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animal, not able to get up to it, begins to gnaw the tree at the 

 bottom, whereby the Hottentots have a fecond method of difcover- 

 ing fuch as contain ijowfy*. "Dr. Sparrman obkrwts, that no one 

 kept bees about the Cape, while he was there, except xhcfon of a 

 colonijl; who ufed to fetout empty chejls and boxes, into which the 

 wild /warms would frequently enter; and he has no doubt, from 

 this circumftance, but that hives might be ufed there, as in other 

 countries, with advantage. 



There is great probability of this bird proving the Gnat- Snapper 

 xtiKolben: of which he fays the note is not fo fine as that of a T"//- 

 moiife ; and that it is a guide to the Hottentots, by direfting them 

 to the honey which the bees lay up in the clefts of the rocks. 



GREY^HEAD- T ENGTH ten inches. Head and neck pale grey : breaflr and 



ED C. belly white, croffed with pale grey bars : wings deep alh. 



Description, fome of the feathers edged with rufl: : tail almofh even at the endj 



white, croffed withequidiftant dufky bars : legs pale brown. 



Place. Inhabits /»(ii^. — 'Lady Impey.- — Perhaps a variety of my Pa^ 



nay an Cuckow\. 



48. Le petit Coucou des Indesj Son. Voy, Ind, ii. p. 211. 



SONNERAT'sC. 



Description. CIZE oi z Blackbird. Bill and irides yellow : head, hind par£ 

 of the neck, back, and wings, red brown, croffed with ftreaks 

 of black: fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, white, barred 

 with black : tail brown, fpotted on each fide of the Ihafts irregu- 

 larly with black: legs yellow. 

 Place, Inhabits /Wz«. 



* Sfarrm. Voy, ii, p. 183, 194, f Syn, n, p. 527. 



Genus" 



