Maes , 
08 paring it with the Green- 
Shape and Size with that, 
ae ent in Colour, therefore 
pas: Bird is here figur’d of its natural Big 
land Dove of Willoughby, 1 find it agrees e 
the Bill ey Legs being the very fame as to Ma 
I tls to be a young Bird, before it has m ft Feathers, Ghe old ones 
bein, g Blac “except a large White Spot in eac the Legs and Feet of a 
fine Red. “The. ‘flying Bird, in this Plate, ie i Greenland Dove, at a Dif- 
tance, by way of “comparing nea , the B y long, of a dark or black 
Colour, a little bowed or hooked toward the Point; the whole under Side from Bill 
to Tail, is white, havi faint t Bar fh-colour; the Top of the 
Head, upper Side 2 dufky Black, with tran{- 
verfe Bars of a deep . , the Coverts above them 
tip’d with va . neAee Coverts form a large 
Spot of Whi rit Black, the Ridge and 
upper Part ¢ ‘ing is bord ound lack ss and Feet are of a 
dirty Flefh- hath three Toes only, 1¢ forward, armed with {mall 
Claws and | webed _it hath alfo Fins bordering on the infides of the inner 
Toes. Albin i 73 
Greenla 7a Dove a 1 1 1a ATR DE et ut ich he calls the Hen; 1 believs 
few a HT ie ones he ie eafily 
r a Plate for the Cock, which is only 
ot rd it by Villoughby's Defcription, and 
od ‘to have a Bill like that he calls the Hen; 
bigge Bird, and hath a pretty long flender Bill, 
is in Proportion. I thought it not amifs to reétify 
ie 
i? 
who kept it fome Time alive: It was prefented 
ght it dire@tly from Greenland. 
s White in Winter, as Wilby S Defcription 
n in the rine | it was changing from Black to 
td in Willoughby, p. 326, Tab. 78. tho’ 
ne Colo r to oh 
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