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The LoNG-TAIL’pD BriacK-cap Humine BIRD. 
cB HIS Bird is enticed of its natural bignefs; it hath a longer Tail than the laft 
defcribed; the two long Feathers being of a loofe, foft Texture, eafily ruffed 
and flowing with the. leaft Breath of Air; what is remarkable in the Tail is, that thefe — 
two fine Feathers are the outermoft but one on each Side, having a leffer {tiff Feather 
under them, as well as above, the better to fupport them, which i is fingular. So far as 
my Obfervation reaches, all Birds, whofe Tail-feathers differ in Length, have either the 
two middlemoft or the two outermoft the longeft, as in the Swallow and Magpye; the 
Bill is thicker at the Bafis than in moft of this Kind, pretty. long, ending in a Point, a 
little bowed downward, of a yellow Colour, with a black Point ; the Crown of the 
Head, and beginning of the Neck behind, is of a black Colour, with. fomething of a 
bluifh Glofs; the Throat, Breaft, and Belly, are covered with Green Feathers, inclining 
to Blue, of a firm Subftance, lying clofe and regular li ike the Scales of Fithes, and of 
fo fine a Surface, that they reflect the Light as doth urnifhed Gold; the feathers on 
the Back are of a loofer Make, of a yellower Green, a having the bright Luftre of 
the Breaft; the Wings are of a brownith Purple, having, in fome Lights, a brighter 
bluifh purple Catt ; the Ridge of the Wing from the Shoulder, a good way down, is 
white; the Tail is black or dufky, the Feathers increafing in Length from the mid- 
dlemoft to the outermoft fave one, which is about five Times longer than any of the 
reft; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, are black. 
Mr. P. :Colinfon obliged me with a Sight of this Bird. I faw another that came 
“with it, in the Repofitory of the Royal Society, which differed only a little in fize from 
this. They were brought from amaica. Inever could find above ten F eathers in 
the Tail of any Bird of this Genus. | 
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The dufky and yellow Swallow-tail’d BuTrTeR-Fiy. 
HIS Fly was given me by Dr. R. MM. Mafey, who told me he had it from 
Maryland. ‘The Ground of the Body and Wings are of a dirty dark Brown, 
sail and fpotted (as the Print will direé&t better than the Defcription) with Yellow, 
or rather Brimftone-colour; all the Spots and Marks on the whole Fy being yellowith, 
except two Half-moon-like Spots neareft the Point of the Tail, which are bright Red. 
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