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This, however, cannot be in a very little compafs, as it muft exceed the limits of the ornithologlc part of that author's work, in the fame proportion as the fpecies defcribed in this Synoffts do thofe in i\\t Syjlema ; for at the time of £/««rf«j's writing, the nuiiiber of birds treated of by him did not greatly exceed 900, for all of which (excepting between 30 and 40 which were new, and defcribed by him as fuch) he was able to refer to one or more writers who had given a full account of them ; but in the prefent undertaking more than 2000 others have likewife been de- fcribed, the greater part of which has been noticed by various writers fince the laft edition of Limi^us's work * che reft, between 5 and 600 in number, only to be found in the feveral volumes of this work. That concife generic and fpeclfic defcriptions have been thought neceffary, need not, in this place, be furtlxer infifted on, when it is known that the author of thefe Iheets hallily penned 4 fuch. PREFACE. r.. ,1, for Ills own ufe, as faft as the volumes were publilhed ; but to give them a fufficient revifal, fo as to merit the public in'fpec- tion, would, perhaps, require more time than he has immedi- ately in his power to fpare for the purpofe. For the prefent, he will only add mofl fmcere thanks to his former friends for the continuation of their afTiftance, as well as to thofe feverally mentioned in the prelent Supplement, who have contributed theirs, and by whofe means he has been enabled to add defcriptions of many new and curious fubjeds. Rejoicing uox. a little to have at laft finiflied his promifed talk, he wiflies nothing more than to find hereafter, that his well-intended labours may be received by the Public with its former can- dour. JOHN LATHAM. J^artford, May 1,11 Z'j, ••• in SUPPLEMENT. SUPPLEMENT, B I R D S. Div, I. LAND-BIRDS. Order I. RAPACIOUS. Genus I. VULTURE. N»i8*. Plaintive V. 19. Cheriway V. 20. Crowned V. N" 21. Pondicherry V. 22. Indian V. 2j. Gingi V. Condur V. G*-;/. 5y«. vol. i. p. 4. Laemmer-geyer, Dec. Ruff. ii. pi. g. in p. 387 ? THE Laemmer-geyer is mentioned by feveral authors as a moft voracious and deftruftive bird, and that, among other things, it preys on calves mdjheep, and is common about 'hhilan, in Perfta j but they differ greatly in fize. Gmelk calls the length only four feet, and the breadth five. Sprungli defcribed it°as weighing twelve pounds, and extending, from wing to wing, * The fpecies in this Supplement, not before defcribed in the Synopfis, will be placed at the head of their rcfpedive genus, as in that work. SirppL. 1 eight I. CONDUR. ft VULTURE. eight feet three quarters ; but obferves, that a Vulture has beem killed in Switzerland, meafuring twelve feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other : ho.vever, it ftill remains dubious whe- ther the Laetmner-geyer be the fame with the Condur, or a mere variety of the Bearded Fu/ture, as fome think j for the firft is not mentioned as having a comb on the head, which travellers furnifli the Co'iidur wkh. In Spilburgefis Voyage*, it is faid, that *' in the ifland Loubes\, they took two fowls, in beak, wings, and talons, refembling '^\\ Eagle \ and combs on their heads, like Cocks. They were two ells high, and three in breadth, from, wing to wing, when flretched out." — It is much to be feared,- that other authors, as well as myfelf, have greatly confounded the fpecies of Vultures j for being, like the Falcon tribe, long-lived, their plumage puts on a great variety of drefs, fufficient to de- ceive thofe who have hitherto attempted to difcriminate them. (C <( (C CARRION V. Carrion Vulture, Gen, Syn. vol. i. p. 9.— ^r<)7. ZooL N" 86. — Damp, Voy, ii. pt. zd, p. ^-j. Strunt-vogel, or Dung-Bird, Kolb. C<7/. ii. p. 136 ? r\AMVIER obferves, that the fcent of this bird is fo nice, that very foon after a beaft is killed, two or three hundred will flock together from all parts in lefs than an hour's time, though before not one was to be feen thereabouts. Kolhen remarks, that an hundred, or more will attack an Ox or Coiv retired from labour, fick, and faint ; and falling all at once upon him, foon devour him : they begin by making a hole in the * See Harris, Coll. Voy. vol.i. p. 35. t This is not far diftant from Peyta, in South Amtrica, belly. • VULTURE, belly, and, thrufting in their heads, pick the flelh from the bone,. Will leaving the fkin to cover them. » Alpln. V. Gen. Sjft. vol. i. p. tz. N';. Vultur percnopterus, Lhinari, Faun. Arag. p. 67. gUlLDS in high rocks, about ^rragon in Spain: is called there Boleia : is fonnetimes driven by tempeft from Perf^a to ^^rachan, m the Ruffian dominions; as fome have been (hot thereabouts. Cinereous 7. G?». .^,'«. i. p. ,4. p^.g, Vultur totus fufcus. Faun. Arag. p. 67. pOUND in ^rr^^.«.. faid to vary, fometimes of a blackilh co- iour : called in Spain, Vuitre, ALPINE V CINEREOUS V. Bengal V. Gen. Syn. i. p. ,g. N» 16. pi. ,. Vultur percnopterus (fem.) Hajilj. roy.p. ,94. (Eng.ed.)? JT has been hinted to me, that this bird is no other than the female of the above-quoted, from HaJel^uiJ^ *, which appears not unhkely. This author obferves, that it has an horrid appear- ance : the face naked and wrinkled : the eyes large and black • the beak black and hooked : the talons large: thf whole body polluted wKh filth. He adds, that they are bold birds ; and that all the places round Cairo are filled with the dead bodies of 4^,, and Camels, and thoufands of thefe birds fly about, and devour ^a^'tt/irrt^r;^ B2 the 16. BENGAL V. VULTURE. the carcafes before they putrify and fill the air with noxious ex- halations. 17. SECRETARY Secretary V. Gen. Syn. i, p. 20. N« 17. pi. z» Slaangen-vraater, Sparrm, roy. i. p. 154. T^R. Sparrman fays, that this is not a (hy bird j but when feared, it firft tries to fave itfelf by hopping and fcudding very fwiftly j and, if this method fails, takes to flight. It feizes ScrpentSy by firft holding the point of one wing forward to parry off the bite; fonnetimes fpurning and treading upon itj at other times taking it on its pinions, and throwing it into the airj and after wearying out the adverfary, kills and fwallows it at leifure, without danger. The above account. Dr. Sparrman does not doubt the truth of, though it did not fall under his own obferva>- tion. PLAINTIVE V. Descriptisn, Plaintive Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. p. 34. Br, Muf, T ENGTH two feet four inches. Bill two inches long, and not greatly hooked, the colour black j the cere extends to within one inch and a quarter of the tip, and the noflrils are placed obliquely near the top j the bare part extends backward round tiie eyes, almoft to the top of the head ; and the colour of the whole of the bare parts yellow ; the fore-part of the neck is nearly deftitute of feathers : the top of the head and hind part of the neck are brown : the upper part of the body barred brown and white : the wings brown : the tail white, crofltd with blackiih bars, and the end, for one inch, of this laft colour i the bafe of the four firft quills I VULTURE. quills marked as the tail : the legs yellow; claws black, mode- rately hooked, and blunt at the tips. The above defcription I was enabled to draw up from a fpeci- men preferved in fpirits, now in the Br'ttijh Mtijeum ; whereby I have full afTurance of its belonging to the Vulture genus, and feems to be no other than my PlainUve Ea^le before defcribed. Falco cheriway, J^uq. VogcL p. 17. t. 4. T E N G T H two feet and a half, or more. Bill pale blue : head and neck very pale yellow : hind-head crelled : cere and round the eyes rofe-colour : general colour of the plumage on the upper parts ferruginous, beneath pale, vent white; the two mid- dle tail feathers barred with dufky ; the lateral ones, and quills, dulky black : legs pale yellov/. Inhabits the ifland oiAruha, on the coaft o^ Venetzuela, in South America. 19. CHERIWAY V. Description. Place. Crefled V. Gen, Syn. i. p. 6 f Vultur coronatus, Jacq. Vog. p. 15. N" 11. 'pHIS is very probably a variety of the crejied Vulture^ as it is faid to be of the fame fize. The bill is black : the head of a reddifh grey, and adorned with a crefl: compofed of feveral fea- thers, fix inches long at lead: part of the wings, the neck, and bread, are black : belly white : thighs white, fpotted with black : tail long, black and white mixed : legs very ftrong and yellow. This was met with near St, Magdalen River, in Nezv Grenada. Whea it Hands ered, it is two feet and a half in height. 20. CROWNED V DESCRlPTro^f. Place. Le VULTURE. 21. PONDICHER- RY V. Description. PtACE. Le Vautour Royal de Pondichcry, Son, Voy. Ltd. ii. p. 182. pi. 104. C I Z E of a large Goofe. The bill black, pretty hooked, but fa- ther fliort ; the bafe covered with a naked Ikiu j the noftrils pervious : the forehead is flat, and the head large : the head and neck flefii-coloured : the hind part of the head, and the fpace be- tween the bill and eyes, covered with flelh-coloured down : the fore part of the neck and breaft fparingly befet with fine feathers of the fame colour, placed in tufts ; on the neck is a flelhy red membrane, very fmall, bare of feathers, which begins beneath the ears, and reaches to the lowed part of the neck : the back, belly, wings, and tail, are black : the legs yellow. Inhabits Pondkherryt in the Eajl Indies, and parts adjacent. 22. INDIAN V. Description, Place and Man- ^£K.S. Le grand Vautour des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 183. pi. 105. C I Z E of a Gi^y^. Bill black : irides red : the head and neck bare of feathers, and of a rufous colour ; the head furnilhed with a ftraggling down, refembling hair j the neck long in pro- portion, and befet with tufts of very fine feathers : the feathers of the breaft ihort, and appear as if clipped or fhaved \ thofe of the lower part of the neck behind are long, narrow, and pointed, and of a bright rufous colour : the wing coverts, back, and rump, the colour o( umber, each feather tipped with a pale band : quills, tail, and legs, black. This inhabits India, and is very voracious : found in the day- time on the banks of the/<^^, waiting for the dead fiJJj which are there thrown up : fond of putrid carcafes, which it often digs up out of the ground : it flics heavily, though the wings are very ib-ong. c Le % VULTURE. Le Vautour de Gingi, Son. Fay. I„d, ii. p. .g^^ Plage^ S rZ E of a r«..^. I„ ehe bill not unlike that bird, and grey ■ Zf' '' noftnls pervious : iridesred: the forehead, che.k/andthrlV "'"'°" ■"irT'j'^r ""■*"""= 'he feathers'of h l:d ; rof ' .he head and neck, long, «arro», and white : the wing covert! back, bell,, and tail, of the fame colour: the quills blfck ^ he ends of a blackilh grey. This bird is faid to flv auick ..A Z^2 b^ r '" '^' ""*" "'•"= " '■''■''• *'""''' " does o« camon , but prefers reptiles, when to be had. . Another ,s alfo mentioned in the fame book *, of the fize of . 'Turkey: the male of a marbled brown • the fem,l, head and half the nerk naked wri„l7.. ', '*™'"' "-"n-grey; yellow excrefcences. with fclr S "^"^ -'''"^ i^aps^have fome relation to the other, as ir.::; tib ^yrk: ■n flocks of twenty or thirty, eating the flelh of a dead be^ft Genus N t 8 ] i Hi ill BLACK E. I ! Genus II. F A L C O N. N" 99. Plain F. 100. Black-necked F. 101. White-ntcked F. 102. Afiatic F. 103. Leverian F. 104. Johanna F. 105. Madagafcar F, 106. Cheela F. ; . 107. Rufous-headed F. 108. Arabian K. N" 109. Streaked F. no. Notched F. 111. Rhonnboidal F. 112. Behree F. 113. Greenland F. 114. Plumbeous F. 115. Dubious F. n6. American F. ;.' 117. Criard F. 118. Tiny F. Black Eagle, Gen. Syn. I. p. 28. N" 2.— ^r^. Zool. ii. N« 87. T T is very probable that my Black and Ring-tailed Eagles difFer only from climate, as they feem to vary chiefly in having the breaft plain, or marked with white fpots. Both inhabit Hud/on's Bay, appearing firft in March: they build on the tops of trees, hatch two young in May, and depart in Autumn. That called the Black Eagle is known by the name of Kethewuck-michefue j the Ring-tail, Apijk-michefue. Mr. Hutchins, to whom I owe this laft remark, obfcrves, that the Black, Ring-tail, and White-headed Eagles of Americaj are inferior in fize to thofe of North Britain. Bald 'i 4 FALCON. Bald Eagle, Gen. Sjn. l. p. 29. N« 3. White-headed Eagle, Jrd. Zeol. ii. N« 89. 'J' HIS was met with by our voyagers at Nootka Sound ^ and Kamlfchatka fi is common in America: at HudJorCs Bay, called PVapaw-EJieqitan-Mickefue : faid to be the fmalleft Eagle which frequents that place : comes in May : builds on the higheft trees : the neft compofed ofj^kks and gra/s, of a very large fize : has two young ones, though frequently only one J. BALD E, er ic :s, be he ift 'ed Sea Eagle, Ge». Sy». i. p. 30. N°4.--^/- migratine as the pTorrerTrdt T^ ""^"*'*^= ^" '" fi.uati:„t: moft eft™ " V t;s<.t7.'':r "r " "• "' ^" '""" ""= fo>m the water J ^ ^■^'^' "^'"^ ""■" "^ """"S *"^ "<"<= • Mr. Pennant. Coiaxaoa 26. •«- OSPREY. ■wr I I I u FALCON. h I I e8. 4- COMMON BUZZARD. Common Buzzard, Gen. Syn. i. p, 48. N" 28.— yf v9. ZW. ii. N" 103. Falco buteo, Brun.Ora. p. ^.^—Mulhr, N<» 64.— Cw/jf/ /J^//J, p. 164.— /"««//. ^'•fl;^. p. 68. 3. A Very common bird on the continent of Europe. In France, known by the name of Goiran j is mod plentiful, in winter, about Lyons, where it is dreffed for the table, and even thought good food, being at that feafon as fat as zfowl. The eggs are faid to be cinereous, marked with deeper-coloured fpots*. Inhabits both the northern and fouthern parts oi RuJJia, though lefs frequent than fome other fpecies: is more abundant about Aftrachan: common in Spain : called in the province of Aragoti, Alferraz, I I 33- H-HONEYBUZ. ZARD. Honey Buzzard, Gen. Syn.'i. p. 52. N" 33.— -<^r<5f. ZgoI. ii. p. 224. 1. Falco apivorus, ^r«». p. 5.— ilf«//(fr, N° 68. 'T'HFS fpecies is not very common, cither in England or on the continent m( Europe, though inhabiting various parts of it : is feen as far north as Sondmor, in Norway -, common in the open parts of RuJ/ia and Sibiria, near woods ; and f< jds much on Li-* zards f. It alfo is fond of Mice, being a great enemy to them, and hunting after them in the manner of the Ow/J. The eggs are of a very deep red-brown, with ferruginous blotches of chefnut ||. • Hi^. dt Lyons t i. p. 198.— I htve never feen the eggs, but am informed by Mr. Boysy that they are cf a blueifli white, marked with irregular rufous fpots; the fhape of the egg almoft globular ; ufually three in the neft. f Arli. ZodI. \ Brunnicb.— Hence called Mu/t»Hog and Muft^baagt, il Pcrtland Mufeuif. - Moor !lf « FALCON, »5 Moar Buzzard Ge.. Syn. i. p. 53. N- 14.-^.^. z.o/. ii. p. „.. i, Se/p. Fog. plinp. i^, * *^ ' ^ W. will weigh fometimes twenty-feven ounces. Inhabits &^/Wi found chiefly on the a,«r..- builds on the ground , the neft compofed of dried (licks, intermixed with dry L,„ or decayed W , the laft chiefly within: the eggs of a blueifl. White .Common Jfo on the continent of E«rcfi, and found as far north as the laft fpecies, is a common bird in the fouth of Kujfta, but not met with in Sil>ina f. 4-MOOR BUZ. ZARD. Collared F. Gen. Sjn. I p. ^5. No^;..^.,,. ZW. il. p. .«. G, f aico rufticolus. Faun. Groenl. N° 34. T^^S inhabits Gremland, but is feldom met with, as it fre /.^«W, hgmiymg fpotud. In the defcrt and open places be tween the Ben and miga, in the Ruffian dominions, it is alfo feen but IS not a common bird J. * •j?.//.--Tf the bird known in J^ra^r. by the name of FauxPerdrUux is faJd t^ build on the tops of high trees which grow fingly cfJZiJtT' ^ Forct:.^HiJl. de Lyon,, i. N" 203. e'P«ialIy at -^«a;#r^w and I Vtc,RnJf\ I, p. 314. %7* COLLARED F, Go&awk> 3 f li |6 FALCON. 39- GOSHAWK. Gofhawk, Gen. Sjoi.l. p. 58. N« 39. — -^,(7. Zee/. N" 99. Fako palumbarius, MulUr, N" 'jo,-—Gicrgi Reife, p. 164. npHE Gojhaivk is common in Detimarkt all over Riiffia^ and in Sihiriat about the Z^^^i? Baikal: is ufed by the Calmucs in falconry : a variety found fometimes quite white, but it is very rare*; on the contrary, in Kamtfchatka every individual is white, with hardly any fpots ; and thefc arc faid to prove the beft of all for the fport oi falconry f. , The American one fcems larger than that of Europe j known at Hudfm*s Bay by the name of Komijbark-papanafew : it builds a neft in lofty trees, of fticks laid acrofs, lined with bay s^nd fea- thers ; and lays four white eggs ; the young hatched in the be- ginning of J«/y ; frequents plains and woods indifferently j is continually on the wing, and a great enemy to the Partridges and other birds %. I have feen the Gofhawk in drawings done in Chinas as well as in thofe from India^ and have been alTured that it is a native of the laft, where the male is known by the name of Bauge, The female differs in being fomewhat larger, and paler on the upper parts, marked beneath with oval fpots of duflcy black, giv- ing it the appearance of the Gentil Falcon, This fex is called in India, Jurra. The young males are greatly fimilar to the females, and do not attain their full plumage for feveral moults. The young male is called Mudge Bauge, and the young female, ikf«^^* Jurra, Thefc, among others, are ufed in India (ot falconry. * Dtc, Ruff. iii. p. 303. t Ara. Ztel. X Mx.Huichins. Kite, Hii i i 4 FALCON. Kite, Gen. Syn. i. p.6l. No 43.— y/r<7. Zool. ii. N« Zfj. H. F. milvus, ^r««. N" 'i.—MulUr, N" 61.— C«r^i /?if;/^ p. 164. 'J^HIS bird, fo well known in England^ is pretty common on the continent of Europe, but does not frequent the colder parts, except in the hotter months, being migratory : it is found with us at all feafons, but obferved to be more in number in win- ter in the /outhern counties : preys on chickens and other poultry while young, failing over the barn-yards for the purpofe of dart- ing upon the firfl: unwary ftraggler: will fometimes t^lfifi), as it has been found feeding on the remains of one at the fide of a pond, having perhaps beaten oflf the firft pofleflbr ; for we would not fufped its taking the water itfelf, a circumftance in which the q/prey perhaps (lands unrivalled. The egg of the Kite is of a blueilh white, inclining to red at one end, blending itfelf with the white by fmall markings *. <7 4. KITE. Gentil Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 64. N" 48.— ^ri!7. Zool. ii. N» 98. Falco Gentilis, Brun. N° 6.--Muller, N" 62. 'pHIS fpecies inhabits the north of Scotlandy and builds in rocks near Invercauldy and in Glen-more f i is met with in the north of Europe, as far as FinmarkX\ but we do not hear of it farther fouth than Aftrachan \ : was formerly ufed in England in falconry, as it is now on the continent. Is alfo found in America, but is there larger than in Europe i one (hot in the province of Ifew Tork meafured two feet two inches. • Por/Aj« I II i 52. PEREGRINE F. Peiegrinc Falcon, Cat. Sj'u.\, :■■ - ; .^JrJl. Zoo/. N" 97 54- 4- ROUGH- LEGGED F. Var. '■pHIS bird breeds in fonie high rocks not far from Glljland^ ire Cumberland; alio in fome of the mountains about Ke/wick. A female, killed Alay 178 1, weighed thirty-fix ounces and aquar- terj was nineteen inches in length, and forty-two in breadth. Is very deftmftive to game : near the neft were found the remains of Moor-game, Partridges, Plovers, &c. Is very noify and clamorous. The young in the neft were three in nunnber, and the male fed them for a week or ten days after the femiJe was killed *. The Peregrine Falcon is alfo common on the continent of Eu- rope in fummer ; is frequent in Kamtfchatka j wanders in fummer to the very Arctic circle, but returns to the fouth in winter. In- habits alfo America, from Carolina to Hud/en's Bay, where it is of a larger fize ; at the laft f lace known by the name of Papana few Kaycake : it varies extremely at different periods of age \, Rougli-legged Falcon, Gen. Sjn. i. p. 75. N°54.— ^r<5. Zool. N°92. A Bird greatly refembling this fpecies, and which I am inclined to think a variety, is in my colleftion : it meafures one foot ten inches, and differs chiefly in the tail, the ground of which is a cream-coloured white ; near the tip is a bar of brown above an inch in breadth $ above that, a fecond of about half an inch broad ; and above thefe, each feather has a fpot upon it in the middle, mimicking, when fprcad, a third barj befidcs which, the two ♦ Dr. Htyjham. t It is not improbable but my N" 49. Var. E. and F. may prove the fame birds. — Var. E. is in my own colleftion ; it is certainly greatly like the Peregrint F. but is a much larger bird. outec FALCON. outer feathers on each fide are marked with a few irregular foots of brown, almoft the whole of their length, on the outer webs. The above was prcfented to me by the Rev. Dr. m/^refsy of Elfbam, who Ihot it in Suffolk. I received, en another occafion, from the fame gentleman, a fecond, wi.icn differed in being of a larger flze, and having a greater proportion of brown in the tail. '9 Placentia Falcon, Ge/t. Syn. i. p. ^6. N" 57. Bay Falcon, Gen. Syn. \. p. 54, N" 34. Var. A. Chocolate F. ^r£l. Zool. N" 94. 57- •f- PLACENTIA LENGTH twenty.feven inches. Bill black; cere yellow: D the feathers of the head, neck, and breaft, brown, with the edges reddifh white: back and wing coverts brown, edged with ^ale rufous : the under part of the bird of a fine deep chocolate- brown ; acrofs the breaft nearly white ; between the legs cream- colour: thighs fine tawny yellow, ftreaked with chocolate ; the feathers very long : the quills are of a deep brown ; the firft five are, for two-thirds from the bafe, quite white j the others the fame, but the white marked with irregular bars of brown • the upper tail coverts white, with a large chocolate fpot at the tip of each feather : the tail deep chocolate j bafe of the feathers yd- low.fl, white ; the end of each of a deeper chocolate than the reft of the feather; the very tip and the ihafts of a dirty white : the vvings and tail nearly of equal lengths : the legs are feathered to the toes j the laft are of a greenifh yellow : claws black, lar^e and hooked. *=" The above is defcribed from a fpecimen in my own coliecflion. It feems a larger bird than that from which Mr. Pennant took his ^ * defcription ; F. ESCRlPTrON. 1 '"5 ■ 1:! 20 ii S !!■ ; m SACRE. 63. CRESTED IN- DIAN F. Description, FALCON, defcription j but there is fcarce a doubt of its being the fame bird. It inhabits both Hud/on' s Bay and Newfoundland; preys nnuch on Ducks J fits on a rock and watches their rifing, when it inftantly ftrikes at them *. Sacre, Gen, Syn. i. p. yj. N" ig,^Arii. Zool. N" 96. TP'HIS Satre is ufed in Tartary for falconry ; and is a courage- ous, ftrong fpecies, attacking every thing that comes in its way. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay^ where, if we do not miftake the fpecies, it is known by the name of Tapanajeu Kacaki f. Crefted Indian Falcon, Gen. Sjn. 1. p. 80. N" 65. A MONG fome drawings belonging to the late Dr. FothergWy I find one of thefe figured ; it differs from that defcribed by me, in having a broad bar of black acrofs the bread, and another on the wing coverts. Iliii i 65. BLACK AND WHITE F. Black and White Falcon, Gch. Syn. \. p. 81. N" 65 ? Le Faucon a collier des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind, ii. p. liz.'-^Zeel. Ind, p. 12. pi. 2 i Dbscriptiok. T ENGTH fixteen inches. Bill black : irides rufous : yellow head: throat, hind part of the neck, and back, black: breaft, belly, thighs, and rump, white: the lefler wing coverts white j the middle ones black j greater ones and fecondary quills filvery afh-colour j prime quills black : tail pale filvery grey : legs rufous yellow. * Ar&,Zt9l. t The P/z-iffw;^ /". goes by this name. Seep. 18. 8 The ii U i FALCON. ♦ The female is fomewhat bigger than the male : general colour filvery grey : on the wing coverts are three round black fpots, and three others on the outer webs of the fecond quills : primaries black: fides of the belly, thighs, and vent, whiter tranfverfly llriated with a rufous red. Inhabits India: feems much allied to my Black and White Fal- con, N° 6^, if not the fame bird : is called in India, Chomma, or Rat-killer*, 21 FfiMAtB, Place. White Gyrfalcon, Gen. Syn, i. p. 83. N" 6g.—A, <7. Zool. ii. p. 121. F. 69. 4-WHlTE JER- (^O MM ON at Hudfon's Bay, where it is called Pau pune nay ^^LCON. fue. Length twenty-three inches : weight forty- five ounces Troy: varies much in colour f. Brown Lanner, Gen. Syn. u p. 86. N" -^z.—Ara. Zool. ii. p. 225. K. Falco lanarius, Brun, p. i. N" i , z.'—Muller, N° 6-j. 'J'HE Lanner inhabits Iceland and the Ferroe IJles, Denmark, and Sweden j frequent in the Tartarian deferts and the Ba- raba; none in the northern or eaftern pare of SibiriaX'. well known about Aftrachan, and builds in all the deferts, among the fhrubs and low trees ; is ufed by the Calmucs in falconry |[. In fome parts is migratory, but flays in France the whole year §. * Being a great enemy to Rats ; as alfo to Mice, Lixards, and other vermin* t Mr. Hutchins. j Mr, Pitinm. \\ Dec, Rujf. ill. p. 303. § Hiji, de Lyons, i. p, 206, 72. LANNER. Henharrier, ' II I'! W ' rt y ' ! I Illr ! II It; I I' ■ 7?. RINGTAIL. FALCON. Henharrier, Gen, Syn. \. p. 82. N°y/\..—Will. Orn. p. 72. pi. 7. Falcotorquatus, Brun. N» 14. — Kram. El. p. 330. N° 13. Ringtail, Gen. Syn. \. p. 89. N°75.— ^/-(f?. Zool. ii. N° 106. Faico cyaneus, Muller, N" '/^.-—Faun. Arag, p. 68. — Kram, El. p. 329. N" 12. TLJOWEVER certain I have prefumed to be in the Synoi)/is, that the Henharrier and Ringtail were different fpccies, I have lately had occafion to fufpend that opinion, for the reafons below mentioned, of which the candid reader is left to judge for him- felf, whether there may be foundation or not for retraSling it. At the time of our fuppofing that the two birds above men- tioned were of different fpecies, we departed from the opinion of that faithful and obfervant naturalift, M. Brijfon^ who joins tke two without hefitation, as well as the authority o'i Ray and Wil- lughby^ with fome others of leffer note, who likewife eftcemed them as one and the fame j but we were induced fo to do from the teftimony of Mr. Pennant having found a i^/«^/ genus bein/ever e f.na left. Added to which. Dr. He^^a. o'b fer.es, tha the Heniarners have ever proved to be ,«/„, and the Minpai/s- t rned out to be /W„. This very obfervation KraJ h hkewtfe made havtng differed feveral of each; from which he hefitates whether the two birds in queftion be not the fl aga.nft the common opinion of the fportfmen of AMa who th,n. them to be different*. Dr. H. adds, that the D kl of 5«./.»^i.s game-keeper has deftroyed fome hundreds, and ,a Car.Jle s game-keeper likewife avers the fame. In one of this laft gentleman's letters to me, in anfwer to what n;.ght be urged in behalf of the two birds being differentTn fp. ces, he ,„ts thegreat difficulty that there fomrtimes s „ afcC ta,n,ng the fex, except in pairing time, when the difference is v - fible even to a fuperficial obferver. He likewife takes notice of n ;:rar:ft,':e tr " ''"'""'' -''" - ™^"" -- -'■-"- ■n feveral of the /r /„„ g,„„^_ ^,^^^ ^^^^^ .^ ^^^.^ 1 fingle potnt whtch has occafioned the difference of opinion in t Hcnha,™,. J ^,^j.^.,^ , various 10 *J 24 FALCON. various authors ? I have alfo had my doubts about it, from ob- ferving a Ringtail, which had the back changing to a blueifh Jead- colour i but what has ftrengthened me in the opinion of its be- ing fo, is an obfervation of a very learned naturalift *, to the fol- lowing purport. " The Ringtail is extremely common in RuJJia ** as well as Sibiria : in more temperate and open countries is " certainly not to be diftinguiflied from the Henharrier : both are " found as far as the Lake Baikal; and I have obferved, more ** than once, birds that were changing colours, and getting the " white feathers. The truth is, that the firfl: year all are dark- " coloured, very differently variegated j but at the fecond change ** of feathers, chiefly the males grow whitifli j and fuch are the au- ** gural birds of the Monguls and Calmucs." Here then feems the difficulty folved, and may perhaps ferve to reconcile the contrarieties of opinion hitherto entertained on this fubjed. That Ringtails ha^^e turned out males, on difledlion, has been clearly proved, certainly owing to fuch having been young birds before their change of plumage : but I do not hear of a fingle Henharrier having been met with of the oppofite fex j till that circumfliance Ihall happen, may we not fairly conclude, that both the one and the other have at firft the Ringtail plumage, and that in a feries of years, more or lefs, the male gains the lead- colour, approaching neareft to white in proportion to its age j and that, notwithftanding the females get paler by age alfo, yet they are never without fome mixture of ferruginous ? It may in- deed require fome time, though this matter may be afcertained by taking the young birds from the neft, keeping them for a requi- • Dr. Pallai, in his manufcript catalogue of birds of the Ruffian empire, fur- nifhed to me by Mr. Pennant. fltC , from ob- ueifh ]ead- of its be- to the fol- in in Ruffia ountries is ; both are rved, more getting the I are dark- ond change are the au- rhaps ferve :rtained on difledtion, aving been not hear of te fex ; till elude, that jmage, and s the lead- to its age } ;e alfo, yet It may in- ertained by 'or a requi- I empire, fur- fltC FALCON. fite number of years ; and till this is done, the fad may be by fome ftill held in doubt. One thing however (hould not efcape notice, which is, that no author, which has fallen under myobfervation, mentions the Hen- harrier as a bird of xh^ American continent, or ifles adjacent, though the Ringtail and its varieties are common throughout. That the ferruginous brown colour may not change, in the warmer climates, as Carolina, and parts more fouthwarci, as Jamaica, &:c. is not furprifingi but towards the north, as at Iludfoiis Bay, where it is frequently feen in other birds, appears fingular. Let this be confidered, and reafons given why fuch change fhould happen in Great- Britain, and various parts of the old continent, and not in the new -, for my part I know of none. The reader will, it is to be hoped, pardon this long digrefTion, as it is meant to clear up a point hitherto held in controverfy. The above hints may urge others to make further obfervations, in order to obtain a certainty in this ; and may at the fame time lead us to difcriminate other birds, iifiiii; the 11 wA -» t. F A I. C O N. the throat only orange: chin plain white: fpace round the eyes fparingly covered with feathers. The fecond had a large rufous patch on the throat, in the mid- dle of whi the inner webs marked tranfverfely with oval ferruginous fpots : breaft and belly dirty white, marked with oblong ftreaks of brown, not unlike the.EngliJh Merlin : tail long, of a deep cinereous, croffed with four bars of black, refcm^ hWnQihzit oi the Sparrow^Hawk. Inhabits New Tork and C&rolina t not improbably a variety of p, ^ the Pigeon - Hawk *. * Jra. ZooL—li is alfo greatly fimilar to my Jmerkan Brown Ha'wL Svn u p. 98. N" 84. "^ Cf, \ Dufky. 38 1 16. AMERICAN F. Description. Flaci, FALCON. Duflty Falcon, ArU. Zoel. ii. N" 1 13. T ESS than the Dubious F, Bill blueifli j upper mandible armed with a (harp procefs j cere yellow : head, back, wing coverts, and thofe of the tall, dufky brown, flightly edged with ferruginous : hind part of the neck fpotted with white : primaries dufky i inner webs marked with oval fpots of a pale ruft-colour : taWJkort, tipped with white, and barred with four broad dufky flrokcs, and the fame number of narrow ones of white : from the chin to the tail whitifh, (Ireaked downwards with diflindt lines of black: legs deep yellow. Inhabits Nezv Tork. 117. CRIARD F, Description, Flace, La petite Bufe Criarde, ^0«. ^cy. /»of, +■ RED E. O. Red Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 123. N» 8. — Jr^. Zoo/. N" 117. pi. 11. Strix Afio, Faun. Green/. N° 37. 'T'HIS is found in the fouthern parts of Greenland, ffpcclaHy about 1'unnudliorbick -, and is probably the one known there by the name of Siutitok. * J/nl. Zoo/. t Mr. Hutc/yins. Short- tl -I I OWL. 4J I I J- I - Short-eared Owl, Ge». Sjh. i. p. 124. N« 9. 'HIS fpecies is very common in the northern and woody parts ormiria : comes blindly bold to the night fires, and aflaults men, fo as often to be killed with (licks. Has been met with at Falkland IJlands, fo probably is common to South as well as North America \ It vifits Hud/on's Bay in Aiay , makes a neft of dry grafs on the ground. The eggs are white. It departs fouth in September. Known to the Englijh by thc^ name of Moufe Hawk By the natives called Thothofecaufew-f. Is known to fome in England by the name of modcock Owl, as it is fuppofed to an- pear and retreat with that bird. Is very fierce and courageous. One having been fhot in Derbyjhire in the wing, would not fufFer itrelf to be taken up, as it flew at the perfon with furprifing fury and was obliged to be difpatched before it could be fecured t. It IS far from uncommon j but, ^s far as my obfervation leads me, is not met with fo often as the long-eared fpecies. -SHORT-EAR, ED OWL. Vj'^ ScopsE. Owl, G^- ly feen in pairs : the chief food Mice and Rabbits : flies low, yet with great force, often ftriking itfelf into the fnow a foot deep when i.. ch?.fe after its prey : is fo ftrong as to be able to fly oflp With an Americ m Hare alive in its talons : is called at HudJotCs Bay, Omip-i^ AthineUiu, or Speckled Owl *. 26. WHITE O. ..1 White Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 138. N« 26.— Ar£i. Zool. N° 124. Strix flammea, M«//fr, p- II. npHIS is comni-n both to North and South Jmerica, as well as various parts of the continent of Europe, though not found fo far north as fome others. It is faid to inhabit JJirachan-f; and we have alfo feen it painted among other birds from China. It is likewife a native of various parts of Indian and far from uncommon. At Hindoftan it is known by the name of Ulu, and in the Perjian language is called BumX* - • Mr. Hutchins.'