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Inhabits China. The above fpecimen in the coIle6lion of Sir Place. 



Jofcph Banks, It feems greatly to coincide with nay fhoit de- 

 fcription of the fecond variety, the Egyptian Cuckaw *, if not the 

 fame bird. 



I obferve one greatly fimilar among the drawings of Lady Im- 

 fey, ferving to afcertain its inhabiting the coaft of Corotnandel ; but 

 this feeois to have the neareft refemblance to my firft variety, the 

 plumage being black throughout, except the wings, which are of 

 a bright ferruginous flame-colour; the prime quills barred with 

 black. This is known in India by the name of Crow-Pheafant. I 

 fuppofe it to be a voracious bird, as the India?! name fignifies De- 

 vourer with the Mouth. 



Honey Cuckovv, Gen. Sjn. ii. p. 533. N° 31. 



Gnat-Snapper, Kolb. Cap. vol. ii. p. 154? HONEY C, 



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'HE male bird is faid to have the bafe of the bill (^capiftrmt) 

 , encircled with black f- 



Lobos, in his Voyage to Ahyjp.nia J, fpeaks of a bird called Mo- 

 roc, which has the inftinft of difcovering Z'o»^j ; but from his ac- 

 count, it is that which is colledled by the Ground Bees ; as he fays 

 that they Jceep their holes in the ground extremely clean ; that, 

 though common in the highways, they are feldom found, except 

 by the Moroc's afliftance. The Ratel (a fpecies of Weejel)\, at 

 times profits by the Honey Cuckow, watching the motion of that 

 bird on alloccafions; when, if the bird direfls him to that which 

 is collected under ground, it is enabled to get at it fufEciently 

 eafy : on the contrary, if the Bee's neft is in a tree, the difappointed 



* Gen. Sjn. vol.ii. p. 523. B. f Spmrm. Voy, ii, p. 191. J P. 52. 8vo« 



edit. 1735. II Hijl.^adr, N<'220. 



5 animal. 



