. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . The ( 5^ )The Bengali Redftart. Numb. LVI. T was fomething bigger than the Red(lart\ the Bill ofa dark aili Colour, the Irides of the Eyes white j thetop of the Head from the Bill to the hinder part black 5from under the Eyes grows a Tuft of fcarlet Feathers, thebottom of which is furrounded with white, the back partand bottom of the white with black, then fucceeds four Se-mi-circles of black, growing lefs by degrees, and parts thebrown and white on the fide of the Neckj the hind
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . The ( 5^ )The Bengali Redftart. Numb. LVI. T was fomething bigger than the Red(lart\ the Bill ofa dark aili Colour, the Irides of the Eyes white j thetop of the Head from the Bill to the hinder part black 5from under the Eyes grows a Tuft of fcarlet Feathers, thebottom of which is furrounded with white, the back partand bottom of the white with black, then fucceeds four Se-mi-circles of black, growing lefs by degrees, and parts thebrown and white on the fide of the Neckj the hind partof the Neck, the Back and Wings are brown; the Bread,Belly and Thighs white, under the Vent red; the Tailwas made up of twelve pale dufky Feathers. The Legs and Feet are black; this Bird was broughtfrom Bengali in the Year 1734, without any Name beingaffixt to it; it feems to be of the Infeftiferous Tribe by itsBill, for which reafon, and its red Colours, I fhall begleave to call it by the Name of the Bengali Redflart. It isnow in the Pofleflion of Mr. JDandridge^ who was pleafedto lend it me. The .-!- .. • y/i<j ^^^^(/^^^z^ ^^^r^u^At /^i^T^i- /^;^^2^ C/i. ^/ie -^^a^yvq^. (^. o- {^e^z ^e/. ^/J7. 57.
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