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pheafants, and even fed two wild beafts with the fame fingnlar 

 food. 



The Red-winged,— 246. Edw. 236; the Hawk-headed,— 266. 

 Edzv. 165, with its head of fober brown ; the Muftacho, — N° 38. 

 PL Enl. 517; the Eaftern, — vii. 64; Golden-winged, i. 309. 

 Edw. i()2>'i ^^^^ the red and green, — 311. Edw. 6. 



Of Rollers here are the Benga/, — 410. PI. Enl. 285 ; the Ori- Rci.ler.s. 

 ental, — 411. PL EnL 619, 2iWf\ Indian^ — 412. Edw. 326; all of the 

 richeft colors ; the Fairy, — vii. N° 46, has its crown and upper 

 part of the neck of a rich blue, the upper part of the body 

 of the fame color ; wings black, marked with three fmall 

 blue fpots ; tail dull blue, lower part of the body black. 



Many of the Grakles of the Eajl Indies are remarkable for Grakles. 

 fpeaking, hnging, and whiftling, even much more diftincftly 

 than the parrot kind ; they foon become familiar; the greater 

 and leffer are of a black color, and their heads furrounded with 

 a naked yellow fkin. The Dial grakle, Latham, vii. 92, is 

 trained in Sumatra like a cock for fighting, but the confli<Sts 

 are performed in the air on wing. 



Here are fome Cuckoos of much fmgularity ; a black fpecies cucicoos. 

 as large as a jackdaw ; the bill is much hooked, head, neck, and 

 whole body black ; wings and back bright ruft, marked with 

 numerous bars of black. On the exterior hind toe is a vaft 

 claw, crooked and ftrong. 



The eaftern Cuckoo, vii. 99, is as large as a magpie; they 

 fly in fmall flocks, are highly venerated by the MahometanSi 

 and fought after by the epicures, who, to indulge their palate, 

 will give twenty-four Uvres for a fmgle bird. There are 



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