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The SCHOMBURGER. 
I Know not well what Clafs to range this Bird with: In Colour it 
much refembles the hark Kind, but the Bill is much to large and 
long ; nor doth it better agree with the HhrupD Family, in the Shape 
of its Bill; it agrees, I think, beft with the Buntings though it hath a 
larger Bill, and different in Structure, that having a Knob in the Roof 
of the Mouth, which is the Charaderiftick of the Hortulene Kind. So 
I muft leave it to be claffed, as the more knowing lhall think beft. I 
often find more Difficulty to find a Family to daft American Birds 
with, than I do to range Birds found in the moft diftant Parts of the 
old World : It is here figured of its natural Bignels. 
The Bill is pretty long and thick, of a dusky Flefh-colour, ending in 
a Point; the Eyes are of a Hazel-colour, the Sides of the Head and the 
Throat, for a fmall Space beneath the Bill, is Black, which Blacknefs 
extends itfelf downward on each Side of the Neck almoft to the Begin¬ 
ning of the Wing ; in this black Part the Eyes are placed: The Top of 
the Head, upper Side of the Neck, Back, and covert Feathers of the 
Wings, are Brown, fomething brighter, or more upon the Orange, than 
in the hark Kind, Ipotted with Black, except the Top of the Head ; 
the Quill Feathers of the Wings and the Tail are of a Dusky, or Blackifh 
Colour, edged with a bright reddifti Brown. The whole under Side, 
from the Throat to the Coverts beneath the Tail, is of a pleafant light 
reddifh Brown-colour ; the Bread: and Belly fpotted with Black ; the 
Feathers all over the Body being black in their middle Parts and brown 
round their Borders; the Feathers of the Shoulders that fall over the 
Wings are of a light yellowifti Brown; the Thighs, lower Belly, and Co¬ 
verts of the Tail, both above and beneath, appear fpotlefs, and are of a 
lighter Brown than the other Parts of the Bird ; the Legs and Feet are of 
a reddifh Flefh-colour; the Claws are brown; the hind Claw is a 
little longer than ordinary, yet much fhorter than in the hark Kind. 
, This Bird was brought alive from the Spanijh Wejl-Indies^ and pre- 
fented to the Lady of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Wager^ then 
firft Lord of the Admiralty, at whofe Houfe I made this Defign. 
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