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being blue only on the outer edges ; the bill is large 
and black, but the bafe of the under iaw is whitifh : 
f .... 
the legs are brown. 1 his bird is fubjed: to great variety, 
feveral of them being mentioned by Mr. Latham in his 
wpjis. The prefent feems to come nearefl: his Var. CX 
See vol. ii. page 622, of that work. 
Auguft 1 2th. Celebrated the Prince of Wales's birth- 
day. The men of war fired a royal falute, and all 
the officers in the colony, civil and military, dined 
with the governor. The evening was fpent in making 
bonfires, and tefiifying fuch other demonftrations of joy 
as could be ilicwn in this country. The weather is now 
very wet and cold, and has been fo for the laft fix 
weeks. Several mornings we have had a hoar froft, and 
a few diilindl pelicles of ice were formed on fhallow 
fpots of water; the thermometer frequently as low as 
the freezing point. 
1 6th. A convid who had been out gathering what 
they called fweet tea, about a mile from the camp, met 
a party of the natives, confifling of fourteen, by whom 
he was beaten, and alfo fiightly wounded with the fhell- 
ftick ufed in throwing their fpears ; they then made hira 
ftrip, 
