PLATE CXLIX. 



The lafl work to which we can refer, is the Ornithological Dic» 

 donary of Mr. Montagu, in which the like repetition from the 

 General Synopfis is detailed: the Bovc-Turth fpoited-necked,'* 

 ** appears (fays this writer) to be a mere variety of the common 

 Turtle. The difference confifts in the whole fide of the neck being 

 black, and inftead of thofe feathers being tipped with white, there 

 is a round fpot of white on each, very near the end. Dr. Latham 

 fays this bird was Ihot in Buckinghamfhire," 



Prom the preceding obfervations there can be no difficulty in af- 

 certaining the parent fource from whence the different accounts of 

 this bird that have hitherto appeared, originally emanated, namely, the 

 defcription of the bird in the Lcverian Mufeam, inferted in the Sy- 

 nopfis of Dr. Latham ; this bird remained in that Mufeum till the 

 period of its diflTolution, and then pafTed into our pofTeflion. There 

 were altogether three examples of it, the whole fuite of which we 

 obtained and have now before us. 



In the earJieft defcription of this bird, the Author of the General 

 Synopfis afTures us, that he has feen this variety well expreffed in 

 two colleftions of Chinefe drawings, and that in China it is known 

 by the name of Pancoii. He had obferved it likewife among a parcel 

 of birds brought either from the South Seas or the Cape of Good 

 Hope. In the ** Index Ornithologicus," it is recorded finally as a 

 native of Europe, Africa, and Afia ; and we are befides affured that 

 it occurs alfo in Cayenne. Ail thefe teflimonies prove mofl clearly 

 that this kind of Turtle, whether a diflin6l fpecies or a variety, is 

 widely diffufed over moft parts of the Globe; and that in every 

 climate it exhibits the fame permanent diflindlion from the common 

 Turtle which we obferve in thofe individuals of our own country. 



This, 



