Ps AT ee AL 
This fpecies is very pare in every part of Europe ; and efpecially in this 
country: we have a figure of it in the Britifh Zoology; but unfor- ~ 
tunately, notwithftanding Mr. Pennant’s very laudable intentions, he 
had no opportunity of confulting the original fpecimen; he depended 
on a drawing done by his friend-Mr. G. Edwards ; and the copy is only 
a diftant imitation of the bird; it is defeCtive about the body, and ex- 
ceedingly incorrect as to the circumference of the neck; the account 
fays, “ Mr. Edwards difcovered this beautiful bird twice in our ifland, 
near London, at-.Norwood, and another time in Norfolk ;” the figure of 
this was copied by permiffion from his beautiful and accurate defign, 
which we gratefully acknowledge, as well as every other affiftance 
from our worthy friend; whofe pencil has done fo much honour to his 
country. 
This bird is the fize of a flarling; eight inches in length: bill 
three quarters of an inch, of a flefh-colour, with the bafe reddifh: 
irides pale: the feathers on the head long, they form a creft which 
impends on the neck: the head, neck, wings, and tail, are black; the 
two latter are ftrongly gloffed with green; and in fome parts with an 
inclination to blue and purple: the back, rump, breaft, belly, and 
lefler wing coverts, pale rofe colour, with a few irregular dark fpots: 
Jegs pale red, or orange. 
Ruflell in his Hiftory of Aleppo, calls our refe a _fiefh-colour ; and 
in the Peterfburgh TranfaQiions the name given to it is fanguineous ; 
we may then conclude that the bird varies much in its rofe, or pink 
colour; the female alfo is paler than the male. 
Mr. Latham has added a farther proof of its being found in this 
country, one was fhot at Grantham, in Lincolnfhire, and is now in 
the pofleffion of Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart.; and he fays that he is affured of 
one, or more, being fhot almoft every feafon about Orm/kirk in Lan- 
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