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4er the belly : the upper fide of the tail and 

 the throat were red; the bill was black. Some 

 had a blue fpot on the head. When they 

 fleep, they always hang in the cage fo as to 

 point with their head downwards. We ob- 

 ferved that their nefis were remarkable for 

 their exceeding fine texture; but we did not 

 fee the birds. If they had a different con- 

 flruclion, the monkeys would be very mifchiev- 

 ous to them ; but now, before they can get to 

 the opening, the lowed part as the weaker! 

 breaks in pieces, and the vifitor falls to the 

 ground without any danger to the young 

 birds. 



There are feveral forts of crabs in the fea, 

 befides various other fifties. I mould be forry 

 if one*fpecies which I fent you by Mr. Lager- 

 Jirom mould be injured; its eyes were on long 

 pedunculi, and it had peculiar feet {Cancer are- 

 nanus). While it was alive, its eyes fparkled 

 in the dark, like cat's eyes. In and by the 

 fide of the river are whole cart-Ioad$ of oyfters, 

 and likewife crocodiles by hundreds. When 

 the water during the tide iills all the ponds 

 and ditches, with which nature has divided this 

 low country, the crocodiles go up a good way 



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