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B.
La Veuve a epaulettes, Buf. oif. iv. p. 164.—PI. enl. 635.
Cape Sparrow, Kolb. Cap. ii. p. 159. pl. 7. f. 7.
Yellow-Ihouldered Oriole, Browns lllufi. pl. 11.
Loxia longicauda, J . F. Miller, pl. 3. A, .
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
D escription. g I Z E of a Song Thrulh : total length twenty inches; from the
bill to theletting on of the tail only five. The bill is
ftrong and dulky ; the noftrils nearly hid in the feathers: tongue
lharp : the general colour of the plumage deep glofly black:
the lefier wing coverts are crimfon, below this a bed of white ;
fome of the quills are white at the bafe, but hid when the wing
is clofed ; the fecond quills are as long as the prime ones : the
tail is compofed of twelve feathers, which hang fideways, like
thofe on the fides of a Cock’s tail; fix of the middle ones are
very long, but unequal in themfelves, the two longeft are fifteen
inches long, the; next on each fide fourteen inches, and the
next only eleven inches and a half; the others much lhorter:
the legs are brown, of the fize of thole of a Thrulh: all the
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claws long and hooked.
This is indigenous to the Cape of Good Hope.
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PANAYAN B.
La Veuve en feu, Bu/. oi/. iv. p. 167.
La Veuve a poitrine rouge, Pl. enl. 647.
de l’lfle de Panay, Son. Voy. p. 117. pl. 76.
D escription. C I Z E of the Wbidah Bird: length twelve inches: colour
wholly black, except a large fpot of a bright red colour on
the breaft: four of the tail feathers are very long, pointed,
hanging
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hanging downward, like thole o f the JVhidah Bird, and are all
of a length : legs-black.
Inhabits the Iffe of Pamy.
Gros-bec a poitrine coulcur de feu, Salem, p. 277. 14»
^ I Z E of a Finch. Bill ihort, like that of a Bulfinch: top o f
the head and neck yellow j reft of the body black : tail
long.
This is all the defcription which the author gives of it; but
his calling the breaft fire-coloured, in his fpecific defcription of it,,
inclines us to think that it may have fome reference to the laft
fpecies.
Inhabits. Angola.
Emberiza Capenfis, tin. Syjl. i. p. 316. 9.
X’ Ortqlan 4 a Gap de Bonne Efperance, BliJ. crn. Ki. p-. 2S0. 7. pi. 14.X 4.
1—Buf. oif. iv. p. 328.—-Pi. enl. 158. f. 2.
S !Z E of the laft : length five inches three quarters. Bill
dulky, upper part rufous yellow, varied with black: top o f :
the head and neck dirty grey and black mixed : fides of the head
and chin dirty white, crofted with two ftreaks of black, the one
through the eyes, the other beneath them: the Under parts
dirty yellowifti white: the Idler wing coverts rufous; the greater
ones, quills, and tail, dulky, with rufous, edges : legs blackilh.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope.
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