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The kaft Butcher-Bird. 
T his Bird hath already been 6gured and fuperficially defcribed by Albin% but, on'examine 
ing his Figure and Defcription, I find fo much Inaccuracy in both, that I have thought 
it convenient (it being a Bird little known in England) to give it a Figure and more perfed Defcrip- 
tion; To which I have added its Hen, which I believe was never before figured j it is called by 
Albin the Beardmanica^ or Bearded Tit-moufe^ but it agreeing with the Butcher-Bird in moft of its 
Charafterifticks, I conclude it to be a Species of that Genus. 
Thefe Birds are here reprefeiited of their natural Bignefs 5 the lower Figure in the Plate is the 
Cock, he hath the Bill fomething arched, as have the others of this Kind, of a fine lightOrange- 
Colour. I could perceive no Angle in the Bill. The Circle round the Eye is of a brighc 
Orange-Colour: From the Bafis of the Bill is a broad Bar of Black, which encompaflfes the Eye^ 
and tends downwards beneath the Eye, where it terminates in a Point, as exprefied- in the Figure :: 
The Throat and Sides of the Head are white, which Whitenefs encompaflTes the above-mention*d 
black Spot; the Crown of the Head is of a blueifh Afh-colour ; the Breaft is faintly tindured with 
a Rofe or Bloflbm Colour 5 the Belly is firft whitifh, the Thighs and towards the Vent being 
darker ; the Sides under the Wings are clouded with Orange-colour; the covert Feathers under 
the Tail are black •, the upper Side, Neck, Back, and Tail are of a red Brown, inclining tO' 
Orange-colour; the greater Quills of the Wings are black, edged with White; the inner next the 
Back are black, edged with Orange-colour; the two innermoft, fave one, have their inner Webs 
white; the leaft and Innermoft Quill Is wholly white ; the firft Row of the upper covert FeatherSi 
of the Wings anfwer exadly in Colour to the Quills they cover; though in the Orange-colour 
they are tipp’d deeper and brighter than the Quills, which makes a Bar of Orange a-crofs the 
Wings i the lefler Coverts are black; the Ridge of the Wing is white ; the covert Feathers within- 
fide of the Wings are of a yellowifli White; there are intermixed between the Back and the 
upper Coverts of the Wing a few light or whitifh Feathers; the Tail confifts of twelve Feathers,, 
longeft in the Middle, fhortening gradually towards the Sides, to left than half the Length of the 
Middle Feathers; the Tail beneath declines from Grange to an Afh-colour; the Legs and Feet 
are black. The Hen differs from the Cock, in that fhehath no black Mark about her Eyes ; the 
Coverts under her Tail are light Brown ; the middle Feathers of her Tail are like the Cock’s ; the 
Side Feathers are black, with pretty deep white Tips; her Head on the Top is of a dirty Brown,, 
which in the Cock is blueifh ; her Back is fprinkled with fome dufky Spots, tending length-ways 
the Point of her Bill is black ; flie hath not the rofe-coloured Tinefture on her Breaft; but in all. 
other Refpedls fhe agrees with the Cock both as to Shape and Colour. 
What Mr. Albin fays of the Care the Cock takes to cover the Hen with his Wing when at Rooft,! 
I have heard reported by others. The Right Honourable the Counteft of Albemarle brought with- 
icovc\ Copenhagen a large Cage full of thefe Birds, when fhe returned from her Attendance ore 
one of the Princeffes of Great Britain^ who was efpoufed by the Prince Royal of Denmark^ in the 
Year 174^. I was favoured with a Sight of them by the Counteft,. and have feen fome others of the 
fame Kind, both Cocks and Hens, fhot among the Reeds in Marflies near though they are 
not -well enough known in England to have a Name. 
Mr. Albin has figured and defcribed two Birds, Male and Female, in one Plate, vol, 3. p. 5 
by the Name of Mountain-Tits^ which he had from Drawings of Sir Thomas Lowther-, which I take 
to be no other than his Bearded Tit-moufe^ or Beardmanka ; which fee in his Hiftory of Birds,. 
Vol. i. p. 46. I am the more confirmed in this Opinion, fince I have feen, 1 believe, the original; 
Dj-awing, which is now in Richard Mead^ M. D. Phyfician to the King, 