— This gentleman obferved, that the mah was larger tlian the ftmale ; and in i'uch of the Oixi genus as we have feen, it was ever the fame, in this differing from the reft of the rapacious tribe. t J>eC' Rnf' ii. p. I42. X Mr, MidMettn. Brown ■« 1 m o w r.. 47 Brown Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 140. z^.—Jra. Zool. N"> 125. Strix ulula, BruH. N" 19.— MaZ/rr, p. il. — Geor^i Rtife, p. 164.— /"awff* ^r«g-. p. 71. , npHIS bird is lefs common in 22i{^<» than the reft of the conti- nent oi Eunpe : not known in Sibiria*; but mentioned by Cmelin as frequenting Afirachan f ; it is alfo found %K. Newfound- land. The Brown Owh being fond of Mice^ may be decoyed within gunfhot, by any perfon's imitating the fqueaking of one : is ob- ferved feldom to eat more than the fore quarters of its prey, leav- ing the hind untouched in the nefl: J : is faid now and then to burrow like .! Rabbit \. The eggs are five in number, and white §. . ^ Canada Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 142. N' 29.— Hawk Owl, Ar£l. Zool. N<» 234. Strix funerea, Muller, p. 1 1. \X^E have reafon to think that it is found both in Europe and America f : in the laft is very common, in the woods at Hud/on' s Bay i and makes the neft in March, in trees, of flicks and • Aril. Zool. f Dec. Rujf. ii. p. 142. X Gen, Direaory, p. 142. II Hijl. de Lyons, i. p. 199. § Sepp. Vog. pi. in p. 63. — In this plate are male and female ef what he calls Strix ulula ; but thefe feem fo ytsy like our lejfer eared Ouvl, that I hefitate about the identity of the fpecies. f In the Arffic Zoology, the Canada, Haiui, Cofpian, and Ural Oixils, are thought to be one and the fame. The tv firft feem to me much allied ; and the Cafpian OWI have ever thought to be very fimilar : yet Dr. Pallas, in his de- ftription of the two laft, thought them diftind fpecies ; and it was the opinion of fo diftinguifhed a naturalill which induced mc to place them, according to his fcntiraents, in the Sjnopfs, grafs, 28. 4- BROWN O. 29. CANADA O. 4t OWL. grafs, with a lining of feathers: the eggs are white : the young fly in June : its food often Mice, It is s bold bird, and frequents the fires made by the natives in the night *. 39- NEW ZEA- LAND OWL. Description. Nev Zealand Owl, Gc». Syn. i. p. 149. N" 39. T ENGTH eleven inches. Noftrils and cheeks fulvous, the lad palert : the upper parts of the body brown, the feathers margined with fulvous : the lower part of the back and rump plain brown : the breaft and belly not unlike the upper parts, but paler : vent pale brown : the thighs brown, footted with white : legs feathered to the toes, fulvous and brown clouded : tail brown, croffed with bands of pale brown, the tip very pale. I mention this again here, as I have had the opportunity of de- fcribing it more fully, from one in the colleflion of Sir Jqfeph Banks, ^o. Little Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 150. N" \o.--A)-iI. Zool. N° 126. LITTLE O. Stiix paflerina, Brun. N" zo.—Muller, N° 83 Georgi Reife, ^. xe^f.-— Sefp. Fcg. fl. in p. 6g.'— Faun. ^rag. f. yi. 'T'HIS is obferved to vary in fize : that o( Hud/on' s Bay vre'ighs four ounces and a half, and the length eight inches and a half J breadth twenty : it lives at all times among the pine trees, on which it builds a neft, half way up, made of grafs, in May: lays two white eggsj and the young fly the beginning of July : is not a plentiful fpecies, and folitary to an extreme: very adlive of nights, but is drowfy, and feldom moves in the day, when it is not • Mr. Hutchiiit. uncommon OWL. uncommon for the Indian children to fleal towards them and feize them. It is common in Rujia, but not met with in Sibiria *, I have alfo met with this fpecies among fome drawings done in India -fi but the ground colour of the bird was a clay-coloured brown, much paler than in the European one, the white fpots much the fame^ and the tail crofTed with three or four whitiih bars. Wapacuthu Owl, ^r^. Zflo/. ii. N" 1 19. 49 41. 4-WAPACU- THU O. DsscaiPTiON. T ENGTH two feet, breadth four; weight five pounds. Bill black : irides yellow : fpace between the eyes, the throat, and cheeks, white : the ends of the feathers of the head black : fcapulars and wing coverts white, elegantly barred with dufky reddiih marks pointing downwards : primaries, fecondaries, and tail feathers, irregularly fpotted and barred with pale red and black : back and tail coverts marked with a frfw dufky fpots : bread and belly dirty white, croITed with innumerable reddifh lines : vent white : legs feathered to the toes, which are covered D^'th hairs. This inhabits the woor^" ahoMt Hud/on' s Bay ; makes the aeft Pi-aceandMan on the dry moflfy ground, tiiC eggs from five to ten in numberf, and white : the young hatched in May: called by iie natives WapacuthUi and by them confounded with the ^nowy Owl-, but Mr. Hutcbins affures me that they are diftind fpecies. • Ara. ZooL ' f In poffeffion of Mr. MiMcton, X So Mi. Hutdins expteSks i but, ifnomiftake, itU aiUy different from the other fpecies. niRs. SUPPL. L^. JO fPECTACLE O. Pl. cvir. DiSCRIFTIOK. OWL. ■Placi. 'f:- . Lev, Muf, rx :> s. ••I A . 43. MOUNTAIN O. Description. PtAtI, nPHIS is lefs ftout than tht Cinereous Owl : length twenty- one inches. The bill ftrong, hooked, yellow, and half co- vered with refleded black bridles : the head fmall in proportion, not rtj fully clothed with feathers, giving it the air of a Hawk : the colour of the heod and neck white, and the feathers on thofe pat-ts appear woolly : on each fide of the head a large patch of black brown furrounding the eyes : the chin is alfo of the fame colour : the upper parts of the body are red brown, and a bar of the fame croflVs the bread : the under parts of the body rufous white : the quills and tail brown, crofled with narrow bars of a paler brown } tip of the lad white : the legs are feathered to the toes with yellowifh white feathers : the claws horn-colour. I found this fingular fpecies among a colledion of birds which were brought from Cayenne, and the fpecimen is now in the Leve- rian colledion. A label affixed to the leg named it Le Plon- gueur. .' ,». npHIS bird in colour fomewhat refembles the JIuco Oivh but is certainly a different fpecies. The bill and irides are yel- low : the general colour of the plumage cinereous : chin and fpace round the eyes black : t le ourermoft quill, and half ihe nexr, ferrated on the outer edge : th, tail rather long. This inhabits Sibiria, but only found in the mountains in the ^.7/?fr/7'paits.— Mr, P^«/w«;. • -■. .11 i ... ^.c r- ^ I O.R D^K ■.iP I'l.CVlI . .^ -'»' J r It. % ■;.:■( t y/rr/^fc/r ( v*' ' /// 11 ! ■4. !! m • i [ 51 ] S ,%-^.. Order If. PIES. G E N u s IV. SHRIKE, .:U: \% N" 50. Lcfler Grey Shr. 51. Black capped Shr, 52. Nootka Shr. N'53. Malabar Shr. 54. BoiilboulShr. SS' Orange Shr. Great cinereous Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. p. 160. 4 Jrff. ZcoL N° 127. Lanius excubitor, aun.Arag, p, yi.^Scpp. Vog, pi. in p. 121.. «t 1. +- GREAT Cr, NEREOUS SHR, 'pHIS fpecies breeds at Kudfo-.i': Bay, building half way up a fine or jumper tree, in April The hen fits fifteen days. It is there known by the name of Wapaw JTi/ky John, or fVhite Ferruginous.bellied Shrike, €en. Sjn. i. p. x6i.%. - h'jJiy^^ «. rrt yfii n FERRUGINOUS JN the cojleaion of the late Mr. Boddam this fpecies' is'cntUIed ^^^LIEDSHr; Canary-biter, or Fifchal- Bird, ., , - - f , Mr. ffuichms, , fi oiicicf H 2 Red. \^ 52 SHRIKE. »5- RED-BACK- ED SHR. Red-baclced Shrike, Gen. Syn.i. p. 167. N<» 15.— A5. ZocL N" 131, Lanlus ColIurio> Brun, N" 23, 24.— >/* t \j^.\ 50. LESSER GREY SHR. Description, Place. 5«- BLACK-CAP- PED SHR. Male. Pie-grirche d'ltalic, Biif. 01/. i. p. zg^.—Pl. Enl 32. LefTcr Grey Shrike, ArJi, Zool. ii. p. 241. B. 'T'HE forehead is black : acrofs the eyes a line of black : the^ head, hind part and fides of the neck, the back, and wing coverts, cinereous, paled on the rump ; ridge of the wing white : prime quills black, with a fpot of white near the bafe ; feconda- ries black, with white tips : throat white : breafl: and belly tinged with rofe-colour : tail feathers black j the ends of all but the two middle ones tipped with white, . . . . This is found both in Spain and Italy; it alfo inhabits RuJJiai but not Siliria, , "- , :>;.-i.- . :v o!>Y <0£:?iv- -jd: • »••<.« .' A 4»* a > » « it t^ M 1^ W *• T ENGTH fix inches. Bill one inch, hooked at the tip, co- lour dufky : the head much c re fled j the feathers of it three quarters of an inch long: the head, and all the forepart of the neck quite SHRIKE. SS .1; ir-^ jt\ the V 'ing lite : jda- ,i quite to the mid He of the belly, black: the upper part of the body of a greyifti afh-colour ; between the wings mottled with brown : wing coverts tipped »vith white, hence the wing appears barred with white ; the outer edge of the fccond quills white : the upper tail coverts and tail tipped with white j on the outer fea- ther two white fpots : legs black. One along with the above, fuppofed to be the female^ wanted the crcll : the crown was blackifh : chin and throat alh-colour: the upper part of the body much like the other; between the fhoulders mottled with white : the tail feathers the fame as in the male, but the outer margins white. ,,j , Thefe were brought from C 195* pi. III. Drongo de Malabar, Miff. Oif. iv. p. 587. Lev, Muf, I DEscaiPTioN. C I Z E of the A^^/ y^rw/Z* ; length fcventeen inches and a half. Bill one inch, hooked at the tip, pretty flout, and black i at the bafc feveral bridles pointing forwards : irides red : general colour of the plumage black j but the head, neck, back, and rump, have a glofs of blue : the feathers of the head and neck are narrower than the reft, and (harp at the ends : the tail in general is of a moderate length, but the outmoft feather on each fide is three times the length of the others, and has, near (ix inches of its length, the (haft naked, being webbed only for about an inch and a half at the end, and that only on the outer fide : the legs are ftrong and black. This inhabits the coaft oi Malabar, and other parts of India, Jt flies heavily, and is only feen of evenings. That in the Leve-- rian Mufeum anfwers the above defcription. But I find a bird very fimilar, if not the fame, among the drawings of Lady Impey, This is nearly as large as a Jackdaw. The whole bird black, glofled with blue : on the fore part of the head a vaft creft, rifing high and bending backwards ; before it fome loofe feathers : thofe of the hind part of the neck are alfo long and loofe. The tail: cxaftly correfponds with that of the laft defcribed. This laft is called the Great-crejled Blackbird, The Indian name Bmmrauge, It is found in various parts of India, efpe- cially on the hills of the kingdom of Aracan, V ■ ■ i I f . SIZE PtACl,. Pl. cviii. F1.ACI. 1 3 4 .1 !'l C'\'l, , /f/'fA/rrf / ■ I- /// /'/^r . ;| iliJBI ' 1 I i. I' ir^S SHRIKE. 57 ft gIZE of a Fieldfare. Bill yellow, and a trifle crooked at the SHR. end : head, neck, back, primaries, and tail, black : breaft and Descriftiok. belly changing to a(h-co!our : lefler wing coverts dufky j greater and fccondaries brown, crofled with two whitifli tranfvcrfe bars : legs yellow. Inhabits /»ir« i czWtAxht Greater Boulhtil. Vx.Kzt, "'■■■* = LENGTH feven Inches. Bill one inch, black: the top of "L'^f 1^' the head, and each fide of it. parallel with theunder jaw, and ''""''"'"''• nape, black : upper parts of the neck and body yellow ; beneath, the fame, but lefs bright : the chin and breaft inclined to rufous • - wing coverts brown ; quills and tail the fame, but darker: legs norn-colour. Inhabits Cayenne, ' ^ - Place. '4'^- . -S - .^ . V . I- •"' t SuPPL. GEXtrs ,T "'ffSjjjj f mi' lii I'M '" t 5-8 1 Genus V. P A R R O T» WITH UNEVEN TAILS. ^ MILITARY MACCAW. N* 134. Pennantian P. 135. BufF-fronted P. 136. Dubious P. N** 137. Orange- bellied P» 138. Peregrine P. ** WITH TAILS EVEN AT THB END. 139. Bankian Cockatoo. 144. Amber P. X4Q. Eaftern Parrot. 141. Griaed P. 14a. Blue-cheeked P. 143. Cochin-china P. 145. Solitary P. 146. Blue-rumped P. 147. Red-naped P. ♦WITH UNEVEN TAILS. Military Maccaw, Gen, 5y«. i. p. 202. N» 3. ¥ Met with one of thefe at the houfe of the late Taylor White^ Efq; prefervcd on paper by his daughter, after the manner re- commended by Mr. Edwards^ in his Hiftory of Birds? which is now CO be fecn among others in the Leverian CoUeSiion. 9' .. Brafilian Green Maccaw, Gtn. Syn. i. p. 208. N« g. BRASILIAN ' J r y CAW. " T ENGTH fevcntcen inches. Bill black: general colour of DSSCRIFTION. the plumage on the upper parts green » crown inclining to blue; PARROT. •' «■. blue i the rump to yellow : the fore part of the neck du^y afli* colour : breaft and belly yellow green : between the legs of a deep crimfon approaching to chefnut : quills blue, fringed on the outer edges with green: tail greatly cuneiform; the two middle feathers eight inches long j all the feathers of a yellow green, with chefnut (hafts : legs black. I faw this among a colledtion which came from Cayenne^ per- haps the female of that before defcribed. il Blue-bellled Parrot, Gen, Sjn. i. p. 213. , '^* Var. C. BLUE-BELLIED 'T^HIS variety differs merely in having five or fix fpots of red PARROIV tipped with yellow on the fcapulars and inner bend of the wing, and the blue bounded with reddidi at the nape. I obferved it among the drawings of Colonel Davies» Saw this among ioma Cbmfe drawings, where it was named t^bv^^'aoda -- r, , LORY PARRA* Uejhekuang,_ KEET. Caroline Parrot, Gtn. Syn, i. p. 227. N" 29. - T 1 T is not improbable that this and my Orange-headed P. N* 1 1 1. are one and the fame. The conjeftures of a friend on this head lead me to think foj but Mr. Du Prafz's imperfedb de- fcription of the laft muft ever leave conjefture tofupply the place of fafl i nor has Mr. de Buffon been able to fupply the deficiency, taking it up only on the authority of the firft defcriber. I a I Can CAROLINE P, Inn ■•^*», 60 emer'ald PARROT. PARROT. T Can m) longer doubt the exiftence of this bird in the flraits of Magalhaen, fince it is averred that flocks innumerable, of a fmaller kind of Parrotj were feen at Port Famine, in latitude ^2<^ 44*. 37- ALEXANDRINE PARRAKEET. Alexandrine Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. p. 234. "N** jy.'^HaJel^. Voy.^. 196. Engl. ed. TJASSEL^ISr obferves, that this bird is brought by the Ethiopians to Cairo for fale } that It has a piercing Ihrill note>. and can eafily be taught to articulate, though not very diftindly. He adds, that its chief food confifts of the feeds of thc/afflowerf^ 39- Var. C. Malacca Parrakeet, Gen.Syn.'i. p. 241. N039. Var. C. 'T'HE name of this bird among the Cbineje appears to be Sit^- PARRAKEET. Ji^i as it was fo called in a painting which came under my infpedtion. 76. Var.B. Scarlet Lory, Cen. Syn. i. p. 270. N*^ 76. B. SCARLET 'T'HIS bird is known in Cl^ina by the name ofTy-pawn, LORY • lA toj. Crimron-winged Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. p. 299. N* 103. CRIMSON. ^ J' t yy ^^^ROt/^^' come fpecimens of this bird meafure thirteen inches ia length. * Jr^. Zeel. ii. p. 244. f Carthamus tinflotius, Lin. The ■*1 PARROT. The female differs from the male, in having a green back, and the wing coverts green, except a few of the greater ones, which are fcarlet. Inhabits New South Wales, ^-Mt» Pennant, 5i Female. Flacb. '^A T ENGT H fifteen inches. Head, lower part of the back, and all the under parts of the body,, fcarlet : chin of a rich blue : upper part of the back, and fcapulars, deep brown, or blacky edged with fcarlet : lelTcr coverts pale blueifli green : ends and interior fides of the quills duiky, marked on the inner webs with a fingle white fpot : fides deep blue : tail very long, the middle feathers duflcy } the exterior and upper part of the interior fides blue i the other parts of a fine green j tips of the exterior fea- thers white. Inhabits New South Wales: communicated by Mr. Pennant, This varies in having the crown of a blood-colour : back and belly green : thighs and venr red. '34- PENNANTIAN P. Description. Place. in Ltv. Muf. T ENGTH ten inches : fize of a Lark in the body. Bill dufky : the forehead is buff-colour : crown of the head blue, which blends itfclf with the green at the back part of the head : the whole bird befides is green on the upper parts of the body, and yellowifh green beneath : the quills are blue, with greenifh edges: tail cuneiform, of the fame green with the upper parts : legs duflcy red. The >35- BUFF-FRONT- ED PARRA- KEET. Description, i3r.. DUBIOUS P. DfibCRlPTlON. 137- ORANGE-BEL. LILD PARRA- KKET. Description. PARROT. The above was for fome time alive in the pofleflion of Lady Kt'ad: now in good prefervation in the Leverian Mufeum, Na- tive place uncertain. ^r. Muf. ENGTH n;ne inches. Bill and legs pale horn-colour j from the bafe to the eye, and round the lad, bare, and of the fame colour: head and chin green : the whole neck pale rufous: up- per parts of the body and wings green j under parts the fame, but paler : the outer edge of the baftard wing, and quills, blue : tail cuneiform, but fhort, the colour a yellowlfh green \ the four middle feathers blue at the ends, where they are pointed in ihapej the four outer ones on each fide tipped with brown. Native place uncertain. T ENGTH feven inches and a half; breadth twelve. Bill yellowifli green : head, breaft, upper part of the body, and lefler wing coverts, dull green -, greater coverts rich blue on the exterior fides ; the interior dulky, marked with a wjhite fpot : lower belly oimge: tail green; ends of the four outmoft feathers fine yellow : legs grecnifh. Native place uncertain. Communicated by Mr. Pennant, 138. PEREGRINE PARRAKEET. Descrxption. CIZE rather bigger than the Guinea Parraktet : length eight inches. Bill red : general colour of the plumage green, be- neath inclining to yellow ; the middle of the wing coverts pale t. i 10 brown, ^ Na- m I ^ I'l.ClX, , 'Ajfr/f//^f//('r>r//f/orK z^- PARROT. brown, appearing as a broad band down the wing : tail ibort, cuneiform: legs of a pale red. I met with this at the late Mr. Boddam's, and it was faid to have been brought from the Scuth Seas, 63 Place, A 4 jy ** WITH TAILS EVEN AT THE END. npHE Great Variety of the Cockatoo with z yellow crejly was k^rx in vaft flocks in NewSouth fp^ales, making an horrible noife. The Cockatoo is found in Sumatray and called there Kaykay. The name of the LeJJer White Cockatooj in Cbhia, is Ting-Mew. C I ZE of the Red and Blue Maccaw: length twenty-two inches. Bill very large, of a horn-colour, with a black tip: general colour of the plumage black : the feathers of the head pretty long, but in a quiefcent (late lie flat on the head; on each, jud at the tip, is a fpot of pale bufF-colour : the wing coverts are alfo mark- ed in the fame manner near the tips : the feathers of the upper part of the breaft and vent are margined with buff^j the lower part of the breaft and the belly barred with darker and lighter bufF-colour : the tail is pretty long, and a little rounded at the end i the two middle feathers are black i the others the fame at the bafe and ends i the middle of them, for about one third, of a fine deep crimfon, inclining to orange, crofled with five or fix bars of black, about one third of an inch in breadth, and fomewhat ir- regular, efpecially the outer ones, in which the bars are broken and mottled : legs black. -, ^ Inhabits »39- BANKIAN COCKATOO. Pl. CIX. Descriptiok. ill «4 Placi^ PARROT. Inhabits New Holland. In the coUeflion of Sir jfc/eph Banks, who brought it with him from thence into England, on his return from his voyage round the world. It moft certainly differs from the Ceyloie/e Black Cockatoo j but is probably the fame with that mentioned by Mr. Parkin/on, in his voyage*. -^ 140. ' EASTERN PAR- ROT. C I Z E of the AmazorCs Parrot* Bill red, tip yellow : general cO" Descrjption. lour of the plumage green : ridge of the wing and prime quills pale blue : towards the end of the tail black and blue» the tip yellow : legs yellow. Place. Inhabits /» GRISLED PAR. ROT. np HIS is a trifle fmaller than the Amazon's Parrot, The bill Description. j^ ^^ X^xgt as the head, and ' : irides blueifh : the head and bread are of a pale greenifh grey : hind part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, grafs green : the leflcr wing coverts yellow : legs grey. , . , . Place. Inhabits China, 142. BLUE-CHEEK- ' ' ED PARROT. T ENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill and crown of the Descriptiok. head draw-colour : cheeks fine light blue : upper part of the back black, dreaked with yellow ; the lower, pale yellow : fcapu- iars black : wing coverts and quills rich deep blue, tinged with • P. 144. green :*»>q 1 PARROT. green: breaft and belly green : vent red: exterior feathers of the tail blue, tinged with, and marked near the (hafts with rows of fmall dark fpots; the middle ones of a duller green c legs dulky. Communicated by Mr. Pennant. Native place uncertain. ■pi LL yellow: crown of the head, part of the neck, breaft, back, thighs, and vent, of a fine mazarine blue : nape fcarlet, bounded below with blue : forehead, chin, throat, breaft, middle of the belly, coverts of the wings, fcarlet; a black bar crofles the coverts ; the refl; of the wings, and tail, black j the la(t even at the end : legs black. Inhabits Cochin-Qhina, — Lady Impey, 6i COCHIN-CHI- NA P. DEscmmOK. Place. ^ 144. AMBER n^HE bill in this bird is dufky : fore part of the head crimfon i Description. back part of it, and nape, dufky j reft: of the neck green, marked with yellow ftreaks : belly the fame, but paler: wings and tail green : thighs red : legs afti-colour. Inhabits Batavia, — Lady Impey, CIZE of a Starling, The bill and legs yellowifti ; the tip of the firft reddifti: irides fulvous : the hind part of the neck, back, wings, atid tail, a moft brilliant green : top of the head, part of the belly and fides, and thighs, purplifli blue : the reft of the head, and fore part of the neck, crimfon : the breaft and up- per part of the belly red and fulvous mixed : tail fliort, very little rounded at the end. . , SuppL. % This Place. SOLITARY PARROT. Descrifi*ion. 1 1 1 $6 Place. 146. BLUE-RUMPED PARRAKEET. Description. Place. PARROT. This inhabits the ifland of Feejee, in the Pacific Ocemit Uom whence it is brought into Tongo-taboo and Oiaheite, for the fake of the red and yellow feathers in the plumage. It is alfo now and then fecn alive and tame in ^ongo-taboo *. Its manners are foli- tary f. This bird, from the defcription, appears not unlike the Bluc-crefted Parrot J j but as the above is greatly fuperior in fize, and has an even tail^ I rather fuppofe it to be a didinft fpecies. Le petit Perruche de Malacca, Son. P'cy. Ind. H. p. 212. C I ZE of the common Parrakeet. Bill violet grey : irides red : forehead blue : head, neck, and upper part of the breafl, grafs- green : lower part of the bread and belly yellowifh green : rump blue : wing coverts pale green ; fecond quills deep green ; prime quills blue on the outer webs as far as the middle j the reft of a deep green : under wing coverts crimfon: tail deep green, yel- lowifh beneath : legs brown. Inhabits Malacca. m 147. RED-NAPED PARRAKEET. Description, CIZE fmall. General colour of the plumage green: on the forehead over the eye crimfon : at the back part of the head a crefcent of the fame : the throat, fore part of the neck, andbreaft, are alfo crimfon : tail plain green. I defcribed this from the drawings of Colonel Davies, but know not from whence it came. . j • • ' » • At Otaheite and the friendly ifles. Parrots in general are called Kakaa ; and the Parrakeets, Hainga.'—Cook, Lajl Voy, App> \ Syn, i. p. 254, .;. Genus t Mr. .rfWrr/ca's MS. 1 -1^ [ «7 3 Genus VI. TOUCAN. 1 6. Smooth-billed T. . Piperine Toucan, G#//. ^yw. i. p. 334. N« II. A Variety of the female of this fpecies has lately come under my infpeftion. The bill horn-colour, with a bar of black near the end, and two others near the edge ; the ridge is alfo black : the head, neck, and under parts of the body, of a fine deep cinnamon-colour : on the ear a fpot of yellow, and between the legs the fame colour: the back, wings, and tail, green; the iafl: rounded, and tipped with brown': vent crimfon. The yellow crefcent at the back of the neck wholly wanting. I met with this bird in the colledion of Sir Jojeph Banks, who informed me thac it came from /?/o7««^/>(7. IT. PIPERINE T. Female. Place. Lev, Muf. CIZE of the Green Toucan: length twelve inches. Bill an inch and three quarters long, and one thick at the bafe \ the upper mandible yellowifli brown, the lower black ; the edges not fer- rated, but perfedlly fmooth j noftrils not covered with feathers : eyes placed in a bare (kin : the head and neck are chefnut, the top of the head darkefl: : upper parts of the body dark green ; rump crimfon : lower part of the neck, the breaft, and belly, of a pale greenifli yellow : thighs green j infide of the thighs dulky : legs brown. _ , K 2 Two 16. SMOOTH-EIL- LED T. Ds&CRIPTION. 68 TiACt. TOUCAN. Two of thefe were brought from Caytme, one of which is now in the Leverian colleftion. It bears much refcmblance to the/tf- male of the Green Toucattt and might be placed as a variety of that bird, did not the total want of ferraturesj as well as fize of the bill, forbid the fuppofition. • •■ G F, N 'J ? •• J [ <9 1 ow • . « ♦ • A- ■:i' : . ' hat Genus VII. ] the • N* 13. Gingi H. i. 14. New Holland H. N" 15. GrcyH. i6. Green-winged H. Rhinoceros Hornbill, Ge/i. 5y«. i. p. 342. N» !► t HTHIS fpecics is not uncommon at Sumatra, where a full-grown one meafures full four feet in length from the point of the bill to that of the tail : »; -itent of wing four feet fix inches : the bill in length ten inches and a half; in depth, including the horn, fix inches and a half: length of the neck one foot : the beak whitifli : the horn yellow and red : irides red : the body black : tail white, ringed with black : rump, and feathers on the thighs, down to the heels, white. — Mr. Marfden likewife obferves, that in zn Hen Chick the irides were whitifh, and there was no appearance of a horn on the upper mandible. The food of this bird is not mentioned, but the flefli of it is faid to be eaten with boiled rice, and is thought tender and good. The natives call it Engang*. ^- RHINOCE. ROSH. 'J f ' ape of it oval, being rounded at both ends as well as the fides i the • Hij}. Sumat, p. 99. colour 6. PIED H ?• II O R N B I L L. colour of it black, with a crefcent of white at the back part : irides red brown : between the bill and eye bare and black : under the throat, from eye to eye, a bare white fpace: the head, neck, and upper parts of the body, are black : on the coverts two white fea- tliers : the fecond quills black, the end half white j greater quills black : two middle tail feathers black at the bafe, and white the reft of their length -, the others entirely white : breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, white : legs black. ' This feems to differ both from my former defcription and that o( Buffofi following it, though I efteem them the fame: but the variation of the tail feathcs is fingular. I have likewife obferved a further variety, in the mufeum of the late Mr. Boddaw, two feet fix inches ill length, wherein the two middle tail feathers were black, and all the others white; the quills white only at the tips. Mr. Bcddam's bird came from Bengal^ where it is called Cherry deaniJJjy or Bird of Knowledge. I have lately feen one of thefe among fome drawings from In- dia, wherein all the tail featliers were black, with the tiids white j and two large patches of white, the one larger than the other, at the bafe of the under jaw. It is faid to feed on rice :iiK\ fruits : hence called the Mafler of Rice. 5*1. 12. MREATlir.D W. Wreathed Hombill, Gen, Syn. i. p. 358. N' 12. — Damp, f'.ij. vol. iii. pt, 2, p. 165. pi. 3. r\AMPIER met with this bird at the illand of Ceram and Neza Guinea, and dclcribes it nearly in the following words : " One *' of my mafter's mates killed two fowls as big as Croivs, of a black colour, excepting that the tails were all white : their " necks (C '1 t : Irides nder the eck, and hite fea- ter quills ^hite the [I, belly, and that but the bferved a o feet fix re black, 3S. Mr. y deanipj from In- s white ; other, at d fruit; : ■:i 4, K O R N B I L L. " necks were pretty long, one of which was of a faffron-colour, " the other black : they had very large bills, much like a ram's " horn : their legs were ftrong and fnort, and their claws like a " pigeon's : their wings of an ordinary length ; yet they make a " great noife when they fly, which they do h'*avily. They feed " on berries, and perch on the higheft trees. Their flefh is " fweet." In a dcfcription of the fame, with which I was favoured by Mr. Pennanty I find that the colour of the bill is ycUowifh, with a black fpot at the bafe of the lower mandible : beyond the eye a naked blueilh flcin : crown black : head, neck, back, and coverts of the wings, dark grey, clouded with black: primaries black, their ends white : tail black, outmofl feather on each lide white on the upper half: legs ftrong, fliort, and blueifli. This was met with in the ifland o( Ceylon, and fuppofed to be a young bird. I have met with the fegments of the appendage of the bill, from four to feven in number, in ditFcrent fpccimens, which may lead one to think that the number increafcs with the age of the bird. Dampier does not fay the number on the bill in his figure, but I tliink feven may be counted j and if fo, perhaps it was an adulc bird. That deLcribed by Mr. Pennant had only five fegments. 71 Pl.vCE. III. pt. 2, ind New " One vsy of a e: their " necks 1:' Calao de Gingi, Son. Voy, Ind. ii. p. 214. pi. 121. '5- CINUr If. T ENGTH two feet. The bill long and bent ; on the top, as Di-iCRipnov common in this genus, an appendage which points forward, and 's fliarp at the end, appearing not unlike a fmallerbill placed Oil the top of a larger i cdgesof the mandibles jagged i the colour 8 «f f% PtACE. « O R N fi I L L, •of the bill^lackj towards the point white : the head, neck, back, and wings, are dirty grey : from the gape of the bill a broad band of black pafles beneath the eye and a little beyond it : the breaft and belly are white j the quills black : the tail eleven inches long, and cuneiform in fhape ; the two middle feathers are dirty rufous grey, with a band of black at the end j the others black for three quarters of the'i length, then brown, and finally terminated with white : the legs jre black j the outer toe united to the middle as far as the third joint, and to the inner as far as the firft. Inhabits the coaft of C(7ri»e, or Koenai %. A Cr$w like our Carrion Crow was obferved at Botany Bay^ in Nciv Holland \\, This fpecies is not found in Ireland %. +.ROOK, Rook, Gen. Syn. i. p. 372. N" 4. — Aril. Zeol. ii. p. 250. A. 'HIS ufeful fpecies feems much more confined than the lad. It is not mentioned, by either J3r««»;V/& or M«//ifr, as inhabiting Denniarky nor in the lift of Georgi, as frequenting the Lake Baikal. It is however faid to be met with about Aftrachan f : is not un- common in Rujpa^ and the weftern part of SiHria, particularly in the more fouthern latitudes. I do not find it any where men- tioned as an American fpecies. This and the Cro'w by common obfervers are not eafily diftln- guiflied : but in the common Crow the upper mandible is much larger, fliarper, and more curved, and reaches farther over the un- der one than in the Rook^ in which the point appears blunt, and fcarcely projefts over the inferior **. The bill is obferved to be weaker in the Rook than in the Crow^ and of not fo deep a black: the ends of the tail feathers in the Rook are broad and rounded, but thofe of the Crow are acute ff. Like the Raven and Crow^ * Mr. HuUhins. f ^l^" ^"f- "• P- '43' t Cock's Lajl Viy, A{>p. II Artl. Zool. § Mr. JackjQu. fl Da. Rujf. ii. p. 143. ♦• Mr. Tunjiall. if Ar a. Zoo/. • .". this i CROW. this fpecies is fometimes found of a pure white. Mr. Tunflall has oneofthef? in his colleftion, in which the bill was white alfo. I have feen others black and white, and one quite brown, the co- lour of a Jay. 77 I .5 Hooded Crow, Gen. Sya. i. p, 374. N<» 5.— ^r<5. Zool. ii. p. 251. B. Corvus comix, Brun, N" 30. — Mu/Ier, N° 88. — Ceorgi Ra/e, p. 165. 'T'HI S bird is very common throughout RuJIa and Sibiria^ but not beyond the Lena. Migrates to fVoronefch, and pafles the winter there : grows very large beyond the Ob^ and often varies to i-ntenfe blackncfs*. . Found, with fevcral others of this genus, at AUppo f , and com- mon about the Lake Baikal \ and moft likely extends to other parts of Jftaf as I have been informed that in fonie parts of India they are common, and fo bold as to fnatch the food from the difhes while the fervants are carrying them acrofs the court-yards, ex- cept they are kept ofF by beating J. , It is faid that the culture of the cinnamon- tree, in Ceylon, is ow- ing to CrotvSi but what fpecies is uncertain. They are faid to eat the quick-tafted, and red fruit of this tree, and with the fruit to fwallow the kernels, and fcatter them every where about with their excrements. On this account, none dares to flioot a Crozv, under a fevere penalty ||. • u^r<7. Zco/. f Rtiff, AUp. p. 69. X Mr. Pennant. II Life and Adventures cf y. Chriftian ffo/f.-^This circumftancc is attributed ta Ihe ff'^ife Nutmeg Pigeon, See vol. iv. p. 638. Note *. -HOODED (iROW. lackdaw. 7t CROW. 4-JACKDAW, Jackdaw, Gtn. Syti. i. p. 378. N*" g.-~Ara. Zool. ii. p. 251. C. Corvus moncdula, Brun. N" ^z.—MuI/it, N" 89.