VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
upper mandible ; the noftrils and fpace round the eyes are 
bare and red ; the head, neck, and all beneath, are of a 
pale grey, croffed over the thighs with dufky lines ; the 
back and wings dufky lead-colour, with the end of each 
feather black; the tail is long and wedge- fhaped, the fea- 
thers white at the ends ; near which is a bar of black. 
The bill and legs are brown ; the toes are placed two before 
and two behind, as in the parrot or Uuca?i genus. 
This fingular bird was met with at New Hollafid^ from 
whence three or four fpecimens have found their way to 
England, but whether it is a numerous fpecies has not been 
mentioned. 
The next morning we hid our tents and the remains of 
our provifions, and with only a little rum, and a fmall 
quantity of bread, made a forced march into the country, 
to the weftward, of about, fourteen miles, without being 
able to fucceed in the objed: of our fearch, which was for 
good land well watered. Indeed, the land here, although 
covered with an endlefs wood, was better than the parts 
which we had already explored. Finding it, however, very 
unlikely that we fhould be able to penetrate through this 
immenfe foreft, and circumftanced as we were, it was 
thought 
