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head, neck, back, and upper part of the breaft, dark afh-colour :
wings dufky, edged with white-: the lower part of the breaft,
belly, thighs, and vent, the lower part of the back, rump, and
upper tail coverts, are white, tranfverfely barred with black : the
tail black: legs rather fhort and dufky.
Inhabits New Guinea.
14. PCARPOUWAN.
D escr ip t ion .
Le Choucari de laNouvelle Guinee, Buf. oif. iu. p. 81 .— PI. enl. 630.
L E N G T H eleven inches. Bill almoft an inch long, and yel-
lowifhj the top of the upper mandible not rounded, but angular:
the plumage greyifh afh-colour, paleft beneath : belly
white : quills blackifh brown : legs fmall and afh-colofired ;
claws fhort.
P lace*' Inhabits New Guinea, with the laft.
EAREC-RNOEWCK. ED
D escription.
Xe'-Colaud de Cayenne, Buf. oif. lli. p. 82.— VI. enl. 609.
g IZ E of a Jackdaw. Bill broad at the bafe; colour of it dufky
.blue: the head is covered with a kind of hood, like black
velvet, compofed of ftrait, fhort, jagged, and very foft feathers;
thefe are thinly placed on the neck, on the fore part, and almoft
bare on the lides and behind : the reft of the plumage is alfo
black, but the feathers as ufual in other birds : fome of the wing
coverts and quills light grey. Buffon mentions, that the toes
feemed to have been placed naturally all forwards, for there was a
membrane between the hind toe and the inner one, and it had
P lace.
been forced behind by the perfon who put it into attitude.
This came from Cayenne. Le
I>e Choucas chiiuYe, Buf. oif. jii. p. 80. PI. enl. t j j .
L e v , MuJ.',
J IG G E R than the laft r length thirteen inches. The bill
ftrong, rather bent, and of a dufky black : the plumage on
the upper part of the body is o f a ferruginous brown; beneath
paler, more inclining to red, as are the upper tail coverts : legs
dufky.. The great Angularity o f this bird confifts in the fore part
of the head, which,, as far as. the crown,, and beyond the eyes, is
totally bare of feathers: the chin is fparingly covered with them.
Whether this baldnefs is the effeft merely of rooting into the
ground, with its bill, like the Rooks in England; or. whether
fo formed by nature, cannot well- be determined; it may perhaps
be the firit. cafe, as we know that the bill of the Rook is, while
young, as completely clothed with briftles, which cover the nof-
trils, and with feathers at the root of it, as the Crow; let us
therefore conclude it to be the fame with this, bird, till experience
ihall evince the contrary..
Inhabits Cayenne. Manners totally unknown..
L e v . Mu/l.
J^ENGTIT ten inches and a half. Bill ftrait, fomewhat bent at
the end,.and notched near the tip; colour of it black: the
plumage on the upper part of the body is cinereous, beneath,
paler, verging to> reddifh brown forehead and throat paleft- of
all,almoft' approaching to white; among the feathers of this laft
part are fome flender hairs: hind head and nape dufky black :
16.
BALD CROW.
D e s c r ip t io n ,
Place;
l 7-
PACIFIC
CROW.
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