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color of the back. The female is duller and 

 fainter in all the colors, and the back is speckled 

 with white. 



LOCATION. Found in different parts of South 

 America, especially in Brasil Resident. 



MINO BIRD. 



This remarkable bird is about the size of our 

 Crow Blackbird, and resembles it also in plum- 

 age. It articulates words and sentences with 

 wonderful distinctness. There was one at the 

 Exchange Coffee House, in Boston, last sum- 

 mer, who uttered the following sentences, which 

 no doubt it had learned on its passage to this 

 country : 



"Good morning. What are you going- to do, Jerome? 

 How 's the wind, Jerome ? Jerome, what 's the clock] ' 



This was articulated with surprising exactness, 

 in a fine tenor voice ; and this is the more astonish- 

 ing, as the tongue of this bird is long and slen- 

 der, and not fleshy and rounded as in the parrot 

 tribe, which is thought favorable to their articu- 

 lation, from its resemblance to the tongue of the 

 human species. 



