-O F Bla. ae 6g 
| Species x1. The Pin-tail Grous. 
Its legs before are covered with fhort downy | 
white feathers ; the hind toe is very fhort; the 
two middle feathers of the tail are much longer 
than the reft, and pointed at the ends. ‘There is 
a black circle round each eye pafling ina ftreak 
behind the head; the chin and throat are black ; 
the lower part er the neck. and -breatt orange, 
bounded above and below with ablack line. The 
quill feathers are afh-colour, the coverts ruft- 
colour, margined with white ; the tail is wedge- 
{haped, clay-colour, with dufky ftripes; the tail 
feathers white at the point, except the middle 
feathers, which, where they exceed the reft in 
length, are black. | 
. It inhabits the warmer parts of homnets ViZe 
“the fouthern parts of France, Spain, and Italy; 
and Barbary and Senegal in Africa, and many 
parts of Afia, 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 to load an afg; but they 
are far from being delicate food, their fefh i is 
hard.and dry, | ae 3d 
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