White-vented, White's Botany Bay, 251. tab. 36. This fpecies
is wholly black, except the vent, the tip of the tail, and the bafe,
which are ivhite. A white fpot marks the lower part o f the
primaries; tail long, and even at the end; lize of a magpye.
Inhabits Botany Bay.
Yellow-faced, Lath. Syn. vii. p. 91: orbits o f a fine yellow, naked
and wrinkled; head, neck, and whole upper part o f the body
and wings black; the laft crofled with a white line ; breaft and
belly white ; legs yellow.
& n g s - f i s h e r , Great Brown, PL Enl. 663. . Lath. Syn: ij. p. 609. Phillip, ^ 8 7 .
tab. 53. This is fometimes found eighteen inches lo n g ; the head
covered with long feathers erigible at pleafure; white, crofled
with duiky lines ; a black bed pafles from the bill beyond the
eyes down the tides o f the neck ; back duiky ; middle o f the
wings and rump o f glofly blue green; tail barred with ruft
color and purpliih black.
T h e Sacred, Phillip, 156. tab. 22. Latham, ii. 623. var. D. is
common to New Holland and New Guinea. It may be concluded
that many birds o f the northern part o f New Holland, are common
to both countries, being fo near to each other; crown, hind
part o f the head, back, wings,' and tail blue, tinged with green;
all the fore part of the body white; neck encircled with the
fame color.
Todus Flavigajler, Latham, index, i. 268. Bill ihort; head, throat, and
all the upper parts duiky grey ; all beneath yellow; length fix
inches.
B e e . e a t e r . Carunculated, Phillip, p. 164. tab. 28. Latham, index, i. 276.
The cheeks naked; on each fide o f the throat is a narrow long
wattle o f an orange color; plumage brown, itreaked with white;
tail
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tail cuneiform, long, duiky, edged and tipped with white; middle
o f the belly yellow; length fourteen inches and a half.
. HornedfLadtham, index,-i. 276, at the. bafe of the upper mandible
is a ihort blunt procefs, like a horn; head and neck thinly
cloathed with fetaceous feathers plumage duiky, edged with
olive; tail ti'pt with white ; length fourteen inches.
Black, Nigra, Latham, index, r. 296. Plumage black ; on the' C r e e p e r .
lower parts ftreaked with white; primaries and tail edged with
yellow; tail rounded : length feven inches.
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guail, Br. Zool. i . N° 97. P a r t r i d g e .
A v e r y diminutive quail is found about Botany Bay. The
natives catch them in a fort o f decoy; they differ only in fize
from the European kind.
Wattled, Parkinfon, 145, who fays no more than that it is a
bird like the Yetfao, with wattle's o f a fine ultramarine color;
and with black legs atid bill.
New Holland, with a black band acrofs its breaft. B u s t a r d .
Golden-Winged, White, .149. tab. 8. Pigeons are very nu- pIGEOs.
merous in New Holland, but no particular defcription is given us
o f any one fpecies, except the bronzed, before defcribed at p. 113,
and by Mr. White, p. 146. tab'. 7, under the name o f Golden wing
pigeon. It is not improbable, but that this and many other birds
are migratory, to and from Norfolk ifland, and New Zealand.
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