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redder in their outer circumference j the fkin round 
the eye is dufky, ar black : it hath alfo blackifh marks 
proceeding from the corners of the mouth ; the top 
and hinder part of the head and neck are of a fine 
blue changeable colour : it has a creft of long loofe 
feathers, which I fuppofe it can raife or lower at 
pleafure: the lower part of the neck, the back, and 
covert feathers of the wings^ are covered with black 
or dufky feathers, having a fmall broken tranfverfe 
mixture of reddifh brown : the wings> when clofed, 
meafure about feventeen inches, though the prime 
quill fall fhort of the length of thofe above them : 
the wing hath about twenty quills, the outermoft 
.ihorteff, which gradually lengthens to the fifth ; the 
nine outermoft quills are of a lightifti yellow brown, 
fpotted with dufky fpots, of the fize of tares, except 
on their inner webs, next the (hafts, where they are 
of a dufky brown, with white fpots as fmall as mu- 
ftard feeds ; the fhafts of thefe feathers are of a lead 
colour ; the eleven remaining quills, which charac- 
terize this bird, are of a darker brown than the fore- 
going, marked with round and longifti duflcy fpots 
on both the inner and outer webs. What is moft ex- 
traordinary in thefe feathers is, that each of them has 
on the outer web, clofe adjoining to the fhaft, a row 
of very diftindl fpots like eyes, fo fliaded as to appear 
imbofted : they are larger and fmaller as the feathers 
are to the outer quills they are from twelve to fifteen 
on each feather j the largeft eyes are an inch in a di- 
meter, they are incircled firft with black, and with- 
out that with light brown, their fliafts are white j 
the eyes in the two or three innermoft quills are not 
fo regularly marked, they lofe their roundnefs, and 
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