— Gerj/ Rti/e, p, 16;, 'HIS is common all over Rujfta and the weft o( Sibiria: is migratory, remaining in winter only in the fouthern part of Rujia. A few fcen beyond Lake Baikal, Is apt to vary, like many of the Crow fpecies. M. PHILIPPINE CROW. Philippine Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 381. N° 12, TN the colleftion of Sir Jofeph Banks is a variety which has the bread, and the infide of the ridge of the wing, near the Ihoul> der, clouded with white. I alfo obferved a fecond variety among the drawings of Lady Tmpey, in which the belly is Hare- coloured. NEW GUINEA CROW. Var. Description. New Guinea Crow, Gtn. Syn. i. p. 381. N" 13. ^NE greatly fimilar to this fpecies has lately been defcribed to me. Length thirteen inches } body ftout. Bill dulky, a few briftlcs covering the bafe : irides reddifh : head and neck blueifh a(h-colour: the upper parts of the body and wings the fame, but darker : the eye placed in a iarge bed of black, lengthening into a point at the back part : breafl, belly, and vent, pale ferruginous : quills and tail duiky j the lafl pretty long, and rounded at the end : the legs red brown, very fcaly and rough. Native place uncertain. - Bare< CROW, f» Barenecked Crow, Ctn, Syn, I. p. 382. N' i j» T EN GTH fifteen inches. Bill yellowifli ; tip black j noftrils broad, cxpofed, without any reflcfted briftles : the outmoft quills black ; the reft of the prime quills black within, but with- out obliquely grey to near the tips : wing coverts and fecond quills pale grey : tail fix inches long, even at the end : legs dufky yellow. The above in the mufeum of the late Dr. Hunter, It does noc clearly belong to the Cro'w genus ; perhaps might with more pro- priety be placed with the Grakles. As I had the opportunity of examining it before it was put into attitude, I obferved that the hind toe was placed more inward than in nnany other birds, but no membrane between that and the inner toej nor in my opinion had nature ever intended it to be ufed forwards, as Bujfon feems to think. Jay, Cen. Syn, i. p. 384. N» 19.— i^rt7. Zool. n. p. 252. E. Corvus glandarius, Brun. N" ^i.—-Muller, N° 90. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 165.— Faun. yl,ag, — Sc^p. Vogd. pi. in p. i, 'T^HIS fpecies is common in the woods both of Rujfia and Sihi- riay but none beyond the Lena * ; Georgi mentions it as fre- quenting the Lr.ke Bnikaly and Rujfel records it as an Aleppo fpe- cies f. I have a fufpicion alfo that it extends to China, as it is to be feen in the drawings of birds from that country. It is called by the name of J^y about Arragon, in Spain, as in BARE-^fECKEDk CROMi. 19. JAY. ■i II '!■'* 1 ■'i 1 • Ardl.Zool; t //'>?. Ahp. p. 69. England^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 4r 1.0 I.I M 12.5 ■so 1^ 1^ !!? Bfi "I 2.2 us IS ■- u ■ 40 2.0 1.8 )' 1.25 11^ 1^ ^ 6" ► V] vi j^ ^>. >> .* Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 Vi^ST MA^N STREiT WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) r72-4503 ETWEEN that figured by Brijfon, and one in the Leverian Mu/eum, I obferve a fnnall difference. In Brijfon's figure of it, the white goes round in the (hape of a crefcent. In the Leve- r.'an fpecimen, the whole front to behind the eyes is black, only a fmall perpendicular dafli of white under the ear. I I 3 29. MAGPIE. Magpie, Gen. Syn, i. p. 392. N''29. — Ar ! I . ; ii A , M La Is CROW. Var.'e. La 6r«ve de la C6te de Malabar, Son. Voy. IndAi, p. 191. DiscRiPTioN. TTHIS variety differs principally in having the whole of the head and neck black : down the crown pafles a longitudinal rufous ftripe : chin white : breafl pale rufous : belly, thighs, and vent, red. Placs. Inhabits the coaft of M<«Az^tfr. 37- Var. F. Dbscription. Flacb. AMONG the drawings of the late Dr. Fothergill I find a further variety. Crown rufty brown : through the eye and round the head a (break of black j under this a collar of white : the upper parts of the body green j the under white : on the middle of the belly a fpot of red : vent crimfon : quills black : tail green, tip- ped with black : legs pale red. Inhabits China. 38. NUTCRACKER. Nutcracker, Gen. Syn. i. p. 400. N" 38.— ^rey, N t-'\' Ge nus ■ 1 1 i i > I. •^ MINOR GR. I 90 ] Genus XV. G R A K L E. 12. Yellow-faced Gr. i Minor Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 455. N^ i. JAM doubtful whether the Minor is a native of Cbifia, although we fee it fo frequently in Chinefe paintings, as I am informed, by a perfon who has been at Canton, that he purchafed feveral at Jofva, where they are common, and fold them to the Chinefe at the rate of five fhillings each, for the purpofe of keeping them in cages. In /«^/rt it is called the H/// Af!?/»^» PURPLE GR. Purple Grakle, Gen. Syn, ii. p. 462. N">^6. T N the Leverian Mufeum is a beautiful variety. The bill i*.» pale, with a dufky tip : the head white : back, fhoulders, and breaft, white, mottled with black : quills and tail black j the laft cuneiform : fome of the outer feathers white juft at the tips. CRESTED GR. Crefled Grakle, Gen, Sjm ii. p. 464. N*7. T Believe this fpecies, as well as the Minor, is known by the name of Leflcoa, or Leuquoy -, as I am informed by Mr. Tunjiall that he had one of thefe alive, which, among other words, often re- peated the word Leuquoy, and that the perfon he bought it of called it by that name, Mr. Marfden, after mentioning that the Minor:, G R A K L L. Mifior, called T'eeoftg, has the faculty of iaii eating the human fpcech in greater perfeftion than any of t!)e feathered tribe, ob- ferves, that there arc two forts of them, tiie l^lack and the yellozv*^ : it Ihould therefore feerr. ihat more than one or two birds pafs un- der the name of Leuquoy. In the neighbourhood of the Ganges the Crejled Grakle is no doubt plentiful j as, among fome drawings done in Indic^ I tind it named the Sarroo of the Ganges f . Dial Grakle, Cev. Syn. i\. p. 465. N» 8. npHED/W, called Afoori, is faid to have a pretty, but fhort note X J and that it is ufed by the Achcnefe for the purpofe of fighting, in the fame manner as the Cock ; but attacks in a different manner, frequently engaging one another on the wing, and drop to the ground in the ftruggle \, TJ ILL comprefled ; noftrils ovated : region of the eyes fine yel- low, naked and wrinkled : head, neck, back, wings, and tail, black : wing coverts crofled with a white line : neck black : bread, belly, and vent, white : legs yellow, and very fcaly. Inhabits New Holland, — Communicated by Mr. Pennant, • Hifi. Sumat. p. 90. f Sir Elijah Impey, X H'tft. Sumat. The author obferves, that there is no bird on the ifland of Sumatra y/hichfings. ||/w red line pointing upwards : throat blue, marked with a fpot It 8. BLUE.CHEEK- ED C. Description, i'ir 94 Place. C U R U C U I. fpot of red at the bottom : the reft of the body, wings, and tail, a rich green, except the quills, which are black ; the legs green. Inhabits India,— "L^^y Impey, 4 INDIAN C. Description^ Place. "D ILL blueifh, very hooked : head and neck black, ftriped #ith white : from the corners of the mouth, juft beneath the cheeks, a whitifh ftripe : back and wtngs dufky, marked with round rufty fpots : breaft and belly yellowifh white, barred with dulky : tail very long, cuneiform, croffed with narrow dufey bars : legs afh-colour. Inhabits India, Called J?»»^«»;»,i.— Lady Impey, •,~i\- liii 1 1 GSNUS [ 9$ 1 Genus XVIII. B A R B E T. " N* i8. Indian B. Spotted>belIied Barbet, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 494. N" i. TN one fpecimen of this fpeciesi obferved a flight trace of white beneath the eye. The name it goes by among the French^ at Cayenne, is uigaubue de Terre, I. SPOTTED-BEL- LIED B. ■4 Grand Barbet> Gen. Syn. il. p. ^oj. A MONG the drawings of Lady Impey is a bird, which I fufpedt to be the female of this fpecies. The length ten inches. Bill reddifli brown, and ftout, with fix or eight bridles at the b.ife J the noftrils are alfo hairy: round the eye bare, and of a red- difh colour : general colour of the plumage a dull green : the breaft and belly pale whitifli green : quills black : tail (horC>. green : legs of a pale yellow. Inhabits Iftdia, where it goes by the name oi Honeji Face, Vellow-cheeked Barbet, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 506. N» i j. HP HIS inhabits Ceylon and Batavia : called, by the Cingaleje, Kottorea, It perches on high trees, and cooes like a Turtle, but louder j and it is from this noife that the natives have formed the name it is known by •. • Mr. Ptnnatit, u 10. GRAND H- Place^ »5- YELLOW- CHEEKED B. ,-:m ■".i(,j jV'^^^BBiti t^^'i 1 ,::i; ■■ 1 'if' «« B A R B E T. - It is alfo a native of India, as I met with it among the drawings of Lady Impey, i6. DOUBTFUL B. Var. Place. Doubtful Barbet, Gen. S^n. ii. p. 506. N" 16, £r. Mu/. T N the J^rifijb Mufeum is a fine fpecimen of this bird, which dif- fers fomewhat from my former defcription. The bill is wholly of a pale yellowifh colour ; the under mandible fmooth, without any tranfverfe channels : the crown has a mixture of crimfon fea- thers, which pafs behind each eye, and afterwards extend forwards to blend with the crimfon on the fore parts : the greater wing co« verts are tipped with crimfon, forming an oblique bar of the fame acrofs the wing : on the middle of the back is a patch of white, and a thick tuft of filky white feathers, fquare at the ends : all the under parts are red j but the chin, juft under the bill, is black, and a fpot of the fame juft at the bafe of the under mandible : the general colour of the bird is blueifh black : the quills brown. The above fpecimen came from Africa, but what part thereof uncertain. »7' WAX-BILLED ;' Red-billed Crow, Gen. Sjn, i. p. 403. Cayenne Black Cuckow, Id. i. p. 543. Le Coucou noir de Cayenne, Buf. Oif, vi. p. 416.— PA Eul. pz. Lev, Mu/, T T is but lately thdt a perfect fpecimen of this bird has come un- der my infpeflionj from which I am clear that the above two are one and the fame with this Barkf, I have only here to add, that B A R B E T. $7 that the toes are not quite divided to the bottom : at the bend of the wing, juft within, is placed a horn-coloured fpine, about one eighth of an inch long, and blunt at the end : the tail compofed of ten feathers, and the wings, when clofed, reach on it about an inch. • _ / INDIAN B. SIZE of the Bulfinch : length fix inches. Bill blue, hooked, ^^ •^ => ' ' Degcription. befet with very long hairs at the bafe, exceeding the end of the bill : iridcs white : general colour of the plumage green : fore- head red : round the eye and chin yellow : the reft of the head black: the under part of the body white, ftreaked with green, . pafTing on each fide the neck in acrefcent, and bounding the yel- low chin : beneath this, it is red, and below it a fpotof yellow, except which, the reft of the under part is white : the quills are dark afli-colour : legs red. This inhabits India^ and is called Bu£hthuddoo. Taken from Place. the drawings of Mr. Middleton. It feems greatly allied to the Red-crowned Barbet *, and is a beautiful fpecies, ♦ Sjn. vol. ii. p. 505, *{ ;'• * ^ ■ t;ii '":^m m'^ Surpu Genus ih'T I ■ fiil [ 9< ] •*«. "*■ " I. k COMMON CUCKOW. Genus XIX. CUCKOW. N* 47. Grey-headed C. N" 48. Sonnerat's C. Common Cuckow, Gttt^ Sym. ii. p. 509. N° \.—ArSi. Zool. ii. p. 266. A. Cuculus canorus, £r«ff. N" $6.—Mul/er, N" g^.-^-Georgi Rti/e, p. 165.' 5*// ^<>f. pi. in p. wj,-^Fau ; Arag. p. 73. T AM informed, by an accurate obferver of £«j^///5& birds, and their manners*, that the time of the Cuckow^s coming is almoft to a certainty on the tenth or twelfth of Jpril, and that the males ar- rive firft. In the ftomach of chefe lie has more than once ob- ferved feveral of tlie caterpillars of the Fox Moth f, which is large, and no doubt a delicate morfel. Of the birds of the firft year, fcarce two fecm alike : in fome the bars are doubly more numerous than in others ; and in one I obferved this year, fent to me by Mr. Boys, of Sandwich^ the ground-colour was of a brov/ni(h blue. I have alfo been inform- ed, that now and then a bird has been met with, at the very firft coming in fpring, in which the ferruginous ground-colour of the plumage was yet manifeft on the upper parts of the body. The egg figured by Sepp is certainly not that of the Cuckow, being in fhape fimilar to that of a Hawk : it is very like the Jack' daw's in fize and fhape, of a greenifh white, fpeckled with brown , whereas the true Cuckow*s egg is not much bigger than that of a Mr. Green, oi Lambeth, f Phalane Ruii,'^Li>t. Hfdge I- C U C K O W. Hedge Sparrow, greatly elongated in fhape, the ground-colour not unlike it, and mottled all over with ferruginous purple *, I have mentioned before the circumftance of my having heard the Cuckow call in the night. This happened again to me, the loth of Mjy, 1783, when, being in my own garden, between ele- ven and twelve at night, I heard one call fcveral times together very diflinftly. It may not be amifs to obferve, that not only the lad night, but the others in which I heard it, was bright moon- light. The Cuckow extends to India* 1 have twice feen it in drawings from thence. Eailern Black Cuckow, Gen, Syn, ii. p. ^ 18. C I Z E of a M7^/>/> : length fixteen inches. Bill whitifli, pretty ftrong: general colour of the plumage black; acrofs the wings three narrow bars of white, and near the end of the tail the fame : legs pale blue. Inhabits J»^/«i called Cozy^)?/.— Lady /wpcy. I find that there are two or three fpecies of Cuckows in India, which are known by the name of Kuill, or Coweeli one as large as a Jayy and all of them frequenting woods. They for the moft part fly in fmall flocks, rarely fingly : the food infeds. Thefe are held in veneration by the Mahometans -, but by others the flefli is accounted delicate, a fingle bird being fomctimes fold to the lo- vers of good eating for twenty-four livres. It is faid to fing very finely, as a Nightingale f . '' Portlatid Muf^um, t ^f, Philof, p. 68. 99 10. Var.C. EASTERN BLACK C. DescriI'tion. PlacIi m^ (, ' V i\ ■ M O 2 ttency lOO C U C K O W. . ' ! II. h CRF.STED BLACK C. Creftcd Black Cuckow, Gen. Syn. li. p. 519. N" 1 1.. Cuculus ferratus, Sparnn. Muf, Curl/, pl.iii, "V^R. Sparrman takes his trivial name from the fliape of the- white fpot on the wing being not unlike the teeth o^ Zl Jwjj at the back part of it j this arifes from the obliquity of the white on each quill, which, when they are fomewhat open, may give it fuch an appearance. It is not, however, the cafe in my fpecimen>, as it merely appears as an irregular patch on the wing. 16. Var. B. DESCRIPTjOrf. Egyptian Cuckow, Gen. Syx. u. p. 523. Var. B.. CIZE of the Rain Cuckcw : length nineteen inches and a halC Bill an inch and a half long, ftout, curved, and of a black co- Jour } noftrils almoft covered with Ihort feathers : upper eyelid furnifhed with eight or nine bridles: the head and neck dufky Drown, and the feathers narrow j the fore part, as far as the bread, marked down the fhafts with indiftinft pale fpots and bars ; the hind part plain : wing coverts deep rufous, obfcurely barred with dufliy : quills barred rufous and blackifh, alternate, about twenty of each: tail ten inches long, cuneiform ; the outer feather only five inches in length j colour of the feathers black, barred with numerous oblique dufky white lines, not correfponding on each fide the fhafts : the belly, thighs, upper and under tail coverts, dufky, crofTed with numerous white lines : legs Ihort, ftout, rough J the inner hind toe furnifhed with a flrait claw, like that of a Lark, and one inch in length : on the infide of the bend of the wing a fhort blunt fpur. Inhabits. C U C K O W. Inhabits China, The above Ipecimen in the collc(5tion of Srr Jofeph Banks. It feems t^reatly to coincide with my fliort de- fcription of the fecond variety, the Egyptian Cuckozv *, if not the fame bird. I obferve one greatly fimilar among the drawings of Lady Im- fey^ ferving to afcertain its inhabiting thecoaft of Coromandel ; but this feems to have the neareft refemblance to my firfl: variety, the plumage being black throughout, except the wings, which are of a bright ferruginous flame-colour; the prime quills barred with black. This is known in India by the name of Croiv-Pheafant. I fuppofe it to be a voracious bird, as the Indian name fignifies Dc^ vourer v:iih the Mouih, "* Honey Cuckow, Gen. Syn.u. p.533. N" 51-. Gnat-Snapper, Kolb. Cap, vol. ii. p. 154? 'HE male bird is faid to have the bafe of the bill {capijirum) encircled with black f. luobosy in his Voyage to Abyjfinia \^ fpcaks of a bird called Mo- roCy which has the inftinft of difcovering honey : but from his ac- count, it is that which is collected by the Ground Bees i as he fays that they keep their holes in the ground extremely clean j that, though common in the highways, they are feldom found, except by the Moroc's afllftance. The Ratel (a fpecies of fp'ee/el)\\t at times profits by the Hotiey Cuckow, watching the motfen of that bird on all occafions j when, if the bird direfts him to that which is collefted under ground, it is enabled to get at it fufficiently eafy : on the contrary, if the Bee's neft is inatreej the difappointed * Gen. Sjn. vol.ii. p. 523. B. f Sparrm. Voy, ii. p. 191. J P. 52. Svo.- edit. 1735. \\ Hijl.i^tadr, l{° 220, ^ animal. 101 Place, 3'. HONEY C. I.' •■,■1 J i 1,1 m m 102 47- GREY-HEAD- ED C. Description, Place. C U C K O W. animal, not able to get up to it, begins to gnaw the tree at the bottom, whereby the Hottentots have a fecond method of difcover- ing fuch as contain honey*. Dr. Sparrman obferves, that no one kept bees about the Capey while he w -s there, except the/ I cannot help thinking that it is alfo found at the Cape of Good Hofe, as Kolben * mentions a bird by the name of Long Tongue, which inhabits that place. • Hijl. Cape, ii, p. 155, ■«- WRYNECK, - m 11 «'" • !!'. ■ t , In',. Genxts ''illed fpecks, from its having no red about it; a circumftance not uncommon in thit kx of the fVoodpecker tnbe^ I met with the fpecimen at Mr. Humphries^St dealer in curiofi- ties, in Long-Acre^ among others, in a collection which came from Carolina. .... • •■ . ■■■. .... : t Pileated Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 554. N" ^.'—Ara. Zool. ii. N^ 157. T.N Mr. Hutchins's manufcript I obferve a Woodpecker fimilar to this. Length feventeen inches and a half; breadth twenty- eight and a half; weight nine ounces and a quarter, Troy. Bill lead-colour : forehead greenifii yellow : crown crimfon : lore SuppL. . P ftraw- 105 WHITh.BlL- LED W. Female } D E s c R U' T 1 f ; . PILEATED W, Mill .1 m .,if.f Ml f. ill; ■ill ^wP 111 I i,jp I- if io5 I'tACE. WOODPECKER. fliaw-coloured, palling over the eyes and down the fides of the neck : from the lower mandible a ftreak of black, communicating with the fore part of the neck, which is black : the back, wing, coverts, fcapulars, lower part of the belly, and tail, black : upper half of the quills and fecondaries white j the reft black : the belly- and thighs the fame, marked with faint tranfverfe bars of white t legs black. This was found near four hundred miles up the river Albany,. in North America, in the month of January. It is called May- May i and is mod probably a variety of the Pikated fFoodpecker,. differing chiefly in the under parts being ftri^ted with white. REDBREAST. ED W. Red-breafted Woodpecker, Gen. Sy^t. ii. p. 562. N" 9. HE tail of this bird is wholly black, except one of the mid- dle feathers, which has three fpots of white on one fide of the fhafr. The whole length of the bird eight inches and a half. Such a bird as this, if not the fame, was met with in Nootka Sound, on the coaft of North America. It is faid to be " Lefs than a Thrujld, of a black colour above, with white fpots on the wing ; a crimfon head, neck, and breaft, and a yellowifh oKve- coloured belly ; from which laft circumftance it might perhaps " not improperly be called the Tellow-hellied Wood-pecket * Cook's Lajl Voyage, ii. p. 297, , ^of. pi. in p. 41. pOUND in Rujfia, and other parts q^ Europe, - w^r^ ; extends alfo to the mofl: eaftern parts of Sibiria, In- habits /IJirachan *. I have never feen the egg of this bird j but obferve, in Sepp's figure of it, that the colour is a greyifli white, mottled with minute dulky fpecks. Notwithftanding we can afcertain at leaft five fpecies of ff^ood- feckers in Englandi yet I am aflured, by a very intelligent naturaliftfj that not a fingle one is found in Ireland, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Gen. Sjh. ii. p. 565. N° i^.-^Aril. Zool. ii. p. 278. D. Pious medius, Brun. N" j^i.-'^Muller, N** 100.— -Georgi Rei/e, p. 165. 'T'HIS bird is met with on the continent, being found in Den- mark and RuJJia. It alfo frequents the neighbourhood of the lake Baikal, and is likewife found at JJlrachan J. Lefler spotted Woodpecker, Gen. Sjn. ii. p. 566. N° I4.*i--/rc7. Zool. ii, p. 278. E. Picus minor, Jlif«//fr, N^ loi. nPH I S fpecies is feen as far north as either of the two laft-namcd fpecies, and likewife extends to the moft eaftern parts of Sibiria, »5- ■»- MIDDLE SPOTTED W. 14. -f- LESSER SPOTTED W. * Dec. Rujf. ii. p. 143, RnJ)', ii. p. 143. f Tibomaj yaci/on, Ef '• no 4- GREEN W. passeri'ne W, WOODPECKER. patch under the eye, both of which were brown : the upper parts of the body and tail brown black, fparingly fpotted with white j the under parts wholly white : legs blue. Green Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 577. N" 25.— y/r belly, and vent, are rufous white, crofled with black bands : the back dirty reddifh grey : rump pale greenilh yellow, crofled with black bands : tail black ; the feathers remarkably ftiff, and the lliafts prominent : legs black. Inhabits Malacca. - '• ■■I 5'- +- THREE- TOED W. ,^. -a-, **WITH THREE TOES. , Three-toed Woodpecker, G(?w. 5y«. ii. p. 6co. N"5i. • Vicas xriA3.Q.)'\viS, Ceorgi Rei/e, ^. i6^. yX^E are informed, that this fpecies is found as low on the Eu- ropean continent as Woronejch on the river Z)(?», though in lefs plenty than the other kinds. The female is faid to have the crown white, where the male is red, and has more white about her in the other parts of the body *. In Sibiria it is almoft as common as other fpecies. Inhabits the parts about the Lake Baikal f . I have received feveral from HudJorCs Bayy which vary much in fizej the largeft is nine inches and three quarters in length. Some had the fides of the belly barred tranfverfely with black and white, others not : fome had the back plain black, in others it was fpotted with white j but all were probably of one fcx, as the heads were yellow. * Dtc, Riff. i. p. 100. ' t Georgi. Genus I 113 1 Genus XXII. J A C A M A R. N- 4. White-billed J. Paradife Jacamar, Gen. Sjn. ii. p. 605. N" 3. TN a colleflion of birds from Cayenne was one of thefe, which had the crown of the head brown, and the general colour of the plumage more dull than ufual. This was moft likely the fe^ male. CIZE fmaller than the Green Jacamar : length feven inches. The bill quite ftrait, fcarcely an inch and a half long, and white, except the bafe of the upper mandible, which is dufky.: on each fide of the noftrils are three or four ftiff bridles : the plu- mage on the upper parts of the body is deep glofly green : on the chin a triangular white fpot ; juft under the bill, within the fpot, pale rufous : the under parts of the body rufous, but deeper : the tail (hort, even at the end } the two middle feathers green, the others rufous : logs black. I met with this in the colledlion of the late Dr. Hunter, fup- pofed to have been brought from South America, PARADISE J. WHITE.BIL- LED J. Description. SuPPL. GlNUS 1. i rkWr '■lllpii PiiM' •' '.lit-' [ «H 3 1 2. CAPE K. 12. Var. D. SACRED K. Ge N vs XXIII. KINGSFISHER. N" 35. a. Amazonian K. Cape Kingsfifher, G^«. 5y». ii. p. 610. N»2. 'T'HIS, no doubt, inhabits China, as well as the Cape of Good HopCy as I met with a drawing of one among other Chinefe birds. The name given to it was Tye-tzoy. It likewife is a na- tive of Indiat as I have feen it painted in three different colledtions- of drawings from thence. • «fv»M K -. ti. ..'^ _ ■^T Sacred Kingsfilher, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 621. N» 12. A Further variety of this fpecies is faid to inhabit New Zew land. This has the crown of the head greenifh black; a ftreak over the eyes, whitifh before, greenifti behind : round the neck a white collar : back duflcy black : wing coverts pale green, with yellowifh edges : quills and tail black, edged with blue : the under parts of the body whitifh, tinged with dufky yellow on the bread : vent and under wing coverts very pale yellow. This is known at Neiv Zealand by the name of Poopoot whourob roa» The Kingsjijher at Otaheite and the Friendly JJles is called Koatc-O'00*» • Coei't LafiFoyage, Appendix. s •: ' t iiBlack. K I N G S F I S H E R, * \lTi* ■ ' 1*5 Var. C. BLACK-CAP- PED K. Descriftioit. Black-capped Kinisfifher, Ge/i. Syn^ ii. p. 624. N* 15, T EN GT H eleven inches. Bill four inches, colour a deep red : the head and all the upper parts of the body deep blue : wing coverts dulky black : quills the fame, with the inner webs of many white, and the tips of all black : the under parts of the body are white, running back at the lower part of the neck like a cref- cent : legs black. I met with this in the colleftion of the late Mr. Boddam, Ic appeared to me as a variety of my Bla^k-capped KingsjiJIjerj if not of a different fex. Common Kingsfifljer, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 626. N" 16.— ^r % a. AMAZONIAN K. jDescription. FlACI, CIZE of the Belted KingsfifieTi if not bigger: length thirteen inches. Bill three inches long, ftrait, and black ; the under mandible yellow at the bafe : upper parts of the body fhining green : chin, throat, and belly, white, pafllng backwards in a ring to the nape : fides of the body and over the thighs mottled with green : the bread is alfo clouded with the fame : quills fpot- ted with white : the two middle tail feathers are green j the others the fame, but darker, and fpotted on each fide of the web with white : legs black. Inhabits Cayenne. • Mr. Hutciifij. f Lafi Fey, ii. p. i^6. Genus 1 I [ "7 1 Gin us XXIV. NUTHATCH. N' 8. Black-headed N. 9. Lead N. N' 10. CapcN. II. Long-billed N. European Nuthatch, Gen, Syn. ii. p. 648. N"» i.^^Arii. Zoei, ii. p. 281 ? Sitta Europea, Brua. N»42. — Muller, p. 165. 'T^HIS bird is pretty common in Englandy but rather fcarce in France * j chough it extends pretty far north on the conti- nent, being met with in the forefts of Ruffiay Sibiria^ and Kamtf- chatka, as well as in Sweden, and Sondmor in Norway^ It alfo in- habits India f, I have been informed, that it has at times a kind of whiAle, fomewhat imitating that of & man, which may be heard at fome diftancej. I. EUROPEAN N. Nuthatch, Var. B. G;«. ^«. ii. p. 650. Black-headed Nuthatch, Jrff. Zool. ii. K* 171. T Believe this bird to be a diftind fpecies, and not a variety of the Common Nuthatch, as I once thought. Mr. Hutchins informs me, that one with a black head (proba- bly this fpecies), is not uncommon at Hudfon's Bay in fummer, re- tiring fouthward inwintenand is t\itrtc2\\tA Nemifcu-Apethayjhijh, The Hrfl word (ignifies thunder i and the bird fo named, as it is fuppofed to be mofl; noify before the approach of it. « • Dr. BrouJfoHct. f Lady Impefi drawings. J Rev. Dr. fVilgreft. 8. BLACK-HEAD. EDN. Nuthatch, " " ■;Si 1 1 i a: I ■^''^ xi8 LEAST NUT- HATCH. DiSCRIPTION. NUTHATCH. , Nuthatch, Var. C. Gen. Sjn.v, p.6$l. Left Nuthatch, ^r*?. Zff6/. ii. N<» 172. ^HE length of this mmute /pedes (for I find it to be diftindl) is only three inches and a half. The bill blueifli j the bafe of the under mandible pale : the head moufe- colour : upper parts of the body, and two middle tail feathers, cinereous j the others dufky black : the under parts of the body duflcy white. I met with feveral of the above at Mr. Humphries'z, of Long' Aire^ who received them in a coUeftion from "North America » 10. CAPE N. DiscRimoN. Place. Sitta cafFra, Spar. Muf. Carl/, pi. 4. T ENGTH nine inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, ftrait, blueifh black : the forehead, hind part of the neck, and back, are brown and yellow mixed : fides of the head, neck, breafl:, and under parts, dufky yellow; the tips and margins of the quills the fame : the tail feathers are ten in number i above duflcy black, beneath olive, and tiie tips duflcy yellow ; the two middle feathers longer than the others : legs black : claws yellow. \n\\2ib\i& i\\& Cape of Good Hope. 1 1. LONG-BILLED N. Description. m i^ '.I'Il:!.*! Place. T ENGTH eight inches. Bill above an inch in length, and black } the bafe pale, almofi: white : from the mouth to the eye a black line, and thence along the fides of the neck, which, with the cheeks and forehead, are vvhite : the crown, and whole of the upper parts of the body, and wings, very light blue grey : tips of the prime quills brown : belly pale tawny : legs pale brown. Inhabits Batavia. Defcribed from the drawings of Lady Impey. ' • Genus [ »9 ] :i Genus XXVI. B E E-E A T E R. N° 21. Coromandel B. E. « . , Common Bee-eater, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 667. N» i. Merops Apiafter, /■«««. ^r«^. p. 73. 'T^HIS bird is nowhere more frequent than in the fouthern la- titudes of RuJ/ta i chiefly about the Don, fVolga, and Jaick, Some are met with about Tobolfchi, on the Irtifchy though few or none farther in Sibiria. They are migratory, and firfl: feen about Woronefch, and neighbouring parts, about the 24th o( Jpril, com- ing in vaft floclcs i and make the neft in the clayey banks, which they perforate obliquely, to the depth of half a foot ; the entrance of the hole is large, but grows fmaller at the bottom ; and the hills are in many places fo full of them, that they appear like a honey-comb. The time of their departure into other countries is about the month of September^ b.?ing obferved by thoufands in their flight fouthward*. Thefe birds are obferved to come to Gibraltar in March, in fmall flocks, not exceeding three or four, and feldom reft more than a few hours : their note is a little whiftle, not unlike that of a Whijiling Duck. When the fun fliines upon them in their flight, they are a pieafing objedt, as they ap- pear gilded f . .• See Dtc» Rujjf, i. p. XQ-j.-^RuJ/ia^ vol. iv. p. 340, &c. f Col. Daviej,. *.\ , . ■ • t. +• COMMON B. E. i hi i! m y^,- t '-'• Indian t% mi 1 2d B E E-E A T E R. «' ■ ' 2, Var. D. Indian Bee-eater, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 670. N" 2. INDIAN B. E. T FIND this bird fubjed to great variety. One among the drawings of Lady Impey has a yellow forehead and a deep bluf throat } the reft as in the Indian fpecies. Thefe are not uncom mon in India, where they are often feen Hying to and fro> anc Teem fond o( plantanes. In the Britijh Mu/eum is alfo a bird not greatly differing : the general colour of the plumage pale green ; the under parts light- eft : forehead inclining to orange : chin and throat biack, mot- tled on each fide of the under jaw with an obfcure trac:? of blue : tail even at the end. This, perhaps, may be a young bird of the Indian Bee-eater^ which is ofcen feen in vaft flocks in India ; ar- riving the beginning of autumn. 18. YELLOW TUFTED B Moho, £■///■/ ATarr. ii. p. 15^. • E, T Believe the bird mentioned in Ellis'% Narrat' ve *, of the long tail feathers of which the natives of Sandwich IJlands make^- flapSi to be this very fpecies. He obferves, that the name of t:.e bird is Moho j and that the handle is not unfrequen'.ly made of an arm or leg bone of one of their enemie« flain in battle. "I. COROWANDEL B. E. Le Gi'.epier jaune de la Cote de Coromandel, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 213. pi. 119. Description. T> ILL black: irides pale rufous: head and hind pan of the neck pale yellow : from the bi.'l through the eye a ftrcak of • Vol. ii. p. 156.— -Cw^'; LaftVej, iii, p. uo. black; >' BEE-EATER. black, fiplfhing behind it: throat pale green : fore part of the neck, bread, and belly, greenifh yellow : fides of the neck deep yellow, undulated with greenifli blue : quills and tail deep yellow; all but the two middle feathers of the laft tipped with black : legs black. Inhabits the cosi^ q{ CoromajieieL 121 Flaci. , Suppi^^ G^ N us m l»- [ 122 ] • 4' It I Genus XXVII. HOOPOE. ■,;. •■ I. COMMON H. N* 9. Red-billed Pr. N" 10. Blue Pr. Common Hoopoe, Ge/i. Sjn. ii. p. 687. N° I. — Jrd. Zool. ii. p. 283. A. Upupaepops, Bruu. N'»43. — MulUr, N° 103. — Georgi Rei/e, p. \6^.-^Sepp Fog. pi. in p. \2g.—Faun. Arag, p. y^.'—K$lb, Cap. ii. p. 157. T B'^lieve the Hoopoe * to be met with, and even to breed in Eng' land, oftener than is generally fuppofed, as I have had them feveral times feat to me; and have been able to colle6t various in- ftances in fupporc of cbis opinion, which I can depend on, added to others of lefs certain authority; not that this bird is conftant in its migrations into this ifland, there being in fome years many to be met with; in others, few or none. The year 1783 feems tohave t ,n more abundant in thefe birds than any T have yet heard of; one of them being fhot near Orford, on the coaP of Suffolk, in May, and another feen ne.tr the fame place the 24th of June following : thefe, no doubt, had bred thereabouts. The place where thefe were feen was a remarkable barren fpot. In the month of Sep' iemler of the fame year two were (hot at Holdernefs, and many were f ^n in various other parts of Torkjhire, and as far north as Scotland^. One was (hot the loth o( September, ar Cam in Gloucejler- Jhire, another on Epping Foreji, and a third in Surrey. A few years fince, a pair had begun to make a neft in Hampjhire -, but being * In the Synopfis the tail by millake is faid to be white, marked with black; whereas it fhould have been exprcfled exaftiy the contrary. + Mr. Tunjiall, a ^ A too s Sx II O O P O E. too much dlfturbed, forfook ir, and went elfeuliere *. The lafl year, 1786, a young bird was iVnt to me, the loth of Mayy full fJedgtd, fliot near Southjlceti In Kcnf\ ; but the old birds had not been obfcrved. In Sepph plate of :he ncft of this bird, I find it placed in the hollow of a tree, compofed of foft bents, and fmooth within. The eggs four in number, of a blueilh white, marked with pale brown fpots. . I find this biid, though very common in the dcferts oiRuJJla and Tarlary, to be much more fcarce beyond the river Olf ; however, Ibme aie found beyond the Lake Baikal. Dr. Pallas confirms the account of the filthy manners of this fpecies, as he met with an inftance of a pair breeding in the privy of an uninhabited houfe in the fuburbs of 'Tzaritzhi \,. I am informed by Colonel Davies, that they every year are (een in Gibraltar in March, in finall flocks often or twelve; hence are called there March Cocks. They are fuppofed to come from Africa^ and to be on their pafiage north to fome other place, as they only ftay a few hours to red themfelves ; and it is not un- common to fee five or fix flocks in 1 week, during the time of their paflage. He did not obferve them to have any note j but that they had a dipping kind of flight, not unlike a Woodpecker, 1 have obferved this bird to be among paintings both from China and India \ it is therefore, no doubt, common to both thofe parts. • Mr. Tunjiall. + By Mr. Goidmt of that place. \ ArSl, ZoqU R 2 SIZE 113 • Vll n .ff;; vrym 1 ^ 124 II O O P O E. RED-BILLKD PROMEROl'S. Pl. ex. Description. 