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CHAP. XCIX. P L A. 309. 
The Man of War Bird, the 
Chinefe Filh, &c. 
^Tp H E bird is much reduced in this plate 
from the fize of life. The head and 
right foot are figured of their natural big— 
nets. The original was a duffed fkin : from 
bill-point to tail-end it meafured thirty-fix 
inches; the wing, when clofed, was 
twenty-three inches long; and the tips 
of the wings, when extended, upwards 
of fix feet diflant. The tail is forked, 
having the outfide feathers thirteen 
inches long. The prime quill meafured 
fixteen inches. 
The bill hath two channels running 
the whole length of the upper man- 
dible, at the ends of which next the 
head the nodrils are placed : it is of a 
red colour, and widens toward the fwal- 
low, the angles of the mouth being 
near two inches didant from each other. 
The whole bird, except the throat and 
bread, is covered with feathers of a 
rudy-bfownifh or black colour; the 
belly, infides of the wings, and under 
fide of the tail, being a very little lighter 
than the back. On the bread is a white 
bed of feathers (figured on the plate) 
nearly of the fhape of an heart, the 
point of which tends to the throat, and 
the two blunter angles of it pafs under 
La Fregate ; Poiflon de la 
Chine. 
T * Oifeait efi beaucoup diminue du nature! 
dans la figure de cette planche. La 
tete et le pied dr ft font reprejentes de leur 
grandeur naturelle. L' original etoit line 
peau rembourree : il avoit trois pieds de long 
depnis la pointe du bee jufquau bout de 
la queue : Vaile fermee avoit vingt et trois 
ponces de long , et du bout d'une aile jufi 
qiid V autre, lorfque les ailes etoient et en- 
dues, il avoit environ fix pieds . La queue 
eft fourchue , ayant les plumes exterieures 
de treize ponces, les grandes pennes en 
avoient feize. 
Le bee a deux canelures , qui vont d'nn 
bout a 1' autre de la machoire fuperieure , 
a Vextremite des quelle s font les nafeaux , 
contre la tete: il efi rouge , et il selargit 
vers Vavaloire, les corns de louver ture etant 
a pres de dei.x ponces de diftance Vun de 
V autre. Lott P oifeait, except e la gorge 
et Veftomach , eft d’un plumage d'un noir 
ou brundtre rouille ; le ventre, le dejj'ous 
des ailes , et le dejj'ous de la queue ne font 
guere plus clairs que le dos. Il y a fur 
Vefiomach un fond de plumes blanches re- 
pn fin tees fur Vempreinte, a pen pres de 
la forme d'un cceur , dont la pomte efi vers 
la gorge , et les deux coins plus arondis Je 
per dent fins les ailes , chacune des quelle s 
a environ trente pennes ou plumes prin - 
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