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The Dottrel. Morinellus.
Numb. LXI, LXII.
IT S Weight was four Ounces and a quarter; Length, from the Point
of the Bill to the End of the Tail, ten Inches; Breadth, when the
Wings were extended, eighteen Inches and a half; the Bill, meafuring
from the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was an Inch long; the Head
elegantly variegated with white and black Spots, the middle Part of each,
fingle Feather being black, above the Eyes was a long whitifh Line; the
Chin whitiih, the Throat was of a cinereous Colour inclining to a light
brown, as far as the broad white tranfverie Line which encompaffes the
Breaft, and reaches above the Pinion of the Wings on each Side the
Breaft; under that Line it is of a dark bay or chefnut Colour, ending
near the Thighs in a'broad Shadow of a blackiih brown; the lower
Belly and Thighs are white: the Wing hath about twenty five prime
Feathers, of which the firft or outmoft is the longeft, and hath a broad
ftrong white Shaft, the tenth the ihorteft, from the tenth to the twentieth
they are almoft equal; the reft to the twenty fourth are again longer,
the foregoing than the following, the three outmoft are blacker than the
reft, which are of a dusky or rediih brown Colour: The lefler Rows of
the wing Feathers are brown with yellowifh Tips or Edges, the upper
Part of the Neck' and Back are of the lame Colours with them: the Tail
is compofed of twelve Feathers, two Inches and a half long, the mid-
dlemoft being the longeft of the fame colour of the Back: the Legs are
bare for a little Space above the Knees, of a browniih Colour, with a
Tindure of green; the Feet a little darker, the Claws black, the inner
Toe is joined to the middle Toe at Bottom, the outer by a thick Membrane
as far as the firft Joint; it wants the back Toe, wherein it agrees
with the Green Plover: its Bill is ftreight and blackiih. It hath a
fleihy Stomach, in which when I had difleded it, I found fmall black
Beetles; its Guts were fourteen Inches and a half long. The Cock and
Hen agree in all the Colours and Marks excepting the black Shade at
the lower Part of the Breaft, which is the charaderiftick Mark of the
Cock. Thefe two Birds I received from Sir William ¿Hbdy, they were
fent to him from the Peak of Darby. 22»