. A general synopsis of birds . f narrow, fharp-pointedfeathers, of a dufky colour tinged with olive, and obfeurelybarred : legs pale brown. In Mrs. Blackburns collection, who received it from New am indebted to Mr. Pennant for the whole of this account, aswell as a drawing of the bird. 42. KINK o. Le Kink, Buf. eif. iii. p. Kink de la Chine, PI. enh 617. Description. T^HE bill is reddifh brown: the head, neck, upper part of theback, and the breaft, of a greyifh afh-colour: the reft ofthe body above and beneath, wing and tail coverts, are white: quills the colour of polifhed ftee
. A general synopsis of birds . f narrow, fharp-pointedfeathers, of a dufky colour tinged with olive, and obfeurelybarred : legs pale brown. In Mrs. Blackburns collection, who received it from New am indebted to Mr. Pennant for the whole of this account, aswell as a drawing of the bird. 42. KINK o. Le Kink, Buf. eif. iii. p. Kink de la Chine, PI. enh 617. Description. T^HE bill is reddifh brown: the head, neck, upper part of theback, and the breaft, of a greyifh afh-colour: the reft ofthe body above and beneath, wing and tail coverts, are white: quills the colour of polifhed fteel, changing to green and violet itail fhort, rounded, partly of the fame colour as the quills, andpartly whi|e, viz. the two middle feathers are of the fteel-colour, with a white tip j the two next have more white, and lefsof the other; and proceeding in that manner to the outfide fea-thers, which are almoft totally white, having only a fpot of fteel-colour at the bafe : the legs flefh-colour. This fpecies is between an ^arf,i^ai/ec/y O/fooA. ORIOLE. 449 an Oriolus and a Thrufh, partaking of both, which makes Buffonplace it before the Thrnjha, to which he feems to think it moftallied, This-was received from China* P&ACE. Qriolus Galbula, Lin. Syft. i. p. 160. N° j. Coracias Oriolus, Scop. Ann. i. p. 41. N° 45.— Faun. Arab, p. 7. Le Loriot, Brif. orn. ii. p. 320. N° $%.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 254. pi. 17. iV. enl. 26. *A« ««/?.Widewal, Pyrold, Fri/cb. pi. 31. male and female.—Kram. el. p. , feu Picus nidum fufpendens, Rati Syn. p. 68. N° , Will. orn. p. Bird from Bengal, Albin. iii. pi. Thrufli, Ed<w. pi. , Br. Zool. afp. N° 4. pi. 4. £?•. A&/ iro. Muf. 43- GOLDEN O. CIZE of a Blackbird : length nine inches and a half. The bill Description* is brownifh red, and above an inch long : irides red: generalcolour of the plumage a fine golden yellow: between the bill andeye a ftreak of black: the wings black, ma
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