. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ^^/ii: •^/itc^t/ yruz/rrtmr. CjUtiZiir^ u/-zn ii/^e/. ^ /m/. -^-z. -i~^-,. ^^^af^-pTi/^ />V7n- a^ 6e:yt^ ^^^^^^cz^C^:^7S<£■» (^. .y£^^\£^e/: /2?7- ( 63 )Cape Sparrow, Numb. LXVII. THIS Bird was about the bignefs of the Abaduvine:Its Bill was of a pale cinereous, the Irides of the Eyeswhite, the Head Neck and Breaft black, ending in a Pointon the Belly j the lower part of the Belly, Thighs, andround the Wings white 5 the Wings of a light brown Co-lour, except

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. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ^^/ii: •^/itc^t/ yruz/rrtmr. CjUtiZiir^ u/-zn ii/^e/. ^ /m/. -^-z. -i~^-,. ^^^af^-pTi/^ />V7n- a^ 6e:yt^ ^^^^^^cz^C^:^7S<£■» (^. .y£^^\£^e/: /2?7- ( 63 )Cape Sparrow, Numb. LXVII. THIS Bird was about the bignefs of the Abaduvine:Its Bill was of a pale cinereous, the Irides of the Eyeswhite, the Head Neck and Breaft black, ending in a Pointon the Belly j the lower part of the Belly, Thighs, andround the Wings white 5 the Wings of a light brown Co-lour, excepting the two firft Quill-Feathers, which were allblack, the reft of the Quills their exterior Edges onlyblack. The Legs and Feet light brown, the Claws du(ky: TheTail was made up of twelve Feathers of equal length, ofthe fame Colour of the Wings. Its Note was like theWhiftling of the Wind. This Bird I faw at my Lord IlafSywho was pleafed to let me draw it.

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