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The Long-t ail’d Dove. 
T H E Figure of this Bird fliews it of its natural Bignefs ; it hath but a fmall 
Head in proportion to the Body ; the Neck of a middling Length; the Body- 
pretty long; the Tail longer .than the whole Body ; the Wings of middling Length ; 
the Bill is ftraight, not very thick, a little bent downwards at the Point, of a Horn- 
colour, light about the Noftrils, and a little Rifing, darker towards the Point; the 
Iris of the Eye is of a dark Colour ; from the Corner of the Bill to the Eye, is drawn • 
a white Line, which incircleth the Eye ; the Fore-part of the Head, above and beneath - 
the Bill, is of a yellowilh or Clay-colour, the hinder Part is of a Pigeon Blue, pretty 
light; thefe Colours lofe themlelves in each other, where they unite; where thefe 
two Colours meet on the Sides of the Head, juft under the Ear-holes, are fituate on each ' 
Side a round black Spot of the bignefs of a Tare; the Fore-part of the Neck and 
Breaft are of a blulh or Bloflbm-colour, more intenle above, changing gradually to- • 
wards the Belly into a Clay-colour ; the lower Part of the Belly, Thighs, and Coverts 
under the Tail, being Clay-colour, with a little mixture of Cinerious ; the upper Side • 
of the Neek, Back, and upper Side of the Wings, is of a dark, dirty Brown, the 
Quills being darker than the Covert-feathers, though the Edges of the Webs of the 
Quill-feathers are a little lighter colour’d than the reft of the Wing; the Scapular- feathers • 
between the Back and Wing, as alio lonie of the Quills and Coverts next the Baek, 
are marked at their Ends with oval black Spots of different Magnitudes, about lo or 
in Number on each Side; the Rump, and Feathers covering the Tail, are more in-' 
dining to Alh-colour than the Back and Wings; the middle Feathers of - the Tail are 
very long and black, the fide Feathers gradually grow Ihorter, fo that the outer-mofi-’ 
on each Side, little exceed half the Length of the middlemoft ; the outer Feathers are 
of a bluilh or Alh-colour, having Bars of Black near their Tips, the Tips themfelyes ■ 
being White ; the Legs and Feet Red, as in others Doves \ it hath four Toes ftanding 
after the ufual Manner; the Claws are Brown. What is moft lingular in this Bird, is • 
the Length of the^Tail, which is fliap’d like a Magfye% no Bird of the Dove or ' 
^igeon-KinA, that ‘I have met with, haying the like.' This Bird hardly differs at all ■ 
from Ibme others in the IV eji Indies., lave in the Tail. r t> . 
I drew this Bird at Mr. John Warner’s of Rotberhith ; who had it of a-Perfon-thafe 
brought it from the Wejl indies. 
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