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COROMANDEL
W.
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black : the under tail coverts pale chefnut : on the wing covert*
is a long white mark : bill and legs brown.
This is met with in- the Philippine IJlands.
Buffon does not mention the colour of the under tail coverts.
They do not differ from the reft of the plumage in the Planches
Enluminées.
Le Clignot, ou Traquet a lunette, Buf. oif. v. p. 234.
T H I S is the fize of a Goldfinch, and of a fine black colour,
except the wing coverts, on which is a fpot of white. In
fome birds the under tail coverts are alfo white; but what cha-
radterizes the bird is a naked yellowifh wrinkled fkin *, which
encircles the eye all round, giving the appearance of vieanng/pec-
tacles: the irides are yellow, and the pupil blue: the tail is even
at the end, and when fpread, forms an almoft equilateral triangle
in fhape f .
Inhabits the neighbourhood of the river Plata, in South Ames,
rica i efpecially about Montevideo.
Le petit Traquet des Indes, Son. VJ nd. vol. ii. p. 207.
g I Z E o f our Titmoufe. Bill black: irides rufous yellow:
head, neck, breaft, and leffer wing coverts, black j on each
» This is faid much to refemble the yellow lichen which is found on the tiles
of houfes.
+ It is faid to confift of eight feathers only j but furely four were miffing, as
all of this genus yet known have twelve.
feather
feather is a yellow’ith fpot; the reft of the coverts edged with
yellow, and on the middle of them a fpot of white : quills and
tail black : rump pale rufous : belly the fame, crofted with irregular
black bands: the legs are black.
Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. Place.
Le grand Traquet des Philippines, Brif. orn. iii. p. 446. N* 32. pi. 22. f. 3.
— B : f oif. v. p. 230.— Bl.tnl. 185. f. 2.
Traquet de Manille, Salem, p. 225.
T E N G T H fix inches and a quarter. Bill dirty yellow: the
head is reddifh white, in fome parts inclining to yellow : the
neck of a dirty red:, acrofs the breaft a blueifh band: belly
and vent reddilh white: back, wings, and tail, violet black :
acrofs the middle of the wing coverts is a long white mark;
on the outer edge of the wing, below this, is another; and
fome of the greater coverts being edged with white, make a
third in the middle of the wing: the outer tail feather edged
with rufous white on the outer web. The legs ferruginous.
Inhahits the Philippine Ifles.
Le grand Traquet, Buf. oif. v. p. 232.
'j^'H I S meafures feven inches and a half in length. The bill
is an inch long: the head brown, mixed with darker
brown : upper part of the neck and body pale brown 1 throat
whitifh, mixed with hrown : breaft brown: wing coverts, and
outer edge of the quills, the fame ; within, half brown half rufous
: the tail is alfo of thefe two laft colours, and the two outer
feathers
52.
PHILIPPINE W.
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DARK W. JS
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