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ACS IS Bird is about the Bignefs of a Magpye or fay; the Make of its Body is 
rather long than round; the Head of a moderate Size ; the Neck of a middling 
Length; the Legs rather fhort than long; the Tail pretty long : It is a very elegant 
Bird, both for Shape and Colour ; it is very active, flarting up its Tail, and raifing its 
Creft; it fwells its Throat, and utters a horfe and difagreeable Sound; the Bill is 
fhort and comprefled Side-ways; the upper Mandible a little arched, but not over- 
hanging the lower; the under Side of the lower Mandible has a {mall Angle, as in the 
Bills of Gulls; the upper and lower Chaps are of a dirty Red or Brick Colour: I know 
not any Bird that has a Bill like this. The Eye is of a dark Hazel-colour, encompafied 
with a knotty Skin of a bright Scarlet-colour ; from the Corner of the Mouth to the 
Eye, is a broad black Line, which grows narrower, and extends itfelf under and beyond 
theEye; under this is a white Line, which extends a little farther back than the biack 
Line, but doth not come forward fo near the Bill; from the Corner of the Mouth is 
extended another white Line, which pafles above the Eye, but not fo far back as that 
beneath; the Head, Neck, Breaft, and leffer Coverts of the Wings, are of a fine dark 
Green-colour ; on its Head it hath a Creft, which it raifeth atPleafure; the very Tips 
of the Feathers on the Creft are Red; the Thighs, lower Belly, and Coverts under the 
Tail, are dufky or black; the Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a fine bluith Purple- 
colour; Part of the greater Wing-feathers or Quills, next the Belly, are of a fine 
‘Crimfon-colour, well expreffed by pure Carmine; their Tips and Borders of the outer 
Webs are black; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, Afh-colour ; the Toes are fituate as in 
Woodpeckers, Parrots, and Cuckows: What Genus of Birds to range this with, I can- 
not pofitively fay; it climes not as Parrots do, nor doth it agree with them in an 
refpect, except in the Pofition of the Toes; nor is its Bill any thing like a Woodpeckers, 
fo that I think it neareft the Cuckow kind. /bia has figured this Bird, and calls it 
the Crown Bird from Mexico; though thefe: Birds are indeed Africans, brought from 
Guinea, by the Way of the Weft Indies, to us; he hath not fhaped his Bill right, “nor 
defcribed well the Marks about the Kye; he mentions White in the Wings, which I 
could not difcover, tho’ I have drawn after two different Birds of this Kind. 
This Bird is now living at Colonel Louther’s Houle in St. Famess Park, where I 
have been permitted to make Drawings of it for feveral Perfons of Diftin@tion. The 
Texture of this Bird’s Feathers are fo fine, that no diftinc& Form of Feathers can be 
difcovered, except Be ae Tail. See Mr. A/bin’s Figure, Vol. 2. Page 18. 
of his Natural Hiftory of Birds. His Bird was either a great deal lets than mine, or 
one of us muft be pretty much miftaken in the Size, fince he makes it of the Size of 
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the Mifel Bird, which is not above Half the Bignefs of a fay or Magpye, to which 1 
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