G7.) 
The MiNor of Mino, Greater and Lefi. 
I Suppofe the above Name may be the nN N ame, of this. Bird, in the Country 
from wionee it is nage ee xh! take it to be “near of Kin to the Jackdaw; the 
yi , the Leffer hardly exceeds a Black- 
agp > 
eerie have eUitioe fiz’ é 
f/f 
Bird, {fo that ie one is at 1g t raite as big as t 
Heads, pretty plump round dies cand fhore tail le. 
the Bill is pretty thick at Be e Sapaliss from upper to- ader,£ 
prefled Sideways, of iretowards the lanai Pont: in ihe ef- 
fer Bird, and all ove G reater: the ip oe Point not very fud- 
the Eyes are Hazelecolour’d in both; in “the Hinde “are of hed eh both, 
two little Flaps of y kinvin the Form of Crefcents with ¢ the Points u wards, 
one Corner of each b g be ind the Eyes, the other ‘Corners uniting in the | n= 
\e Eyes are other yellow. bare Spots of Skin, | whi Je 
ina “manner not eafy to expre(s ; ‘but by the 
in his Particular, becaufe. Mr. Albin has publiti’d 
» which are the: Charadterifticks both in 
der-part of the iy 
are joined to the be 
this Bird, and fg ly 
his Figure and Deferi 
Birds, tho’. they a 2 y Ae »:- The He feck, whole Beds Wings and Tail, 
are cover'd with k ack Feathers of C: reat Luftre, fhining in different Lights with 
blue, green, and p purple Glofie the son. inder-part of the Head, that 
are encompatfied by the f. , ‘ or Velvet for their Fine- 
nefs; the Bottoms of for Xe Of.the ¢ te white, which form a white 
Spot 1 in the middle of the ings the I ! £ a yellow Colour inclin- | 
ing to Orange i in the leffer Bird, r V seat e Claws light brown; 
the Numbe: and Polition of - 
The leffer as in cur Ne Hart Yard in the 
Strand, Lan 7. te Greate rT, bela d to th > Dr. George Vharton Treafurer 
ns, London, ; employ eC. aw i it for his Lady, 
and gave ae leave aut le a Draught for my f ST open d it and 
fet up the Skin: I found i o be a Hen Bird Birds fo unequal 
in Size, tho’ fo exaét in Like yeLS yar of the fan 
leave to the judgment of the C oe din Ville “ay Account of 
a Bird, which I take to be this, at is” b. 38. For : 
Whiftling, Singing and Talking, i fee a exprefling i 
Words with an Accent nearer Huma dra ae és or any other Birds ufually taught 
to talk. They are faid to come fror m the Ilan and tis likely they came 
ae , apes 
from thence and the adjacent arts. Pi they ar yus.by the India Com- 
- , 2, Plate 38. 
pany’s Ships. See Mr, Albin's Figure, in his Hiftory y 9 f Birds, Vol. 
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