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I. A Letter from James Badenach, M. D.

to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. con-

taining a technical Defcription of an un-

common Bird from Malacca.

b 1 IV j

Head Jan. 9, *T Here a curious and uti-

preferit yoti
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, I common
of bird, which I met
With at Malacca in Auguft 1770. The male, fe-
fpecies

male, and two young ones, were purchafed at that

place from the natives, but died foon afterwards on
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board of fhip, in the paflage from that port to China.
The character and hiftory of this bird, as they then
occurred to me, and were immediately noted down
in my journal, in the manner of the great Linnaeus,
are as follows.

TAB. I.

Mas. Magnitudo perdricis vulgaris, corpus fupra

virefcens, fubtus nigricans, remiges pri mores
grifeae, cauda brevis rotundata, apice nigro,
Frons calva, crifta coccinea ex occipite orta,
e 15 circiter plumulis fefquipollicaribus, refpedu
capitis, fubere£la, divaricata. Roftrum convexum
breves mandibula fuperior nigra, fupra inferio-
rem, margine rubro cerato, imbricata ; nares ob-
longse, orbitae rubral, oculi purpurei $ ad bafm
roftri myftaces aliquot albefcentes. Femora
feminuda, tibiae longae, rubrae, graciles. Pedes
tetradadtyli, fiffi incarnati, fubnodofi, digitus
pofticus reliquis craffior, brevior, truncatufque.

P&mina. Mare paulo minor, crifta nulla,remiges

primofes & te&rices alarum rufo ferrugineas,

Tulli. Pulli lahuginofi atri, aqua deledtantes.

Fox. Mas & fcemina voce fonora frequenter fibn

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itidus inter gramina, arundinefque.

ViStus, Oryza, pane in aqua miffa vefcituf.

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What genus this bird is properly to be referred to,
I fhall not pretend to determine ; but if you thinH
this, though but imperfect account, worth the com-
municating to your Society, you have my leave $ and
I am, with refpeft,

S I R,

Your moft obedient,

and moft humble fervant,

Lpndon,
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3 ' I?71 '
James Badenach, M. D,

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