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the breaft and belly are nearly white; they have much the fame colour indeed with 
the head, but that there is fomewhat of reddifh in it: the rump is paler than the reft 
of the body, and the lower part of the belly, between the thighs, and under the root 
of the tail, is white. 
The wings are fhort, and yet the bird is a fwift flier 5 the long feathers in each 
are twenty in number, and of thefe the fourth is the longeflt: the firft is very fhort 5 
they are all of a deeper brown than the reft of the body, and are tipped with a yet 
dufkier colour at the ends: the covering feathers of the wings have fome variegations 
of yellow and brown about the part where, in our jay, there are the blue feathers. 
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The tail is fhort; it is compofed of twelve feathers, all of a deep brown, but fome¬ 
what dufkier at the tips than elfewhere: the under part of the tail is fomewhat paler 
than the upper. 
The legs are moderately long; they are flender, and of a deep dufky, bluifh-grey: 
the toes are long, and the claws are alfo long, black, and fharp. 
The bird is a native of the Eaft Indies, and has fometimes been brought over fluffed 
from thence. It is very noify and chattering ; it’s wild notes are not very agreeable, 
but when kept tame, as it frequently is by the Indians, it learns to imitate the human 
voice. None of the writers on birds have named it, unlefs it be Charleton ; he men¬ 
tions a fpecies of Picus, as he exprefles it, under the name of Picus garrulus five Mi-, 
mus Indicus minor, which may poflibly be the fame with this j but, unlefs he had 
faid more, there is no being certain of it. 
Corvus cajlanei color is peElore ferrugineo. 
The chefnut-brown Corvus , with a ferrugineous hreajl . ptUS* 
This is a very Angular and a very elegant bird ; it is like our jay in fhape, but 
it is greatly inferior to it in fize; the utmoft bignefs of it is that of our common 
thrufh : it’s head is moderately large, rounded at the Ades, but conAderably deprefled 
on the crown : the eyes are large, and very beautiful; their iris is of the higheft fear- 
let, and the pupil black, and they have a peculiar piercing afpedt : the beak is ftrong, 
but very fhort; it is not longer than that of a fparrow : both chaps are nearly of the 
fame length j it is pointed at the extremity, and is throughout of a deep black : the 
membrane which covers the bafe of it is alfo black, and the noftrils which ftand in 
this are roundifh : there are a number of curled bridles growing about thefe, and from 
them to the beginning of the head. 
The head is of a pale chefnut colour on the forepart, but behind it is of a much 
deeper brown, approaching to that which our painters call an umber colour : at the 
Ades there are two black fpots, formed, as it were, of a continuation of the briftly 
covering of the noftrils, and in thefe ftand the eyes: the neck is fhort j it is black 
before and behind, but of a ftrong, though not very deep brown, at the Ades, and, as 
it approaches the head, it becomes whitifti : the fhoulders and back are of a deep red- 
difh-brown, a very Angular colour, and very elegant; the brown is bright, though 
ftrong; and the reddifh that is blended with it is not of the fcarlet or crimfon kind, 
but of the pale bloflom hue, or fleflr coloured tint: the breaft and belly are of two 
different colours j the breaft a ferrugineous brown, deep and fhining ; and the belly a 
pale, but not bright, grey, with no tinge of either brown or red in it: there is a fhade 
of chefnut colour viftble in certain lights, though not in all; and this is moil diftin- 
guifhable about the middle of the back ; the feathers about the rump are yellowifh. 
The wings are fhort, but they are very well feathered : the remiges or long feathers 
in each are twenty; the two ftrft of thefe are fhort, the third longer, the fourth 
longeft of all, and the reft from this gradually declining in length to the extremity or 
brown part: the long feathers are of a darker colour than any other part of the bird • 
in the male they are blackifh 5 the covering feathers are of a bright and elegant chef¬ 
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