BRITISH BIRDS. 
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dilh yellow : the flioulders and fcapulars are black, 
edged with white on the exterior webs of each fea- 
ther, and on the interior with ruft colour ; back 
and tail dulky : legs flender, and nearly black. 
This figure and defcription were taken from a 
bird Ihot by Robert Pearfon, Efq. of Newcafcle, on 
the'ioth of September, 1801, the only one the au- 
thor has feen. It will be remarked that it difiers 
from Pennant and'Latham’s defcriptions, fimply in 
the feathers on the upper parts not being edged 
with black and pale rufty brown. 
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