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Its neck is fhort; its body in diape much like a 
wild duck. The throat, neck, bread:, and belly, 
are of a very dufky colour, variegated with white, 
yellow, or brown, intermixed ; under the throat, 
about the eyes, upon the bread and belly, being 
more variegated than between the throat and bread. 
Below the vent, the feathers under the tail are marked 
with bright yellow tranfverfe lines. 
In the wing are twenty-eight black quill feathers, 
the ten outermod of which are tipped with brown ; 
the feathers incumbent upon the quill feathers are 
alfo tipped with brown ; fo that, upon the wing ex- 
tended, four beautiful tranfverfe lines appear. The 
fuperior part of the wing, and the fhort feathers under 
the wing, are beautifully variegated with a bright 
brown or yellow ; on the under fide, the quill fea- 
thers are of a dufky colour, and fhining, the five 
outermod being partly white. 
The head is fmall and flender, of a dark colour, 
variegated with light brown, as is the upper part of 
the neck. The lower part of the neck, and the back, 
are of a dark dufky colour. 
The tail has twelve feathers, the fliorted of which 
are 4 inches, and the middle, which are the longed, 
not above 4 and an half. The ends of them all are 
black ; but part of them towards the rump, are white 
about one fourth of their length. Upon the tail, on 
each fide, are a few feathers incumbent, marked with 
tranfverfe bright brown lines. 
From the joint between the leg and thigh to the 
end of the longed claw, is 3 inches. The legs are 
of a bluifh lead colour. The back claw is fmall, 
and black j the other three claws are connected by a 
membrane, 
