. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . them are edged with glofly green, andthe reft of the firft quills are black: the lower partof the back, the rump, and tail, are black: thebelly is white, but all the other fore parts, and fidesof the body, from the neck to near the vent, aredelicately pencilled with narrow ruft-coloured zig-zag Hues on a pale alh-grey ground: each wing isfurniihed on the bend with a Ihort blunt fpur. The 288 BRITISH BIRDS. colours of the female are pretty much the fame asthofe of the male, but not by any means fo brightor diftinOily marked. This kind
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . them are edged with glofly green, andthe reft of the firft quills are black: the lower partof the back, the rump, and tail, are black: thebelly is white, but all the other fore parts, and fidesof the body, from the neck to near the vent, aredelicately pencilled with narrow ruft-coloured zig-zag Hues on a pale alh-grey ground: each wing isfurniihed on the bend with a Ihort blunt fpur. The 288 BRITISH BIRDS. colours of the female are pretty much the fame asthofe of the male, but not by any means fo brightor diftinOily marked. This kind is common in a wild ftate in Egypt,at the Cape of Good Hope, and in various parts ofthe intermediate territories of Africa, whence theyhave been brought into, and domefticated in thisand other civilized countries, and are now an ad-mired ornament on many pieces of water contiguousto gentlemens feats; but neither the author norhis correfpondents were able to procure a fpecimenof this or the two preceding fpecies, for the pur-pofe of making drawings. ^ M^i. BRITISH birds; 289
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