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body is filvery afh, but beneath grey brown : the wing coverts, 

 quills, and tail, are black brown j the laft three inches and a 

 half in length : the legs and claws are brown. 



In the Cabinet du Roi * are two of thefe ; one the fize above, 

 with the under parts brown, fpotted with white r the bare fkin of 

 the head, and the legs, as before : the other lefs,. having the under 

 parts of the body yellow brown,, and the bare fkin of the head> 

 and end half of the bill, the legs, and claws, yellow. 

 ItA.cE and Sonnerat. brought one from the Philippine IJles, not unlike this t 



it was about twelve inches in length : the bill blackifh : the 

 feathers furrounding the naked fkin of the head, as well as be- 

 tween it, down the middle, black : the under parts of the body of 

 the. fame colour : the wings, tail, and upper parts, grey, lighteft 

 on the rump and neck. 



Thefe birds are faid to build their nefts in hollows of trees,, 

 efpecially the cocoa-nut tree. They live on fruits j are very vo- 

 racious, foon digefting what they eat ; infomuch that a vulgar 

 notion has arifen of their having no circumvolution of interlines,, 

 but only one ftrait paffage from the mouth to the anus. 



M. Camel, in the Philofophical Tranfaciiom above quoted,, ob- 

 ferves that it is a noify chattering bird. 



3» Paradifaea triftis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 167. N° 3'. 



S ' AR GR >ISE Le Merle deS Phili PP ines > Bri f- °™- »• P- 278. N w 35. pi. 2d* f. V. 



Le Martin, Buf. ci/. iii. p. 423. — PI. enl. 219,. 



©ascription. y ~|" HIS fpecies is fomewhat bigger than a Blackbird: length 

 * nine inches and a half.. The bill is yellow, and an inch, 



* Hiji. dei oif, iii. 422,,. 



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