenhagen, 
It is probably a fcarce bird in every part; in this country it has been 
only difcovered by a few individuals, and that very lately; we believe 
the moft perfect yet taken, to be that {pecimen of which Mr. Latham 
has given a figure in the fupplement to his General Synopfis; our figure 
is alfo copied from the fame bird. 
It is on the authority of this author, that we include it as a Britifh 
bird; in his defcription he fays, “ I received a perfect fpecimen of the 
Male of this bird from Major Hammond, who informed me, that 
the end of April, the year 1786, two of them alighted in a farm-yard, 
near his houfe, in Za/? Kent, and were taken alive.” 
« T have alfo met with two other fpecimens; the firft fent to me 
Fanuary 28, 1786, by Mr. Martin, of Teignmouth, a gentleman to 
whom I owe many other obligations: his fpecimen had not come to , 
perfection, as the colours on the head and neck were much blended, 
and the ferruginous on the neck only juft breaking forth. Ar. Boys, 
of Sandwich, alfo obliged me with a third, the beginning of laft 
Oétcber, (1787): his bird, he informed me, weighed nineteen ounces 
and a half; the length twenty-one inches and a half; breadth eight. 
The bill yellow at the bafe, dufky olive towards the tip: lore dufky: 
irides pale brown: head quite fmooth. The defcription differed not 
much ; but the ferruginous colour of the neck was much blended with 
dufky; the white on the under parts greatly mottled with the fame: 
Legs dufky; within, greenifh yellow. The middle toe united to the 
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