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is fo great a friendfhip between them, that 

 they frequently accompany each other in 

 mixed flocks. However, in Penfyhania, 

 the firft fort are more obvious, and often 

 fly together, without any of the red- winged 

 fares. The firft fort, or the purple daws, 

 bear, in many points, fo great a likenefs 

 to the daw, the flare, and the thrum, 

 that it is difficult to determine to which 

 genus they are to be reckoned, but feem to 

 come neareft to the ftare; for the bill is 

 exactly the fame with that of the thrum, 

 but the tongue, the flight, their fitting on 

 the trees, their fong and fhape, make it en- 

 tirely a ftare 3 at a diftance they look al- 

 moft black, but clofe by they have a very 

 blue or purple caft, but not fo much as 

 Catefbys print : their iize is that of a 

 flare ; the bill is conic, almoft fubulated, 

 ftrait, convex, naked at the bafe, black, 

 with almoft equal mandibles, the upper be- 

 ing only a very little longer than the lower 5 

 the noftrils are oblong, yet a little angu- 

 lated, fo as to form almoft fquares ; they 

 are placed obliquely at the bafe of the bill, 

 and have no hair 5 there is a little horny 

 knob, or a (mall prominence on the up- 

 per fide of them ; the tongue is fharp and 

 bifid at the point ; the iris of the eyes is 

 pale j the forehead, the crown, the nucha, 



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