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back-toes of which the innermoft are the 

 fhorteft. 



Corvus Javanenfis (Gracula religiofaUvm.) 

 The Java people call them May-noa ; they 

 may be compared with the Lefkoa of tfce 

 Chinefe; it looks like a great blackbird with 

 white membranes near the ears ; the bill, the 

 legs, and the feet are pale yellow ; each of the 

 outermoft quill-feathers has awhitefpot; the 

 whole bird is black befides ; each ear has two 

 white membranes ; the eyes are black ; its little 

 oblong nojlrih are in the middle of the bill ; 

 the jaws of the bill are of an equal fize ; the 

 irides are moftly covered and blue ; the legs 

 and feet are whitifh and fcaly ; the latter have 

 three fore-toes and one back-toe ; of the fixteen 

 quill-feathers the feven outward ones have each 

 a black fpot in the middle ; the ten tail-fea- 

 thers are (hort ; the head is naked : this bird 

 eats greadily, cries loud, fmacks with its bill, 

 and it is faid, it may be taught to fpeak : we 

 bought one here, but it died at Canton, 



Motacilla familiaris (Emberiza famili* 

 am Linn. Syft. Nat. 311.) capite fcf rofiro 

 nigra, uropygio luteo ; the head is black and has 



a little 



