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CHAP. CXir. P L A. 322. 
He Yellow-winged Pye, WGreateft La Pie aux ailes Jaunes, et la Grande 
Locuft. Sauterelle. 
T HE figures on this plate are both 
reprefented of their natural bignefs. 
The Bird hath a remarkable falling-in at 
the bafis of the upper mandible over the 
noftrils, which Briiton hath not noticed in 
the figure he has given of it. 
The bill is fharp, a little bowed down- 
ward, and black. The plumage of the 
whole Bird is black, except the leffer 
covert-feathers on the upper fide of the 
wings, which are of a bright yellow, and 
the inner coverts fringed with yellow. 
The blacknefs of this Bird is not of the 
fhining glofiy kind, but like that of the 
common cock Black- bird, ( Merida .) The 
tail is compofed of twelve feathers, the 
middle ones the longeft, fhortening gra- 
dually toward the fides, as exprefled in 
the figure. The legs, feet, and claws, are 
pretty ftrong in proportion, and all of a 
black or dulky colour. 
The Locuft is remarkably ridged on the 
back ; otherwife it differs little from the 
common Locuft, which appear fometimes 
in clouds, and caufe famine in the lands 
they vifit. On the 4th of Auguft 1 748, 
we were alarmed by their appearance in 
the neighbourhood of London ; but pro- 
videntially they were not in fuch number 
as to deftroy the fruits of the earth. One 
of the common Locufts I have figured in 
my Ornithology, Plate 208. which may 
ferve to compare with this figure, to fhew 
their dilparity of lize. I take this to be 
about fix times the quantity of the other ; 
T E S figures fur cette planch e font de la 
grandeur naturelle. L' oifeau a an en- 
forcement fingulier d la baj'e de la mandihule 
fuperieure, que Brifibn na point reprefente 
dans la figure qui nous en a donne • 
Le bee efi atgu , un pen recourbe en has, 
et noir . Routes les plumes de cet oijeau 
font noireSy hormis les petites couvertures 
du dejjus des ailes , qui font d'un.jaune ecla - 
tant, et les couvertures interieures , qui font 
bardies par des f ranges jaunes . La couleur 
noire de cet oifeau nefi pas relufante y mats 
elle refemble a cede du male des Merles . La 
queue efi composee de douze plumes , dont 
cedes du milieu font les plus longues , et les 
autres sacourctjent a mej'ure qu elles appro- 
chent des cotes , de la maniere que Ion pent 
voir dans la figure . Les jamb es t les pieds t 
et les angles J'ont affez forts, et d'une couleur 
noiratre . 
La Sauterelle , dont Von voit ici la figure, 
a Pepine du dos fort elevee et tranchante i 
elle ne difiere point d d’ autres egards de 
Sauterelles communes , qui paroifieni en de - 
grandes voices , et qui menacent de la famine 
les pais quelles vifit ent. L e quatrume d'Aout 
1748, on fut fort allarme en les voyant 
par ok re dans le voifinage de Londres 3 mais 
beureufement dies nont point ete afi'ez nom- 
breujes pour defoler les fruits de la cam- 
pagne . fai donne la figure d'une Saute - 
rede commune d la Plancbe 208. ce qui 
peut fervir en la comp ar ant avec la figure 
de cede-ci d faire voir la differ ent e grojjeur 
