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Genus XV. G R A K L E. 



•f- MINOR GR. 



12. Yellow-faced Gr. ] 



Minor Grakle, Gen. Sjn. ii. p. 455. N" i. 



JAM doubtful whether the Minor is a native of China, althougE 

 we fee it fo frequently in Chinefe paintings, as I am infornned, 

 by a perfon who has been at Canton^ that he purchafed feveral at 

 Java, where they are common, and fold them to the Chinefe at the 

 rate of five fhillings each, for the purpofe of keeping them ira 

 cages, la India \t h CdiWzii the. Hill Moina. 



6. 

 PURPLE GR. 



Purple Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 462. N°6. 



N the Leverian Mufeum is a beautiful variety. The bill is 

 pale, with a dufky tip : the head white : back, fhoulders, and 

 breaft, white, mottled with black : quills and tail black j the laffi 

 cuneiform : fome of the outer feathers white juft at the tips. 



CRESTED GR. 



Crelled Grakle, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 464. N" 7» 



T Believe this fpecies, as well as the Minor, is known by the name 

 oi Lefkoa, or Leuquoy -, as I am informed by Mr. Tunjiall that 

 he had one of thefe alive, which, among other words, often re- 

 peated the word Leuquoy, and that the perfon he bought it of 

 called it by that name. Mr. Marfden, after mentioning that the 



Minor:, 



