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BRITISH BIRDS, 
colours of the female are pretty much the fame as 
thofe of the male, but not by any means fo bright 
or diftindly marked. 
This kind is common in a wild ftate in Egypt, 
at the Cape of Good Hope, and in various parts of 
the intermediate territories of Africa, whence they 
have been brought into, and domefticated in this 
and other civilized countries, and are now an ad- 
mired ornament on many pieces of water contiguous 
to gentlemen’s feats ; but neither the author nor 
his correfpondents were able to procure a fpecimen 
of this or the two preceding fpecies, for the pur- 
pofe of making drawings. 