10. BLUE PR. DZSCKIPTION. C I Z E of the Hoopoe : length fifteen inches. Bill two inches and a half long, curved, as in that bird, but ftouter ; colour red ; noftrils oval, placed near the bafe. The head is pretty full of fea- thers, which do not lay fmooth, being fonnewhat difhevelled, as in fome of the Paradije Birds : the colour of the head, neck, breafl, and back, black, with a glofs, in fome lights of red, and in others of green : the belly velvet black : wing coverts black, glofled with green : quills and tail gloffy blue black : on the inner webs of the firfl: fix prime quills is an oval fpot of white, almoft an inch and a hiilf from the tip : ii "' is cuneiform ; the longed feathers eight inches, the fliorteU outer ones only three inches, in length ; tlie two middle ones are plain black throughout, the others marked with a fpot of white on each fide of the web, about an inch from the end ; thefe fpots are nearly oval in fliape, and placed obliquely, but not quite oppofite to each other ; the legs are an inch long, and flout, as are the toes, the outer one united to the middle pretty deeply ; the colour of the legs and toes red j the legs feathered half way down ; claws hooked, and black. This curious fpecies I firft faw in the colledion of the late Dutchefs Dowager of Pcrtlandy who informed me, that the per- fon file had it from reported it to have come from Africa. It is now in the pofi"cflion of Colonel Davies. Among the drawings C/f Captain Pater/on I likewife obferve a figure of this bird, differing only in having the bill dufky infl:ead of red. The drawing was made from a fpecimen met with in India, QiZE of the lafl : length twelve inches. Bill two inches Iong> ^ ftoutcr than in the Hoopoet and more curved, the colour black : genera! PL ex. W .h ' V'^'f M Fiilil^f 1 ^:-::! H it 1 i '?. r i 1 liiyil m HOOPOE. general colour of the plumage blue, paleft about the head and un- der parts of the body : the tail more than four inches long, and fomewliat cuneiform : legs pale lead-colour. I met with a reprefentationof this bird among the drawings of Captain Paierfon, and have been informed that it is a native of fome part of India, 125 I 1^ k'^ Genus rill' ' .*ir,!?p^f'. ;f I hm ■'if '-!1 y ! M [ •"-« 3 •|. I. 4- COMMON CR. Genus XXVIII. C R E F P E R. N' 50. SiHifF-colouredCr. 51. Afh-bellied Cr. 52. Indigo Cr. ^2- Blue-rumped Cr. 54. Yellow-bellied Cr. 55. Red-backed Cr. ^6. Orange-backed Cr. N" 5;-. Tufted Cr. 58. Ked-billfd Cr. 59. Yellow-winged Cr. 60. Long-billed Cr. 61. Barred-tail Cr, 62. Black-tailed Cr. Common Creeper, Ga/. Syn. ii. p. 698. N° i. — Jt<^. Zoo/, ii. N' 174. Certhia familiaris, Bru». p. iz.—~Muller, N'^ lOJ^.—Sepp Fog. pi. 111 p. 59. nPHIS is found, but very rarely, in theforefts o( Rujfta and Si- biria : is a conftant inhabitant oi Sweden y and extends as far north as Sondmor. A variety of this is found in North Jmericay which is confiderably larger. This country alfo contains the com- mon fort. GREAT HOOK- BILLED CR. Great Hook-billed Creeper, Gen, Syn. ii. p. 703. N" 3. nPHIS fpecies is common at Owbyheet and called by the natives Hoohoo *. ^^ Hook-billed Green Creeper, Gen. Sjn, ii. p. 703. N'4. 4-HOok.BILL- ED GREEN CR. nPHI'S is moft probably the bird that is called ztOwhyheCj Akaiearooa f. f Cook's Loft Voyage^ iii.p, iig. t U, ib. Polytmui, »jUf . CREEPER. Polytmus •, Bern. Phrji/i p. 76. pi, 2i O |UR people firfl: met with thefe birds at the ifland oi Atooi^ though they are common in all the Sandwich IJlands, where they are faid to be gregarious, though not met with alive by any of our people. Thofe with a variegated plumage are young birds. The general name for them is Eee-eve, though they called them at Atooit Heoro-taire f. African Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 717. N** 18. Br. Muf. EN GTH five inches and a half. Bill an inch and a quarter, moderately bent, and black : head, throat, and breafl, green, gloffed with copper bronze, appearing in fome lights purple : leffer wing coverts and back fine gilded green : tail coverts the fame, very long, reaching almofl: to the end of the tail : acrofs the breafl: a narrow band of vermilion, not glofly : belly and vent dufky black : the greater wing coverts and quills are brown, tinged with green : tail feathers the fame, fringed on the edges with green : legs black. inhabits Africa, I fufpeA this to be a mere variety of the African Creeper, * Our African Creepir, vol. ii. p. 717. A. is figured 1.1 the fame plate, and likewife called Polytmus. t ^ztCeek't Laji Foyaget ii, p. 207, 227,— iii. p. II9. andApp, Famoiw 127 4- HOOK-BIL- LED RED CR. 18. • Var. C. AFRICAN CR. Description. Plac t. mm W,y. 12^ CREEPER. "I' 21. FAMOUS CR. r *7- BLUE CR. Famous Creeper, Gen. Sjn. ii. p. 720. N" 21. A Specimen of this, in the col'.;6i:ion of the late Mr. Boddum, was called by the name of Sujar-Eird, BLACK AND BLUli CR. 29. CAYENNE CR. Black and Blue Creeper, Ccn. Syn. ii. p. 724. N" 26. A Specimen of this, in the colledion o( Mr. Green, o( Lamhetht was of a dirty green colour ; but the yellow markings on the wings the fame. Whether afemaley or a young bird, is uncer- tain. Blue Creeper, Gen. Sj/i. ii. p. 725. N" 27. /^ NE of thefe, in poflcflion of Mr. Jones, of Bermondjey, has the bill and legs red. Cayenne Creeper, Gen. Sjn. ii. p. 728. N° 29. T N the Leverian Mitfeum are two birds which I fufpeft to be va- rieties of this fpecics, or rather the young not arrived at perfedt plumage. The one meafures in length five inches : general co- lour of the plumage palifli green j the under parts lighteft, and marked with perpendicular ftreaks of white on the chin, throat, and bread : over the eye a pale ftreak, and beneath it one of black : quills and tail dark green, with pale edges. The other is not quite fo long: general colour of the plumage green : fides of the head, chin, and throat, as far as the breaft, daflied with per- pendicular green ftreaks : quills and tail darker than the reft of the plumage. Wall CREEPER. Wall Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 730. N" 32. , Certhia muraria. Faun. Jrag. p. 74. TPHIS is found in Spain, particularly zho\M J acca, in the pro- vince q( Arragorit where it is called Paxaco aranero. It has been obferved about the Caucaftan rocks in Afia, but not elfe- where in that neighbourhood. It feems, in every place where it has been yet found, to be a fcarce bird. Wattled Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 732. N* 34. ... TN the account o( Cook's laft voyage, after defcribing the bird, it is obferved that it was the only finging one found at TongO" taboo i and that it compenfated a good deal for the want of the notes of others by the ftrength and melody of its own, which fill the woods at dawn, in the evening, and at the breaking up of bad weather *. It is faid alfo to be found at others of the Friendljf Ifiesy and known by the nanne of Foulehaioo f . Mocking Creeper, G;». 5y«, ii. p. 735. N» 39. nPHE note of this fpecies is faid not to be uniikc that of the Pee Bird. Is found in greateft plenty in ^^en Charlotte's Sottndi 2iTi^ csWtdi t\itrt Negbo b^rra, ,. . — .. 129 "X 2 WALL crt. 54- WATTLED CR. i9' MOCKING CR. Ff- SNUFf-CO- T ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill au inch and a quar- loured cr. ter, not much bentj the colour a black brown: the head, DsscRiprioN, ^ Cook's Laft Fejage^ I, ^.I'i^ SUPFL. S t Id. Aff. neck, V i , .< ^ '■"■'4'c i' f !•■- -^^ M- ■ 1' ■ 1; I* '•if 1 i '•t r 'S ! i . 1 ■) IJO ASH-BELLIED CR. DlSCRlPTION. Place. 5»- INDIGO CR. Dbscriftion* Placi, CREEPER. neck, and back, are of a deep cinnamon, or fnuff- colour : beneatii the body green : under wing coverts yellow : the two middle tail feathers are double the length of the reft, being two inches and a half long; the others of a moderate length, even at the ends, and of a blackifti green colour: legs black. I met with a fpecimen of the above at the late Mr. Boddam's, Native place uncertain. Br.Mu/. T ENGTH five inches and a half. Bill fcarcc an inch long, and black : tongue bifid : top of the head green : the upper parts of the neck, body, and wings, pale olive green j the under very pale afh-colour : quills and tail brown, edged with green ; legs black. Inhabits Africa* Le Roflignol de Murallle des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 208^ CIZE of the Fig-eater, Bill black: irides rufous yellow: the top of the head, neck behind, the back, wings, and tail, are of a pale indigo blue : over the eye a white ftreak, and a fecond of black pafllng under the eye to the hind head : the throat is white ? the breaft, belly, and vent, rufous ; legs rufous yellow. Inhabits J//^/(7. It CREEPER. U' Le Grimpereau verd du Cap de B. Efperance, Sttt. Fey, hi. vol. ii, p. 208. pi. 116. f. 2. BLUE-RUMPED CR. CIZE of the Canary "Bird, Bill bent, and black: head, neck, Descmptiok. back, and wing coverts, light changeable green : quills and tail reddifh, or gloffy rufous : rump fky-blue : throat red : legs black* Inhabits the Cap of Good Hop^ and has an agreeable note. Place. Le Grimpereau de Malacca, Son. Voy. hd. vol. ii. p. 209. pi. 1 16. f. i. ■gIGGER than the lafl. Bill black : irides red : the forehead deep changeable green : behind the eye is a dirty greenifh band, pafllng half way down the fide of the neck, where it is rounded at the end ; parallel to, and beneath this, is a fecond, of gloHy violet, which arifes at the gape, and is continued on to the wing : the throat is red brown : the lefler* wing coverts vio- let, with a metalline glofsj the others the fame, inclining to red : the quills dirty brown : the back, rump, and tail, are changeable violet : breaft, belly, and thighs, yellow : legs brown. A flight variety of this is in the colleftion of Colonel Davies, Length four inches. Head, neck, and all above, violet purple : fides of the head, beneath the eyes, greenifh brown : chin and throat inclining to red : wing coverts, fcapulars, and rump, glofly violet purple : quills brown, edged with duflcy olive : tail black, edged with glofly purple : beneath, from the breafl:, yellow. . 54- YELLOW-BEL- LIED CR. DfSCRIPTION. S 2 Xi« ai'iiir lip v'% ;?'lX \ :■? ^ 't i i' "I: I 1 ija 55- RED-BACKED CR. BiSCRIPTXON, CREEPER. Le Grimpereau a Dos rouge de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. vol, ii. p. 209, pi. 117. f. I. nPHIS is probably thclcaft of its race, being only three inches in length. The bill is a trifle bent-, and black : irides red : the top of the head, hind neck, back, and rump, are crimfon : from the nodrils a biack band paiTes through the eye to the wing: the throat, breatt, and belJy, are rufous white : the wing coverts dark green, almoft black : quills, tail, and legs, black. A fpeci- men is in the coliedlion of Sir Jofe^ph Banks^ which came from Chins, I obferve it alfo among the Indian drawings of Lady Impey, ^ 56. ORANGE- BACKED CR. Dbscriftion. P&ACI. Le Grimpereau fiiHeur de la Chine, Son. Fey* Ind. vol. ii. p. 210. pi. 117. fi 2. • ■ • '"^ .'' CIZE of the laft. Bill and irides the fame : the upper parts of •the plumage arc blue-grey : throat and fore part of the neck the fame, but paler : on the upper part of the back is a fpot of orange yellow : the ^>reaft and belly arc alfo orange yellow : the vent pale yellow : legs black. Inhabits China, ' 57- TUFTED Ck. DiSCRIVTION. Flacs> T ENGTH four inches. Bill black, incurvated : headi necft, and back, deep olive ; the feathers edged with duiky : prime quills brown : belly and tail black : on each fide of the breaft a tuft c' yellow feathers: legs black, . Inhabits BingaU SIZE CREEPER. C IZE very fmall j length fcarcely more than three inches. Bill red, tipped with black : crown of the head,, part of the neck, and back, olive : bread and belly white : wings, tail, and legs, diiflcy. Inhabits India, • «33 S8. RED-BILLED CR. DseeRiPTioif. Place. C I Z E fmall. Bill black : head and neck varied with duflcy and gold : tongue long, capable of being darted into flowers, like that of a Humming Bird : wing covcfti of a fine yellow: quills, tail, and legs, black. Inhabits Bengal, 59- YELLOW- WINGED CR. Description.^ Plack.' 60. CR. DlSCRIPTIOK^ TPOIAL length five inches. Bill an inch and a half: tongue LONG-BILLED long and miflile, as in the lafl; defcribed : crown and hind part of the neck light green : back, wings, and tail, dufky, edged with o'Ve green : fore part of the neck and breaft white : belly and vent pale yellow : legs blueifli. Inhabits Bengal, I am indebted to the drawings of Lady lm~ fey for the four lafl: defcribed. PliA«E. Le Grlirpereau gns de la Chine, Sen. Vey, lit J. vol. ii. p. 210. pi. 117. f. 3. 6j. BARRED-TAIL CR. CIZE of a Titmouje. Bill yellow ; the top of the head, neck, back, and wings, are cinereous grey : throat, breaft, and belly, B**«***'»'»«'*' very pale rufous : quills dirty brown : tail compofcd of ten fea- thers, and cuneiform in fliape j the two middle ones are brown, p Fcg. pi, in p. z^.—Faun. Arag. p. 84. INHABITS Europe^ as high as Salteny in the diocefe o( Bron- theimy in Norway ; and in great numbers in Nafne Helgeland^ in FeroCy and in Iceland*. In the north oi England is called Chepjlevj and Chep-Starling f . 4- COMMON STARE. Ir/'iJ Silk Stare, Gf«. 5jk. iii. ].. (o. N" 8. 8. SILK bTARE. T ENGTH eight inches. Bill purplifh red, the end dufky : Description, the whole head and fore part of the neck yellowifli white, in- Male. clintd to dufky on the crown : upper part of the body fine pale adi-colour : wings and tail glofly black j bafe of the quills white, forming a fpot on the outer part of the wing: baftard wing white: tail two inches and a half long, even at the end : the under parts of the body of the fame colour as the upper, but paler, and ap- proaching to white at the vent : legs reddi-lh, or pale yellow. The female is brown where the male is black : the crown of the Fkmalb. head is black J forehead mixed black and white; fides of the head and behind the eye white : the back as in the male : wings glofTy ♦ Ara.ZoQU t Mr. Tunjiall, SuPPL, brown, ^h •i ,.' 'i \i : 4 '■It Ml> ■■t'-i ; »3» PlACE, STARE. brown, inclining to afh-colour; bafe of the quills not white: rump white : tail as the quills, the tips of the feathers white for a quarter of an inch, but deeper on the inner webs j the outer feather plain : legs brown. I met with both the above in the colledion of Sir Jofepb Banks, who received them, about two years fince, from China. Mr, 1'unjiall informs me, that he had a male bird a confiderable time alive in his memgeryy and that it had all the aftions of the com- mon Starling, Genus P'-ii [ >39 1 Genus XXXI. THRUSH. N* 17.3. Mnrgined Thr. 124. Hudfonian Thr. 125. New York Thr. 126. Gingi Thr. N" 127. Perfian Thr. 128. L iuma Thr. 129. Orange-headed Thr, 130. Black and Scarlet Thr. Throftle, Gen. Sjn. iii. p. i%.—Ara. Zool. ii. p. 342. C. Turdus muficus. Faun. Arag. p. 85. Turdus iliacus minor, Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 23. 1 N the north is fometimes heard to fing in the month of Decem- ber *. Little Thrufli, Gen. Sy», iii. p. 20. N*5.— ^r- WHITE-TAIL- ED THR. THRUSH. fixj and, when difturbed, fly out of a hedge, one by one, making a chattering noife, whereby the obferving ornithologin-will eafily diftinguifli them from Blackbirds, One killed in Sepiember laft had its craw full oi hawthorn berries. Water Ouzel, Gen. Syn. uk p. 48. N" 50.— -/^r<7. Zm/. ii. p. 332. B. Sturnuscindus, Faun. Arag. p. i/^—Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 25. p^OUND in £«rc/>^, as high as Feroe Sind Finmark * -, in the Ruffian empire, as far as Kar'tfchatka ; in Chrijiianfoe and Norway j alfo in Jutland; but only in the winter feafon-f. White-tailed Thrufli, Gen. Syn. iii.. p.49. N« 51. pi. 38. Corvus totus niger et redricibus baft albis. Faun. Arag. p. 72. 'y HIS fpecies is found in Aragonia, in Spain, 5?.. ROSE-CO- LOURED THR. Rofe. coloured Thrufli, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 50. N" 52.— ^r'!f ' ' i. I r\ ■ 144 Place, THRUSH. verts, an.i primaries, more or lefs edged with pale chefnut : coverts o:^ the tail of the fame colour j the tail itfeif deep alh, rounded a i: the end : legs black. * " Inhobirs IJudfon's Bay. — I was favoured with a fpeciir.en from the fame place by Mr. Ilutchins. II ' NEW YORK THR. - Description. Place. 176. GINGI THR. Descript. )N. pLACri New York Thrufh, ^rd. Zool. N" 205. CIZE v>f our Blackbird. Bill dufky, ftrong ; length of it half an inch: head, neck, and breal, mottled with light ruft-colou' and black : back very plofly, and the edges of the feathers ferru- ginous : from the bill, above and beneath each eye, extends to the hind part of the head a band of Iilack : bel'y duiky : wings and tail black, glofled with green : tail ;ounded : legs black. Appears in the province o( New Tork the latter end q( O£ioher, in its way from its more noiihtin breeding place. Le potk Martin dc Gingi, Son. T'oy. InJ. ii. p. 194. CIZE of a Thrujlo. Bill yellow : irides red : head black, and a little crefled : from the baf-* of the upper tnandible a bare yel- low fpace, which reaches beyond the eye : the neck, back, rump, and belly, are grey : wing coverts and fecond quills greenifli ; the greater ones have the bafe half pale rufous, from thence to the end black : the tail black, the ends rufous j this luft colour df epeft on the outer fca.hers : the under coverts pale rufous : legs yel- low. inhabits the coali o{ ConmandeL BIGGER THRUSH. »45 Dbscription, T> IGGER than the EngUflj Blackbird, but not unlike it : length p^j^gj^-J ^j_j^ eleven inches. Bill an inch and a half long, orange-colour, rather ftouter than in the Blackbird^ and a trifle more bent ; tlie bafe befet with a few hairs : general colour of the plumage black: beneath the eye a white dot : wings brown : primaries black : belly and vent afh-colour : tail even at the end, two inches and a half long : legs and claws dull yellow. Defcribed from the drawings of Lady Impey ; faid to have come from Per/ia, It is ranked among the finging birds. Place, ■piLL dufky : cheeks white : crown, hind parts of the neck, and back, brown, marked with curved black fpots : leflTer wing coverts black, chequered with white *• outmoft primary black i the reft of them rufty brown, t-pped with afh: fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, white, barred with curved black marks : tail duflcy : legs yellowifli. Inhabits /;;47 1 Genus XXXIIL C O L Y. N» 6. Green C. N" 7. Indian C. 6. GREEN C. OiZE of the Redwing Thrujh: length more than twelve inches. Bill black : forehead, and edges of the eyelids, covered with Description black velvet-like feathers : whole plumage of a deep glofly green : quills and tail dufky j the laft cuneiform, and feven inches and a quarter in length. Inhabits "New Holland, — Communicated by Mr. Pennant. Place. T ENGTH fourteen inches. Bill black j bafc of both mandi- bles of a dull red : ths lore, and afpaceround the eye, of the fame colour : the crown of the head and hind part of the neck pale cinereous grey : forehead and chin yellow : fides, front of the neck, and all beneath, pale rufous, palell at the vent : back, wings, and tail, cinereous lead colour ; the laft greatly cuneiform in ihape, and feven inches in length : legs red : claws black. Inhabits India» From the drawings of Captain Pater/on, INDIAN c. Description. m m mi i..: * '; ,\ p Tlacx. > vh U 2 G£KUS 1 1 ^r'-i ■' ) >\ 1 'M [ '48 3 •It: ::.r .1 11 1 2. 4- WHITE- WINGED CROSSBILL. Genus XXXIV. GROSBEAK. N" 86. Alh-headed Gr. 87. Eaftern Gr. N" 88. Flamingo Gr. 89. Totty Gr. White-winged Crofsbill, Gen. Syn, iii. p. 108. N" 2. Crofsbill, Ar/i. Zoo/, ii. N» 208. "VTR. Hutchins informs me, that zCrofsbill, which is moH: likely this fort, comes to Hudfon's Bay in March \ and in May builds a neft of grafs, mud, and feathers, generally about half way up a pine-tree^ and lays five white eggs, marked with yeliowifh fpots. The young fly about the end of June. It (lays till the end 0^ November i after which it difappears; fuppofed to retire in- land. It is known there by the name oi ^fitchou Achajhijh, HAWFINCH. Hawfinch, Gen. Sjin. iii. p. 109. N" 4.— i^rJ?. Zool. ii. p. 354. C.^ Loxia coccothrauftes. Faun. Jrag, p. i^.'^Sepp Fog, pi. in p. 137. T N Sepp^?, figure of the nejl^ of this bird, it appears to be of a very loofe texture, and carelefsly made. It is placed on aa oak* The eggs of a pale pui^le, fpottcd with brown. Pll^i EGR. I I Pine Grofbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 1 1 1. N" 5.— u^r<7. Zoo!, ii. N" 209. npHIS fpecies inhabits North /Imerica : not unfrequent at Hud' fon*s Bay from /^pril to September, frequenting the groves of pines sind jumpers ; makes a neft in the trees, in May, with flicks^ lined GROSBEAK. 149 lined with feathers, at a fmall height from the ground. The eggs arc four in number, and white. The young are hatched the mid- dle of June, Though this bird, when adult, is beautiful in co- lour, the young brood for fome time remain of a plain dull blue. The natives of the Bay call it Wufcunithow *. Mr. Pennant obferves, that he has feen them in the pine forefts, near InvercauU, in the county of /Aberdeen, in Scotland, in the month of Auguji i and therefore fufpects that they breed there -f. Cape Grofbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 1 13. N"* 7. A/JR. Sparrman, in his voyage, after talking of being treated with a rare and delicate difh of brcilcd Sparro''JL's (Loxia ca- penftSj Lin.X) adus, that they do much damage to the com fields ; and that at the approach of fummer, they always ciunge their yellow for a blood-red hue. Goldbacked Grolbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 115. N" g. 4- CAPE GR. M R. Tunftall informs me, that he has two or three times been in poflefllon of this fpecies, and in particular had once a pair of them together. The female was of a dark, brown. The cocks changed twice in a year, and in winter were nearly of the co- lour of the hens. One of the cocks lived nine or ten years, and died not long fince. Neither of them had what could be called a fong. ♦ Mr. Hutchiiu. t ■^''^' 2ool. X Voy. \. p. 174.— Should not tliis rather be Loxia erix, Lin. which is of a beautiful red colour in fummer, and of a plain alh-colour in the winter fcafn \ } f Cardinal GOLD-PACKED GR. . 1 Iv" ^■.'' si> "■■ i f'Wi' * f ■ mm'-, ttl ." ' " ' EMS jM i lp:iW i| ^1 - 1':^ llii^ m ■-' I Mt ( .'! ! i, i X50 13- CARDINAL GR. GROSBEAK. Cardinal Grofbeak, Gen. Syti. ili. p. 1 18. N" 13.— ^r<3. Z<:o/. ii. N'^ 210. A Relation of Mr. Tunjlall's had a pair of thefe birds, which built a neft in an orange tree placed in the aviary, and laid eggs J but while the hen was fitting, an high wind blew down the neft, whereby the eggs were broke: young birds were found in them. '5- MADAGASCAR GR. Madagafcar Grofbeak, Gcw. 5y«. iii. p. 119. N° 15. npH IS beautiful fpecies inhabits India : but in the drawings of Lady Impey, which afcertain the circumftance, the bill is white : the head, neck, back, breaft, and belly, are of a full crimfon : the greater part of the wings and tail brown. Whereas, in that defcribed by Brijfon*, the middle of each feather of the back is dafhed with brown, and a black mark between the bill and eye. It is known in India by the name of the CommonTotty, 19. PARADISE GR. Faradife Grolbeak, G«n. fjrn. iii. p. 122. No 14. TVTR. Tunjlall has twice been fucccfsful in hatching young ones of this fpecies in his aviary, each time bringing one to per* feflion. One of them lived a week, the other a fortnight; but they were forfaken by the mother at laft i fuppofed to have hap- pened from being too much difturbed. While the hen was fit- ting, if any one looked on her, it threw her into ftrange agita- tion, writhing herfelf into a form almofl: horrid, and Teeming to • Vol. iii. p. 112. be \ GROSBEAK. be falling into convulfions. The cock frequently fang, and would do it alnnoft at comnnand, but in fo low a note, as fcarce to be heard, except quite clofe to the cage. Dominican Grofbeak, Gen. Syn. Hi. p 123. N" 20. T With pleafure give way to the fentiments of my attentive friend Mr. Tunjlalli when he informs me, that he has had both the Dominican and Crejled Grofbeak in his pofleflion, and is of opinion that they are feparate fpecies. Of the firft, he has had feveral, fome of which have lived many years, but never could afcertain the cocks from the hens ; nor did any of them attempt to fing in the lead. As to the Crejled onCf it feemed to differ both in manners and fize, and is a much fcarcer bird j never more than three known at the time he had his. It lived with him at lead fourteen years, and appeared worn out with age, and died in the time of moult. It now and then called out, but never had what might be termed t^fong, Java Grofbeak, Gen. Sjn. iii. p. 1 29.. N" 29. T HAVE my fufpicions, that the want of white on the cheeks is not the charafleriftic mark o( the femalcy but is more probably the effedl of immature age, as I met lately with a number of thefc in a cage jufl: imported, wherein the ufual white fpace on the cheeks was mottled brown and white, appearing as if in the change towards perfcftion. Mr. 'Tunjiall has alfo obferved a fi- milar circumdance in a bird in his own colledlion. Greeu- »5' DOMINICAN GR. 29. JAVA GR, f'WM m , 'S'Ji^* ' 'i^ r'T % iii ;,; 11 1 !■ 'f. tfifll ( '■ ,■ fjj^' \ *■■ ' J% Inii i'\ 1 ' ■f' i Wi''H, '■ M mM it j^M 152 GROSBEAK. greUn gr. Green Grodjeak, Gen, Syn. iii. p. 134. N» 36. Loxia Chloris, Ihun. N" 242, 243.— /'«.■«. iii. p. 141. Var. A. T N H AB IT S India : known there by the name of MunguL BULFINCtf. Bulfinch, Gf». 5y«. iii. p. 143. N°5i. Loxia pyrrhula, Faun. Arag. p. ^S.^-Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 133. nRUNNICH * mentions two varieties, the one larger than the •^ other. Mr. Tmfiall has feveral times attempted to breed thefe birds, but did not fucceed ; the cock^ for the moft part, falling a vidlim io the fury of his mate. Gi. THICK- BILLED GR. Thick-billed Groflieak, Gen. Syn.xix. p. 148. N« 61. TN the Leverian Mujeum is a bird anfwering to this defcrlption, with the addition of a beautiful crimfon crown, indented on the back part, not unlike that of the Blue-hacked Manakin\* • 0/7/. p. 67, f Sjn, vol.iv. p. 520, Hamburgh GROSBEAK. >^3 64. HAMBURGH GR. Hamburgh Grofbeak, Gen. Sjn. iii. p. 149. N* 64. XpROM the information given me, concerning this bird, by Mr. Tunjially I have good reafon to fuppofe it nothing elfe than our Mountain or 'Tree Finch. The above gentleman, inquifi- live to know what this bird really was, fcnt on purpofe to a friend at Hamburgh for a fpecimen j when, to his aftonifhment, the bird fent proved no other than the free Sparrow ; nor could he learn that any other, more likely to prove the bird in queftion, which he meant to have, exided thereabouts ; and, to fay the truth, the defcriptions of both agree greatly upon paper, however Brijfon and Albin may have thought to the contrary. Black-bellied Grolbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 155. N»75. T DO not recoiled feeing this bird, except in Mr. Tunjlall's col- leftion. He informs me, that it lived with him for Ibme time, and moulted twice in a year. In winter it was brown. Afiatic Grofteak, C«. 5>'«. iii, p. 155. N" 76. »g_ Var.'a. J ENGTH fcven inches. Bill (lout, a little bentj the colour ASIATIC GR. rcddifh orange, with a dulky point : irides red : the whole of Description. the head is black : the upper part of the neck, body, and Icfler wing coverts, blueilh afti-colour ; beneath, afli-colour, but paler, inclining to orange under the wings : the greater wing coverts, quills, and tail, black ; the la(l forked in fliape ; the prime quills, fecondaries, and two of the middle tail feathers, tipped with white : legs red. • SuppL. X Dcfcribed 75- ELACK-BEL- LIED GR. ■LI 1 i * 1 !• 1 : ; t »54 Plack. 77- BROWN- CHEEKED GR. GROSBEAK. Defcribed from fome fine drawings done in Cbinay in poffcfTion of Sir jfc/epb Banks, Brown-cheeked Groibeak, Gen. Sjit. iii. p. 155. N' 77. ^nC^AS in the fame colleftion with the lafl but one, for fome time. It proved a very lively pretty bird, but was not ob- ferved to change the colour of the plumage at any feafon. 80. FASCIATED GR. Fafciated Grolbeak, Gea, Sj/n. iii. p. 156. N» 80. nnHE bird here mentioned was alive, in the poflcflion of Mr. Tunjiallf for a confiderable time j after which he prefent- ed it to a friend. I never heard of a fecond fpecimen in any col- ledtion. 84. DWARF GR. Dwarf Grolbeak, Gen. Sjn. iii. p. 158. N" 84. Loxia minima, 'facq. Vcg. p. 28. N* 13. Lt'v. Muf. npHIS is a common bird both in India and China. I have ob- ferved the following differences : One in the Leverian Mufeunit three jnches and a half in length. The general colour olive brown : the under parts cinereous white : between the bill and eye yellowifh, as is the edge of the wing : bill and legs black. In a fecond, in Lady Impey's drawings, the body and tail are brown : rump, brcaft, and belly, white : bill dulky : legs very pale. 2 SIZE. GROSBEAK. »5S 85. gIZE fmall. Bill blue; head and neck flaty afh-colour: ASH-HEADED back, wings, and tail, dufkyi the laft tipped with white: dbscriptiok. breaft and belly dirty white : legs blue. Inhabits /«^;^.— Lady Impey. • , Placb. 87. CIZE of the Cowry Grojheak : length fix inches. Bill dufky, EASTERN GR. fhort, and (lout, as \x\ x.\{t Bulfinth : head, neck, and back, red DEscRiPTiort* brown ; beneath, from the breaft, vvhite, undulated with dulky : vent yellowifli : tail pale reddifli afli-colour : legs dufky. I met with this among fome drawings from the Eajly in the col- Place. leftion of Mrs. Wheeler i but whether inhabiting India or China, it was not certain. w m f, £.,; I ,-, -it J" ■ J • > Loxia Flamengo, Sfamtm, Muf. Carl/, pi. 17. it. FLAMINGO GR. "D ILL. reddilh, furroundedat the bafe with feathers tipped with DiscRiPTioWi black : forehead and fpace round the eyes white: the reft of the head above fine r oje- colour : fides of the head and neck the fame, but deeper : fore part of the neck, bread, and belly, pale ro/e-colour : the third and fourth quills black : the tips of the iov/er order of wing coverts duficy, forming a bar of the fame on the wing : on the rump a fpot of black : the upper furfice of the tail pale foot-colour : the reft of the body, viz. back, thighs, un- der part of the tail, and the reft of the wing, white: legs fangui- neous. This is faid to be of the fizeand ftature of the Bulfincb, and the probability of its being a variety of that bird is likewife hinted : X a but •iS '1 1 Km , 1 f ' , ^ i ; 89. TOTTY GR. Description. PLACt. I , GROSBEAK.. but as the figure in the plate is of the natural fize, and meafure* very little fhort of eight inches in length, it can fcarcely be a va- riety of the Bulfinchi which does not meafure fix. This fpecimca was caught at Upjalj in Swedent alive, and was kept a whole year in a cage, but did not alter the colour during the time of its con- finement. Loxia totta, Sparrm, Mu/. Carl/, pi. i9. T ENGTH four inches. Bill nearly white: forehead greenifli. brown : the crown of the head, hind part of the neck, fpace between the fhoulders, and upper wing coverts, teftaceous brown : the under parts of the body browni(h white : the quills and tail black, and all the feathers of both tipped with white j the tail a, trifle forked at the end : fhins yellowifh : feet black. Found in the Hottentots countfy, in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope. It is met with alfo in Indiay as I find it, with very little difference, among the drawings of L.2idy Jmpey. It is known in the lad place by the name of Totty. Genus [ 157 1 Genus XXXV. BUNTING. N° 64. Maelby B. N' 6$. Gaur B. Snow Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. p. l6l. N* l.— -^r>t3jlli'/^ !'• Read Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 173. N" g.—Ar!i. Zool. ii. p. 368. E. Emberiza fchacniclus, Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 8. 'T'HIS is common in the fouth o( Rujfta and Sibiria. I fliould fuppofe that ic varies the method of placing the neft : it is ufually REED B. \:9\ , f; - .' « «i« S U N T I N G. ufually faftened to four reeds-, but in Se;pp's plate it is in the fork of a tree near the ground. 1 .11 ' i 3?' BLACK- TlIROATIiD B. PtACE. Black-throatedBuntlni;, Gen', iyn, ill. p. 197. l'" 37. pi. 44.— ^r*?. Zaol, N"228. pi. 17. A Bird was defcribed to me by Mr. h'ui'.rinsy verv" fmilar to this, if not the fame. The length feven inches and a half j breadth thirteen and a half) weight from ten drams to thirteen and a half, Troy. Bill black : forehead yellowifh, paffing over the eye in a (Ireak : between the bill and eye black, pafllng be- neath the eye, and ending in a patch below the ear : above the forehead a black crefcent, the horns turning backwards : crown and upper parts of the plumage brown : quills tipped with white : tail coverts reddiih brown : the tv middle tail feathers brown j the three next on each fide black, edged with pale brown at the tip J the next white on the outer web; and the outer one white, both the outer web and tip : the throat is yellow, with a triangu- lar mark of black in the middle : belly and vent blueilh white : lerrs black. This frequents Hudfotis Bay, where it is called Oiitatapafeu. Its note at all times merely a chirp. It builds there, making the neft on the ground j and lays four or five white eggs, fpotted with black. It appears at times in fmall flocks, ofcen accompanying the Geefe j and at other times fccn W'th the Snow Buntings^ Vhite BUNTING. Whlte-crowncd Buntiii^, Gen. Syn, Hi. p. 200. N" 44.