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Plumage. The mod remarkable of all the feathered 
tribe, each feather lying over the other, 
with the compadnefs of the fcales of 
fifh ; their texture is equally extraordi- 
nary j the fhafts broad and very thin ; 
the vanes un webbed ; the head, throat, 
and hind-part of the neck, are of a deep 
brown colour ; from each fide of the 
head to the middle of the fore-part of 
the neck are two lines of bright yellow, 
broad above, narrow beneath, and 
uniting half way down ; from thence 
the fame colour widens towards the 
bread, fading away till it is loft in 
pure white, of which colour is the whole 
under fide of the body, a dulky line 
dividing it from the colour of the upper 
part ; the whole back is of a very deep, 
cinereous colour, almoft dufky ; but the 
end of each feather is marked with a 
ccerulean fpot, thofe about the junction 
of the wings larger and paler than the 
others. 
Wings. Are extremely fhort in refpedt to the bulk 
of the bird, hang down, and have ra- 
ther the appearance of fins, wbofe of- 
fice they perform * ; their length is only 
fourteen inches j on the outfide they are 
dufky, and covered with fcale-like fea- 
thers, or at bed with fucli whole flaufts 
*De Veert’s Voyage, p. 333. Winter’s Voyage in Hacluyt’s 
Coll. III. 752. 
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