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appearance very like a mule-canary, are very 

 numerous in this country, and sing most 

 sweetly, their note much resembling that of a 

 canary, but softer. Then there are finches and 

 shrikes of many sorts, and of every shade of 

 yellow ; and it is pretty to see the behaviour of 

 the long narrow-tailed black-and-white whydah 

 finches (Vidua principalis), who, whilst their 

 wives are feeding ou the ground, hover over 

 them in flocks at a height of about three feet, 

 singing sweetly to them all the time. I have 

 also noticed many species of sun-birds with 

 lovely metallic patches of colour, their long 

 slender curved bills searching deep into every 

 flower ; one of them (Cinnyris jugularis), a 

 beautiful large black fellow, with a bright 

 crimson patch on his breast ; blue jays ; black- 

 and-white crows ; starlings (Lamprocolius), 

 bluish-green, with bright yellow eyes ; a lovely 

 little black, red, and grey bird ; another (Lani- 

 amus sp.), about the size of a thrush, olive- 

 green and salmon-colour, looking when flying as 

 if the wingrs and tail were bordered with salmon- 



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