— y^r*?. Zool. ii. N^iir ^S9 44. WHITE. 'pHIS bird is called at Hudfon's Bay by the name oi Cujabata- CROWNED B. fljip. It has a melodious fbng when perched, but in flight it is filent*. Black-crowned Bunting, Gtn. Syn. iii. p. 202. N" ^(j.—Ar/l. Zee/, ii. N" 230. TN Cook's lad voyage f, I find an obfervation concerning fhis bird, viz. that the ma/e was bla.i' on the upper part of the breafl : that ihe female had alio black on the breall, but no fpot of yellow on the crown. Cinereous Bunting, Var. C<.n. Syn, iii. p. 204. K" ^.—Jr3. ZeoJ. N''23j. 49. BLACK- CROWNED B. 5' Vak. \, KE bill in this bird is yellow : head, back, and wings, rufl:- CINKREoUS B coloured, each feather deeply and elegantly edged with pale l^E!'«*ii'Ti jn. grey : fome of the greater coverts edged with paler rud} prima- ries and tertials with white : throat, bread, and fides, white, fully fpotted with ruft : middle of the belly white: middle feathers of the tail brown ; exterior white, each feather truncated obliquely. Inhj;bits Netv Tork, Pr,Ac» Painted Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 206. N? 54. — ArS. Zool. n. N* 226. T HAVE hitherto doubted that this bird had bred in England -f but Mr. Tunjiali ^({urcs mc to the contrary. Two pairs have PAINTED C. Mr. Hut (hi US t + Vol.ii. p. 379. niadc 1 1 , ' If ^ 1.; iy;'' 1 •1 V i ^'' iN • ^ ■ If- ! i I'tll ^ %%i\ \ I'jfio HUNTING. made nefts and laid eggs in the orangc-trces, in a menagery of a relation of his, at lloldernej's^ in Torkjlme-, but in this inftance the young were not hatched. The above gentleman has kept many, but Teems to think that they gain thetr full plumage fooner than the third year. MAELBY B. Descriptiok. 6^ CiAL'R B. jJk'SC RIPTJOM, Pi. A C F , 'm Emberiza maclbycnfis. Span: Muf. Cart/. N" 21. C I Z E of a Te/Ioivbammcr. Bill and legs pale rufous : the eye- lids, fpot between the bill and eye, the chin, upper part of the throat, and fides of the neck and veni, dufky white : forehead, crown, lower part of the neck before, and upper part of the breaft:, blueifh afli-colour : lower part of the brcafl-, belly, and thighs, fer- ruginous: back ferruginous, marked with acute black fpots : wing coverts black, edged with ferruginous : under wing coverts brimdone : quills duflcy, with pale ferruginous margins : tail fea- thers ten in number, black ; the four outer ones, half way from the tips, white, the outer margins black. The above was met with in Sweden, at Maelbj, a feat of Count Carlfon, in Sodermanlaiid*, OIZP' fmall : length four inches and a half. Bill pale rofe-co- lour : head, neck, back, bread, and belly, cinereous, palcfl beneath : wings and tail brown, with paler edges : legs pale blue. inhabits tiic Enjl Indies, and is called Gaur^ — Lady lmp!y, * I have my doubts whether this is not related to our Pnii Buntitg, Syncpjii, voJ. iii. p. J03. N» 5c. being a t'cmalt-, or young bi-rd, of that Ipecicf. 7 Genus I i6i ] Genus XXXVI. T A N A G E R. N* 45. Capital T. Olive Tanager, Gen. Sj». iii. p. 2 18. N''4. — Jrtfi. Zool. ii. N» 237. Lc-v. Mil/. OLIVET. Var. A. ENGTH fix inches. Bill black : upper parts of the olive Description. ciiim'set. green : beneath, as far as the upper part of the belly, of a fine yellow : lower belly and vent white : from the bill, pafllng over the eye, a ftreak of white ; and a fecond in the direftion of the lower jaw : tail longifii, and even at the end : legs black. The native place of the above is uncertain j but I fufpe6l it to be a mere variety of the Olive Manager, Chinefe Tanager, G<». Sjn. iii. p. 2*9. N" 23. Chinefe Finch, Gtn. Syn. p. 277 ? T MUCH fufped that the bird dcfcribcd by this nannc is no other than the female of my Chinefe Finch ; but as the bill in Colonel Davies's fpecimen feems to be that of a Tanager^ I fliould thin'' it better to range what is faid in boih places under thiJi genus* Rufous- throated Tanapcr, Grtt. Syn. iii, p. 241. N'* 37. 3"- I I'l.C'XTl. i l-Xj. '' d [■] u 1 ' , l M^ f 1 aH^i)Ht fl il'H *' ' iff '( "^It \ t if i: \ n I 1 P^B tJ I V. «;.! [ 1^3 I Genus XXXVII. FINCH. N* 97. Yellow-throated F. 98. Lovely F. 99. Carthagcna F. 100. Imperial F. N* Id. Okcr F. 102. Tcftaceous F. 103. Rufty-colourcd F, 104. Nootka F. Houfe Sparrow, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 248. N" i.—/in1. Zcoi ii. p. 382. G. Fringilla domeftica, Brun. N" 264, 26^,— Sepp Fog. pi. in p. -j-j.-^Faun, Arag, p. 87. TYLACK Sparrows are not uncommon, but all which I have feen have been of a dull colour. Mr. Tunjiall mentions one which came under his infpe(5lion, which was of as deep and gloflfy a black as that of a Crow. Mr. Sparrman, in his account of the Carlfonian Mujeutity defcribes a Finch • which was wholly white, the bill and legs not excepted. This was probably a white Houfe SparroWt though he fays that the bill was fomewhat larger in pro- portion. Tree Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 252. N" i.-^Ar^. Ztol, ii. N*' 246. Fringilla montana, Sepp Fog. pi, in p. 79, '■PHE neft in the above author is placed in the hollow of a tree, compofed of bents, mixed with a few feathers. The eggs five in number, of a pale brown, marked with fpots of deep brown. • N» 20. 4- HOUSE SPARROW. 1v •f-TREE FINCH. Yfl Mr. ■»;' •■ I "W^^wt" pti :.' > fir':. ' * rifM ,;. <> 164 Place* BLACK. FACED F. Plack. FINCH. Mr. Hutchim informs me, that tliis bird, or one greatly fimi' lar, comes into Hudfon's Bay in y^prily and departs in September, Is called by the Nepetherway Indians, Nepin apetbaftjb. He thinks it not unlikely, that my Mountain Finch, N" 16 *, may be the fame fpecies. His bird differs fomewhat in the placing, as well as the conftrudkion, of the neft ; for it is made on the ground among iht grafs, and compofcd of mud without, znd Jiraw with- in, lined with fofc hair or down* The eggs are the fame in num- ber and colour* Black- faced Finch, Gen. Sjn. iii. p. 253. N» 3.— ^-,^7. Zetl, ii. N» 255. ^T'HE circumftancc of the fecond figure, mPl. Enl, 181, being female to the other in the fame plate, feems to be doubted by Mr. Pennant f. The fuppofed female is certainly found in Carolina \ the other probably only inhabits Cayenne, I am the lefs capable of judging, as neither of the birds in queflion has come under my infpedtion. RING SPAR. ROW. Ring Sparrow, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 254. N»4. Jk^R. Tunflall informs me, that he had thefc birds living for fome time, but never could find that they had any cry or note. The ring on the breads of fome was much brighter than in others, and probably fuch were the male birds. * See obfervations on the above bird in jirff. Zotl, vol. ii. p. 373. t jiriF. Zoo/. ■SI Chaffinch, F I N c n. ,6s Chaflinch, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 257. N» 10.— •///• fog. pi. in p. 141.— ffl««. ^ra^. p. 87. 'T'HE Chaffinch is foinetimcs feen with coal-black legs, fuch an one being fhot near London *. Called by fomc, in the north of England^ White Linnet and Flax-Finch i by others, Spink f, from ics ay. Glofly Finch, G^». 5>«. iii. p. 267. N»2i. Var. A. Fringilla i£thiops, y"*"?* ^'Itf' P- '°* N"?' id. ■CHAFFINCH, 31. Var. a. SIZE and (hapeof a Chaffinch. The irides of a rufous colour : ^ * ■*' Description. the whole plunnage, without exception, of a deep black. This is found in the woods of Carthagena. Its note very weak j Place and Man. and CO produce it, requires great exertion, as the head feathers, ''"'^*' during the time of Tinging, as well as thofe of the neck, appear ered. It feeds on fruits and feeds, is eafily tamed, and when in a cage will eat bread. Ii k:^}- > Cowpen Finch, Gtu, Sjh. iii. p. 269. N"» 2\.—ArS. Zoo/, ii. N» 241. 24. COWPEN F. 'T'HE defcription in the /ir^ic Zoology fays, that the male has the Djscription head and neck duflcy brown : back, wings, body, and tail, malb fine black, gloflfed with green and blue. The female deep brown: breaft and belly light cinereous Female. brown : chin white : wings and tail duiky, edged with brown. This fpecies arrives at New Tork in May i lays five eggs in Placi, Junet and migrates fouthward in Auguft, • Mr, Tunjlal/. f Can this be corrupted from the word Pinion ? Id. White- » ' *'■'! t X I.. m m. «.: ' H '!!' I I I , 166 WHITE- THROATED F. T I N C H. White-throated Finch, Gen. Sjn. iii. p. 272. N^ 32.— ^/v7. ZoeL ii. N" 24S. 'T'HIS fpccies has beenfecn in fmall flocks ztNewTork in Ja- nuaryt and is met with in fummer in Nezvfoundland. Some of them have the orange fpot at the bafe of the bill very obfcure, and want the white fpot on the chin j from which circumHiance fuch may be fuppofcd to be females *. 57- ^ AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. American Goldfinch, Gen. Sjh. iii. p. 288. N»57.— ^r^^ .0^, %% % IMAGE EVALUATrON TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^ /. A .Vl% f/. 1.0 ^^ I 116 112 ,„„, I.I 1.25 2.5 sis IS ^ 1^ III 2.0 1.8 1.4 ^1 ^ /; Photographic Sciences Corporation s. iff iV «^ <^ fv -s^X^^ ». "^^ <^ 'T JVBST MAIN STiJEBT ^ifFSSTES, N.Y. 14S80 (716)872-4303 15? "^5 r/u ■i!'' ■ji. 'i > ( , ' ■ Jij : ih 1 : i '''', jpj l|; ii ' ';■ • ^<' 1 !«;, i6g FINCH. ^i |]''^ iM r !■''■ 82. - AMADU. VADE F. Amaduvade Finch, Gen, Syn, iii, p. 311, N" 82. TN fome drawings from /W/^?, I obferve two of thefe birds, the one marked as ufual, the other olive ; and, I make no doubt, dcfigned for different fexes. Mr. Tunjiall informs me, that he has kept them often, and obferved that they became more fpotted, in proportion to their age j and that one in particular, which feemed as it were powdered with white, when firft in his poflefllon, had fcarce any white fpots about it. 97 • YELLOW. THROATED F. DtSCRIPTION. Place, 98. LOVELY F. Description. Place. Yellow-throated Finch, ArSl.Zool. ii. N" 249. rj I LL and legs blueilh grey : head and upper parts of the body cinereous: primaries dufky, edged with pale brown: chin white : on the throat a pale yellow fpot : belly dirty white. Inhabits New l^ork. CIZE of a Sijkin. Bill red: general colour of the plumage green : chin and fore part of the neck inclining to yellow : btlly and vent elegantly barred with black and white : tail duflcy black : legs pale red. Inhabits India. I met with the above among the drawings of Lady Impey j as alfo in fome others, in pofleflion of Mrs. fVheeler, I have my fufpicions that it is either a young bird, or a female of the Beautiful Finch* ^ as it differs very little therefrom in colour, except in the forehead and throat, which are not red, as in that • Vol. iii. p. 266. bird : FINCH. bird : yet, as it is much fmaller in fizc, and the rump and tall not chefnut, it may pofllbly be a diftindt fpecles. 165 PringUla Carthaginienfis, Jacq^. Fog, p. 8. N» 5. 00' CARTHAGENA F. CIZE a trifle bigger than a Canary-Bird. Bill pale brown: general colour of the plumage cinereous, fpotted with brown DEscRiPxiorr, and yellow : legs the colour of t!ie bill. This is found in the woods of Cariha^ena, in Souih Americat and Place. has a note not unlike that of a Chaffinch. Feeds on feeds. CIZE of the Amaduvade Finch: length three inches and a half. Bill duflcy red : crown, and all the under parts of the body, yel- low J the upper parts pale ferruginous rofe-colour : quills and tail dufky ; the lafl fhort : legs pale dufky red. Inhabits China, — Defcribed from fome drawings inpoflefllon of Sir Jofeph Banks » Fringilla albo-ocracea, Jacq. Vog. p. 19. N° 14. t. 5. 100. IMPERIAL F. Description. Place. lOI. OKER F. CIZE of a Chaffinch. The bill and legs yellow : general colour Description, of the plumage white, except the head, fore part of the neck, bread, and wing coverts, which are more or lefs of the colour of yellow oker. This was defcribed from a living fpecimen in an aviary, faid to Place. have been caught in Auftria. It feems to me rather a variety of fome of the F/»f/& tribe, than a diftind fpecies. SuPPL, FringUlft i ■ 1 ; t> s t 1 !' » 1 ■ '.■■ ( • :fi f! llM' I , •170 •■402. TESTACEOUS F I N C H. Friugilla teftacea, Jacr^. fog. p. 27. N" 2i. t. li. T ENGTH five inches and a half. Bill pale red : irides black: head, neck, and back, ferrug-nous, mottled with black: breafl: and belly the fame, but paler: wings and tail brown : legs flefli-coloiir. PiLACE. Broil g-ht from Portugal to Vienna. k-j- I 103. RUSTY-COL- CIZE uncertain. General colour brown, with a tcrtuginous LARED F. :5 ^^jj^^^ Placi. 104 Inhabits 'Terra del Fuego, NOOTKA F. CIZE uncertain. General colour black, with a white bill. Pi^ACE. Inhabits Nootka Sounds where it is called Mamat*. Cask's LaJ} Voy, App, Genus [ 171 ] Genus XXXVIII. FLYCATCHER:. N»79. PhcebeFL 80. Golden- throat Fl. 8 1. Nitid Fl;. 82. Lefler CreftedFl. ' 83. Planging Fl. N' 84. Society Fi. 85. White-fronted Fl. 86. Paflerine Fl. 87. African Fl. Bt)urbon Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 330. N" 7. 'T^HE 'ead o{ the female is afh- coloured *. BOURBON FL. Iff m ■ ': : i' Ml i; ■ a '■ • ( . 1 ■ 1 'i :iil 111 ' [if '■' N ! ^ i. I'.?' :;; V.I '" ' ' ' 1' 1 1 y- J: ' . I. I' Flammeous Flycatcher, Getr. Syn. iii. p. 338. N"26. £r. Muf. A FINE fpecimen of the male is in the poflefllon of SirJ^^/S Banks. The length fix inches. The bill black, with a flight notch near the tip : the plumage on the upper parts black : rump and upper tail coverts a fine glowing orange : chin, throat, and fides of the head, beneath the eye, black : from the breaft to the legs orange : vent yellovvilh white : thighs black : tail very cu- neiform in fhape ; the two middle feathers three inches in length ; the outer one but an inch and a halfj colour black j the ends of all, except the four middle feathers, more or lefs orange* coloured : legs black. ' ' . Brifcn, Z 2 Black. 26. FLAMMEOUS FL. Description.' rr'!' • if- 1 ■I ■'• i . ! '1 . i: ■ ) ■ 1 i .1 ! " * r : 'W i 1 ' 1 1 , i I ■ ' 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 i" ' 1 i 1 1 I 1 1 ! 172 28. BLACK FL. Var. DfSCRH'TiON. Place. 30. AZURE FL. Place. FLYCATCHER. Black Flycatcher, Gen. Sjin. Hi. p. 338, N* 28, CIZE and (hape of the Goldfinch. Bill black, with whitilli edges : head, neck, bread:, belly, and tail, black : wings the /ame, marked with a fingle white fpot In the middle : the ends of the greater coverts ferruginous : Ibme of the prime quills and fe- condaries edged with yellow : legs black. Inhabits India. Called Grey Peedaw, — I^ady hnpey. Azure Flycatcher, Gun. Syn. iii. p. 339. N" 20. T Obferve one of thefe figured among Mr. Middlefon*& India drawings. The general colour indigo blue. The bill very hooked at the point, and the bafe befet with long hairs, fome of them reaching beyond the tip ; irides yellow, furrounded with black : the top of the head mottled with black : on the lower part of the neck a narrow black crefcent : belly white. This is not uncommon about Calcutta and other parts of India', and feeds on flies. 44. PARADISE FL. Paradife Flycatcher, Ge». Sjn. iii. p. 345. N" 44. and Var, T HAVE twice met with this bird in drawings done in India, in which the cinnamon- coloured one was exprefled as the female of the white one. The name given to them was Shazvhul, which means the King of Singing Birds, as the bird is faid to have a moft delightful note *. Lady Jmpey, Cayenne F I> Y C A r C II E R. «75 ^fiW ■ ' - !J .i li ■ Cayenne Flycatcher, Ge>i, Syn. Hi. p. 355. N" 58. Vellow-bellied flycatcher. Gen. Sjiu. lii, p. 359. N« 65. jp LEASE to make thefe two only one fpecies. CAYENNE FL. i'ti: < • I I Dufky Flycatcher, ///v7, /?oj/'. li. N" 275, 7^. PHCEBE FL. T-IEAD duflcy : back of a dull cinereous olive r quills and fe- Dbscription, condaries du(ky ; the laft edged with white : bread pale afli- colour: belly whitifli yellow: tail dulkyi exterior web of the outer feather white: legs black. Sent from New Tork^ by the name of fmall or common Phahy Pj^ace AwbMAi^. Birdi or Bee-Eater. Appears the latter end o( Alarch, or begin- mers. ning of ylpril. Lays five fmall white eggs. Difappears in Auguft^ Eats bees. ' 1 'Ir 1' '■•1 1 r Golden- throat Flycatcher, ^r^. Zoa/. ii. N" 276, g> GOLDEN- /^ROWN of the head, upper part of the neck and body, dirty THROAT FL<, olive: throat and ridge of the wing of a very rich yellow; Descriptioiv, breaft and belly white, tinged with yellow : primaries and tail bright olive green. "o* Inhabits New Tork. Px,&cp, NITID VL, SIZE fmall. Bill black: plumage pale green : coverts edged with white : quills and tail dufky, with yellowifli edges i legs black. Inhabits C/&/«<7.— Mrs. IFheekr. 1 Pi. ACS. Ltfl'sr I " *• ^' 1' •, * ■ li : 'II 1! il; . ,v « ifi-'ft.l ■ ^'nt II : \r¥^ < J , ] ■ X 1 *■ 'li? iW ;i , 1 1 L 1 iiJ 1.74 F L Y C AT C HE R, •t ,1 h i Sz. LESSER CRESTED FL. DeSCRIPI ION. Place. Lefler Crefled Flycatcher, ^t-a. Zeol. ii. N" 268. "DACK part of the head crefted : head, neck, and back, of a dirty light cinereous green : bread and belly whitifli, tinged with yellow : wings and tail dufky : coverts crofTed with two- bars of white: fecondaries edged with white: legs black. Inhabits Nova Scotia. — In the colledlion of Colonel Davies. 83. HANGING FL. Description. Place. > . Green Flycatcher, j^rtS. Zool. ii. N° 274. "f-T E A D cinereous green : on each fide of the bill a yellow fpot : back and wing coverts pale green ; acrofs the laft two white bars : primaries and tail dufky, edged with green : throat paio afh-colour : middle of the belly while : fides of a fine yellow. Inhabits New Tork, and is a fcarce fpecies. Comes in May ; breeds, and retires in Juguji. Was fent to England, by the name of Small Green Hanging Bird. 84. SOCIETY FL. Description. Placi, Mufcicapa nigra, Sifarr. Muf. Carlf. pi. 23. T ENGTH fix inches. Bill nearly an inch, flout at the bafe, and a trifle curved towards the point j the bafe befet v;ith briflles. The whole bird is black j but the bill, head, fpace be- tween the fhoulders, and legs, are of a much deeper colour than the refh The wings reach one third on the tail. Inhabits Of abetter and other iflands contiguous thereto. Ifind one fimilar to this among the papers of Sir Jofeph BankSy recorded by Mr, Anderjon, His bird has a lead-coloured bill, and the back and FLYCATCHER. and wing coverts inclining to brown ; oLlierwife it is black. Alio a fecond is there mentioned, fuppofed to Se the female ; the whole of the plumage of which is of an uniform black brown. '7f ^' l-!K: ^ti[i 'Ji H Mufcicnpa albifrons, Sparrtn. Muf, Carl/. N'' 24. i'?-' WHITE- FRONTED FL. LENGTH five inches and three quarters. Bill black, flender, •a II • jrL' iirr Dg'^CR i rTioy. a triHe curved at the pomt, and a few hairs at the bale : tore- head dufky white : hind head, nape, fhoulders, wing coverts, and fecond quills, footy black : prime qv ills brown, edged with ferru- ginous : fore part of the neck and breall dufl-cy white ; the fliafts of the feathers brown : belly pale ferruginous : tail two inches in length ; all the feathers of an uniform black : legs black. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. Is greatly fimilar to the Cold- P/>ace. fnch\ but differs in wanting the white on the wings, and the tail feathers being all of one colour. ~ . 86. PASSERINE ¥1.. C I Z E uncertain. Colour of the plumage on the upper parts of £>, the body dufky black; beneath whitilh : tail black. Inhabits the ifland of 7*<7k» ! Genus XLI. WARBLER. N* 150. Avvatcha W. N' 154. Equinoftial W. 151. Reed Wren. 155. Black-necked W. 152. Lefler White Throat. 156. Plumbeous W. 153. Van-Diemen's W. Nightingale, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 408. N° i.~-ArJl. Zool. p. 416. A. Motacilla lufclnia, Brun. N° 2jo,—-Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 123. — Faun, Atuig. p. 88. "]M"EITriER this bird, nor the Blackcaps inhabit Ireland; nor is the Redjiart known to be there for certain *. 21. SEDGE VV. Sedge Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 430. N" 21. — Ar^. Zool. ii. p. 419. M. J unco minor, Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 99 ? npHE bird figured in this author is fo much like t\\Q Sedge Warbler^ that I think them one and the fame fpecies. The nefl: is fmaller than that of the Reed Wren of Mr. Lightfoot i but compofed of much the fame materials, though lefs deep. It is not tied to the reeds in the manner of that of the Reed Wren^ but the whole of the fides of the neft invelopes the reed which fup- ports it. The eggs arc three in number, of a pale yellowilh brown. In the fame author I find a bird, by the name of Armdinacea mmma, but no reference to any author. The nefl: of this is • Mr. yaci/cM. faflened WARBLER. fadened round three forks of branches j is of a downy texture. Tlie eggs five in number, like thofe of the Junco minora but fpeckled with minuter brown fpots. i8i 'Mi..;;- Dartford Warbler, G:n. Sj.-i, Iv. p. 435. N" 27. T AM informed by an intelligent obferver of Evglijlo birds *, that he has never met with this fpecies in the neighbourhood of London^ except in winter -y and that it difappears before the end of April. Should this be the general fa6t, I can by no means recon- ci'C the circumflance of its breeding in France f, as all migratory birds go northward to breed, not to a warmer climate; and (houkl rather fuppofe, that if it does not quit England in fummer, it will hereafter be found in the northern parts of it, as has been obferved in refped to the Grey Wagtail. 27. DARTFORD W. f"''k.d if il". I' i ■4 'M f Long-legged Warbler, Gen. Syn, iv. p. 465. N" 74. 74- LONG-LEG- npHIS fpecies varies : fometimes the colour is brown inftead of ^^^ ^^' green. As to fize, it mull be extremely minute, as one weighed by Mr. Anderfon equalled no more than 120 grains J. 74- Var. a. CIZE very fmall : length three inches. Bill and legs yellow- Dbscriptiow. i(h : j^eneral colour brownifh : the under parts of the body dufky white. Inhabits Van Diemeti's land. Suppofed to be a variety of the Place. Long-legged, • Mr. Cfn. t ^'/' (l(* Oi/. vol. v. p. 158. % MS. at Sir Jof. Banks's. Wheat. 1;.' . 1 •1 1 y I? {ki 1 ■: m ! h'il. s4 i ■■ b -'if J f ! 1: i • ' ■■■* ■ ! I- : i!- * M '. ' i.. x82 75' WHEAT-EAR. 87. CEYLON W. WARBLER. Wheat-ear, Ge». Syn. iv. p. 465. N° 75. — ^>U . y 't I ' ' , ' i ^ :->i % . ',; ^; I Yellow-poll Warbler, Ce». Sjn. iv. p. Ji;. N" lAi. "VTR. Pennant fuppofes the two birds, defcribed under this title, to be diftin6t fpecies j and mentions the fecond under the title o( Olive Warbler -f. Mr. Hut chins informs me, that theiV- low-Poll comes into Hudfon's Bay in 7««(?, and that the irides arc blue. It is feen chiefly among the willows in woods, and is per- petually flying from tree to tree, and makes a foft noife. The neft feems well put together, and compofed of mofs, grafs, hair, and feathers, interwoven : fometimes placed at a fmall height up VELLOW.POI.r. w. Mr. Htitchins, t Ar.l. Zesl. K" 307, a tree, 1 ■it 1 1 i , 1 t i 1 1 1 I-. ( ''i , 1 ^ ■ n •i 3 \ Jmtk ; :l *!' f "i ■^<-\'U. - f- ^ ■'f- IS4 150. AWATCHA W. Description. Place. 151. -REED WREN. WARBLER. a tree, at other times near the bottom. It lays from three to five white eggs, marked with nifty-coloured fpots. Is called ac Hud/on's Bay^ Sowow pelhayfiJJj^ Awatcha Warbterj Ar\1, Zool, ii. p. 422. T. 'T'HE crown of this bird, tlie upper part of the neck and body, are deep brown : primaries edged with white : lower part of the five outmoft feathers of the tail deep orange, ends brown -, the two middle feathers wholly brown : throat and brcaft white j the fides of the firft, and all the laft, fpotted with black : from the upper mandible to each eye an oblique white line : fides pale ruft- colour: middle of the belly white. Inhabits Kamtfchatka^ Motacilla arundinacea, Phih Tranf. vol. Ixxv. p. 8. pi. iv Description. CIZE of the Willow }Fr en : weight feven pennyweights nine grains. Length of the male feven inches and a half j of the female, fix and three quarters. Bill half an inch, of a dark horn- colour j the under mandible flelh-colour j infide of the mouth orange : irides olive brown : eyelaflies dirty white : from the bill to the eye a broad ftreak of tawny white : the general colour of the plumage greenifli olive brown : quills and tail brown, with paler edges •, the laft fomewhat cuneiform in fhape : the chin white } the reft of the under part tawny white j bafe of all the feathers black : the legs are of a light olive : foles of the feet bright greenifli yellow. The male ^nd female much alike. I The \[ 1 ; ■ : : 1 Mr ■V ■■ * I 1 1 fi.cxm ^ Iv i 1 t> ' . \ ': ii 1 WARBLER. i8^ The neft is compofed externally of dry ftalks of grafs, lined for plack and Man- the mod part with the flowery tufts of the common reed ; but fometimes with fmall dead grafles, and a few black horfe-hairs to cover them. The neft is ufually fufpended, or fattened on, like a hammocky between three or four ftalks of reeds, by means of dead grafs; 6<:c.; but the bird does not always confine herfelf to the reeds, as inftances are feen of the neft being made on the branches of a water-dock i or, as was the cafe in that from which the draw- ing was taken, in a trifurcated branch of a ftirub near the water. The eggs are commonly four, of a dirty white, ft jned all over with dull olive fpots, chiefly at the largeft end, where are gene- rally feen two or three fmall irregular black fcratches. The above bird frequents the river Co/«, in Buckingham/hire, and no doubt other rivers and watery places where reeds grow. It is a pretty ftiy bird, and not often taken, though the neft is fre- quently met with. It may eafily be miftaken for the Sedge Bird^ but is certainly a different fpecies j the circumftance of its having the bafe of the bill much broader than in the Sedge Bird, were there no other chara6leriitic, muft alone determine the difference between them. N E R 5 , Place. ■I iB ■'t m^ '■;. ■'■' I 11 ' (1 • r . : Motacilla fylvia, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 230. N" 9 r — Fauit. Suec. N° 250 ? CIZE of the Teliow IFrerij and of the fame flender fliape : length fcarcely five inches. Bill half an inch long, flender, and duflcy i bafe c: the under mandible pale yellow : irides dark : the upper parts of the plumage in general pale cinereous brown, ibmewhat darker on the crown; the under parts, from the chin to the vent, duflcy white : the tail two inches in length, of the Scrpi'i,. B b flinic 152. LESSER WHITE THROAT. Pl. cxni. Description. ^- y « ': *1 f 1 iMHi ''■ •!;'' 1*3, H Jr. I ■I' i85 Place andM; N£RS. N. WARBLER. fame colour as the body, except the outer feather, which is paler on the outer web ; the two middle feathers are a trifle fhorter than the reft, making the tail appear fomewhat forked when fpread : the wings reach rather more than one third thereon, when at reft : legs deep brown. MS5- BLACK.NECK- ED W. DsscaiPTioir. Flack; ^i-i N ■ / '^ m ' ■ % U :■! : * * 1 1 J li 1 .. 'l 1 1' ' ,'* 1 . ' 1 i; ■i ■ i88 i;6. PLUMBEOUS W. Description. WARBLER. Lev. Muf. CIZE fmall : length three' inches and three quarters. Bill fhort, dufky brown : plumage above deep lead-colour, nearly black } beneathj pale afli-colour : quills and tail dufky : legs deep brown. Native place uncertain. It. STRIPED- HEADED M. Genus XLII. M A N A K I N. Striped-headed Manakin, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 526. N" 11. T HAVE been hitherto at a lofs for the native place of this bird. Mr. Anderfon^s papers inform me, that it is a native of Van Diemen's Land. I think it not an improbable fuppofitioii, that the Brown Shrike * may be the other fex of this fpecies. • Vol. i. p. 191. I, 1 Gbnus J. t ; ^'i.fe I |i:r f • '1 1. I Genus XLIII. TITMOUSE. Azure Titmoui;, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 538. N» -^.—Arii. Zool. ii. p. 426. C. Parus Saebycnfis, Sparrm. Muf. Carl/, pi. 25. FITS beautiful fpecies inhabits the northern parts o^ Europe. It is found in Sudermania * ; alfo met with in great abundance in the northern woods o\' Sibiria and Ruffian and about .S)'«^/y/?-, in the government o\ Cafan. It is migratory, appearing in winter converfant about the houfes in St, Peterjburgh, It twitters like a Sparrow, but with a fofter and fwecter note f . Marih Titmoufe, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 541. N° 8. — Ar£l. Zool. ii. p. 427. E. Parus paluftris, Brun. N" 288.— 5^//> Fog. pi. in p. 47. TN my Synopfu it has not appeared clear to me, whether the Cole- moufe and this were different ipecies. I find it to be the opi- nion of Seppy that they form but one, being both figured in the fame plate, as male and female. In one of them is a fpot of white on the hind head, and the fides of the head are white : the throat black. The other has the top of the head wholly black, and the black fpot of the throat wanting. The neft feems here compofed of fedge, mixed with large cat^s tally lined with down and fea- thers i furniflied with five white eggs, mottled with red brown. Muf. Car//. t Ara.Zool. Long. AZURE T. 8. MARSH T, 1^1 M ■ V 1 1 '.' ■■'■■ » ' I -i w ■■1 \\ « 1 i ■ w [ 1 ':f M \ ; » : ■i^»i 1 ' ■if. t i i ' 1 1 r t ,i , 1 I 1 , i : 190 18. >. LONG -TAIL. ED T. 20. BEARDED T. T I T M O U S E. Lonpr tiiilcd Ticmourc, G.n.Sjn. Iv. p. 550, N? \'i.--Ar!l. Zoo!, li.p. 428. G. Parus caudatus, Sepp fog. pi. in p. 49. TN my Sympfis I have faid, that t!iis bird had been brought from Jamaica. I chink it ncceflary here to inform the reader, that my friend, who related to me the circumftance, was led into the error, from receiving it among fome other birds which were natives of that place ; but was afterwards informed that it had been added co them in England, after their arrival. BcarJed Titmoufe, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 552. N"* 20. — ArSl. Zcol. ii. p. 428. H. Parus biarniicus, Stpp Vog. pi. in p. 'ii.^^Brun, p. 8. {Lam'us.) I HAVE never yet been able myfelf to afcertain the nefl: and eggs. In Sepp's plate the neft: is placed on the ground among the /edges. It is of a very loofe texture, compofed of the tops of dry grafs, mixed with the feed-headsof r^/^^j and r^^^j, with nar- row leaves intermixed. The eggs four in number, of a reddilh white, marked with fmall brown fpots. This fpecies is found \r\ Schonen, in Sweden i but rarely. Is very common about the Cafpian Sea and Palus Mteoiis, and among the ruflies of the rivers which fall into themi but in no high la- titudes in JJia. None in Sibiria *, 24. Hudfon's Bay Titmoufe, Gen, Syn. iv. p. 557. N° /^.-—Arll, Zool, ii. p. 425, HUDSON'S BAY '^* 'jPHIS fpecies has fcarce any note beyond a chirp. Is feen dimoug juniper plains the whole year. In winter, fly in fmall • Jr^. ZooU flocks. TITMOUSE. flocks, a little way at a time. Builds in the jumpers in June, and makes a neft of grafs, lined with feathers. The young fly the beginning oijuly. In the fummer its food \% flies of all kinds; and is very fond of mojkitoes^ with which it alfo brings up its young } but in winter, is obliged to fubfifl: on berries ^.x\Ajeedsy and at times on the infides of jmipr and pine huisi faid to be ftored up for the purpofe *. Great-headed Titmoufe, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 557. N" 25. A Variety, met with in Norfolk Iflandy differed in having the breaft of a beautiful crimfon, infliead of orange f. 191 GREAT^HEAD- EDT. Var. a. * Mr, Hutchins, f Jnderfott'% MS.. 1 .' . '. 1 \ : i- G E N tJ 3 I. .;- CHIMNEY SW. ^ MARTIN. I '9a 1 Genus XLIV. SWALLOW. Chimney Swallow, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 561. N* i.-^^Anl. Ztol. ii. N" 330. Hirundo domeflica, Sepp Fog, pi. in p. ^i.—Faiot. Jrag, p. 90. ^Vi"^ American one differs from the European fpecies, in having the under fide ferruginous; which circumftance is alfo ob- fervable in thofe which are found beyond the Jenifety and in all the north-eaft part of Sibiria*. The Votiak^, a Finnijh nation, pay great refpedl to the Swallow j for " he that kills one of thefe, a Lapwings Pigeon^ or Wagtail^ expofes himfelf to all forts of misfortunes in his flock. They even build nefts for \.\\tSwal' lows f ," Martin, Gen. Syn. iv, p. 564. N" i.'—Ar^. Zool. ii. N»33i. Hirundo urbica, Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 33. — Faun. Arag. p. 90. A/TR. Ilutchins informs me, that the Martin is called, at Hud- fon's Bay, Shajhywinepejhew -, but I am not certain that it quite anfwers to the dcfcription of the Englijh fpecies : perhaps it may be the Black-rumped one, mentioned in the Philofophical Tranja^ions %•> ■ tl • Jr^. Zool. f RuJ^a, vol. i, p. 138. J Vol. Ixii. p. 408. — Jr^. Zool. Ambergris t:«P SWALLOW. Ambergris Swallow, Gen. Sjn. iv. p. 568. N" 9. T ENGTH five inches. General colour above, not unlike that ^ of the Sand-Martin i beneath, cinereous white : tail long, and greatly forked. I met with this in the coUeaiion of Sir Jofeph Banh, luppofed to have come from China. It is mofl: likely a variety, if not dif- ferent in fex, from the Ambergris Swallow. 193 AMBERGRIS SW. Description. Place, ;*)•,**• i '(mm^. \ Sajppl., Gc Genus 1 '^■' M t ■ill.'l ', 'If , [ 194 ] I 1,: Gfnus XLV. goatsucker. N" 16. Bombay G. N" 17. Indian G. •■M'hl ••,; I 'itJ t.'t .1: » ■ 4- EUROPEAN G. European Goatfucker, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 593. N° 5 .-^--^r^. Zaol. ii. p. 437. A. Capiimulguseuropjeus, SeppFog,^\.in p. 39, — Brun,N°2^^,-—Faun.Jrag. p. 91. npHIS fpecies is found all over Sihiria and Kamtfchatka. It lives not only in forells, but alfo in open countries, where it finds rocks or high banks for flicker. VIRGINIA G. Virginia Goatfucker, Gen, Syn. iv. p. 595. N<»6.— y/rt7. Zocl, ii. N" 337. Long-winged Goatfucker, Arfl. Zool. N°337. npHE fexes feem to vary in this bird, as in the European fpecies. One of thefe, prefented to me by Mr. Wavely was eight inches in length : the fpot on the chin rather paler than the reft of the plumage, but by no means white : no fpot of white on either quills or tail feathers, by which I judge it to be the female^ of which that defcribed by me is the male. It fliould feem to be the fame with i\i^MoJchito Hawk o( Hud- forCsBayi but Mr. H«/f^.',yj's manufcript makes it nine inches and a half in length, twenty-three inches in breadth, and an ounce and three quarters when the bowels are taken out* It is known at Hudfon's Bay by the name cf Payjky or Peejkj from the note, and is there migratory : faid to be very numerous in the interior parts> iind feeds on tnujkiioes and/;Vi. Sbarp- ?!