96 The Pintado'bird dejcrib'd. 
-rf«.i699.The fecond fort are grey, with white 
Bellies and Breafts. The third fort, which 
is the true Pintado, or Painted- bird, is cu- 
rioufly fpotted white and black. Their 
Heads, and the tips of their Wings and 
Tails, are black for about an Inch; and 
their Wings are alfo edg’d quite round 
with fuch a foiall black Lift ; only within 
the black on the tip of their Wings there 
is a white Spot feeming as they fly (for 
o then their Spots are beft feen) as big as a 
Half-crown. All this is on the outfide of 
the Tails and Wings ; and as there is a 
white Spot in thejblack Tip of the Wings, 
fo there is in the middle of the Wings 
which is white, a black Spot; but this, 
towards the Back of the Bird, turns gradu- 
ally to a dark grey. The Back its felf, 
from the Head to the Tip of the Tail, and 
the Edge of the Wings next to the Back, 
are all over-fpotted with fine fmall, round, 
white and black Spots , as big as a Silver 
Two- pence , and as clofe as they can ftick 
one by another; The Belly, Thighs, Sides, 
and inner part of the Wings are of a light 
Grey. Thefe Birds, of all thefe forts, fly 
many together , never high , but almoft 
fweeping the Water. We fhot one awhile 
after on the Water in a (^Im, and a Wa- 
ter-Spaniel we had v/ith us brought it in : 
I have given a Picture of it [See Birds, Fig. 
i.J but it was fo damaged, that the Pifture 
doth 
