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The Spotted' Greenland Dove. 
T his Bird is here figur'd of its natural Bignefs, by comparing it with the Green- 
land Dove of WUlughby^ I find it agrees exadly in Shape and Size with that, 
the Bill and Legs being the very lame as to Make, tho' different in Colour, therefore I 
believe it to be a young Bird, before it has molted its firfi: Feathers, the old ones being 
Black, except a large white Spot in each Wing, and the Legs and Feet of a fine Red. 
The fiying Bird, in this Plate, fhews the Black Greenland Dove^ at a Diftance, by way 
of comparing it with this ; the Bill is pretty long, of a dark or black Colour, a little 
bowed or hooked tow'ard the Point ; the whole under-fide, from Bill to Tail, is white, 
having very faint tranfverle Bars of Afti-colour ; the Top of the Head, upper Side of the 
Neck, Back and Tail, are of a dusky Black, with tranfverfe Bars of a deep Black, 
the Quills are wholly Black, the Coverts above them tip'd with White ; then lucceeds 
a Row of Black, the lefler Coverts form a large Spot of White in the upper Part of 
the Wing, Iprinkled with Black, the Ridge and upper Part of the Wing is border'd 
round with Black, the Legs and Feet are of a dirty Flefh-colour ; it hath three Toes 
only, all fianding forward, armed with finall Claws and webed together ; it hath allb 
Fins bordering on the infides of the inner Toes. Alhtn has figur'd a Bird in his Second 
VoL p, 73. which he calls the Cock Greenland Dove^ and another in Vol. i, p, 81. 
which he calls the Hen ; I believe he may have met with fomething like this Hen, there 
being fuch a fort of Bird, but not the Hen of the Greenland Dove, Now I fuppofe 
he wanting a Cock to his Hen, and feeing in IVillughby the Colours were few and 
fimple, thought he might eafily make it out without feeing the Bird • fo he made a 
Plate for -the Cock, which is only the diredl reverie of his Hen, and has colour'd it by 
Willoughby % Defeription, and having never feen the Cock, hefuppofed it to have a Bill 
likethat he calls the Hen; whereas the Greenland Dove is a bigger Bird, and hath a 
pretty long flender Bill, more than double the Length of his in Proportion. I thought 
it not amifs to recHfy this Mifiake in Mr. Albm's Works. 
I had this Bird of Sir Hans SloatWy who kept it fonie time alive: It was prefen ted to 
him by Captain Craycott^ who brought it diredly from Greenland, 
If it be true, that this Bird changes White in Winter, as WlUughby'^ Defeription 
mentions, this might perhaps be taken in the Time it was changing from Black to White, 
or from lATiite to Black. See this Bird in ]VHliighby\ T, 326. Tab, tho' to me 
there feems no good Proof of its changing from one Colour to another. 
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