■ ^9S SHARP-TAIL EDG- GOATSUCKER. Sharp-tailed Goatfucker, Ge». Sj/t. iv. p. 6oo. N* 13. 'T'HE circumftance of the tail feathers of this bird being fharp at the ends, was omitted in the defcription given of it in the Syno'pfis. The Ihafts of each feather are bare of webs at the tips, as in the 'Thorn-tailed Warbler* j but fhorter, as in the Aculeated Swallow f. Buffon obferres, that birds of this genus mix frequently with the Bats; which is not fingular, fince their appearance of mornings and evenings is at the fame hours, and the food of both precifely alike. I well remember meeting with the bodies o( Cockchafers X in the ftomach of the Hor/e-Jhoe Bat |i ; and, on further enquiry, found that the animal ate the body of that infedt only, rejecting the other parts of it j as quantities of heads, corfelets, and wings, were found ftrewed on the ground about its haunts. 16. C I Z E of the Virginia Goatfucker : length eight inches and a half. BOMBAY G> Bill dufl'iy : general colour of the plumage not unlike that of DEscR^^TIo^. the Sibirian Owl, being a beautiful mixture of pale afli- colour, mottled with black and ferruginous : the top of the head is pale afli- colour, mottled with dufky down the middle of the crown : on each fide of the under jaw is a pale ftreak j and on the throat, a whitifli fpot : the bread crofled with numerous cincicous bars: between the legs pale rufous : the quills are duflcy, barred with rufous; the firft the fhorteft ; four of the greater quills have a fpot of white on the inner web : the tail marked the fame as the quills ; • 5y«. vol.iv. p. 463. N'^ 71. f /'iria, and none feen in the north-eaft : vifus Sweden in Aimmer, departing in autumn : not in Norway *, Ring-tailed Pigeon, Gen, ^j/n. iv. p. 639. N° 33. Columba carib' 1 1 ■'1 1 i 1. ( 204 TURKEY. I ( r'lf ,^^ Timilar, the crimfon decreafing towards the tail, the ends of which arc dufky black : the legs are furnilhed with a olunt fpur behind, Mrs. Wheeler informs me, that fhe has had both fexes alive in her pofTeflion j and, had it not been for an accident on board the Ihip, fhould have brought the above-mentioned male to England, This bird, when alive, had the faculty of dilating and lengthening the flap on the throat, fo as almofl: to hang over the bread, much in the fame manner as the Cock Turkey does the caruncles on the neck and flap of the forehead, at which time the colours were greatly heightened, appearing of a beautiful deep blue, b?.rred acrofs with crimfon, Thcfe birds are by no means common, though not unfrequent in paintings done in India -, and are particularly well figured in thofe of Mr. Middleton and Lady Itrpey. Sir Elijah informs me, that it is known in India by two names, the one Singhee Moory^ or Marbled Foivl i the other, Moory Manmoor ei, or Bright Fowl. I. GUINEA P. Genus XLIX. PINTADO. Guinea Pintado, Cf?:. .it i; I ^' 1 'I 1 ' .' » ( I. 1, U ill li I 1 . ■ ' 1 1' 1 ■1 ' ; t : I 1 i 1 u PHEASANT. 209 Tcaly ; the colour a dark brown : toes long j between them, at the bale, a flight membrane : at the back part of the legs a thick, ill or t Tpiir. The female is fmallerthan the tmhy and of a lefs elegant (hapci Fhmam', the length twenty-one inches. The bili, and bare fpace round the eye, as in the male : the general colour of the plumage brown ; the middle of each feather paler, or bufF-coloured, mottled and barred with dark brown, appearing not greatly different from the back of the Great Eared Owl : beneath the eye is a broad dufky white band : the prime quills are black ; the fecond quills barred black and ferruginous : the tail very Ihort, hardly exceeding the quills in length 5 the colour of the feathers of it fimilar to the back : the legs as in the malet but furnilhed with a blunt knob in place of the fpur. Thefe birds inhabit Indian but in no great plenty, being Place andMan. brought from the hills in the northern parts o( Hindojlarii to Cal- cuitay as curiofities. Lady Irnpey attempted, with great probabi- lity of fuccefs, to bring over with her fome of them to Eng' land i but, after living on board the fliip in health for two months, they caught a diforder from the reft of the poultry, fimilar to the fmall-pox, and died in confequence. The food given them, during the paffage, was rice in the hufk. Sir Elijah informs me, that thefe birds are known in India by the name of Monauly which is fooliflily tranflated Mouth-Piece i that the male is called by fome the Golden Fowl. They bear cold, but are impatient of heat. The cock was never obferved to crow, but had a ftrong, hoarfe cackle, not unlike that of a Pheafant, Specimens of the male birds are now in the Leverian Mufeum, NERS, r Pi i' IM'', ■i ' \ I ' ' I ■ f SUPPL. £e SIZE 210 PHEASANT. m ' I. ! ■•! r!= r |i J I ■■,'■>:' 12. COLOURED PH. Description. Place. CIZE of a Fozvl: length twenty-two inches. Bill greenifli white, and pretty much hooked in fhape : fides of the head naked, cariinculated, and red, much in the fame manner as in the Pencilled Pheafant : the feathers at the back part of the head much elongated, forming a cref!:, which hangs down behind : the head, throat, and hind part of the neck, are black : the back, rump, and wing coverts, the fame, flightly edged with white : prime quills dulky brown : tail rather large, even at the end, and black : the fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, covered with longilh Iharp- pointed feathers, which are black in the middle, deeply edged on the fides with white : thighs black : legs brown black j at the back of each a fpur of a moderate length : claws curved and black. Inhabits India, where it is called the Coloured Fowl, — From the drawings of Lady Impey, i:V AFRICAN PH. Description. Br. Muf. T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill exaftly formed as in the Crejied Pheafant *, being ftout, fhort, and of a yellow colour : the head is likewife creftcd, as in that bird; each feather which compofes it is brown in the middle, and white on the fides : the top of the head is blackifh : back blueifh afli-colour, each fea- ther dafhed with a blackifh ftripe down the fhaft : chin and fore part of the neck rufty brown : fides of the neck whicifii, a little mottled with dark brown : breaft and belly white, daflied down the fliafts with black : wings blueifli afli, fliafts and tips blackifli : baftard wing black: the eight firft quills are white on the inner Sjn» vol. iv. p. 720. pi. ixiv. webs 'r ' 14' 1 PHEASANT. webs half way from the bafe j the two next white next the bafe ; the reft of their length, and the whole of all the reft, lead-colour- ed brown : the tail is nine inches and three quarters long, and rounded at the end j the two middle feathers brown, with the ends black ; the others wholly black : legs black. This fpecimen is in good prefervation in the Britijh Mufeum, and was brought from Africa. It had but ten feathers in the tail; but, from the appearance of it when fpread out, it feemed to have originally confifted of a greater number. in Place. < '' ' E e 2 Genus ;' ^ ' * \\ r < I! '■ r m ' ! ■■f 1 i ■':;,# -1 , :1! 'I^j ■ i ■ • '|i !l- '■i 1 f i ■ h^' ' ■' -Hi- ! MUX* C 212 1 1 ^ r 2. Genus LIII. G R O U S. * WITH FOUR TOES. N" 17. c. Helfingian Gr. LONG-TAILED CR. N" 17. a. Rehufak Gr. 17. b. Rock Gr. Sharp-tailed Grous, Jn^, Zool. ii, N* 181. 'TpHE tail in this bird confifts of eighteen feathers. I obferve in feme birds the two middle ones of the tail are an inch and a half, or more, longer than the reft, and in others fcarce exceed- ing half an inch; a diftindtion incident to fex or age. The fe- male faid to differ from the male, in having lefs of the red naked Ikin above the eyes. Thefe birds keep in pairs, or fmall flocks, in the jumper plains the whole year, feeding on the buds and berries alternately : moftly feen on the ground j but, when difturbed, fly to the tops of the higheft trees. They lay on the ground, and make a loofe neft of grafs, lined with feathers : the eggs white, marked with fpots, and are hatched the middle of June. Said to make a noife with the feathers of the tail, like the cracking of a fan. The flefli is of a light brown colour, plump, and very juicy *. * Jri^. Zool, Black i G R O U S. Black Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 733. Tetrao tetrix, Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 165. 'HIS bird, as I have been lately informed, becomes gradually more fcarce all over the north of England^ as well as in Scot- iandt owing to various caufes ; viz. the great Improvement made in the art o^ Jhooting flyings introduced within thefe few years : the cuftom of inclofing many moors and commons, added to the mif- chief done by burning the heath on the moors, in order to ferti- lize them, and which it is difficult to prevtnt, being commonly fet on fire in the night, and will often extend for feveral miles j and, as it is chiefly done in the fpring, many nefls, with the old ones upon them, are deftroyed thereby. Perhaps the great faci- lity of conveying thefe birds to the metropolis, or the great trading towns, by means of the numberlefs wheel-carriages, may likewife contribute greatly to their fcarcity. Thefe birds will live in menageries in a confined ftate, but have not been known to breed therein. The flefli of feveral of the Grous kind is more or lefs inclined to brown } notwithftanding, it iswell-tafted : but in this bird part of the flefli of the breafl: is white, and called, in the north, the White Mufckt appearing as a Angular contraft to the furrounding parts, which are deep coloured. This circumftance is not ob- ferved in the Wood Grous, whofe breafl: is equally dark-coloured throughout j nor in any other of this fpecies that v* know of. Neither this fpecies, nor the Ptarmigan, are at prefent in Ire- land, though the Red Grous is found in plenty among the moun-; tains and bogs of that kingdom.. 413 BLACK GROUS. 1'^ I ' A ft i '^ f w ■. #'■ • . Spuriou* ■-■: ; ► 214 G R O U S. !! \ Ht ' Var. a. SPURIOUS GR. I,: Spurious Grous, Gen. Sjn. iv. p. j^^.-^j^rff.Zocl. ii. p. 314. B. Tetrao hybridus, Sparrni. Muf. Carl/, pi. 15. \\rE have been hitherto much in the dark concerning this bird. Dr. Sparrmatty to our prefent obfcure knowledge of ir, adds the following obfervations :— That it is of the fize of the female Great or Wood Grous, and fuppofed to have been produced from that bird and the male Black Grous : that it varies greiitiy in colour, fcarce two being found exaftly correfponding ; and that it is a remarkably ftupid bird. Its note refembles moli: that of the pyood GrouSt but louder, harfher, and every way more dif- agreeable. This gentleman likewife remarks, that the birds hi- therto met with, whether aflbciating with the male birds or females, are ever of the male/ex. This fpecies is not uncommon in the woods of Sweden and Finland. Mr. Tunfiall informs me, that he was told by fome old Scotch gentlemen, that both the IVood Grous^ as well as the Spurious Grous, were extant in Scotland within their memory. ■ ■ 1 i . 1 _ 1 . , t SPOTTED GR. Description, Spotted Grous, Gen. Syn. v. p. 735. N° 6. TV/TR. Hutchins has lately added to my colledtion a moft beautiful variety of this bird. Length fixteen inches. General colour of the plumage ferruginous cream-colour, marbled and ftriated acrofs with brown and yellow clay-colour : fore part of the neck and bread moft inclined to yellow : under parts of the body white, marked with broken bars of cinereous brown : quills plain brownilh cream-colour : tail yellowifh brown, pretrily mottled with darker ; the tips of all the feathers ferruginous, but pale. Ruffe A • f jii i^l G R O U S. RufFed Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 738. N" S.—-yir/f. Zool. ii. N» 179. ' Shoulder-knot Grous, Gen, Syn, iv, p. 737. N° 7. XX^^E beg leave here to retra6t our opinion of the Ruffed and Shoulder-knot Grous being of different fpecics, Mr. Pen- nants obfervations on this head have their due weight with us, and are fupported by our having lately received fpecimens of both of them by the afli fiance of Mr. Hut chins. We have been informed, that both fexes vary much at different ftages of life. The ground-colour of the plumage is not unlike in both lexes j but the tail in both is exadly fimilar. The male only has the r«^and crejiy which the female has no traces of i in return, the female only has the black at the bafe of the wing or ihoulder. Namaqua Grous, Gen. Syn, iv. p. 750. N* 15. T^R. Sparrman* mentions his having met with two fpecies of Tetrao, near the Hottentots' Holland's warm bath, both cf the lize of our Partridge •» one of them called a Partridge, iht ether a Pheajant. He obferves, that they live in flocks, and are not difficult to come at, efpecially of mornings and evenings, at which time they difcover their abode by a (hrill kurring noife. One of thefe fpecies is moft probably the Namaqua Grous j the otherj for want of defcription, cannot be determined. • Voy. i. p. 153. R«a 215 8. RUFFED OR. '5- NAMAQUA GR. ' '' i Ii 1 ' 1 , , 1 ..'■1 * ' •= :': :' \ r il - :j^' it 1 ,iLjUiii-i' IP ! '1'' ( 216 G R O U S. ! ) i; •■'.!'i: RED GROUS, 17. a. REHUSAK GR. Description, Femali. '1':: ' ^.' Place andMan- NERS, Red Grous, Gen. Sjii. iv. p. 746. T AM informed, that the nearcfl: approach of this fpecles to- wards the/oulb, in this kingdom, is Staffordjhire* j but it has eve»-y where diminifhed in quantity, from the fame caufes as the Black Grous. It is not fo commonly eaten in London as the lad- mentioned, as the flefli much fooner corrupts. The ufual weight of a male is eighteen or nineteen ounces ; but one has been killed, near Richmond in Torkjhire, which weighed twenty-five*. This fpecies has been known to breed in the menagerie of that noble and intelligent naturalift and collector the late Duichefs Doivager of Portland. It was obferved to me, that fhe cffcfted this, in foiue meafure, by caufing frefli pots of ling or beatb to bt* placed in the menagerie almofl: every day. Rehufac Grous, Jr■ 1 / 7» Var. a. , ■ ■ * i' 1 '' PINTADO P. Description. li H 1 1 ! <: r 1 i i j ,i it •I I '? il ■ik • r, Ff a Cuetnfey 1411 -'X:: 5'1'ri, M^ :.!.: S20 PARTRIDGE. I I '.■[11 ii' MS :U \> m JH l! t :::l:: (,1 ! ..V, 1 . • ' ') 'Hi), i .r.'i;^' / I ''I ' I )' T 2 Guernfey Partridge, Gen. Syn» iv, p. 768. Var. a. "♦-GUERNSEY P. pROM this fpccics being now and then met with at large in this kingdom, one might be induced to think that it may be by degrees naturalized thereto. Several gentlemen, and efpecially the late Duke of NortbumhrlaMa, have turned out many brace for the purpofe. It has alfo been mentioned, that fo far back as the time of Charles the Second, feveral pairs were turned out about WindfoTi for the purpofe of increafingj but it is fuppofed that they at lafl perifhed, though fome of them, or their defcendants, were fcen a few years afterwards. Indeed they feem to thrive fuf- ficiently well in a confined (late, as I myfelf have known them to do ; but have been informed, that, on their being put out after- wards to fliift for themfelves, they died foon after, as was the cafe with fome in the pofleflion of Mr. Tunjiall. Is not then this cli- mate of too moift or too chilly a nature for this bird, or perhaps both ? I have once tailed their flefh, and thought it very deli- cate, as do the inhabitants of every place to which they are indi- genous, efpecially in France, where they are made into pies, and efteemed greatly. A bird fimilar to the above, or rather the Greek Partridge, in- habits India, but feems fomewhat larger, being fourteen inches in length. I learn this from various drawings, efpecially thofe of Lady Im^ey and Mr. Middleton, This laft-narned gentleman in- forms me, that it is far from uncommon, and often kept tame. It is known in India by the name of Cheucquoir : is called by the Englijh, Firilrck, as it will peck at fparks of ^r^ on the ground. Mr, BoySi of Sandwich, lately informed me, that fome Partridges were P A R T R T A D G E, sir were received not long fince from Bojlotti in New England^ by a perfon, who turned them into the fields at large j and that they moft certainly have bred, as a covey of them was afterwards feen. The fpecies he could not afcertain from his own knowledge, not having feen chem. ^:it I Pondicherry Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv, p. 774, N« if. 17. PONDICHER. RYP. DkSCHIPTIOHi T ENGTH ten inches. Bill black : the chin, round the eye, and beneath it, yellow j the reft of the head, neck, and breaft, pale brownifh white, marked with large roundifti black fpots : a bar, compofed of narrow lines of black and white, divides the mid- dle of the breaft, beneath which it is white : the belly is brown, marked with fhort tranfverfe bars of black : back whitifti brown, crofted with narrow tranfverfe daflies of black, pointed at each end : the prime quills are black at the tips : tail reddifti clay-co- loured brown, croflec with nine or ten oblique bars of black j tips of the feathers white : legs very pale before, the hind part and toes black : hind claw very fmall ; legs not furnifhed with fpurs. Inhabits /»^/tf, where it is called Ghoori tetur^ or Rock-Pigeon* Place andMak It is met with for the moft part in p ;, feldom in covies ; nor indeed is it very common. It is fliy, hit. high, and is not eafily (hot. It is called by fome a Partridge, but its c is very unlike that bird *. From the great fimilarity in markings to the Pon- dicherry Partridge^ and its not having a fpur, I apprehend it to be the female of rjiat fpecies. • Mr, Middlttoa, MBRI. (■il ' •: i ., i ^ ' ■ ; M % ^ ! M '1 :/ I ♦ • ■ ! ■ 1 ■ : I: 1 ■ ■*■■ ^. •: ^ *' 1^ If ^ ill im> M'ii 222 24. COMMON QUAIL. Var. B. Description. 36. a. CHITTY- GONG P. Description, PARTRIDGE. Common Quail, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 779. N° 24. Tetrao coturnix, Sepp Veg. pi. in p. \\'^j.^Faun. Arag, p. ^if.'-.HaJJilq. Voy, Eng, ed, p. 203. N"'44. Lev. Muf, ■' TN the Leverian Mufeum is a variety. The crown of the head trown : over the eyes, and round them to the hind head, white, dotted with black: the reft of the neck pale rufous yellow, dalhed with white down the fliafts : the lower part of the neck, all round the back, between the wings, the breaft, belly, and cuter edge of the wing, white : wing coverts and fcapulars ydlow brown, barred with dark brown, and each feather dalhed with yellow down the lliaft : quills yellow brown : tail mottled brown, towards the end chefnut, the tips very pale and mottled, the two outer feathers white : legs yellow. CIZE of a Pheafant: length feventeen inches. Bill pale alh- colour: a broad oval fpace round the eyes, naked, and of a pink-colour, beginning at the noftrils, and ending in a point be- hind J noftrils placed in a kind of cere : the head and neck white, marked with black lines : on the ear a brown patch : back and wings moft beautifully marked with bars and lines of black and pale brown, and edged and tipped with white : breaft black, marked with femilunar lines of white : belly pale reddifti brown, edged with white, and marked irregularly in the middle with dufky: tail mottled white and pale brown, crofted with bars or zigzag lines of black and white : legs the colour of the bill, and not furnifhed with a fpur behind. 1 This 'I'^f P ^'1? "^ n I. n PARTRIDGE.- This bird inhabits Indian and is there, by the lefs informed, fup- pofed to be the female of the Jmpeyan Pheafant^ but falfel; as it comes from a difFerent part of the country. It is common in the lower parts of Bengal, and in the province of Chittygong. — Mr, Middkton. I likev/ife find the fame among the drawings of Lady Impey, It is a mod beautiful bird, and, if one might hazard a fuppofition, may pofTibly hereafter prove to be the female of the Ceylon Partridge *, the true fize of which has not hitherto been determine.-. aij Flacs» ! I ■. 1 ■ ■ > 1 I 1 : t : '■l^li 1 1 |:f!'Vl:^ir Tetrao pedihus antice hirfutis. Sec. Faun. Arag. p. 8i. N<»3. pi. 7. f. z. O I Z E bigger than the Common Partridge, Bill black : head afh-colour : throat black: round the neck ferruginous : bread rufous, croffed with a band of black : back variegated brown and ferruginous : belly, thighs, and quills, black: wing coverts fer- ruginous ; beneath them white : tail cuneiform, cinereous brown; the outer feathers tipped with white : vent white, fpotted with ferruginous: legs afli-coloured, hairy on the fore part, and fur- nilhed with a fpur behind. Tht female differs in having a grey bread, and the band there- on narrower than in the male. The above inhabits the neighbourhood o( Saragofa^ in Arago- mat and makes a ned on the ground, laying four or five tedaceous- coloured eggs, fpotted with brown j and is known by the name of Cburra» • Syn, vol. iv. p. 758, I.IV, ARAGONIANP, Description,- FlacEx '. ^ 't" -' :1 .1' >: I ( * '' i- i' I] v '• :1^ ' 1 11 i' ' 1' I ^- 1: I 'i? ij'i I' ilii !■ -/« '*■ 124 35. c. 4-HUDSONIAN QUAIL. DlSCRIPTIOlO Plavb* PARTRIDGE. Ltv, Muf» >• 'T'HIS Is the fmalleft of its race, meafuring in length only five inches. The bill dufky brown : general colour of the plu- mage a pale brownifh cream-colour, marked at the back part of the neck and over the thighs with irregular fpots of white : the wings, back, and tail, crofled Iparingly with lines of white, bounded on their lower part with black : the under parts of the body are paler than the upper, and unfpotted: legs duflcy brown. I received a fpecimen of this from Hudjoris Bay j from which place, I am informed, that in the Leverian Mufeum alfo came. ! t .; -if ■ij f; •« I I .' V I N;l|^p- Genus i [ a25 ] .!l':; n'l;i It • Genus LV. TRUMPETER. 2. Undulated Tr. Pfophia undulata, yacj, Vog. p. 24. N* 18. t. 9. CIZE of a Coofe» The bill dufky blue: general colour of the plumage on the headj and the upper parts of the body, fome- what like that of the Bujiardy being of a pale reddilh brown, beau- tifully undulated with black : the feathers at the back part of the head long, forming a dependent creft: beneath the ears begins a lift of black, which pafles down on each fide of the neck, widen- ing as it defcends, and meetini;^ on the lower part before, where the feathers become greatly elongated, and h^ng loofcly, fomc- what fimilar to the breaft feathers of the Dernoifelle j excepting this, all the under parts are white: the legs in colour not unlike that of the bill. This fpecies inhabits Africa, The fpecimen from which the above account was drawn up was brought from Tripoli, 2. UNDtJLATED TR. Dbsciiption. Place. :.^ ■i t, ■ %>: %% H 'J7i i 'i i li : 'if'-iji ill SUPPL. Gg GsM vs [ 226 ] ! I IliPf: LITTLE B. Genus LVI. BUSTARD, lo. PafTarage B. Little Bullard, Gen. Sjn. iv. p. 799. N" 2, Otis tetrax, /"«««. y/r£&CR.IPTION. pEMAtE. Place. lo. PASSARAGE B. DESCRimON. BUSTARD, * Indian Bulla: d, Gtn. Syn, iv, p. 804. N" ;. npH I S bird, which is called in ludia, Churge, weighs from twelve to fourteen pounds. The male has the head, neck, bread, and under parts, black, but the latter incline to a(h-colour: the back beautifully mottled with reddifh brown and black, as in our Buf- tcird: wing coverts white: quills black: bill and legs pale a(h- colour. The female is very like om female Bujiard, The general co- lour pale afli, clouded and undulated with darker and blackifli : head, neck, and belly, plain. Thefe are found in plenty in various parts of Indian where they are eaten, and much elleemed *. I ftill retain an idea of the probability of this and my White-eared Bufiard being the fame, as they differ very little, except in the white patch on the ear, one from the other. C I ZE of the Little Bujiard: length eighteen inches. Bill long and flender, brown and white : the head, neck, bread, and belly, black : on the ears a large white patch : jundtion of the neck and back white : the whole back, wings, and tail, black, with a net-work of the fined lines of black and brown furround- ing the meflies of black : the greater wing coverts are white : on the hind head are four pairs of capillary feathers j each pair of dif- ferent lengths, and dilating at their ends into a lance-diaped tuft ; the longed four inches, the fliorted fcarce rifing in fight : the legs are drong, and of a pale yellow : toes divided to their origin. • Mr. Middltten, Inhabits »■.: BUSTARD. Inhabits India, Called Pajfarage Plover*, The fimilarlty of markings in this and my White- eared Bufiard arc worth obferva- tion, as one drawing might almofl: ferve to reprefent both birds j but the laft defcribed, being much fmaller in fize, with the addition of the long capillary feathers on the cars, fccm to determine its being a different fpecies. ' In the poflefllon of Mrs. IVheeler I find a fpecimen of a bird, which I fuppofe to be the female of the above. It is nineteen inches or more in length, and the plumage not unlike that of the Little Bujiardy but lefs delicate in its markings. I find rhat it is known in India by the name of Oorail; by fome of the Englijh called Flercher. It is much efteemed, confequently greatly fought after ; but though it is not uncommon, very few are taken, as it is a very fhy bird. The flefli of the breaft is part white, part brown, and is accounted a great delicacy. • Lady Impey, 219 PtACC» ;!'?!' li • 1.11 T,-'i •, I r- \ ■ Or DiR ' ; I ■ 1 - ■ 1 1 •! . i. j i ■1 ■■. 1 ;i:;|| 1 j i " 1 ' "'i ■ '■'•' m V-"i im h ■M mm 1! L w ni.' t!! [ 130 ] Order VI. S T R U T H I O U S. I I Genus LVIII. OSTRICH. "PVR. Sparrman* is of opinion that the male zi\d female OJlrich fit on the eggs by turns, as in one of his journies, in the month of December J he frightened a male from the neft, which was made only on the bare fand, on which the eggs lay fcattered and loofe \ they were in number eleven. In another neft fifteen were found ; and he rcafonably concludes, that from fixteen to twenty is the common number. The ufual weight of the (hell is eleven ounces j the depth fix inches and a half; and contains five pints and a quarter of liquid ; and that the weight of a frefh egg does not greatly exceed this. The Hottentots eat the flefli of the birds, and the colonifts at the Cape ufe the eggs in pancakes. The t&me Ofiricbes at the Cape have ftrength fufficient to run along with any one on their back, without feeming to be impeded by his weight. In the tame ftate, they are apt to be mifchievous, and will frequently kill the poultry by trampling them under their feet } and he mentions an inftance of one that was obliged to be killed, having trampled fheep to death in the fame manner. • Sparrm, Vej, i, p. 121, \12. Div. > t C *3« ] H it SI Div.II. WATER-BIRDS. Order VII. With Cloven Feet. Genus LXII. J A B I R U. N" 2. Indian J. g I Z E large. Bill dufky, almoft ftrait above ; near the forehead INDIAN J. gibbous ; the under mandible fwelled beneath : from the bafe Description. of the bill, paffing through and beyond the eye, a black ftreak : general colour of the plumage white : lower half of the back, prime quills, and tail, black : legs pale red. Inhabits the Eaji Indies, and feeds on /« ce. m \ ' I j I » ' 1 , ' t 1 1 |. 1 V 1 f 1 1 , ! i ]■■ i « 'i '1 GiNUS In 1 (> 1 ■ h 1 ■ '" 4 '-■% 1: !! . ' i!*tr ] :i I 234 ] I I, ,!,» ' Genus LXV. HERON. N' 80. African H. 81. Lohaujung H. N* 82. Yellow-npckcd H. 4.. INDIAN CR. Indian Crane, Gen, Syn. v. p. 38. N" 4. ^Hli) bird is very common in great flocks north of Cal- cHtta, ' . l! * I iTTTT 8. GIGANTIC CR. Pl.CXV. Descriftion. Gigartic Craae, Gen. Syn. v. p. 45. N* 8. T HAVE three or four times m^t with this bird in paintings done in the country which it inhabits -, but the mcft faithful reprefentation will be found in the drawings of Lady Impey, undcF whcfe infpediion it was done from the life in India, The fize is allowed to be from five to fevcn feet in length, and, when Hand- ing ereft, it is five feet high. The bill of a vaft fize, fliarp- pointed, compreflcd on the fides, of ? yellowiih white colour, and opens very far back into the head ; the noftrils, a Hit placed high up near the bafe : the wh-^lc head and neck are naked i the front is yellow ; the fore part cf the neck the fame, but more dull j the hind part of the head and neck red, wiih here and there a warty cxcrefcenre, mixed with a few draggling hairs curled at the ends : the craw hangs down on the fore part of the neck, like a pouch, and twines round the back part j the lower part of it furnifhed v'-rh hairs, like the reft of the neck, but at the bottom are in greater number, and of a triangular form : the upper part of the back and fhoulders are furrounded with white downy feathers i the ' ■ back t f^ m% i >/ n . cxv. o'/^r . /y/ /n . '. • 1 • l' ■ i i ; 1' 1 .1 i i ! . 4..' ''I ',t I 'J \\^ ■ » " I ^ >4 IP " ' 1 ^ (i \ \\ \-'t h \ t! ll fl ' \ Ma li mmmffim mmmm k wt M'^ ''Jt m -t if''(f' ..•) '^m <;|;f :'i '^A 'i^M- I' ■' • ^1 m n 'I't: Hflf <(» lit' M • M HERON. «JJ NERS. back itfelf and wing coverts deep blueifli afli-colour : fecond quills dufky brown : prime quills and tail deep blackifh lead- colour; the laft fcarcely exceeds the quills in length; the fea- thers of it are ten inches long, and twelve in number: the feathers of the fides beneath the wings, and thofe of the vent and under tail coverts, are long and downy, fome of them meafuring near a foot, and of a dufky white colour, as are all the under parts of the body : the legs are long and black, naked far above the knees, and very fcaly : the toes are webbed at the bafe : the claws blunt. • • This fingular fpecies is not unfrequent at Bengal, where it ar- Place akdMam- rives before the rainy feafon comes on, and is called Argala^ or Adjutant *. It has alfo, from its immenfe gape, gained the name o( Large Throat ; and, from its fwallowing bones, the Bone-eater, or Bone-taker. It is allowed on all hands to be a moft neceffary animal, as it picks up vermin from every quarter ; fuch z^/nakes, lizards i frogs y and other noxious reptiles; and, its fize requiring a vafl: fupply, proves the moft ufeful inhabitant, which the natives o( Africa and other places acknowledge by their holding it in great eftimation. I find that the downy feathers above mentioned have been made ufc of, in the manner of thofe of the Oflrichy in the head-drefs of the ladieSy to which purpofe they fcem well appropriated, being of the moft delicate texture, and floating with every breath of wind f ; * I have been told, that the bird has obtained this laft name from its appear- ing, when looked on in front at a diilance, like a man having a wjiite waiftcoat and breeches. t A good idea may be formed of their exceflivc lightnefs, from my having weighed one of th«m, which was eleven inches and three quarters in length, and feven in breadth, and balanced only eight grains, SuppL, H h but t . -^ f^ I H I! ,„, ■»5 H 1 i 1 f i: , , 1 1 : I ' 1 I ' r , Ifi I >■. 234 H- WHITE STORK. HERON. but their prefcnt fcarcity in England has hitherto prevented their appearing in common. In the Britijh Mufeum is a complete tail, >vith the under tail coverts annexed^ in good prefervation. While Stork, Gtf«, ^'ff, V. p. 47. N" 9. 'T'WO inftances have been mentioned, in our former volumes, of this bird having been met with in England: in addition to which, Mr. Boys informs me, that one has been picked up dead, but frelh, on the (hore o^ Sandwich Bay. Another was alfo Ihoty in the winter of 1785, at Souihfleet, in Kent*, but perilhcd before I had notice of it. I ,h II 1 I :t. it' i 1 ■4-'. If fi" hi I p ' mi . »3- NIGHT HE- RON. BITTERN. Night Heron, Ge». Syn. v. p. 52. N» 13. Ardeahydlicorax, 5/// ^flg-. pi. in p. 151. npHE neft in Sepp's plate is made, in an artlefs manner, of dry Hicks J and the eggs are of a pale blue. Bittern, G;». 5)'». V. p. 56. N" 17. Ardea ftellaris, Sc/p Vog. pi. in p. 74. T Believe that this bird may be met with in the marlhes about us at all ffafons, yet is obferved to be moft frequent in winter, Mr. j5(jyj informs me, that it is never feen about Sandwichy except in very cold weather •, and that in particular, in the feverc feafon mjanuary 1784, great numbers were fhot thereabouts. The Bittern with us fecms to be rifing into cftecm for the ufe of Communicated by Mr. Macrttb, the 1 ' I H E RON. the table, being, as well as the Heron, feen expofed for fale in the London markets j but the palates of our fifter kingdom feem to relifh it greatly, as I have been informed, that lometimes half a guinea is given for one in Dublin *. This fpecies is found on the continent, in various parts of Ruffian and in Afta i in Sibiria, as fiir north as the river Lena, and is continued confiderably to the north t. We have reafon to think, that it is likewife an inhabit- ant of moft of the milder parts of the old continent ; and not im- probably met with alfo in fome part of India and China, as we have feen it reprcfented in paintings from thofe parts, though not fo commonly as the Heron j which laft, we are informed, is very frequent at Bengal, where it is called Junjun J, Little Bittern J Gen. Syn. v. p. 65. N° 27. Ardeola, Sepp Fog. pU in p. 57. T N Sef^ the neft is placed on the ground, and compofed of fhort bits of ftlcks, with here and there a flag leaf interfperfed. The «ggs four in number ; the fize of thofe of a Blackbird, and white. ■• • > • Cinnamon Heron, GtH. Syn, t. p. j"^. N'43. "D Y fome fine Chine/e drawings which came under my infpefbion, I find the tail to be of a bright ferruginous chefnut, rather deeper than the colour of the back. It alfo inhabits India » 23; LITTLE BIT- TERN. 43- CINNAMON H. yky ■n V I J Hi i' If J! (: I I •! Mr. Jack/on, f Arii\ Zeel, X Mr, Middlfte/n Hh t Snowy 'H P. I''! J'* 1° • < ;■ II J l"ix ■ :■*;'.;, t p i ■ |..'^''N:''-' 11' ^^; mMh %3^ 6i. SNOWY H. Desckiption. Placb. 6g. VIOLET HERON. HERO N. Snowy Heron, Gen. Syn. v. p. 92. N" 6i, Ardea nivea, &c. Jacq. Veg^ p. 18. N° 13. 