towards the tip; The neck, bread, .belly, and fides are
more or lefs flieaked with white.; over the eye is alfo a
white fireak, and the fides .■ o f the neck and • beginning;
o f the back have likewife fortie ilreaks of the fame. The
quills and tail feathers are marked with yellow on the outer
margins; the' laft are "rounded in fhape, ’ and two of three-
of the outer feathers fpotted within, at the tip, with white;’
lejgsb dulky; |fsy about thq'fjfize.^ofi t\ ajf. nigfytngaleyl1 and
aneafures fqy^ri inches in length. It ,is, probably a non-
defcript fpecies*. £
J A 'party of'.7cphvi<fifesij who had crpfled- the dountry to
Botanyv Bay -to gather a kind ofr plant refembling balm,
which wd,found totbe’ a good and' pleafant vegetable, - were
met by,a fypérior. number ;of the natives, „arrped with fpéars
a-hd clubs,', who!chafed them forftwo miles without being
able to .overtake them; out if they had fucceeded in the
purfuit, ht probable that - they would have put them to
death ; , {for where'yer ;pprfons unarmed, or inferior in num~
•b’qr§, - have fallen in with' the.m, they'have never failed to
maltreat them. V The’ natives had with them fome middling
fjzed rd.ogs, fómewhat refembling the fpec&s 'ealled, in
England, fox-dogs'.* A fervant of Captain Shea being
B b 2 one