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font jeunes ; puls apres a mefure quits croiffent , //j deuient 
de couleur de rofe, & cn fin quand its font agez , it eft tout 
incarnat , II fe trouve de ce memes olfeaux, pres de Mont- 
pelier, gw 00* feulement le deffous des ailes & du corps in* 
cam at, <& le deffus noir. II sen voit auffi aux Ijles , qui ont 
les ailes melees de quelques plumes blanches & noires. 
Du Tertre gives much the fame account. Les Jeunes 
font beau coup plus blancs que les vieux , & ils rougiffent 
a mefure quits avancent en age. fen ay veu aujji quel - 
quefuns qui avoient les ailes meflees de plumes roliges , 
noires & blanches , & je croy que ce (ont les males . 
(f) Conftantinus. Rofirum , & crura, & pars alarum, pu- 
nt ceo colore rut Hat. 
Willoughby fays, the Neck and Body is white ; The 
Alarum Remiges , or Quill-Feathers of the Wings, are 
black ; but the Vef iirices, or Covert-Feathers, are 
wholly dyed with a mod beautiful, bright purple, or 
flame-Colour, unde el nomen. , 
Dampier , The young ones at firft are of a light grey; 
and as their Wing-Feathers fpring out, they grow darker, 
and never come to their right Colour, or any beautiful 
Shape, under ten or eleven Months old. When many 
of them are {landing together by a Pond’s Side, being 
half a Mile diflant from a man, they appear to him like 
a Brick Wall ; their Feathers being of the Colour of a 
new red Brick : And they commonly (land upright and 
fingle, one by one exa&ly in a Row, except when 
feeding, and clofe by each other. 
_ Color Pedum. 
All Authors agree in the red Colour of its Legs 
and Feet. Thus Scaliger, Crura pedefque alis habet con - 
.colores. 
(|) Conftant. Lexicon Grxco- Latin- 
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