'T'HIS is one third lefs than the Bittern, The bill black: irides yellow : the whole plumage as white as Jnow : the hind head, back part of the neck, fides of the bread:, and the back, covered with long narrow hair-like feathers, flowing very beautifully with every pufFof wind j but thofe of the hind head longer than the reft, forming a penfile creft : the legs are black : the toes yellow. This bird inhabits the parts near Carthagena, in Scutb America \ called, by the Spaniardsy Garfa blanca. The voice is loud and dif- agreeable. Is fometimes eaten by the Indians. This is, no doubt, the fame bird with my Snowy Heront which I alfo find is not uncommon in India *, as well as other parts of the old conti- nent before defcribed. I find alfo, in the drawings of Mr. Middleton, a fmaller Heron, wholly white; the length fixteen inches : bill three, pretty ftout, and yellow : irides orange : legs black. This is faid to inhabit Bengal, where it is called Cahoga. It feems to be greatly allied to the Little White Heron, but I will not determine it to be the fame fpecies. ' Violet Heron, Gen. Sjn. v. p. 97. N" 6g. 'T'HIS bird is faid to be very common in the Eaft Indies, Ii» fome drawings from thence, the bill was blacky tinged with • Lady Imfej, red HERON. red on the fides : the crown of the head, the whole body, and tail, black: the neck, vent, and under tail coverts, of a pure white: legs dirty yellow; in fome fpecimens red. This bird is called, at Bengal, Monickjore j at Hindojlarit Lug- lug. It is reckoned pretty good eating, ind ufed for fport in fal- conry, in the manner that the Heron formerly was in this king- dom *• Coromandel Heron, Cen. Syn, v. p. 102, N» 78. I Obferve this bird among the drawings both of Lady Imp^ and Mr. Middleton. In addition to the defcription of the bill in the Synopfis, I obferve that the ends of the two mandibles much re- femble a pair of pincers, being broad at that part, and not point- ed, as in the Pondicherry Heron. In this circumftance, (o greatly different from all others of the genus, as to juftify the nice orni- thologifl: in forming a new one. I find it to be common on the Ganges, but more fo on the Cunipta i and that it is known by the name of Gounghill, Lev. Mu/. 237 7S. COROMAN'. DEL H. So. AFRICAN H. C IZE fmaller than our Common Heron: length nearly three feet, descriptio: Bill feven inches long, of a dufky yellow j the end black or dufky : the head and greater part of the neck are of a pale ferruginous colour : chin and throat white : the top of the head black, and the feathers elongated into a creft almod three inches in length : on the back part of the neck is a lilt or ilripe * Mr. MM/tfon. of n i li:i:' 1 < ', V Hi ■m II "M' p ■ ' 'It J'- f\p I '!t' 238 HERON. ■of black, reaching two thirds of the way down : on each fide, be- ginning behind the eye, another, continuing on each fide to the bread : the feathers of the lower part of the neck before are long, narrow, and loofe, as is moft of the Heron tribe ; the colour of them, and the lower part of the neck, a deep afli : the breaft ferruginous chefnut : back very deep alh-colour : quills and tail black : the loofe feathers on the rump much like thofe on the fore part of the neck, with a mixture of ferruginous : the belly r pale ferruginous afli-colour: legs dull yellow j the fore part of them, the toes, and claws, black. PtACE. This fpecies inhabits Africa^ from whence a fpecimen has been received into the Leverian Mufeum. A fecond fpecimen is like- wife in the fame colledlion, which was fliot in JJhdoivn Park^ near Lamhoumt B^rkSf belonging to Lord Craven, 81, LOHAUJUNG OIZE large; length three feet. Bill nine inches long, black, _ * ftrait, pointed ; lower mandible fomewhat convex j noftrils a lJ£SCRIPTI0I4t . flit near the bafe : the fore part of the head, as far as the throat, and fides, of a rich green : crown of the head, and neck, deep brown, marked with a few great green fpots : upper part of the back brown; the lower like the neck: wing coverts white; ridge and lower parts pale brown : fecondaries fine deep green : breaft, belly, and primaries, white : tail black : legs long, fcaly, reddifli : toes webbed at the bafe : claws fhort. Place. Inhabits India, where it is not uncommon, and called Lohau- jung, Defcribed from Lady Impey*% drawings. — Among thefc I alfo obferve another, which differs in having the beginning of tht: back mottled brown and white, and the white on other parts not j'r' HERON. 259 not pure. I have likewife feen this bird in other drawings, in which the whole of the upper part of the back, and the under parts, were of a pure white. I apprehend that thefe diftindlions mark the fex of the bird. - ' . • ■ 82. YELLOW. C I Z E of the Blue Gaulding : length two feet. Bill three inches NiiCKED H. and a half long, dufky brown : at the back part of the neck Description, hangs a long black creft : fides of the neck pale yellow j the fore part of it bright bay, edged with white and black : back, wings> belly, tail, and legs, black. Inhabits 7«^;^. Met with in plenty in the province of 0«^(?, Plack, and in other parts, in low watery places -, but is not accounted good food *. ♦ Mr, Middleton, t il m m ( i '! % I 1 ■ ': ' r h' <■ ■' J Inilii «. ■*■ m Genus n w ra ¥ Ifl iii: In 4 1' I'li 1 : \m i,: ii*- ;f ■,M If ■' '1 '# '" ■ i' ' 'W ^f' ' r >5- WHITE-HEAD- ED I. Description. Place. 20. BLACK-HEAD. EDI. Description. C 240 ] Genus LXVI. IBIS. N" ao. Black-headed I. N'2i. Coco I. White-headed Ibis, Gen. Sjn.v, p. 116. N° 15. CIZE of a Heron, if not bigger. Bill long, very flout at the bale, and not greatly curved ; in length one foot or more : the fore part of the head and cheeks bare and yellow, as is the bill itfelf : general colour of the plumage greyifli white: wing coverts black, margined with white : outer edge of the wing, the quills, and tail, black : rump and tail coverts as long as the tail, and of a pink colour, concealing the tail, and hanging over it : legs long, of a pale pink or flefh-colour. In one of thefe birds the wing coverts have a mixture of brown, and a bar of brown acrofs the breaft, which I am informed is a diftinftionof fex. This inhabits India ; is very common on the Ganges, and called JaimghilL The pink feathers of the rump are ufed not unfre- quently, like thofe of the Ofiricb, as ornaments by the ladies *, O I Z E of a C^r/^w : length twenty-one inches. Irides brown : bill fix inches long, very ftout, much curved, and black: fpace between the bill and eye, and round the laft, bare and black : head black : nape and hind part of the neck marked with fmall • Lady ImJ>ej<, fpots I'M V '' f 1 I'l^^ Bl HI m'i . IM m "f r ! I D I S. fpots of the fame : the reft of the plumage wMtc : legs black : between the toes a membrane : hind claw long. I nh^bki India, CiiWcd Buttore*. Tantalus Coco, Jacj. Vog. N* i8. p. 24. 241, PtACK. 21. COCO IBIS. Description. NERS. CIZE of the White Ibis. Bill fix inches long, and flefli-colour: the bare fpace on each fide of the head the fiime : general co- lour of the plumage a greyifh white i the three outer quills black at the tips : legs flefli-colour. Inhabits the Caribbee IJlandsj and is called by the natives Pef- Place ANDMi^w- cheuTt as it feeds on fijh in the wild ftate. It is now and then kept tame, and will then eat/^, both raw and boiled. Its note imitates the word Kot which the bird frequently repeats j hence the name given to it. It is thought to be tolerable eating. I fliould fufpeft this to be no other than a variety of the White Ibis. Mr. MiddUton. 1 i ■T' 1 1 . i^ ! i; ■'' 1 ■ .X ■ ■^'\. ■ \ • ; ■ I'll i iil i ; ■ ' '. ■ i 1 J i m- ? M I- ■"t ' ; » ■ -.* SOFPL. li Genus I a4« 3 H/ 4- i" < hCOMiVio:vr CURLEW. Genus LXVII. CURLEW. N* II. Hudfonian C. Comino!! Curlew, Gru. Sjn. v. p. 119. N» i. Scolopax urquata, Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 109. T^HIS bird appears both in Chinefe drawings, and tliofe from India ; we may therefore conclude it to inhabit both thofe places* ,..,«!. ^^)!' '(•; WHITE-HEAD. ED C. Desc RIPTION. Place. White-headed Curlew, Gen. Sjtt. v. p. 123. N" 5 ? New Species of Tantalus, Sparrm. Voy. i. p. 281. "T^R. Sparrman defcribes a bird very fimilar, if not the fame with this fpecies. The bill is five inches long, black at the tip and lower neb ; the upper neb red: the neck, afh-colour; back the fame, with a caftof green and a little yellow : the wings dark beneath, and above of a blue colour, inclining to black : the leffer wing coverts violet : the tail wedge-fliaped, twice the length of the bill, and the body fomewhat larger than that of a Hen : thighs afli-colour : feet, legs, and membrane between, blackilh. In other refpeds it had all the charadberiftic marks of the Tantalus*. This inhabits the neighbourhood of the Ctf/>^ . m Common. SNIPE. 245 •wn m ■ "f i 1 ' 1 fi f ' 1^1 p 1 ComiTion Godwit, Gen. Sjn. v. p. 144. N® 14. npHE bill in different birds differs- extremely, having been met with from two inches and a half to four and a quarter in length i and the weight from fix ounces and three quarters to twelve ounces, and even more. It is known at Hudjon's Bay by the name of Wafawuckape" Greenfhank, Gin. Syn. v. p. 147. N" i?. npHE Greenfhank inhabits both India and China. In the former, is known by the name of Chaha, J 4. - COMMON GOD WIT. 18. hORKEW- SHANK. Rcdfliank, Gen. Syn, v. p. 1 50. N" 20. TT is fingular to obferve the very great difference of tliis binl in the/ummer and winter drefs. In the latter feafon, I have ob- fcrved it fo lean, as to weigh only four ounces : the a:rd is then of the ufual colours, though paler j but the white fpots, generally feen on the upper parts of the body, in a manner obliterated: tlw; wing coverts very (lightly fringed with white. T!ie Chineje RedJJjank, a variety of this, is Sequent in India, where it is known by the name o(Tee/arei,. 20. RLUSHANK. ■ MARBI.nD GODWIT. T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill nearly four Inches ; colour aduUorangej towards the end black : all the upper parts Discriptioj,. • Mr. Hutchin}. brown. 4 'a; !?, \f\' II t tj« Place, SNIPE. Ijrown, more or lefsftreakedandfpottedwith rufous white: between tlie bill and eye, alfo the chin, white : on the back the marks arc pale rufous, and. pretty numerous, arifing from each feather having live or fix tranfverfe bars of that colour on the margins : the \ ing coverts have lefs brown in them, appearing at a diftance fcaicely marked with it : the quills are rufous cream-colour, dottcl with minute fpecks of brown j the four firfl: have the outer webs and ends of a dufky black ; the (haft of the outmoft one white: un- der wing coverts pale rufous : the bread and fides are of this lafl: colour, but much paler, and tranfverfely barred with dufky waved lines, broadeft on the fides: the middle of the belly and thighs plain : vent nearly white : tail rufous, crofled with fix or feven bars of brown on each feather j the three outer ones quite irregu- lar i the two middle ones paleft : legs black, and bare for an inch and a quarter above the knee. Inhabits Hud/on's Bay. Given to me by Mr. Hutchins. 4 34- •t-HUDSONIAN GODWIT. Description. T ENGTH feventcen inches. Bill three inches long, turning upwards ; the bafe half pale, the reft black : top of th«* head blackifh, fpotted or ftrcakcd with dufky white : fides of the head and back part of the neck much the fame : lore dufky : over the eyes, from the bill, a white flreak : chin nearly white : back and fcapuiars dufky brown, fpotted with rufous white, one fpot being placed on each fide of the fliafc, for the moft parr, though in the large feathers two : wing coverts brown, fome of the middle ones mixed with paler, with the addition of fome white fpots i larger coverts plain afh-colour : quills black, the fhafts wliite i the bafe of all, from the fourth, white to about one third of their length : rump, ■;i I SNIPE. rump, and upper tail coverts, white : the under parts of the bird, the whole way from the throat to the vent, fine rufous chefnut, waved acrofs with duflcy lines, each feather having a nariow line near thf rip : the tail feathers white at the bafe, taking up mod fpare as the feathers approach outwards i the reft of their length, duflcy black : legs black : wings and tail of equal lengths. 1 received this, with the former, from Mr. Hutchinsz 247 ^1 iW 1 1 1 ' ' il 1 \ . id \ I'H y S" 1 , 1 c f I •] GlNV3 r I 248 ] w. u ^:v:i .. '1.1 •■'i ' it'' 7.. i^ i' I il' '^Vi!l' ^J..'. 10. SWISS s. 1 1. GREYS. GuNus LXIX. SANDPIPER. N' 38. Greenwich S. 39. Brown S. 40. Black S. Swifs Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. p. 167. N° 10. /^ NE of thefe, from Hudfon's Bay, given to me as the female of this fpecies, had the upper parts brown, mottled with diifky white, not unlike the w^/^, but lefs bright : fides of th^ head and fore part of the neck white, fpiiingly marked with btown fpots : belly white, marked with longifli llituks of blark ; tiie ends of the feathers being black fur fome length : the quills, rump, and tail, as in the nia/e : in both, the fides of the body have leveral blark feathers, above two inches in length, arifing at the jundion of the wing. In both, the bill and legs are black, and a fpur fei ves inflead of a hind toe. h fhort, this rtpmedfetfuile is fo like the Grey Satiapipety that, the belly excepted, which in the Englijh one is not inarked with black, one muft fuppofe them to be mere varieties of each other. * Grey Sandpiper, Ctn. Syn. v. p. 168. N" 1 1. "I N the roof of the mouth of this bird is a double row of fpinous appendages pointing inwards : tongue the length of the bill : under the wing the fame long black feathers, eight or nine in number, as obferved above of the Swiji Sandpiper: and no back toe, only A/puVt much as in the Petrel, Dunlin, 1,1 SANDPIPER. 149 Dunlin, Gtn, Sjh. v. p. 185. N* 33. npHE Dunlin I have received, by favour of Mr. Hutcbins, from Hudfon*s Bay ; which differs fo little from the Britijh one, that a defcription is unneceHary, Dy^ NLIN. r I ■if^f; [ Southern Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. p. 187. N" 35. ^T^HIS I received from Hudjon^s Bay with the laft fpecies. It differs very little from the defcription of it in my Synopjist ex- . cept in being, in the whole, one inch longer ; and the bill only an inch and a quarter in length. - SOUTHERN SANDPIPER. 1>v Turnflone, Gen. Syn, v. p. 188. N" 37. 'J'HESE inhabit the coafts o( Kent, but not in great plenty. I received a male from Mr. Boyst of Sandwich, fhot near that place, Auguft 1785. The HudJorCi Bay natives know this fpecies by the name of Mijhee qua/qua ropajhijh*. 37- •4- TURN- STONE- 3«- GREENWICH S, CIZE of the Redjhank: weight near eight ounces: length twelve inches and a half. Bill an inchandahalf long, black: Description crown of the head reddifh brown, ftrcaked with black : nape, cheeks, and neck, afh-colour j the middle of the feathers dufky down the fhaft : lower part of the neck and back black ; the fea- SUPPL. • Mr. Hutcbiftt, Kk thers ■t« I >l «l ] '1^ M ii '! I r ■;(: 35a Pi.ACB. 1; ^J SANDPIPER. thcrs margined on the fides with pale ferruginous, and fome of thofe of the back at the tips alfo: chin nearly white : fore part of the neck very pale afh-colour, as far as the breaft, which is of a duflcy white: belly, fides, vent, and upper tail coverts on each fide, and whole of the under ones, white : Icflfer wing coverts afli- colour i the greater, the fame, obfcurely margined with pale fer- ruginous } greateft tipped with white j under wing coverts pure white : prime quills duflty, the fliafts more or lefs white ; feconda- ries and fcapulars nearly the colour of the back j the fecondaries and primaries very little differing in length : the lower part of the back, rump, and middle of the tail coverts, afh-colour : tail a little rounded at the end, brownifh afh-colour, fomewfiat mot- tled with brownifh near the tips, and fringed near the end with pale ferruginous : legs dufky olive green, bare an inch above the knee : the outer and middle toe conncdted at the bafe. The above was fhot at Greenwich^ on the 5th o( Augufti 1785, by Dr. Leithy who did me the favour to add it to my coUeftion. I efleem it a new fpecies. 39- BROWN S. DiSCRlPTION. Brown Sandpiper, Br. Zool. ii. N» 195. C IZE of a Jackfnipe, Bill black : the head, upper part of the neck, and back, of a pale brown, fpotted with black : coverts of the wings dufky, edged with dirty white : under fide of the neck white, flrcaked with black : the belly white : tail cinereous : legs black. In the coUedion of Mr. TmJialL Bought in the London market. Black ■if ■il SANDPIPER, ':1 i1 Black Sandpiper, Br. Zool. ii. N* 197. 40. BLACK S. CIZE of a Thrujh. Bill fliort, blunt at the point, and duflcy ; Descmption. noftrils black: irides yellow: the head fmall, and flatted at top ; the colour white, mofl: elegantly fpotted with grey : the neck, (houlders, and back, mottled in the fame manner, but darker, being tinged with brown ; in fome lights thefe parts ap- peared of a perfeft black, and glofly : the wings were long ; the quill feathers black, croffed near their bafe with a white line : the throat, bread, and belly, white, with faint brown and black fpots, of a longifli form, irregularly difperfed i but on the belly become larger, and more round : the tail fhort, entirely white, except the two middle feathers, which are black: the legs long and (lender, and of a reddifh brown colour. This was fliot in Lincoln/hire-, and communicated to Mr. /V»- PtAce. nant by Mr. Bolton, ■ r M \ H 'II ''I ! M Kk 2 G INU5 1 '*' ?■ t ■» ■ i t! I ft5a J '< 1 I . 'MM vib GOLDEN PL. . Gmus LXX. PLOVER. N' 24. a. Indian PI. ♦WITH A STRAIT BILL. Golden Plover, Gen.Sjn. v. p. 193, N» i. T HAVE mentioned in my Synopjist that this fpecies varied in having the belly fometimes black, and at other times black and white. I have been lately informed, that this is entirely owing to the fcafon. About the beginning of March, the appearance of black on the breaH; is Hrft feen, increafing by degrees till that part becomes of a full black; but after the time of incubation, this co- lour again difappears*. It is feen at times on the coafts of Kent, but we believe is far lefs plenty there than towards the north of England, It, no doubt, is a native oi India, as I have feen it ia drawings from thence» It is called there, Bugadee-f, IH «. 3- 4- LONG-LEG- GED PL. Description. Long-legged Plover, Gen. Sjn. v. p. 195. N" 3. T ENGTH fourteen inches. Bill two inches and a half long, ilrait and black : upper part of the head, and hind part of the neck, a(h-coloured i the edges of the feathers pale : back reddlfli brown : wings purplifh black : round the eye, and all the under parts, white : the wings exceed the tail in length : legs very long, and red. Mr. 'Jack/on. t Mrs. Wheeler, Inhabits PLOVER. Inhabits Indian and not uncommon : met with in flocks, and fre- quent in company with the 'teetareet or Cbinefe Redjhank. I apprehend the above to be no other than the Long-legged Plover in its juvenile (late j the more fo, as that bird is not unfrequent in India. Mrs. Wheeler informs me, that it is there known by the name of Crakoli* Sanderling, Ctn. Syn. v. p. 197. N" 4. 'T'HESE are met with on the coafls of X^v/, we believe, at all feafons. I have received them from my intelligent friend Mr. Boyst o^ Sandwich, both in January and in Auguft. This bird, like the Purre, and fome others, varies confiderably, either from age, or with the (eafon j for thofc received in Auguft, had the upper parts dark afh-coloured, and the feathers deeply edged with ferruginous j but others, fent to me in January, were of a plain dove«coloured grey : they differed alfo in fome other trifling par- ticulars. I am informed, that they are feen in autumn in fmall flights, and not unfrequently along with the Purres, and both of them indifcriminacely called Ox Birds, ^53 Plack. SANDER. LING. if ' ; ! 1 ; ^ , i i ' 1 i f ' i 1 i • ;' '' 1 i '; 1 ■ ■■A' T^ R. /i/: \ I .1 J: ^>. --CREAM-CO. LOURED PL. Pl. CXVL **WITH A CURVED BILL. Cream-coloured Plover, Gen.Syn. v. p. 217. N" 25. A Bird of this curious and fingular fpccies was (hot near Sf. Al- ifan'Sy in Eajl Kent, the feat of IVilliam Hammond, Efqj who prefented it to me with the following account. He firft met with it running upon fome light land ; and fo little fearful was it, that, after having fent for a gun, one was brought to him, which did not readily go off, having been charged fome time, and in confe- qucnce mifled his aim. The report frightened the bird away; bur, after making a turn or two, it again fettled within a hundred yards of him, when he was prepared with a fecond Ihot, which dif- patched it. It was obferved to run with incredible fwiftnefs, and, at intervals, to pick up fomething from the ground j and was fo bold, as to render it difficult to make it rife from the ground, in order to take a more fecure aim on the wing. The note was not like any kind of Plover's, nor indeed to be compared with that of any known bird. Genus Ml U I'l.CXM. r. (' /fY/ //f -^fi/f // /fv/ .'yf^i/ /•/•. I tr • i 1 . (■ i I > 'ts5« ». ' I 'I I'* i! I .*■' !i^i ';.« ill' !: '. % I-! I 'I ii IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. // #^ A f/. ^^ 1.0 I.I 1^ 1^ IIM 1^ 11 2.2 ^ tiS, I 1.8 1.25 1 1.4 II 1.6 ■^ 6" — ► Photographic Sciences Corpoiation 2;* iVEST MAIM STPSET VMSItSJ, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 M ■■Xj i\ iV \\ LV 4 '^W^ >> ■^ i F-^ 1 ¥ i U' I i' 1 1 ! I ■ r\ ■ ■ fr^-. pi. in p. 69. 'T^HE weight of this bird is frcciuently fourteen ounces and a half, Troy: length twenty -two inches; breadth thirty inches: length of the naked part of the legs feven inches. The Jvo/i-t appears on the coall of 7\>«/ about the middle of Jpril, and de- parts for the moll part the beginning of ^-SV/Zt-wZ-iT*. Gewus LXXXII. F L A M I N G O. Red Flamingo, Cfti. S\u. v. p. 299. K* i. "r\R. Sparrman-\ met witli large flocks of Flamingces between 'Table and Simon'' s Bay, near Jlphen, in the month o{ Jprily feeking their food in pools and puddles that were beginning to dry up. lie informs us, tiiat thcfe were of a fnow-whlte colour, and tiie wings of a flaming rofy hue. • Mr. Bcjs. t f'cj, i. p. JO. 3.. ** WITH SCOOPING AV, RED FL. ^J> ^1 , ii IM ^i'-h 1:1^ I I I I I t mitii k i [ *«+ ] mi I ♦•WITH SHORT LEGS. Genvs LXXXIV. auk. •^-RAZOR-BILL. Razor-bill, Gen. Syn. v. p. 319. N" 5. 'ipHE method that this bird takes in fifhing is rather fingular, often diving and catching fcveral fmall fifli, which it is ob- ferved to range on each fide of the bill, with the head in the mouth, and the tails hanging out on each fide of the bilh and when the mouth can hold no more, the bird retires to the rocks to fwallow them at leifure. ,.v. "•■IS; -J- GlNUS & /:„ [ S«J ] Genus LXXXV. GUILLEMOT. Fooliih Guillemot, Gen. Syn. vu p. 329. N* i. Singular circumftance has been obferved of this bird, which is, that when taken out of fight of the fea, and turned loofe, it docs not attempt to fly i but as foon as carried within reach of the fea, it flies thereto very readily; and if it is put into frefli wa- ter, it will fwim about, but feereis unwilling to dive, or, if forced thereto, does not to any great depth, and diredtly rifes again to the furface : whether this is owing to the want of proper food con- tained in the water, or repugnant to it as an dement unpleafing to its nature, cannot be determined. This bird, like the Razor- billi carries the fifli with the tails hanging out of the bill *, Black Guillemot, Gen.Sjn. vi. p. 332. N?3. npHE Black Guillemot is common in the Bay of Dublin, which it does not forfake the whole year f. I. 4- FOOLISH G. Mr. yad/on. t M StJPPL. M m Gen V s f- BLACK G. .1 ,. y ' i i V ; t: J tf '' 41 '■%i s w ■ I ( i ^.In i. ■ P r -ill <%! I'll h ■ 1^ :] IJ Jl m [ a66 I M I t I n'V' ■!■ !■ SANDWICH T. Genus LXXXVIII. TERN. - N° 24. Philippine T. Sandv'.ch Tern, Gen. Sjn. vi. p. 356. N''^. JAM informed, that this fpecics is equally common on the fhores of Suffolk in the fummer, as on thofe of Kent j and that it may be diftinguilhed from others both by its fuperior fize while flying, as well as the difference in note*. Mr. Boys has obferved to me, that it has a fhorter fcream than that of the Common Terny though more like it than the note of any other. It is found to aflbciate with the Common Tern^ for the mofl: part, while the Black Tern is in diftinfl flights, and all of the above confiderably more numerous than the Little Tern. The Sandwich Tern generally is feen in the neighbourhood of Romney about the 17th oi April, and departs about the 5th q( September, 4- WHITE T. White Tern, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 363. N" ij. Sterna alba, Starrm. Muf. Carl/, pi. 11. nPHIS author, in whofe work I firfl. obferve a figure of th« bird, remarks, that it inhabits the Eaft Indies, and the Cape cfCood Hope, as well as various parts of the South Seas, • Rev. Dr. Wilgrefs. Black If.+ TERN. 267 ' . i I Black Tern, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 366. N» 22. Sterna nigra, 6V/>;) ^'ijf. pi. in p. 131. 'HIS fpQcies is obferved to appear on the coafts of Kent in a few days after the other Terns; and, as they differ fomewhat in their manners, do not affociate. The Black Tern never depofits the eggs on the fea beach, as the others do, but breeds and feeds in the flows within land. It is a lefs fliy bird, and the note much fhrillcr than that of the other Terns. Le petit Fouquet des Philippines, Son. Voy. p. 125. t. 85. HIS is double the fize of the Common Tern. The bill bent black, and pointed at the end : the upper part of the head even with the eye is white : at the bafe of the bill is a narrow flripe of black, which furrounds the eye, and finillies in a point : neck, breaft, and belly, vinaceous grey i above, the fame, but deeper : quills, tail, and legs, black. Inhabits the Philippine JJles j often found at a great diftance from land. 4- BLACK T, 1 ■ ■■■ ■ 11 - ^ '■ !■ if f 24. PHILIPPINE T. Description. i Placi. •li. i 1 t! '^^ i^ M m a GiNUS r.i: \ \\ I iil [ a63 ] m 9- +- BLACK- HEADED G. t • ( 1 Gin US LXXXIX. GULL. BIack>headed GulJ, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 380. N* 9. Larus ridibundus, Sepp Fo^. pi. in p. 153. M. anil Pent, npHIS appears firfl: about Romney^ on the coaft o( Kent, about the 17 th o{ April, and departs tliC beginning of September . A few appear again in the winter*. +. BLACK- TOED G. Black-tocd Gull, Gen. Sjn. vi. p. 387. N° 15. 'HE beginning o^ September laft, I was prefented with one of thefe by Mr. Jackfon, which was (hoc at Fieldplace, near Horjlaam, in Sujfex. It differs from that defcribed in my Synopfts in a few particulars. It is fixteen inches in length. The whole plumage darker coloured, and mixed with ferruginous j the quills marked at the tips with the fame : bread mottled with white : the Ihape of the tail a trifle rounded at the end : the quills, when clofed, reach an inch beyond the tip of it f. t'r 18. s- TARROCK G. Var. a. Tarrock Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 393. N° 18. T Received this variety, killed near Teingmouth, in the county of Devon, November 1785 J. • Mr. Beys. t The tail in my fpecimen had but ten feathers ; that oi Brijfon contained twelve : I therefore fufped my bird to have been deficient therein, t Mr. Martin. Ge K U 5 C 269 ] ■,11 1 Genus XC. P E T R E L. * TRUE, WITH THE NOSTRILS CONTAINED IN A TUBE. Shearwater, Gc». Sjn, vi. p. 406. N" 11. 'TpHE Shearwater is obfcrved to fly in an undulating manner, defcending fo as almoft to touch the furface of the water, and then rifing again alternately. When fwimming on the water, it appears to raife itfelf with the greateft difficulty from the furface; and, in the eflfbrt, the head preponderates for feme diftance, when the bill is feen to cut the water; hence the name of Cutwater , or Shearwater^ has perhaps been given to the bird *. n. SHEARWATER. « Stormy Petrel, Gen. Sjn. vi. p. 411. N* 18. 'HIS bird vifits the ifle o(7'hanet early in the winter-, fome- times in the month Q(0£lober. One killed there in January f. In the middle of O^ober lafl:, one of thefe was feen on the banks of the Thames^ near NorthJieetX» when a boy threw a (lone at it, and ftunned it, fo as to take it with the hand. This was fent to me, and, as it appeared not hurt, I endeavoured to keep it alive, but it would by no means feed. It would dip its bill into a cup of water, when placed in the cage by it, but refufed all kind of food, and died the third day after I received it. It feemed to walk in a tripping manner, and with fome difficulty, when on its feet ; and would frequently fit down, refling the body on the whole length of the hind part of the legs. 18. •f- STORMY P. • Uv.Jack/oH. f Mr. Bcjs. J Mr. Madrcth. G E N U i r if •a . h I lil^ hn Yii.^ i I i|i^'* ■7' ' DUN-DIVER. [ 270 ] Genus XCI. MERGANSER. Dun-Diver, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 420. N°2. Mergus fcrratus, Brun. Orn. N" 96 *. T N confirmation of what I before advanced f , concerning the probability of this bird and the Goqfander being different fpe- cies, I have been lately informed by Dr. Heyjhamy that he fome time fince diflefted two Dun-Divers ; the one weighing about two pounds : this proved a female j the eggs numerous, and ap- pearing very diftinft. The other bird, being much larger, weighed full three pounds. The creft in this was longer than that of the other, and the belly of a bright buff-colour. This proved, on diffeiStion, a male j and the tejles werefufficiently apparent, and beginning to grow turgid. At this time he obferved, that he could not obtain a fingle Gcofandery though fome were feen about, and fometimes in company with, the Dun-Divers J. The Dun-Diver inhabits Ireland^ and breeds upon the iflands of the Shannont near KillaloOy and is frequently feen there the whole fummer through |1. The Goofander, Red-breajied G oof under ^ and Svkw, appear about Sandwich in winter §• * I have quoted the above, in my Synopjts, for the Red-h-cajled Goo/under ; but I am now clear that Brunnich meant the Mergus cajior of Linntrus, a fmall va- riety of this fpccies. YW% M. crijiatus, N" 94, 95. he ratiiXi% ^'Z Red bnajitd fpecies. f Sjnopfes, vol. vi, p. 421, 422. X My friend does not fay whether he obferved a labyrinth in the male bird. li Mr. Jack/oil, % Mr. Boys. Red-breafled !!■ '!■" ' MERGANSER. Red. breaded Merganfer, Gin. Syn. vi. p. 423. N" 3. Mcrgus criilatus M. it Fern. Brun. N" 94, 95. "IN a male of one of ihefe, which was Ihot near Sandwich, in Kent, I obferved that the feathers which compofe the creft were fimply black ; alfo down the middle of the crown, as well as the fpace before the eye, and beneath the chin and throat i but in the reft of the neck the black had a glofs of green. This fex is fi>r- nifhed with a curious and large labyrinth. The windpipe, about two inches from its entrance above, fwells out into an oval form, of three times the width it before occupied, and continues fo for about two inches j after which it refumes its firil fliape and fize, and fo continues, to the divarication into the lungs j at which place it pafles through, and communicates with a bony labyrinth, in fhape not unlike a heart, two inches and a quarter long by two in breadth; one fide of which is perforated with two holes, one of which is double the fize of the other, and both covered with a pellucid membrane which is dilatable, and ferves to en- large the cavity of the labyrinth at the will of the bird. Smew, Gen, Syn. vi. p. 428. N" 5. T HAVE once found a it^ Jhrimps in the ftomach of one of thefe birds. Mr. Jack/on informs me, that he has found it per- feftly diftended with them, and that they are fuppofcd to be its chief food. 17 r 3. BREASTED G. 5- H-SMEW •i iMi; I \. f », '1 1^. 1 . s .11 ■■ Sis <-'• K G S N u s |: k \ V ■i!i Hi iVJ 4- WHISTLING SW. 13- BLACK-BACK- ED G. I 272 ] Genus XCII. DUCK. N" 99. Pink-headed D. N* 100. Barred-headed D. Whirling Swan, CeH. Sjn. vi. p. 433. N" i. npHIS bird fometimes weighs twenty-five pounds*. The trachea^ or 'windpipe, enters the breaft-bone j the keel' like procefs of which, in moll other birds, is flat and fharp, but in this fpecies is very large and hollow. It is into this cavity that the luindpipe enters, and, after making a turn, comes out again at the orifice where it entered -f. In America they are not uncommon, efpecially on the borders of the upper lakes, as they breed in the lagoons and marfhy inlets, and migrate to the fouthern provinces with their young, in incre- dible numbers, about the beginning of O£fober J. Black-backed Goofe, Gen, Syn. vi. p. 449. N» 13. THO the defcription given before in the Synopfis, the following may be added. The male differs from i\it female in having the excrefcence at the bafe of the bill full as prominent and round- ed as in the King Duck j it is likewife flatted at top in the fame manner J but in the female it is confiderably fmaller : the glofs on the plumage is alfo more inclining to the green and blue reflec- tions in the male. Both fexes have along and dangerous fpur on • Mr.Bojs. f Dr. Htyjham, X Colonel Davits, the 1^^ M DUCK. the flioulder of the wing, which, as it is a ftrong bird, renders it a formidable enemy. It is found north of the Ganges^ but is not very- common. It is known by the name of JV«f/: Jo H I' ^i Vh I i- -i iniii^— ''■ «74 29. EIDER D. DUCK. Eider Duck. Gen. Sjn, vi. p. 470. N" 29. Anas MoUiHIma, Brun. N" 57— -66. — 6/flrr«. MuJ. Car!/, pi. 6. ''pHIS very fcldom vifits the foiithern part of this ifland ; yet Mr. Boys informs me, that he had a defcription of a bird (liot in the TJlando^ Tbatiet, March 1786, which could be no other than a male of this fpecies. P^ 37- VELVET D. Velvet Duck, Gen. Sjn. vi. p. 482. N" 37. 'T^HE Scoter and Velvet Buck are greatly fimilar in plumage, the laft: chiefly differing from the former in having the white mark beneath the eye, and a band of the fame acrofs the wing ; but internally they differ much : the male of the Scoter is totally without a lobyrinthi or enlargement of the "windpipe^ in any part j but the Velvet Duck has a very confpicuous fwelling, of a roundifh form, about the lize of a fmall walnut^ at about two thirds of its length ; though at the entrance into the lungs there is no real la^ byrinthy only an enlargement. :i \ ! t| Y . %• i ,1 RED-BILLED WHISTLING D. Red-billed Whillling Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 498. N« 47. Anas autumnalis, Jacq. Vog. p. 6. N» 4. 