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The greater Redflart.
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TH IS Bird is equal in bignefs to the Starling; its Length
from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Claws are
nine Inches and a half; the Mealure of the Wings,
when extended, is fourteen Inches; the Bill is more than
an Inch long, broad and flat, as in Stares, not round and
riling in a ridge as in Blackbirds \ black of Colour, the upper
Chap longer, (harp-pointed and fomewhat crooked;
the Mouth yellow within, the Tongue a little cleft at the
end; the Legs and Feet cinereous, the Claws black, the
Soles of the Feet yellow; the whole Bird is party-coloured,
being a mixture of white or grey, black and yellow; lome
Cock Birds are of a fulvous Colour, fpeckled with many
white Spots, and a few black ones: The Tail isihort, fcarce
exceeding three Inches, made up of twelve Feathers of
equal length, all of a fulvous red, excepting the two mid-
dlemoft, that are duiky, which yet in lome Birds are alio
above half red; it is to be obferved, that all the Tail-Feathers
have their outer Edges towards the top of the lame
Colour with the middle Feathers.
It is faid to abide and build in mountainous Places. It
is kept in Cages for its linging. This Bird I had out of the
Collection of Sir Thomas Lowther.
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