

OF BIRD S. 65 
Species 11. The Pin-tail Grous. 
Its legs before are covered with thort downy 
white feathers; the hind toc is very fhort; the 
two middle feathers of the tail are much longer 
“than the ref, and pointed at the ends. - There is 
a black circle round cach eye palling in a ftreak 
“Iehind the bead; the chin and throat are black ; 
the lower part of the neck and breaft orange, 
“bounded above and below with ablack line. The 
quill feathers are afh-colour, the coverts ruft- 

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colour, margined with white 5 the tail is wedge- — 
fhaped, clay-colour, with dutky Mtripes; the tail 
feathers white at the point, except the middle 
feathers, which, where they exceed the reft in 
length, are black. | 
|g imbabits the warmer parts of Europe, viz. 
the fouthern parts of France, Spain, and Italy4 
and Barbary and Senegal in Africa, and many 
parts of Alia. ‘The male is very beautiful, 
At Aleppo they are found in all feafons: they 
come in prodigious numbers from the deferts of 
Arabia and Syria in May and June, and fuch 
quantities have been caught at that time with 
once drawing the net, as toload an af; but they 
are far from being delicate food, their fleth is, - 
hard and dry. wo beta foe Oe coe Le 
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