'T'HE bill in young birds is black. This fpecies is very com- mon at New Grenada^ in South America^ and is frequently kept tame in the farm-yards between the tropics, but is apt to be quarrelfome, and will often fly away. The Spaniards call the bird PiJeJiCi from its voice; the Englijhj Main-Buck. This is fre- quently brought into Europet and has propagated in an aviary at Shonbrunt in Sweden, t Shieldrake> I'i WT DUCK. Shicldrake, Geti. Syn. vi. p. 504. N" ji. TV/T Bauhenton * talks of a mixed breed between the Shieldrake and Common Duck; but fays that the produce was not fertile. a7S 5'- SHIELDRAKE. \\ t I Spanifli Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 525. N"69. Anas viduaca, Jaeq. Fog. p. 3. t. i. 'HIS fpecies inhabits Carthagenat in South America, The word Vindihy as written by LinnauSy is certainly an error of the prefs ; it ftiould have been viudita, which fignifies a little wi- dow, and was intended to be fo called f. It has been obfcrved to me, that the White-headed Duck o( Sco- poliXi and the Ural Duck of Dr. Pallas^, are the fame with this bird, notwithllanding the above authors confider them as new fpe- cies §. The Spanijh Duck was firll defcribed by Linnaus, and I muft confefs that the defcription of the three birds in queftion agree with each other exceedingly. » Weftern Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 532. N" 74. Anas difpar, M. & Fem. Sparrm. Muf, Carl/, pi. 7. 'T'HE male has been before defcribed. The female has the whole plumage mixed brown and ferru- ginous, not unlike that of the Woodcock. The quills are all ilrait, and of a duflcy colour j the fecondaries have fome of them white • Encyclopedit7ncthodique,\o\.\.^. 341. -j- Jacquin, JVrti'. ii. p. 713. ^ Mr, Pennant. N n 2 SPANISH D. f4' ■<- WESTERN D. Female. X Ann. i, N° i<^. tips, 'I \ I \ I % 1 1=1 ill Vi' ■t I I w ay 6 88. COMMON TEAL. DUCK. tips, making a fpot on the wing : fome of the wing coverts have alio white tips, forming a large fpot of white forwards : the legs are black. A pair of thefe were fliot at one time, on a river in OJlrogothia^ in Sweden, Common Teal, GV«. Syn, vi. p. 551. N° 8S. Anas Crccca, Sc-pp J'og, pi. in p. 147. M. and Fern. "DOTH the Garganey and this bird are found on the coafts of Kent in the w/w/tr *. The Teal is now know/; to breed in the mofles thout Carlijley \n Cumberland -f. Both the G^rf^v^^ and Teal extend to Lidia^ as I have met with them in drawings done in that country. I likewife find, that the IVild Duck, the Shovelerj and the Gadwaly inhabit the coad. o( Ccromandel, and, no doubty other parts of India. 99. Pi. CXIX. DEiCRipXION. PINK-HEADED gizE of t\it Blad-hilled Wl/iftling Buck: length twentjr-or.a inches. Bill two inches and a half in lengtli, a trifle bent at the point; colour of that, the whole of the head, and half the neck, a fine pink j and, as far as that colour extend'j, the feathers are fhort and downy : irides red : the lower part o(" the neck, and the refi. of the plumage, a diiflvy deep chocolate brown, except a kind of fpeculum, formed of three or four of the quills, vhich are of a pale red, or ru(l-colour : fome of the lower wing coverts are curved downwards at the ends, as in the male of the IFeJlern Duck \ : the tail is two inches in length and the wings r'^ach nea. one third Mr, £pyf. t 'DuHfyjUtn. t Ctn. <1yHt vi. p. 53- ««. thereon : i ri.cxix ifP I h' t' StJAG. r -t Gannet, : 1 1 \\l a So PELICAN. M < m ■m -4-0 ANNEX Gannet, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 608. N° 25. T Find that it is not the Pelecanus Sula of Linnausy but the Sula Hoieriy a different bird, and a mere variety of our Common Gati' mt^ which is now and then found in this kingdom*. It chiefly varies in having fome of the fecond quills, and fome of the tail feathers, "black. Mr. Martin, of Teingmouthy in Devonjhirey fufptfls that the Gannet breeds thereabouts, as he has feen the old birds in the fummer feaibn. 26. : -i'i-', Va-r. ' ■$ ' 4- LESSER G. ^ 'T!^ iDsSCRlFTION. I 1^' y Lefler Gannet, G^«. 5j». vi. p. 61 1 . N° 26 ? Lev. Muf. OIZE of a Dwf/J"; length twenty inches. Bill ftrait, as in the Gannety and Ihaped like it ; colour reddifh brown, with a dufky or black point j the bafe, and fkin round the eye, of a deep red. The pluntiage is wholly white, except the wings, fcapulars, and middle of the back, which are duflcy, and the quills black : the tail is even at the end : legs blood red, I apprehend this bird to be a variety of the Lejfer Gannet, It differs chiefly in being fmaller, and in having the tail feathers white throughout, which in the other are only white at the bafe, the rcfl of the length being black. • Sjn, vol. vL p. 613.— ifrged F. ' II Grey F. ^ — White Jerfalcon ' - Brown Lanner '" — Hen-Harrier ■ — Ring-tail >— — Keftril — - Sparrow-Hawk — Hobby ° — -- Merlin ^ — — SynopHs. I. • 82 ■ 83 - 86 ■ 88 -89 ■ 94 " 99 ■ 103 -106 O W L. II Great eared O. ' - Long-eared O. — * Short-eared O. ' - White O. — — Tawny O. — — Brown O. — — II Little O. ' — ■116 121 ■124 •138 •»39 -140 -150 Supplem. 22 25 26 28 29 Br. Zoot. IF. p. 632 I. N''49 47 51 58 60 62 61 63 F A L C O. Norvegicus — Grifeus ■— IJlandus — Lanarius — Cyaneus — P^rgargus — Tinnunculus NifuG — Subbuteo — Mfalon — Syft. Nat. I. Genus III. 40 42 43 46 47 48 I- 64 ^5 66 67 68 69 70 T R I X. Bubo — Otus — Brachyotos — Flammea — Stridula — Ulula — Pafferina — —131 — 132 I 4 ■*33 — 9 10 12 * Not very common. I have twice received it from Suffolk. Has alfo been fhot near London. k Once fliot at Halifax^ in York/hire. ' Inhabits the North of Scotland. m Once caught in a decoy in Lincoln/hire. " By fome late obfervations it fltould feem that the Hen-Harrier and Ringtail differ only in fex. ** The Hobby fuppoCed to migrate hence in Oflober. P The Merlin does not appear in the South till towards the nuinter : breeds in Scotland, alfo in Cumberland. 9 This fpecies is very rarely feen in England. ' Appears with us in 0£lober--t^\A to come and go with the IVoodcocki hence %y fome called the HToodtock Owl, ' Exceedingly rare in England, Order OF GREAT BRITAIN. O R D E R II. PIES. t8i Shrike. f Great cinereous Sh. fRed-backed Sh. "• - fWood Chat ' — Crow. Raven ***• Crow — ' Rook — » Hooded Cr. * Jackdaw — 'Jay . "" Magpie — II Nutcracker * Red-legged Cr. Synop ■132 '33 . id. Fringilla. Domeftica Montana — Cslebs — Montifringilla Carduelis — Spinus — Linota — Cannabina Linaria — Pipilans — ■ zn — 36 ■324 318 — — 37 — 3 — 4 — 7 322 ■~~ 25 • 322 — 28 ^^ 29 ■l I FtYCATCHER. t Spotted Fl. — t Pied Fl. — — Genus XXXVIII. MUSCI CAPA. ■323 ■324 •»34 •'35 Grifola Atricapilh. — 3^8 — 20 —326—9 " " ° Moftly found in the North of England; rarely in the South. p Caught In Mary-le-Bon-fields near London. "3 Chiefly found in Lancajhire, Lincoln/hire, and YtrhJhirCi ' Sometimes comes into England in vaft flocks^ and mixes with the (JhaffincbeSi Genus ^r I' OF GREAT BRITAIN. 287 ir:| M Lark. Sky Lnrk — Wood L. — Tit L. — Field L. — li Red L. • il Leflercrcfted L. Genus XXXIXt Syn'.'pfi . IV.p.368 371 374 375 376 39« Stipplem. Rr. Zool. :.N° 136 137 13^ 139 140 141 A L AU D A. Arvenfis — Arborca — Pratcnfis — g-cjjis — l^enhlvanica Crijtatella — Syft. Nat. I. p. 287. N« I - 3 — 2 11 ft Wagtail. White W. — Grey W. ^ — — + Yellow W — ■395 -398 -400 Warb l e r. + Nightingale — 408 t Greater Pettychaps 4«3 t Lefler D" — id. Hedge W — — 419 •f- Redftart — — 421 + White-throat — 428 t Grafshopper W. - 429 t Sedge W. — 430 »? Dartford W. " — 435 Redbrcaft — — 442 £ N U S XL. 178 id. 179 • J 42 ■144 •143 Motaci ll a Alba _— Boarula — Flava ... - 331 II - Ziv — 12 Genus XLI. t8o ■180 -181 •145 .149 ■150 -146 -160 .156 -155 -i6j -147 Sylvia ( Motadiia, Lin . ) Lufcinla — .— Simplex — — Hippolais — — Modularis — — Phcenicurus — Communis — — Trivialis {Alauda, Lin.) Salicaria — — Dartfordienfis — Rubecula — — — 328 — ■ 330 — — 329 — — 33S — — 288 — — 330 — 7 3 34 5 8 — 337 — 45 s Now and then met with in the neighbourhood of London ; but more common in America, ' Breeds in the North of England ; only feen in the South during the nvinter months. " This is probably only a winltr inhabitant, at Icaft it has ngt yet been feen in the fummtr feafon in the South of England. 2 Stone I'i; n (■I '. 1 ^1 i'l • ' III 11 u i : !1 'i- 1 2S8 LIST OF THE BIRDS I ■1 ' i t W A R n L F. R . Sronc Chat — WhiiT Chat — t When Ear — ^ Grey D". VarA. Common Wren — Gold-crcfted VVr. - t Yellow Wr. — D' V ar. 1 t Reed Wr. * - tLciVcrWhitc- throat* SjTU'l'lU Supi>lcm. 1 I T ^t O U ? E . Cireat T. Colemoufo * Marm T. Blue T. Long-tiiilcd T. Bearded T. >• S -v A L L o vv. i Chimney Sw. — •>- Martin — t Sand M. — t Swift — — GoATSU K£R. t European G. - -530 -540 •54' -543 -550 ■552 564 -568 -584 ■182 184 .185 Bi. /ool. S V L V 1 A. Rubici)la Rubctrn ()i.Mianthe 'd. ,.. — Troj^lodytcs Rer^uUis w- Prochilus ' Acred u la Arundinacea SyluifUa Genus XLIII. ' id. "1 90 - id. 162 •164 ■165 ■ ihi -166 ■167 A R U 5. Major — Atcr — PaluOris C-.erulcus Caudatus Biarmicus — 341 — 342 — 3 7 8 5 II 12 Genus XLIV. 192 id. •168 •169 ■170 •171 H I R U N D O. Riiftica Urbica IRipariii Apus 343 3H — 3 — 4. — 6 Genus XLV\ i Capri M ULCUS. ■5Q3I 194 172 jEuropFsus - 346 — 1 » * Newly. iliicovered i,'ec'.cs. I apprelienJ the latter to be the Motacilln f^yivia of Liiinttus, iithor than the If'hitf threat, as is by Ibav: luppoled. x It is hy inmy lield in doiibr, wlKtlicr or not (his and the Mext are diltin£\ fpeciest > No doubt breeds it\ En^lamt, as 1 ha/e met wuh it at all lealuns. Order OF GREAT BRITAIN. Order IV. COLUMBINE. Genus XLVI. 289 Pigeon. SylKipni. Stipplem. Stock F. - lV.p.604 p. 197 Ring P. — — 63 s . 198 -1 Common Turtle ~ 644 199 t Spottcd-ncckcd D" 645 aoo Br. Zoo). r. N" loi ——102 — 103 C O L U M B A' Ocnas — — Palumbus — Turtur — — Syft. NM. 1. p. 279. N" r — 282 — 19 — 284 — 3» Peacock. X Crcfted P. Order V. GALLINACEOUS. Genus XLVII. 1 Turkey. X Common T. — 11 H V A V o. Genus XLVIII. I I] '( M B L E A C R r S. — I — 267 — — — 268 - I — 676I 203II 282|lv:'aUopavo Genus XLlX. P.K-ADO. I 1 II 11 N""'-*- I ^G„i„eaP. -I 685I— «4ll W||Ma«gris -|- ^73 - ■ Genus LI. Pheasant. X Cock and Varieties PheaCant — Ring D". Var. ^ — X Pain-:d Ph. • - X Pencilled Ph. — 700 712 715 7^7 719 -207 -208 -279 -280 Phasianus. Galliis — — Colcl-.icus — Pilus — — Nydthemerus •—• 270 271 t — 272 — < p .. Genus I A common l\ common. SVTTU ■ '1 I'^h 1 1 )■;«' 1 ) ',1 I' '4 I IW i .•^■««»-- 2<)0 LIST OF THE BIRDS ENDS LIII. G R U s. „ 'Vood Gr. " — Black Gr. — 11 Spurious Gr. Var. Ptarmigan — Red Gr. — Jiynoplls. IV. p 729 733 734 74' 746 Supplem. 213 •214 216 I Br. Zool. I. N° 9?. iS'. 95 94 T E T R A 0. Urogallus Tetrix — Hybridus Lagopus — Scoticus Sytt. Nat. I. p. 273. N» I - 274 -. 2 — 273 — i^ — 274 — 4 »i>!li . ' '.1! Partr id c e. Common P. — II Guernfey P. "= — Common Quail — Bustard. Great B. — tl Little B.'' — Thick-kneed B. — •762 -768 -779 .796 "799 ■806 E N U S ■220 •222 •226 LIV. PeRDIX {ftetrac, Lin.) Cinerea — Rufa — Coturnix 96 97 — 276 — 13 — 276 — 12 — 278 — 20 Genus LVI. I. Otis. go Tarda — 99 Tetrax — — 100 lOedicnemUS {Cbaradrlus) — 264 — I — 25s — 10 * This Genus, for the nioft part, inhabits only the :aore Northern counties 5 the firft fpecies found only in Highlands of Scotland, where at this prefe :tt it is very rare. < d Now and then met with at large in England^ but as both of them prefer the warmer climates, it i» fcarce probable that they will ever become common in this ifland. i' Div. n. ij OF GREAT BRITAIN. D I V. II. WATER-BIRDS. Order VII. With Cloven Feet. lot Genus LX. Sfoonbill. } White Sp. " — Synopfis. I Supplem. V. p. 131 — P- Br> Zool. II. p. 634 Platalea. Leucorodia Syft. Nat. h p. 23T N* I Genus LXV. Heron. t _ II Common Crane II White Stork s II Night Herou ^ — Bittern — — y Little B. ' - Common Heron — II Egret '' — II Great Wh. Heron II African "" — - -629 -N» — p. — N° — P- ■ 174 633 173 631 175 A R D E A Grus Ciconia NytSlicor^x Stellaris Minuta Cinerea Garzetta Alba Rutila D E A. I 234 — 4 235 — 7 — — 9 — 239 — 21 — 240 — 20 236-11-1* — 237 — »3 — 239 — 24. Genus LXVI. Ibis. 1 Glofly I. " — — 115 Curlew. Common C. Whimbrel — II Pygmy • - E — 119 — 123 127 Tantalus. Igneus — - Genus LXVII. — p. 242 ■176 •177 N U M E N I U %[ScohpaxUr\.) Arquatus — *— Phajopus — — Pygmaus — * — ^ • Very rare. A flock of them migrated into the marfhes near Tarfniuth, in 1774. ' Said to he common in England many years ago, noi» fcarce ever met with. 8 Has twice be';n met witli in thi» kingdom. h One fljot near l»««fo«r in i?!*. 1 Only two or three times feen in £nj/a«(/. >* ' Once faid 10 be plentiful here, now very rarely met with. « One fhot in AJhdovjn Fark, Berks; an African fp, ? n Chiefly inhabits Ru£ia\ one in the Leverian Mufeum, ftiot in CornivaU. ° Two only upon record ; one met with in Holland, the other fliot laft year near Sandwich, in Kent. The weight of this fpecimen was almoft % ounces, length 8i inches, breadth 151 inches, bill i| incli ; the edges of all the feathers a very i^a'c oker inftead of white. Dr. Leitb feems to think that he has met with this bird in the marflies near Grtenivicb, in ilie month of Augujt, Ppa Gbnui V I •! ^ i W i J \ r I I ■8 39% LIST OF THE BIRDS Genus LXVIII. S N I P P. V/ondcock |] Cir-at Snipe p * Common Snipe * Jack Sn. il Red God wit T Common G. Var. A. II Cinereous (i. ' II Cambridge G. ' II Jadreka Sn. * Greenfhar.k II Spotted Sn. Rediliaiik — SCOLOPAX. Rufticohi — Me'dia — Gallinago Gallinula — Lapponica i^goccphala Var. Cinefocea — Cantiii rigitnjis Limofa — Glottis — '^otanus 'alidris S)ll. Nat. r. p. 2+3. N* 6 — 244 — 7 — 8 — 246 — 15 — 16 — 245 — 245 — — p 245 — 13 10 12 IE Genus LXIX. ,<>^4' Sandpiper. + RufF — Lapwing — II Gambet *Grey S. • Green S. Var. A. * Afli-coloured S. •J- Common S. II Spotted S. Purre — Var. A II Little S. Dunlin — Red S. — t Knot — Turnftone Var. A. 159 ■161 ■167 -168 -170 -171 -177 -178 .179 -182 -183 -184 -185 -186 -187 -188 -190 -248 •192 -190 -198 •igi •201 -249 -249 T R I N G A. Pugnax — Vancllus Gambetta — Squatarola Ocropus — Var. Cinerea ? Hypoleucos Macularia Cinclus Pufilla Alpina Icelandica Canutus Interpres Morinella -247 -248 -252 ■250 c 2 3 23 »3 P Has twice been (hot in Kent, and once in Lanca/bire ; is a vejjr rare fpecies. met with twice in England* ' A fingle fpecimen fliot in Lmolnjbin, Camtridgt, — 250 — 14 —249 — 7 —251 — 18 — 2^2 — 20 —249 — II Addend. —251 — 15 —248 — 4 —248 — 6 1 Only has been > Once (hot near II Greenwich w OF GREAT BRITAIN. 293 Sandpiper. g Greenwich S.' j Brown S. " II Black S." — p. 249 250 251 Br. Zool. II. — '95 '97 T R I N G A . Grenoi. iccnfis Fufca — ' Leucura — Sjft. Kat. I. Genus LXX. ► With a ftraight Bill. P t O V ER. Golden PI. I Long-legged PI. Sanderling — + Ringed PI. f Dotterel _— Var. A. ■^93 •195 -'97 -201 -208 -209 252 — 208 id. 209 ■253 212 — 211 253 210 ■■■ Ch ARADRIUS. Pluvialis — • Himantopus Calidris — Hiaticula — Morincllus — 254 — 7 — 255 — 1 1 — 9 — 253 — I — 25+ — i * * With a curved Bilh II Cream-coloured PI." I Oyster-Catcher. I Pied O. C. —I Rail. Water R. — Gallinule. f Crake G. — Common G. — II Spotted G.. — -217I 254II - Genus -2 1 91 LXXI. I Hjematopus. -213I Oftralegus — I —257 — Genus L.XXII. -22: .214 I R A LL U S. |Aquaticus — — 262 — .2 Genus LXXV. I •250 -258 -264 -216 -217 -215 Gallinula, {RuHuf Si FulkJ, Lin.) Crex (Ka//«i) — Chloropus {Fuiiij) — Porzana {Raiiui) — 261 258 262 I -!■ 3 > A f.nglc fpecimen (hot near Grcenivtcb, ^ry Kent. ' A bird of this fpecies was (hot m Z..««/«/i/'-^. luTope, the one in trance, the other in England, Ihot in u Once met with in the London market. w Two only on record have been met with AV»/, and in my own coUcilion. U R. D £ R I" i \ i 1 1 1 1 ) I — .li. J. 494 LIST OF THE BIRDS Order VIII. With Pinnated Feet. Phalarope. Red Ph. « Grey Ph. i Synopfis. V. p. 271 ——272 Genus LXXVII. Supplcm. Br. Zool. PhALAROPUS, (Trirtga, Lin.) — p. — II.N»2i9 218 Fulicarius •— Lobatus — - — > Syft. Nat. r. p. 249. N» 10 Coot. Common C. — Greater C. — Genus LXXVIII. ■275 -277 p. a59 -220 ■221 F U L I C A. Atra — — Aterrima — — -257 — » 258- 3 Genus LXXIX. Grebe. Crefted Gr. ' — Tippet Gr. * Eared Gr. — — Dudcy Gr. — 11 Red-necked Gr. '' - Little Gr. II Black-ch i Gr. « - •281 -283 -285 -286 ■288 -289 -292 •260 -223 •222 -224 -225 ■226 •227 PODICEPS, {Colymbus, Lin,)' Criftatus — Urinator •— Auritus — Nigricans •— RuficelUs — Minutus — « Hebridalis —212 —223 — 222 7 9 8 d« "th^llVI^'Mf rTT^^ "" '" ""' kingdom. > . There two are probably only one fpc «eV ;hh|1x«;tTn'Sll &£: ' ^"' '''''' ''^"^'^^'' '" '""^ '^'"Sdom. ^ N^t hitherto OrD EH :'!^ ' I OV GREAT BRITAIN. 2i»'oiinJtci with the other Terns ; i is the young bird, "^ A doubtful fpecles. ' ' " '• riiel'c thite nuv poiViblv hereafter piove to be of the fame Ipecies, ot whidi the lalt is cither \\\tfema!f, or young bird in impcif.a phimage. " P Thtfc two differ aho from age : P is a bird of the firft year/ as this fpccies does not gain it's blacL head till the fecond. 4 A rare fpecies ; at tint fight differs not greatly from the hiaik-leaJeJ, but on examination fecms diilina. \ Very rare ; one recorded to have been Oiot near Oxford, and another killed near Horjham, in Sujfex : now in my «-«llea»on, ' ■ Piobabiy only differing in fcx or aee. Genus ^; " »( ' OF GREAT n H I T A I N. ftff Genus XCI. A I E R C. A N 8 !■ R . Coor.iiidcr " Dun-diver " Rcd-breaOcd M. Smew — Minute M. Duck. 1! Whifllin- Swan — I Mute Swan — iChiniiGool'e — V^ar. A. — X Canada G. — 4 -^ [iyptian G. ■ — II Rcd-brt-aflcdG." - J Grcv l.i<; (»• — * Whitc'-froi.icd G. * Bean G. — ~ * Bcrnacle — — * Brent — — {| Eider G. — X Mofchovy — * Scoter — — •» Velvet D. — 4: Mallard — — X Hook-billed — * Scaup D. — Shicldrake — — Shovelcr — — II Red-brcafted D° - * Gad wall — — * Wiceon — — II RinTaculatcd D. " * Pochard — — - II Ferruginous — Hr. /.oil. M F, R C U S. iMtTfTiUlfLT '(Jailor — ScrrnKir — Albclhis —- .Minutus — ?,.i. N>t. 1. 7.C^ N^ 2 2"n — 2CS — 20^ — id. — 4 3 5 b Genus XCII. -433 -43^ 447 - id, .450 -453 455 •459 •4f\i -464 -46O -467 -47c .476 -4HC - id. .4S9 -495 -500 -504 -5C9 -512 ■5'5 -5.8 -521 -523 -526 -272 •274 164 265 ■274 -»75 -266 268 ■2L7 -Itc) -;7C -271 •273 -272 ■279 -275 -278 -280 ■2S1 -28S -?86 -28^ -284 -283 Ana?. Cyr^nus (ferns) — (manluetus) Cygnoides C.inadcnfis /f/jvptiaca Ruficoiiis Anlcr ■f/.'u/rovs F.ilalls Erythropus i crricla Moll I Hi ma Mul'chata Nitira iiifca — Bofchas Adunca Mania Tadorna Clypcata Rufgajicr -"t re pel a Penelope Krloc'ttans Ferina Hutila 194 ■ ui. I a — 2 — 2 .9S '07 14 — IQ7 197 198 199 — 195 — 196 — 20s — 206 — 19'; — 195 — 200 — 2v"2 — I I '3 I) ih 1 6 40 41 8 4 '9 20 27 II 20^ u V Tlic Coo/«*>/. line 6, 21, 2, 7. 17. >7. 'S. 5. for iiiJ. in the note, 394, in the margin, — AFRICAN, 26, or (tndi tt, 17. 124, 'vtrdatrt • Cochical ■ ,556 plaitchets read S6. . ./ • ctndrc, . )6. . njtrli, • Cochicat. c6;3. SENEGAL. VOL. II. 5^3. 672 10, at" 10, 682, place the note at the bottom in pnge 683. 736, line 6, for iucbei read linn. t pi. 43. S8, 91. 120, 139' 143. 194» 198. Z06, 307. 350. 351. 3W» VOL. IIL 18, "■ iv. 14, 299, 2, after lacb, add feather 18, for 19, read 12, —1 6reaJ} • 16, after 1, add p. 311. 17, dele belly --ivhii:. II, for 316, 17, 14^'. 8, 236, 18, 23-, S, 237, 111. ■ 297- I'- 142. 327- 3*7- 372. \\\ rv \ CORRECTIONS IM THE FORMER 'OLUMESf. VOL. IV. V 371. 468. 498. 55='. 584. 6S5. 733. 764. 159. 185, 280, line 17. 6, >9. 8, u, 4. 2, 16, »3. 2, for ;24. read No. 22.5, ;ead 216. after Lark, add ^;-. ZW. No. 141. for 235, r.;ad 535. »5» 3». 33 «• at the end, ^dd tips of the. for iii. p. 344. read v. p. 342. 34O' Species, 24, 2;'2, Ctejtt VOL. V. 2I> 5. 2, 7.7. H7. 429, 19, after rf'e«ii>i re^a /trrattd. ■34»- • Genus. 42. 274. refi. 76. 247. 249. Ill ' ili! VOL. VI. 232, 25, after Gee/aader, 5, for 462, 3^ 77. 78, 21, N* 91, 4, ' 26, Omitted in the Index, Tringafufca, p. 225. icad 222. 5r. Ztf#/. 472. n p. 21. ■ p. 21. .36. ERRATA ill the Supplement. 98, in the Note, for Phalant, read Pkalana. 161, line «i> iaxbarbtta, i%9A larbata. INDEX. !i N D E X. ADJUTANT — Agabue de terre Aigle, Malabarre '— raye — A kaiearooa — Alcedo ifpida — Alferraz — Amaduvade — Amide aho — Anas anfer — autumnalis — crecca — moUifllma — viduata — Apiflt-mikefue — Ardea nivea — nyfticorax ■ — Ilellaris — Ardeola •" Argala "»« Afitchoa acha(hifli — Aunjun — Avolec "-"^ Autour a ventre raye Barbet, doubtful — grand — Indian — fpotted-belUed wax-billed — yellow-cheeked Bauge — Bee-eater, common L'oromandcl Indian « — yellow-tufted Bittern — little — Suppu. page 233 95 — 12 — 32 — 126 — 115 — 14 — 168 — 42 — *73 — 274 — 276 — 274 — 275 — 8-10 — 236 — 234- — ib. — ass — 233 — 148 — 23J- — 263 — 32 96 96 96 9j lb U9 I70 ib. ib. 234 233 Blackbird — ere lied — Boleta — Bone-breaker — eater — taker — Boulboul — Brothers five *— Bugadee — Bum — Bumrauge — - Bungummi — Bunting, black-crowned black-throated cinereous — • Gaur — Maelby — ortolan — painted — reed — fncw — white crowned yellow — Bufe criardfe — Buffenbuddoo — Burtard, Arabian — Indian — little — Paffarage — white-cared Buttore — Buzzard, common — honey — moor — paje C. Calao de Coromandel dc Gingi 141 — 36 — 3 — 9 — 233 — ib. —53-57 — M» — 252 — 46 — 56 — 9+ — 159 _ 158 — '59 — lOo — ib. •— '57 — 159 — '57 -* ib. — '59 — '57 — ".8 — 226 — 228 — 226 — 228 — 227 — 241 — '4 _ ,4 - 67 — 7« Canary- N D X. i Canary-biter — page 5« Caprimulgus — — 194 Cerchia familiarls — — 126 melanura — — »3 + muraria — — 129 Chaffinch — — i6s Cbaha — — 24S" -255 Chatterer, red-winged 146 Cheela — — 3J Chep-ftarling — — '.?7 Ci-.epftcr ^ — — ib. Cherry deanilh — — 70 Cheucquoir — — 220 Chouatna — — 21 Churge — — 2Z8 Churre — 223 Cockatoo — — 63 Cock, domeilic — — 207 Columba Caribaea — — 199 corenfis — — 201 cyanocephala — 200 Indica — — 193 oenas — — '97 pzlumbus — 198 paflerina — — 200 perdix — — 197 itriata — — 200 turtur — — 199 Cdly, green — — 147 ib. Indian — — iCoIymbus — — 260 Condur — — t Coot — — 259 Coracias garrula •— — 85 Cnrvorant — — 279 •Corvus argyropthalmus 81 caryocatadles — 82 corax — — 7 + cornix — — 77 corone — •^ 75 glaadarius — 79 gracula — — 82 •moncdula — — 78 .pica — So totus niger — — 142 Coucou noir — 96— lOZ Gnudey — — 257 Vowal — — J45 Loweel — — 9 Cowpen Crakoli — Crane, gigar.tc — Indian — Crax Cumancnfis — pi pile — Creeper, African — a(h-bellied — barred-tail — black and blue •bl ue — rumped common — famous — hook billed indigo — long- billed mocking — orange-backed red backed billed ~ fnufF- coloured tufted — wall — wattled — yellow-bellied winged Crofsbill — Crow, bare-necked — carrion — hooded — Macao — New Guinea pheafant — Philippine — purple-headed red-billed — legged — rufous — (hort- tailed Surinam — Cuckow, black — common — crefted — Egyptian — grey-headed honey — Sonncrat's Cuculus canorus — — page i6j — 253 2^2 — ib. 205 •1 — J J. — 127 — 130 — 133 — 128 — ib. — 13a — 126 — 128 —126-127 — 130 — »33 — 1 29 — 1.32 — ib. — 135 — 129 — 132 — 129 — ib. — 131 — 133 — 148 — 79 — 75 — 77 — 84 — 78 — loi ~ 78 — 83 — 96 — 82 — 8+ — 81 — ib. —96-99 — 98 — 100 — ib. — 102 — 10 — 102 — q8 Cucuitts N D X. Gounghill — page 237 Orakle, creftcd — — 90 dial — — 9» minor — — 90 purple — — ib. yellow-faced — 91 Grebe, red-necked — — 260 Greenftiank — — 245 Grimpereau a dos rouge «— 132 de Malacca — 131 fiffleur — 132 verd — — 131 Gronjeak, afli-headed — 155 Afiatic — — 153 black-bellied — ib. brown-cheeked — 154 Cape — — . 149 cardinal — — 150 Dominican — 15 s dwarf — — 1 54 «ailern •*- — 155 fafciated — 154 Flamingo — 15; gold-backed — 149 green — — 152 Hamburgh — 153 Java — — 15 > Madagafcar — 150 Malacca — 152 paradife . — — 150 pine — — 148 thick-billed •— 152 Totty — — 156 Grous, black — — 213 Helfingian — — long -tailed — — iH . Kamaqua — ^ — 215 i-ed — — 216 Rehufak — — ib. rock — — 217 rufFed — ' — 215 ftiarp-tail — — 2«2 fpoued — — 214 fpurious — — »b. (hou'der-knot ' — 215 Guepicrjaune — — 120 Guillemot, black — — 765 fooliih ■— •— ib. Gull, black-headed — page 2^8 toed — — ib. tarrock ~ — ib. H. Haddstt — Hadeide — Hagedafch — Hainga — Hanging-bird — Haifang — Hawfinch — Hawk, moufe — pigeon — fparrow — Heoro-taire — Heron, African — cinnamon — Coromandel — Lohaujung — night — fnoAy — violet — yellow, necked Hibou de Coromandel de la Chine — Hirundo domeftica — urbica — Hobby — orange-breafted Hocco — Honeft-face — Hoohoo — Hoopoe — Hornbill, G!ngi_ — green-winged grey — New Holland pied — rhinoceros wreathe 1 — Humming-bird, irlcquin mans;o patch-necked ruft" ne ked — 34 — 2+Z — ib. — 66 — >74 — 45 — 148 — 41 — 27 — 26 — 127 — 237 — 23; — 237 — 238 — 234 — 236 — ib, — 239 — 44 — ib. — 192 — ib. — 28 — ib. — 206 — 95 — 127 — 122 ~ 7» — 73 — 72 — ib. — 69 — ib. — 70 — "35 — ib. ib. ib. Rr J. Jabiru, N X. Jabiru, Indian — page lacamnr — — jacaiKi, Chinefe — — InJi;in — — Lur.oiiiaii — — Jackdaw — — Jaunghill — — Jay — •— Cayenne — — red billed — — wiiite-eared — — Ibis, black- headed — — coco — — white headed — -- Jean le blanc — — Jerfalcon — • — Ju-!oang — — Junco ~ —1 ti Jurra — -^ L. 231 I '3 256 257 2^6 78 240 79 80 ib. 240 241 240 12 21 "1 -180 16 Lark, black Calandre Larus r>dibundu3 Laeinmer geyer Lanius collurio excubitor Lanner — Lefkoy, or Leuquoy Linnet, white Lohaujung — Long-tongue Looloo — Lory, fcarlet Loxia chloris coccothrauftes flamengo minima pyrrhula totta Luglug — — page K. Kaenne — — 7^ Kakakew — — 74 Kaykay — --63-66 Kcftril — — — 25 Kethewuck-michefue — 8 Keuvict — — 24 f Kimmewiinapuykutefliifli — 1S3 Kingsfiflier, A'T'izoniun — 116 belted — — ib. black-capped — 115 blue-headed r — ib. Cape — • — 114 common — 1 1 ; facrcd — —114 kifkemanafue — — 1 16 Kite — — 17 Arabiiiri — — 34 Bramany — — 12 Koato-o-oo — — 114 Koenai — — 76 Komiflnrk-papanafew — 16 Kottorca — — 95 Kueronden — — iz Kuril — ■— y9 M. 177 ib. 268 I 5» 21 90 .65 238 :o3 4« 60 152 148 >S5 15+ 152 156 m Maccaw, Brafilian — 58 military — — ib. Magpie — — 81 Mamat — — . 170 Manakin, Uriped-headcd — 188 Mango-bird — — 89 Martin — 144- -192 Mafter of Rice — 70 May- may — Mekifewe paupaftaow ■ 106 109 Merganfer — — 271 Mergus cailor — — 270 crillatus — — 271 ferratus — •— 270 Merle huppc, petit — S3 Merlin — — 29 Merops apiailer — — 119 Minor — — 90 Mifhee quafqua ropa fliilli Moh6 — -— 249 1X3 Moina — ■ — 93 Monaul — - — — 2cg Monichjore — Moon N D E X. Cuculus ferratus — pnge loo Curaflbw, Cu;n:ina — — 20,- galeatcd — — 206 piping — — 20s Curlew, common — — 241 Efkimaux — — 243 Hudibnian — — ib. wliiiehcaded — 242 Curucui, blue-cheeked — 93 fafciated — — ib. Indian — — ib. CufabatRfliJlli — — >59 ©'. Dotterel — — 253 Dove, ground — 2CI Drongo • — — 5^ Duck, barred-headed 277 Eider — — 27 + grey-headed — 273 main — — 274. pink headed — 276 Spaniih — — 275 velvet — — 2;4 weflern — — 275 whillling — — 274 Dullpee — — 257 Dungbird — — 2 Dun-diver — — 270 E. Eagle, bald — black — black cheeked cinereous golden Malabar plaintive Pondicherry ring tailed fca white crowned headed Fee eve Su PP L. — 9 -- 8-10 — II — — ib. — — 10 — — 12 — — 4 — 9 _ — 12 ■— >3 — 9 — 127 Embcriza ciirinella — pagf »S7 h j> tulana — lb. Maelbyenlis — 160 fchoiniclus — J57 Eiigang — — 69 f. Falco a:ruginofus — — 1 aplvorui — — buteo '— — Cheriway — — chryfaetos — • — cyaneus — — fulvus — — fulcus — — gentills — — hali.rtus — — lanarius — -~ rnilvus — — nifus — — olifraga — — palumbarius — rullicolus — — fubbuieo — — tinnunculus — torquatus — • — vefpertinus — — Falcon, .American — • - Afiatic — - bay — - Behree — - black and white necked - Cheela — chocolate — collared — - crcfled — ~ criard -— - dubious — - dufky — gentil — - great billed - Greenland — - grey _ — hen-harrier Ingrian — — 27 Johanna •— — 3^ R r Fu'.coii, >4 ib. 5 10 22 10 36 J7 '3 2 I »7 zd 9 16 18 28 25 22 27 3» 3» •9 35 20 3^ 33 •9 'S 10 3S 37 36 '7 27 :6 ib. 22 ' ^'.^ I II ^ X. F*Icon, Leverian — page Madrigafcar — notched — — p;regrine ~ — r'lacentia — — plain — — plumbeous — red throated — rhcmboidal — ring- tail — — rough legged — rufous-headed — llreaked — — tiny ■ — — white-necked — Faucon a collier — — Faux perdrieux — — Finch, Amaduvade — beautiful — — bl?.ck-faced — — Carthagcna — — Chinefe — — cowpen — — flax — - — glofly — — gold — — imperial — •— lepid — — lovely — — Nootka — — oker — — rufty-collared •— teftaceous — — tree — — white-throated — ycllow-throatcd — Fifchal bird — ■— Flamingo — — Flerche — — Flycatcher, African — azure — — \ black — — Bourbon — Cayenne — flammeous — gold-throat — hanging — , lefier crefled — Bitid — — 3» 3+ 18 19 38 37 26 35 22 )8 33 3+ 39 30 21 '5 168 ib. 16+ 169 i6i lb. ib. 166 169 167 !68 170 169 170 ib. 163 166 i63 5« 263 229 i7S 172 ib. 171 '73 171 '73 lb. '73 Flycatcher, paradlfe page gaflerine — h(£be — — fociety — white-fronted — yellow-bellied — Foule haioo — — Fojquet, petit — — Fowl, coloured — > — golden — — Fringtlla .^thiops — . — albo Qcracea — coeiebs — — cannabina — Carthaginienfis — lepida — _ montana — _ rufo barbata ~- fpinus — — teAacca — — Fulice .£thiops — atra — . leucoryx — _- Martinicenfis — . G. Glannet '— Gallinule, Martinico Gar^a blanca — Gaur — Geay de la Chine — Ghoori tetur — Gnat-fnapper — Goat fucker, Bomb.".y European Indian fharp tailed Virginia Gobe-motiches — Godwit, common — Hudfonian marbled » Goi/fe, black- backed cole — ruddy _ tame — ' Gofhawk — . 17a '75 173. 17+ 175 >73 129 267 2IO 2C9 165 169. 165 167 169 167 163 161 166 170 259 ib* ib. 258. — 280 — 258 — 237 — i6q — 83 — • 221 — 102 — '95 — "94 — 196 — 19; ~ 19+ — 56 — 245 — 246 — 245 — 272 — 279 — 273 — ib. — 16 GoHnghill I N D X. Sandpiper, Greenwich grey — louthern — Swifs — Sarroo — Safineer fafin — Scolopax arquata — Shag, fpotted — Shannaw — Shawbul — She pecum memesvuck Shieldrakc — Shrike, black- capped Boulboul — cinereous — • ferruginous bellied grey — jocofe — Luzonian — magpie — Malabar — Nootka — orange ■— red backed — fpotted — Sing- fie — Siflcin •— Sitta cafFra — Europaea — Siutitok — Siaangen-vraater Smew — Snipe, Cape — Sohna -— Sowow-pethay-filh Sparrow, hawk — houfe ring — Spink — Stare, Chinefe — common — filk — Sterna alba — nigra — Stork, white — Strix afio — bubo — flammea — funerea — page 249 Strix nyftea — page 45 243 otus — — 42 249 paflerina — — 48 24S ulula — — 47 9> Struntvogel — — z >3S Sturnus cinclus — — 142 242 vulgaris — — •37 279 Sugar bird — — 128 80 Swallow, ambergris — '93 172 chimney — 192 81 275 Sf T S7 5> Takaikene — — 243 ib. Tanager, capital — 162 »->+ Chinefe — — 161 53 olive — >— ib. 52 rufous-headed — . 161 54 Tanagra Sibirica — '77 56 Tchil — — 12 55 Teal — — 276' 57 Teetaree — — 245 52 Teeong — — Qt 54 Tern, black — — 267 60 Philippine — ib. 166 Sandwich — i66 118 white — — ib. 117 Totrao hybrid us — 214 42 canus — . — 217 4 coturnix — 22Z 271 tctrix — — 213 244 ThotLofecaufew — 43 257 Throat, large — — 2^3 184 Throftle — «39 26 Thrufh, black and fcarkt — .46 163 blue — — 142 16+ Chinefe — — 141 165 Daoma — — '45 «43 Gingi — 144 137 Hudfoniari — •43 ib. Kamtfchatkan — 140 266 little — — '39 267 Mal;ibar — — 140 234 margined — '43 42 New-York — '44 40 orange headed — '45 46 Perfian — — ib. ¥1 reed — — 141 Thrufli, n m 1 X* Thrufli, rofe-coloured page 142 fliir.ing — — '43 white fronted — ib. tailed — 142 ycllow-crowncd — M3 Titmoufe, azure .^ 189 bearded — 190 grcnt- headed — _ 191 Hudfo:)'!, bay — 190 loiiL^-tailcd — ib. marfli — 189 Totty _ 150 -156 Toucan, piperlne 67 fmooth- billed — ib. Trogon — — 93 Trumpeter — __ 225 1'unnudl.orbick ^ 42 Turdus Africanus — >>3 iliacus — — 139 merula — — HI muficus — •39 torquatui — 141 Turkey, American — 203 horned ,.._ ib. Turn (lone — 249 Turtle — — 199 ground — - 203 Tye-pavvn — .i_ 60 Tye-:zoy — — 114 Vagabond — Vale-favane — Vautour de Gingi grand des Indes royal Ue-fliek-uang — Viudita — UIu _ Upupa pro.Tierops UfcathalTi.fli — Vuitre — Vultur albicilla coronatus pcrciioptcrus tot us fufcus Vulture, Alpine 86 54 7 6 ib. 59 275 46 1 22 217 3 I r ' 5 3 ib. 3 Vulture, Bengal page 3 carnon aa. _ 2 Cheriway _ 5 cinereous _. 3 crelled >- 5 crowned — ib. Condur — — I Gingi — 7 Indian — 6 plaintive — 4 Pondiciier ■y — 6 fccrctary — 4 Vuppi-pi ~ - — 2j7 w. Wagtail — Wawpawchou-chucicithou Wapacuthu — W.ipa-ellequan — Wapa-theculifli — Wapatheu — Wapaw whiflcy John Warbler, Awatcha — black-necked Ccylfjntfc Daiiford •». equinoctial green Indian long le jd plunrui:ous ledge — Van Dicmen's yellow poll rump Wafawuckapefliew — Wheat-ear — Whiflcy John — White throat, lefler Woodpecker, black brown, little 178-179 — an —45-49 — 9 Cayenne nold-winged green hairy Jitlle Malacca paflcrine - »57 - 217 - 51 - 1 84 - .87 - 182 - 181 - 187 - 182 - i8i - iSS - J 80 ■ .87 - 182 - ib. - 245 - 182 - 5' - 185 - 104 - 109 - in - ib. — 1 10 — 108 — 109 — Ill — no Woodpecker, H D E X. Moori — Moory — Moroc — Mocacilia alba — arundinadea bo;ii ula flava — lutc'inia oenanthe f>'via — Mouth-piece — Mowa — Mungul — N. page a 91 204 lOI 184. 178 >:9 180 ib. i8j "09 257 J32 Neghd biirra — — 129 Nemifcu apethayfliifli — 117 Nepin-apethafifli — — .64 Nightingale — — !8o Nutkdah — — 273 Nuicracker — — '7 172 257 ■ 279 . 278 . 241 - 269 . ib. . 210 - ib. - ICO - 2C8 - ib. - »73 - Ill - 107 - 104 ^ 107 _ ib. .- 112 - 109 - no - 84 - ib. - 54 F-- 206 200 ^ ,198 — 201 202 — 197 — 198 — 201 — ig8 — 199 — >?7 — lb. Pintado Pilefic — Rongeur -— Plover, cream-coloured golden ■" Indian — " long-legged paffaragc Polytmuft — Poopoo, whouroo roa Powee — Pfomerops, blue red-billed Pfophia undulata -• page Quail, common — Hudfonian 204 274 252 «54 229 127 114 140 121 124 22s ^- 22Z — ib. R. Rail, Philippine troglodyte Rallus aullralis Raven — Razor-bill -" Redpole — RedJhank — Chinefc Redwing "^ Ringtail — Roller, African black headed fairy garrulous grey-tailed — 2S'5 — ib. — — ib. —74-75 — 264 — 167 — 245 — ib. — «39 .— 22 _ — 86 — 85 — 86 — 87 - - 85 — 86 ,«»- Sacre — Sanderling — Sandpiper black brown dunlin — 20 — 243 — 251 — 250 — 249 Sandpiper, X K m ^* WooJpeckcr, pikated p age 105 led-breailcd -- lot) rufous — 1 1 1 Ying mew * fpotted — 107 Yunx coiquilla whiie-biHed — 105 )'ellow-bi;lIicd — IC9 Wrer, rccJ — — iSf • Wrynet-k — — «03 Wulcuriiihcu — — 14c; Zhiaine Y. Z. pnge 65 — 103 xio F I N I S. SUPP L. Ss