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two or three more black fpecies, which in India are called 

 Coivee/s. 



The Lark-heeled Cuckoo, Brown lllujlr. tab. xiii. is of a 

 rufl color, the wings barred with black, the tail very long and 

 cuneiform, black edged with white. On the external hind toe 

 is a long ftrait claw, exadly like that of a lark. 



£j^,^j^jjjj_ The EngliJJj Cuckoo reaches Bengal^ it is obfervable, 



out of the multitudes of cuckoos, none have the note of the 

 European. 



j^^EROPs. The Indian Merops^ ii. 670. Ed"^. 183, arrives on the banks 



of the Ganges in the beginning of autumn. 



The long-billed Creeper, or rather honey fucker, is a new^ 

 fpecies; {te Latham, \i\. 133. It perches on the rich flowers 

 of India, and darting its tongue into the calyx, extracfts the 

 fweets. The head and part of the neck is of a light green, 

 back and wings dufky, fore part of the neck white, belly and 

 vent pale yellow ; the charadleriiiic bill, an inch and a half 

 long. 



The yellow-winged, — 133, is a very minute fpecies, alio 

 from Bengal, with a long tongue, and the fame manners as 

 the preceding. 



An Indian ^ '^^^ extremely delighted to find, in the Afiatic Refearcbes, ii. 



p. 109, a proof of a naturalift rifing among the natives of Hin- 

 doojian. Atkar ali Khan, of Dehli, has given as complete and 

 entertaining a natural hiilory of a certain bird oi Hindoojlan, as I 

 i^ver met. I hope his example will be followed. It is for want of 

 fuch, that aknowlege of the animals of the country muft remain 

 ever imperfedt. The fubjed: is a Loxia, a grofbeak of the hang- 



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