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retires at the conclufion of the harveft f. It makes its neft in the 

 birch, preferably to all other trees J ; and in places where trees are 

 wanting, fuch as Malta and Barbary, it forms its neft in clayey banks. 

 Zinanni fays it lays five eggs, of clear green, fprinkled with innume- 

 rable dark fpecks||. It feeds on fruits, acorns, and infefts. Is a fhy 

 bird J but, at times, is feen in company with Crows and Pies on the 

 - plough lands, picking up worms, and grains of corn. Schwenckfelt 

 fays, that in autumn it grows very fat, and is efteemed as a delicacy §. 

 It is remarkably clamorous. Is migratory. M. Adanjon obferved 

 them in Senegal, in flocks, in the month of Sepemberi and fuppofes 

 they winter there % . 



f Amcen. Acad. iv. 583. 



% DeBuffon, iii. 139: from this circumftance, one of its Csrmm nsxcies is Birci- 

 iheher, or the Birch Jay. 



II Zinanni delle Nova, i^e. p. 6S. tab. X, fig. zg. § A'V' Silejia, 244.1 



sJI Foy, Senegal, Ingl. ed..^5. 107. 



VII. ORIOLE. 



