piercing, and the note having fome fimilitude to the word Lori::
they learn to fpeak with amazing facility, and will repeat words
even at the firft hearing. They are alfo to an individual natives
o f the Molucpa ifles or New Guinea.
New Guinea-, Dampier's Voy. iii. 187; with the outfide o f the
feathers black, their infides white ; in lize and form refembling
the Englijh crows, and the white color imperceptible, unlefs the
feathers are examined. Inhabits Pulp Sahuda, an ifle on the
coaft o f New Guinea-
Barred ; Choucas de la Nouvelle Guinee; de Buffon, iii. 80. PL
Enl. 629. Latham, i. 381: with a ftrong black bill; from the
forehead a black ftroke pafles beneath, and beyond each e y e ;
hgad, neck, and upper part o f back cinereous; breaft, belly,
lower part o f back, and rump, white barred with black; tail,
wings, and legs black ; length near thirteen inches. Inhabits
New Guinea ; has the appearance o f a Jackdaw,
Grey; Le cboucari de la N. Guinee -, de Buffon, iii. 81, PI. ~E.nl.
630: with a fmall black fpot beginning at the bill, andfurround-
ingthe eyes; head, neck, wings, back, and tail o f a deep cinereous
grey, declining into dirty white on the breaft and belly;
legs cinereous ; length above eleyen inches : found in New
Guinea.
Pied-, Latham, i. 415. PL Enl, 628. The bill ftrong and
thick; head, neck, and upper part of the back black; primaries
and tail black, and moft remote tertial; the exterior feathers
of thelaft tipt with white; reft o f the plumage white ; length
thirteen inches.
Great
Great Brown ; has been mentioned at p. 124, among the birds K i n g - m s h e r .
o f New Holland.
The, Spotted-, Sonnerat, 171. tab. 107; or the New. Guinea,
Latham, ii. 614; is moft remarkable in its colors, being black,
univerfally marked on head, back, wings, and tail, with fmall
round fpots of W'hite ; and on the neck, breaft, and belly,
with ihort downward ftreaks o f the fame color. On the fides
o f the cheek is a large elegant pear-ihaped white fpot, and beneath
that, another exactly, circular. This fpecies is as large as
a crow,
Neva Guinea.-, L a th am ,.is .S on ne ra t , 17a fab. 105. This Op*»»,
is a dwarf fpecies, o f half the fize of the Englijh Quail; color
brown; coverts of the wings edged- with dirty yellow ; primaries
black.
Great crowned-, Latham, iv. 620, Edkn. 338: Columba Coro- P i g s o n .
nata\ Lin, 282, PL Enl. 118., Sonnerat, 169. tab. 104. The head
o f this fpecies .is adorned with a v.aft fuperb circular creft o f feathers,
ftanding ere£l, and compofed o f loofe unconnected webs
of a fine pale bluiih aih; the eyes lodged in a ihuttie-fhaped
band o f black ; , the leffer coverts of the wings, and upper part
o f the back o f a dark reddifh purple; the firft greater coverts
white, edged with red, All the reft o f the plumage, wings, and
tail, of the color o f the creft.
T h i s is t h e g i a n t o f t h e k i n d , b e i n g e q u a l in f i z e to a c o m - Manners.
m o n t u r k e y . I t h as . b e e n m i fn am e d a p h e a f a n t , b u t b e fid e s , t h e
g e n e r i c a l m a r k s , i t h a s , t h e m a n n e r s , o f a p i g e o n , b i l l in g , in f la t i
n g it s b r e a f t , a n d c o o i n g b u t t h e la f t (as., m i g h t b e e x p e c fte d
f r o m t h e b u l k ) i s fo fo n o r o u s , a s to a p p r o a c h , w h e n in fu ln e f s
V ol. IV. F f 0f