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with the fame beneath: the bill is pointed, and dufky; the tongue 
fharp at the end, the length of the bill: irides blue: legs brown. 
Inhabits New Holland: for teveral of the jaft defcribed birds, | am 
indebted to Mr. Lambert. 
** Wirh Toree Tors ONLY. 
Bee Cuckow, Moroc, Bruce’s Trav. App. t. p. 178. 
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HIS bird is faid to be feven inches in length: the head and 
neck plain brown; at the bafe of the beaks a number of very 
fmall hairs: infide of the mouth and throat yellow ; tongue fharp 
pointed, and capable of being drawn to almoft half its length out of 
the mouth: eye-brows black; bill pointed, a trifle bent: irides 
dufky red: fore part of the neck light yellow, darker on the fides, 
reaching nearly to the fhoulders: breaft and belly dirty white: the 
wing feathers are moftly tipped with white: the tail has twelve fea- 
thers, of equal length, the ends tipped with white: thighs covered - 
with feathers half way down the legs, which are black: the toes are 
only three in number, placed two before and one behind. 
This fpecies inhabits fuch parts of Aby/inia where honey is chiefly 
produced as revenue, as 4gou, Goutio, and Beleffén. It feeds on bees, 
but kills more than it eats, as numbers are found {fcattered on the 
ground. It makes a fort of {napping noife, when catching the bees, 
otherwife it has no note. 
This Mr. Bruce fuppofes to be the Cuckow of Lobo, who attributes 
to this bird the faculty of difcovering honey. He ridicules Dr. Sparr- 
man, for giving an account of a fpecies of Cuckow to which he attri- 
butes the fame faculty; but thefe two are very clearly different birds, 
therefore Mr. Bruce’s criticifms on Dr. Sparrman mult in courfe fall to 
the ground, 
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