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7 he Crested Homing Bird. 
T his Bird, with its Neft, is reprefented of its natural Bignefs ; the Bill is (lender, 
lharp-pointed, and not fo long as in moft of this Kind, of a black Colour, and 
very little bowed downward ; the Top of the Head, from the Bill to the hinder Part, 
which ends in a Creft, is firft Green, and toward the hinder Part, dark Blue ; both thele 
Colours Ihine with a Luftre far exceeding the brighteft polifh’d Metals, the green Part 
efpecially, which is the lighted: in fonie , Lights, changes from Green to Gold-colour,^ 
lb beautiful as not to be exprefled by Colours, or hardly conceiv'd in the Abfcnce ot 
the Objed; the Feathers of the upper Part of the Body and Wings are dark Green, 
intermixed with Gold-colour; juft beneath the Bill is a Spot of dirty White; the Breaft 
and Belly are of a dark, dirty, grifled or mixed Gray-colour ; the Quills are of a Purple- 
colour, the Tail is of a bluifh Black, fomething glofly on the upper Side, the under 
Side more glofly than the upper, which is not common ; the Legs and Feet arc very 
fmall, and black of Colour. The Neft is compos'd of a very fine foft cotton or filky 
Subftance, T could not tell which ; there is in it a Mixture of two Sorts, the one Red, 
the other of a yellowilh White ; it is hung between two little Twigs, as exprefs'd. 
The young Leaves and Rudiments of the Fruit were on the Branch, which by Com- 
parilbn with the Delcription, feems to be the Sweet Sop^tree* Sloan'j Natural Hrjforyof 
Jamaica, NoL 2. Tage 168. T^ab. 227. The Fruit, when Ripe, is of the Bignefs of a 
iurkey'% Egg. 
Mr. ’John Warner obliged me with a Sight of this Bird and Neft. He had it of a 
Captain who brought it from the Wejl Indies, 
^TPHESE Flks^ which I take to be Male and Female, were brought from China 
X the Bodies in both are Brown ; the Wings in the firft Fly are border'd all round 
with Black ; the upper Wings have each one large irregular Spot of Orange-colour, and 
a few fmall ones at their Extremities ; the lower Wings have alfo a pretty large Spot of 
Orange-colour in each Wing, and near the Body a large Spot of Blue, encompafs'd with 
.Black, which appears partly cover'd by the upper Wings; befide thefe, there are two 
Half- moon-like Spots, and fome dirty Marks of Orange-colour in the Black round their 
Borders. In the fecond F/y, the Wings are border'd with dirty Brown or Black ; the 
middle Parts of both upper and under Wings are of a faint Yellow-colour; there are 
blue Spots furroLinded* with Black near the Body, in the lower Wings; in each Wing, 
both upper and under, are tw^o Eyes, whofe Middles are Blue, circled round with Black; 
the three little tranfverfe Bars which border on the outer Part of the outer Wings are 
very Black ; the lower Wings are border'd with two Rows of brown Scolops. 
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