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was dufky inclining to green, which gra- 
dually changed into a yellow or golden 
colour on its under fide. 
The Red Sea-wrack or Weed, placed 
here by way of decoration, is drawn of 
the fize of nature. It is flat, and as 
thin as the fined lawn ; curioufly dotted 
or granulated, and of a beautiful car- 
mine colour. It was given to me by 
my much-edeemed friend, the late 
worthy and curious Mr. Arthur Pond, 
F. R. S. who received it, with other 
Corallines, from the Cape of Good 
Hope. It feems to me to be nearly 
the fame with the Broad-leaved Horn- 
wrack of Mr. Ellis, who has given a 
microfcopical defcription of its minute 
parts. See his Efiay on Corallines, 
pi. XXIX. p. 70. 
The bird defcribed in this plate was 
prefented to me, well preferved dry, 
by my obliging friend Ifaac Romilly, Efq; 
F. R. S. They are found only in warm 
countries, and are feen in feas at a di- 
dance from land. It appears to me to 
be the fame with the Rabihorcado or 
Raboforcado of Willughby: fee his ac- 
count and figure, p. 395. tab. LXXVII. 
Petiver has the fame figure in his Ga- 
zophylacium, tab. LIV. He calls it 
the Indian Forked- tail. The figures 
given by thefe authors ( who, by the 
way, borrowed them from Nieremberg, 
fee his Plid. Nat. p. 221.) are very 
imperfedt, and can give no idea of 
the bird ; and what they fay of it 
amounts to no more than that it hath 
a forked tail. Du Tertre, FUJI. Nat . 
Inf. Antili has given a defcription of 
this bird by the Name of La Fregate , 
with an account of its long flight over 
the fea from land, and its combats with 
other fea-fowls for prey, &c . Ray, in 
his Synopjis Avium , pag, 133 — 4, has 
*1 ) 
queue . Le dos en etoit d'un brun ver- 
ddtre , qui fe cbangeoit par degres en jaune 
ou couleur d'cr fur le ventre. 
Le Vrac Rouge , qui eft mis ici par 
voye d'ornement , eft define de grandeur 
nature lie. 11 eft plat y et anjji mince que 
du linge tres ftn y merveilleufement picotte y 
ou grennele y et d'un tres beau vermilion . 
Feu le curieux et digne M. Arthur Pond y 
Membre de la Soviet e Roy ale , mon tres 
eftimable ami y men a fait prefent : il 
I'avoit re$u du Cap de Bonne EJperance y 
avec d'autres cor alines. Celle- ci me paroit 
etre d peu pres la me me chofe que le Vrac 
Cornu d Grandes Feuilles de M. Ellis y 
qui a donne une defcription microfcopique 
de fes plus petites parties 
L'oifeau reprefente fur cette planche tna 
eie donne y bien conferve fec y par mon obli- 
ge ant ami M. IJaac Romilly , Membre de 
la Societe Royale. Ces oifeaux ne fe trou - 
vent que dans des pays chauds : on les voit 
fur la mer d une grande diftance de la 
terre. 11 me femble que ceft ici le meme 
que le Rabihorcado ou Raboforcado de JVil- 
lughbj'f. Petiver a la meme figure dans - 
fon Gazophilacium j : il I'appelle iftueue Four - 
chue des In des. Les figures donnees par 
ces auteurs , que y par perenthefe y ils ont 
empruntees de Nieremberg || , font tres im- 
parfaites , et font incapable s de donner au - 
cune idee de l'oifeau : tout ce qui Is en di- 
fent fe reduit d nous apprendre y quil a 
la queue fourchue. Du Tertre a donne 
une defcription de cet oifeau /bus le nom 
de Fregate , avec un detail de Jes longs vols 
de la terre Jur la mer , et de fes combats 
* Efl*ay fur les Corallines, pi. XXIX. p, jo, 
X willughby, p. 395, pi. LXXVII.. 
f PI. LIV. 
II Hill. Nat. pag. 221. 
