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Blended, and the ferruginous on the neck.only juft breaking forth.
Mr. Boys, of Sandwich, alfo obliged me with a third, the beginning
of laft October: his bird, he informed me, weighed nineteen
ounces and a half.; the length twenty-one inches and a half;
breadth twenty-eight. T.he bill yellow at the bafe, dulky olive
towards the tip : lore dulky : irides pale brown: head quite
fmooth. The defcription differed not much; but the ferruginous
colour of the neck was much blended with dulky; the white
on the under parts greatly mottled with the fame : legs, without,
dulky; within, greenilh yellow: the middle toe united to the
inner, as far as the firft jo in t; and to the. outer, to the middle o f
the fecond *..
The two laft-mentioned are, no doubt, birds not in full plumage.
That defcribed by Dr. Sparrman is clearly under the fame
predicament ; perhaps a ftill younger bird than either of the
others, as the cinereous parts on the throat appear white, with
three or four lines of black, and acrofs the lower part o f the
neck is a band o f white. T h e bird figured in Jacquin feems an
adult.
* This circumlfance appears to prevail throughout the genus, and fhould be .
added to the charafters o f i t . .
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