PLATE 3 
Rourr and Reeve. Albin. 1. pl. 72. 73. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. N° 192. pl. 69- 
Ar&. Lool. p. 479. As 
"Lath. Gen. Syn. V. 159. 1 
Br. Muf-—Lev. Muf. 
Rurre. Rai Syn. p. 107. A. 3. 
Will. Orn, p. 302. pl. 56. 
Le Combattant, ou 
Paonde Mer, rif. Orn. V. p. 240. 12. pl.'22. figs 1. 2- 
Buff. Oif. vit. p. 521. ph 29. 30 
Pl, enl. 205. 306, 
Krofler. Kram. 352. 
Brufhane. Faun. Swec. fp. 175. 
Bruufhane. Brunnick, 168. 
Streitfchnepfe, Ramphehnlein. rich. 11. 232. 235. 
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The length of the male is twelve inches, of the female ten inches ; 
the bill of the former is yellow in fome, in others black, or dark 
brown; the face is covered with yellow pear-fhaped pimples; the 
back part of the head and neck are furnifhed with long feathers, 
which expand in a-very fingular manner on each fide of the neck, 
and impend loofely over the breaft, like the ruff anciently worn m 
this country. A portion or tuft of thofe feathers projec alfo juft 
beyond each eye, and have the appearance of long ears. 
As the moft remarkable peculiarity of thofe Birds are that no 
two {pecimens are ever found to agree in the colours of the plumage, 
it is impoffible to give any defcription, except of its form, that may 
affift the unfkilful ornithologift to determine the fpecies, when it 
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