. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Neck, Shoulders, and middle of the Back are of a yellowifh green;the Rump is blue; the Breaft, Belly and Thighs are yellow; yet thelower or hindermoft part of the Belly white; a broad black line, reach-ing from the Throat to the Vent, divides the Breaft and Belly in quill Feathers of the Wings are in number eighteen; the outermoftlittle ones are dusky, with white Tips, or Tips partly white, partly blue;the outer Edges of thofe next the Body are green. Of the cove
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Neck, Shoulders, and middle of the Back are of a yellowifh green;the Rump is blue; the Breaft, Belly and Thighs are yellow; yet thelower or hindermoft part of the Belly white; a broad black line, reach-ing from the Throat to the Vent, divides the Breaft and Belly in quill Feathers of the Wings are in number eighteen; the outermoftlittle ones are dusky, with white Tips, or Tips partly white, partly blue;the outer Edges of thofe next the Body are green. Of the covert Feathersof the firft Row, thofe that are about the middle of the Wing, withtheir whitifh Tips, make a tranfverfe whitifh Line; the fmaller covertFeathers of the Wings are blue j the tail is about two Inches and a halflong, compounded of twelve Feathers, the exterior Vanes of all which,except the outermoft, are blue or dark afti colourd, the interior black,the outermoft have their exterior Vanes and Tips of white. Thefe Birdsfeed alfo on Caterpillars and the Eggs of thofe Infedls which infeft theFrutt-Trees,. the H
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