PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
I. A Letter from]imzs Badenach, M. D, 
to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. con - 
tainmg a technical Idefcription of an ut%- 
common Bird from Malacca. 
S I R, 
Read Jan. 9, tt Here prefent you a curious and un= 
1 common fpecies of bird, which I met 
with at Malacca in Augufl 1770. The male, fe~ 
male, and two young ones, were purchafed at that 
place from the natives, but died foon afterwards on 
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