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Done runs from the Bill over the 
Eye, and another under the Bye. The 
_ Throat is black, except a yellow Spot, clofe 
under the Bill, The Breaft is Orange-co- 
lour’d; the Belly white; the Upper-part of 
the Neck and the Rump, of adusky Red; the 
Back black; the Wings and Tail brown, 
with a Mixture of white; the Legs ‘and 
Feet, Lead-Colour. Thefe Birds are fre- 
quent on many of the Bahama Ulands: 
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Arbor Guajaci latiore folid, Bignonie flore ceruleo, 
except a white Line which- | 
_ Pincon de Bahama | 
a, L pefe fix drachmes, Sa 
Fy) 2ele cff noire, excepté une 
2: yy _raye blanche, qui s’étend de. ; 
Gime puis le bec, Julqu au def- 
fus de Peil, & un dutre au deffous; Sa 
gorge est toute noire, hors tune tache jaune 
fituée immediatement fous le bee. Sa 
poitrine eft orange; fon ventre blanc; le 
deffus ducol & du croupion, Pun rouge ob- 

feur. Sen dos eft noir ; fer ables & ‘fa quetig 
font brunes, mélées de blanc ; fes jarabes &F . 
fes pieds font couleur de plomb. Ces oi- 
feaux font communs en plufieurs des ifles 
Bahama. 
fruciu duro in duas partes 
difhiente, femimbus alatis imbricatim pofitis, 
The broad leaf’d Guaicum, with blew Flower . 
HI S isa Tree of a Middle-Size. The Leaves are wing- 
7 j ed, with many {mall pointed alternate Lobes. In May 
| there proceeds from the Ends of its Branches feveral {preading 
_ Foot-ftalks bearing blew Flowers, in Form not unlike thofe of 
the Fox-glove, which are fucceeded by large flat roundith Seed- | 
-Veffels, or Pods, commonly two Inches over, containing many 
{mall flat winged Seeds. This Tree grows on feveral of the 
oe Babama (lands, particularly near the Town of Wafaw on the 
4 : ‘ -Ifland of Providence. 
Arbre de Guaiac; aux fleurs blués. 
Ce T arbre eft Pune grandeur mediocre. Sees feuilles font poin. 
tues, oppofées alternativement le long des tiges. Au mois de 
May il fort de Pextremité de Jes branches plufieurs tiges, qui Sécar. 
Zent les unes des autres, qui portent des leurs affex femblables a celle, 
de la Gantelée, - Elles font furvies par de grandes coffes, pre/que ron. 
des, & ordinairement de deux fouces de diametre ; dans lefquelles font 
renfermées plufieurs petites fémences plates, ailées. Cet arbre vient 
en plufieurs des iffes Bahama ; fur tout aux environs de la uille de 
Naffau dans ['Iffe de Ja Providence. ~ = - 



