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Minor, called 'Teeongy has the faculty of imitating the human 

 fpeech in greater perfeftion than any of the feathered tribe, ob- 

 ferves, that there are two forts of them, i\\Qblack and xht yellow* : 

 it Ihould therefore feem that more than one or two birds pafs un- 

 der the name of Leuqiioy. 



In the neighbourhood of the Ganges the Crejled Grakle is no 

 doubt plentiful j as, among fome drawings done in India, I find 

 it named the Sarroo of the Ganges f . 



91 



Dial Grakle, Gen. Syn, ii. p. 465. N" S. 



'TpHED/^/, called Maori, is faid to have a pretty, but fhort 

 note J ; and that it is ufed by the Achenefe for the purpofe of 

 fighting, in the fame manner as the Cock -, but attacks in a different 

 manner, frequently engaging one another on the wing, and drop 

 to the ground in the ftruggle ||. 



DIAL GR, 



YELLOW- 

 FACED GR. 

 BILL compreiTed J noftrils ovated : region of the eyes fine yel- ^ 

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low, naked and wrinkled : head, neck, back, wings, and tail, 

 black : wing coverts croffed with a white line : neck black : 

 breaft, belly, and vent, white : legs yellow, and very fcaly. 



Inhabits New Holland. — Communicated by Mr. Pennant. Place. 



* Hift. Sumat. p. 90. f Sir Elijah Impey. 



X Hifi. Sumat. The author obferves, that there is no bird on the iiland of 

 Sumatra which lings, || Id. p. 238. 



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