diftindion : I at firft fight, indeed, thought it fo 

 remarkabie, as to point out a diftind; genus. 



LinniEus fays the pupil is white ; in my fubjed it 

 was black, the iris red. 



I wifhed to have fent the part in queftion of the 

 bird for your fatisfadlion, but it was necelTary to 

 preferve it, to complete a figure made by an ingeni- 

 ous Lady in this neighbourhood, who, by a judicious 

 and accurate arrangement of the feathers in their 

 natural order, has conferred on the fubjed a fecond 

 exiftence, more permanent, and fcarce lefs beautiful 

 than its firft. 



This was a male bird, and fhot in Anglefea in the 

 year 1793, 



I am, &c. &c. 



HUGH DA VIES. 



