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eyelids red : eyes black : the forehead is white : 

 between the eyes, across the head, a bar of black, 

 passing on each side to the hind head : the chin 

 and fore-part of the neck is white ; at the lower 

 part of the neck the white encircles it like a ring, 

 and is accompanied by a bar of black all round : 

 on the breast is another black bar, and except 

 these, all the under parts are white : the hind part 

 of the head, neck, and upper part of the body and 

 wings, are dusky brown : rump rusty orange : the 

 feathers very long : some of the feathers which 

 fall over the greater quills fringed with white ; the 

 last black ; a few^ of the outer ones have white 

 shafts : tail the colour of the rump, much rounded 

 in shape, near the end barred with black, the 

 tip white : legs pale yellow : male and female 

 much alike." 



This is a restless noisy species, setting up its 

 cry the moment any one approaches : it is confined 

 to America, being found at New York, Carolina, 

 and Virginia; at the latter place it remains all 

 the year, and is called kill-deer, from its note 

 resembling that word : it migrates to New York 

 in spring, where it breeds, and lays three or four 

 eggs ; returns south in the autumn. 



