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tipped also with a cirt-le of bkck, and the secondaries 
are tei minatetl with refhiish-lirown, forming; a bar of 
tliat colmir across the tvin|^». The wings are loirg^ 
the. oaler feather surpawHin^Uie olhera, ami lenjftbened 
to a fine narrow pciiiit; in the tmmK way are the 
centre fealheraof the tail raiif h extended beyond the 
otlier.'^, and terminate in the mme kind of narrow ae- 
tacf'ou?* plume. 
The feet of this hird flre very extraorilinary. Ac- 
cor<lit»<^ to Delano lie, who afjpears to be the only 
one wlio !ias seen tbi'm alive, the toes are sii f,horl 
B» to be Kcareely dJstinpuisbaWe, the centre one only 
ciescrvin^ that appellation, and they are covered to 
the c1aw» with thick down, the«e parts bein^ alone 
ob^^crvabln without puttings aside the rovvring. The 
Const^qoc-nce is a slow, and, as it were, pjtinful man- 
ner of walking; while on the contrary, the fliglit b 
iB^id and hi^h. Tlie Hame trnveller fotind tlii? ite^t 
of the frmnle BmonJ^ some stones colleete<l under a 
nhruls cimtaininL; four esrgs of a rtMlrli>.h- while spotted 
with brown. The nc^t wu* perfectly simple, con- 
structed with tmly a few atalkn of jiraws, ami the fe- 
tnate exhibited the utmoist Hohcitude f(»r iter precktius 
depoHtt. The female ibHTei'M Utib' from the uiHle, ex- 
cept in size, and a little teu^ brtllumi-y of pluinaj^e. 
Tiie frenus iSynhaptea wan e«lablitiified by llliu:er 
fur tiif rer*'|nion of this curious bird, ami Teni- 
minrk dfdicated ihe only fpecii'H yet known lo tb& 
celebrated PalbiM, ha first descnber, Tlie next bird 
18 more typical of this beautiful little group ; it is 
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