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P a s se r in e .
T h ru sh .
F l y - c a t c h e r .
W a r b l e r .
M a n a k j n .
. ■ New Holland, Lath. Syn. iii. 37. 33. The forehead, chin, and
throat black; reft o f the plumage a bluiih lead color; quills and
tail duiky, edged with the former color; all the feathers o f the
tail, except the middle, tipt- with white ; Fan Diemen’s Land.
New Holland,.Lath, index, ii. p. 478 : duiky above, white beneath,
tail llightly forked ; length feven inches.
Soft-tailed, a fpecies extremely Angular from the formation o f
its tail, the ihafts o f which are merely edged with fcattered filaments
refembling hair. Lin. Lranf. iv. p. 240. E.
Red-bellied, Lath. Syn. iii. 343. tab. L. Nat. Mifc. tab. 147. E.
Long legged, Lath. vii. 181: legs and billyellowiih ; general color
brown, under parts whitiih ; length only three inches ; inhabits
Van Diemen's Land.
Superb, Phillip, p. 157 ; Lath. Syn. iv. p. 501.137. tab. 53: forehead
and cheeks o f the richeft ccerulean color, from the cheeks a
narrow band of the fame furrounds the hind part of the neck;
belly white, all the reft o f the plumage black; tail Very long;
a moft beautiful bird. From Fan Diemen's Land, and other parts
o f New Holland.
Van Diemen's, Lath. Syn. vii. p. 187 : with a duiky head ; the
forehead ftreaked with white; predominant color brown, in parts
mixed with white ; edges o f the wing feathers tawny, with a
fpot o f the fame on each w ing ; -under part of the body white ;
breaft and vent itriped with white ; length fix inches and a half.
Swallow, Nat. Mifc. tab. 114. Head and back of agloflyfteelhue;
throat and breaft crimfon; belly white, with a black ftripe. E.
Striped-headed, Latham, Syn. iv. p. 526. tab. 54 : crown and
nape
nape black ftriped with white ; between the bill and eye a yellow
fpot; hind part o f the neck, back, and wings brown ; the laft
marked tranfverfely with a,yellow ftripe ; breaft and belly pale
yellow'; tail very lliort, black tipt with white. Van Diemen's
Land. ‘
Spotted, Naturalifis Mifcel. vol. iii. tab. 111. The head,- nape,
wings, and tail black, elegantly fpotted with circular white fpots ;
over the eyes a white line; cheeks and iides of the neck marked
with a bed of blue grey, barred downward with duiky; throat
yellow ; belly of a ftill paler color’; back brown; coverts o f the
tail crimfon : a moft elegant fpecies.
Crejled, Phillip, i. p. 270. tab. 42. This is of fombre colors like
the European,- but diverfified : its great diftintSlion is an upright
creft o f long briftles, riling from the bafe of the bill. The length
o f thisfpecies is nine inches and a half.
S TRUTH iotrs.
New Holland, Phillip, p. 271. tab. 43. White, p. 129. tab. 1. Latham,
index, ii. 665. This is a new fpecies, feven feet high ; the
crown fla t; the head and neck thinly befet with ihort fetaceous
feathers, longeft on the hind part of the head, forming a fort of
creft; throat rather naked, carunculated, and of a bluilh color ;
legs very fcaly, and the hind part regularly ferrated-; on each
foot three toes Handing forward ; wings fo ihort as fcarcely to
be feen, and without quill feathers. The plumage.on the body
is a little curled, and of a brown and grey color; each feather is
double or united at the bafe; it is not an uncommon bird in this
country ; runs fo fwiftly that no greyhound can overtake i t ; the
fleih is faid to tafte like beef.
AQUATIC.
GoAT-SUCKER.
C a s s o w a r y .