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fpecies are perfe(5lly green, with a white bill, and a CHAP, 

 crimfon fpot on the head ; thefe make an agreeable 

 chattering, but are not fo eafily domePdcated as the 

 former. 



I was prefented this evening by a foldier with a bird of 

 a quite different kind, which he had a6tuaily caught with 

 his hands. This was no other than the annamoe-i or Su- 

 rinam partridge, and a finer creature I never faw : it was 

 of the fize of a large duck, extremely fat, and of a dark 

 brown colour on the back and wings, and on the top of 

 the head, the under part of which, the bread, the belly, 

 and the thighs, were of a fine cream-colour, intermixed 

 with orange feathers and very fmall tranfverfe black 

 bars. Ihe body was exacSlly the fliape of an egg, it had 

 no tail, the neck was long, the bill fliort, but very Hiarp- 

 pointed, and a little curved ; the eyes were bright, and as 

 black as j^t; the legs fliort, of the colour of vermilion, 

 with three fmall toes on each foot. This biruj it is faid, 

 runs Avith amazing fwiftnefs, hiding itfeif amongil the 

 grafs and weeds, but flies very heavily on account of its 

 pliimpnefs, which was the caufe of its being thus over- 

 taken by the marine. We had it roafced, and indeed no- 

 thing could be more delicious. As I took a correcSl: draw- 

 ing of it, I refer the reader to the annexed plate; w^here 

 he may alfo fee the parrot of South America, as defcribed 

 above, befides a fev/ curious nefts, of which I have given 

 an account in Vol. I. p. 375, but where I had no op- 

 portunity of placing them ; and which, befides their cu- 

 riofity, may ferve to fhew how much the public are im- 

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