GHk FAS Kg E: 
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N° 1. Paradife Gr. N° 5. Green Gr. 
2. Crefted Gr. 6. Black-headed Gr. 
3. Egyptian Gr. 7. Pied Gr. 
4. AbyfMfinian Gr. 8. Blue-eared Gr. 
Gracula triftis, Ind. Orz. 1. p. 190. 3. 
Gracula grillivora, Martin acridophage, Daud. Ora. ii. 285. 
Paradife Grakle, Ge. Syz. ii. p. 458. 3. 
E believe that this bird varies greatly : in a fpecimen from Jndia, 
in poffeffion of General Davies, the whole fpace on each fide 
of the head, from the gape, through the eye, and much beyond it, 
was bare; the whole of the head otherwife cloathed with greenifh 
black feathers; but the chin, and fore part of the neck to the breaft, 
were afh colour: the reft of the bird as before defcribed in the Ge- 
eral Synopfis. In this work *, it is mentioned from M. Buffon, that 
the inhabitants of the ifland of Bourbon having imported fome of thefe 
birds for the purpofe of deftroying the Gra/boppers, the birds increafed 
fo faft, that after having deftroyed the inlets, they attacked not only 
the fruits, but young Pzgeons, and became a greater fcourge than the 
Grafboppers had been before. We learn, however, that this affertion 
‘is not precifely the faét, and moft likely M. Buffon had been mifin- 
formed ; for MZ. Dupleffin, who gave it as his opinion, that thefe birds 
might be ufeful to be introduced into that part of Spain fituated to- 
wards 4frica, by way of deftroying the Locu/ts there, had been many 
years refident in the ifland of Bourbon, where he had feen thofe birds 
introduced, that indeed they have been much multiplied in that ifland, 
but fo far from themfelves being confidered as a nuifance, the laws for 
their prefervation are ftill in force. 
* Gen. Syn. li. p. 459. 
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