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be eradicated, becoming a greater plague than that from which 

 their firft prefence relieved them. 



They build twice in a year, chiefly in the forked parts of the 

 palm-trees, though not unfrequently in out-houfes j and generally 

 lay four eggs at a time. The young birds are eafily tamed, and 

 foon learn to fpeak, imitating the cries of the common domeftic 

 poultry, and other animals. 



4- 

 FETID 



GR. 



Gracula fcetida, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 164. N° 3. 



Description. OIZE of a Magpie. The bill npt unlike that of a Cuckow : the 

 tongue plain, flefliy, and pointed : the noftrils oval and naked : 

 the head is black, covered with upright, lhort feathers, like vel- 

 vet : on the neck is a band, which is bare of feathers : the body 

 is black : the outer edge of the quills of a blueifh colour, but no 

 white fpot on any of them : the tail even at the end. 

 Flaceo Inhabits America. 



+■ BOAT- 

 TAILED 

 GR. 



Gracula barita, Lin. Syft. i. p. 1-65. N° 4. 



Monedula tota nigra, or fmall Blackbird, Raii Syn. p. 185. N° 28.- 'Sloan. 



Jam. p. 299. t. 257, f. 2. 

 Boat-tailed Grakle, Amcr. Zool. N° 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf, 



Description. QIZE °£ a Cuckow : length nearly thirteen, inches. The bill, 



fharp, black, and an inch and a half in length ; it is naked at: 



the bafe, and the upper mandible bent : the general colour of the 



plumage is black, with a glofs of purple, efpecially on the upper 



parts j 



