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Falcon^ 



Indian Rol- 



L£R. 



BUCEROS. 



Oriole. 



ISLAND OF CEYLON. 



There are feveral forts of falcons in this ifland, many of 

 which are trained for the purfuit of ganne. There is a white 

 fpecie?^ with an elegant pendent creft of two feathers. My 

 friend Mr. Lot.en, long Governor in Ceylon, could not give any. 

 account of any part excepting the head. 



The- black, and white, Ind. Zool. tab. ii. is a fmall kind, pied 

 like a magpie; Th© fmall brown, hawk, in BrowrCsIllvJir. 6j 

 tab. iii, is another found, here.. 



/J^o//^ fpeaks of a white hawk, which is, witii the Malabars, 

 a bird of augury, for if they fee him fly over their heads in a 

 morning, they will not that day either undertake a journey, or 

 any bufinefs of moment. This may be perhaps the fpecies 

 v/ith a white creft.. 



Among birds of elegance of color may be- mentioned, the 

 India?! Roller, Ediu. 326, and the fwallow-tail'd, 327, with its two 

 fingular external. feathers in the tail, of vaft length. 



Among grotefque birds may be reckoned the two fpecies of 

 Buceros, or horn-bill; the Rhinoceros, Edw. 281, called from 

 the fingular recurvated acceffiiry beak, by the Dutch, Dubbeld 

 Bek\ and the Wreathed, Latham, i. p. 358, called in Ceylon, the 

 Tear Bird, being fuppofed to have, annually an addition of a 

 wreath to its bilL They make a great noife when they fly, and 

 have a fluggifh flight, perch on the highefl: trees, feed on ber- 

 ries, and are reckoned very fweet food. 



The golden oriole,. Br. Zool. ii. App. 626, is an European 

 bird, is called in India the Mango, bird, from its feeding on the 

 fruit of that tree.. The bee-eater, Merops Apiajier, and the 

 greater redftart, Latham, i. p. 176, are alfo common to India,. 



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