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The L on g - tail’d Dove, 
T HE Figure of this Bird fhews it of its natural Bignefs; it hath but a fmall 
Head in proportion to the Body; the Neck of a middling Length; the Body 
pretty long; the Tail longer than the whole Body; the Wings of middling Length; 
the Bill is ftraight, not very thick, a little bent downwards at the Point, of a Horn- 
colour, light about the Noftrils, and a little Riling, darker towards the Point; the 
Iris of the Eye is of a dark Colour; from the Corner of the Bill to the Eye, is drawn 
a white Line, which incircleth the Eye ; the Fore-part of the Head, above and beneath 
.the Bill, is of a yellowifh or Clay-colour, the hinder Part is of a Pigeon Blue, pretty 
light; thefe Colours lofe themfelves in each other, where they unite; where thefe 
two Colours meet on the Sides of the Head, juft under the Ear-holes, are lituate on each 
Side a round black Spot of the bignefs of a Tare; the Fort-part of the Neck and 
Breaft are of a bluifh or Bloftom-colour, more intenfe above, changing gradually to¬ 
wards the Belly into a Clay-colour; the lower Part of the Belly, Thighs, and Coverts 
under the Tail, being Clay-colour, with a little mixture of Cinerious; the upper Side 
of the Neck, Back, and upper Side of the Wings, is of a dark, dirty Brown, the 
Quills being darker than the Covert-feathers, though the Edges of the Webs of the 
Quill-feathers are a littlelightercolour’d than the reft of the Wing ; the Scapular-feathers 
between the Back and Wing, as alfo fome of the Quills and Coverts next the Back, 
are marked at their Ends, with oval black Spots of different Magnitudes, about io or 
1 2 in Number on each Side ; the Rump, and Feathers covering the Tail, are more in¬ 
clining to Alla-colour than the Back and Wings ; the middle Feathers of the Tail are 
very long and black, the fide Feathers gradually grow fhor.ter, fo that the outer-moft 
on each Side, little exceed half the Length of the middlemoft; the outer Feathers are 
of a bluifh or Afh-colour, having Bars of Black near their Tips, the Tips themfelves 
being White ; the Legs and Feet Red, as in other Doves ; it hath four Toes ftanding 
after the ufoal Manner ; the Claws are Brown. What is moft fingular in this Bird* 
is the Length of the Tail, which is fhap’d like a a Magpye' s, no Bird of the Dove or 
Pigeon- kind, that I have met with, having the like. This Bird hardly differs at all 
from fome others in the Weft-Indies, fave in the Tail. 
I drew this Bird at Mr. 'John Warner $ ,of Rotherbitb ; who had it of a Perfon that 
brought it from the Weft-Indies . 
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