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Xe Tyran de St. Domingue, £«;/: ws.ii, p. 394. N° 19, pi, i§. f. a,. 



•ILL as in the laft mentioned, as is the fize. The upper parts 

 of the body grey brown ; the under white : breaft inclining 

 to afh-colour : tail brown ; the outer edges and tips browniih s 

 legs dark brown. . 



Inhabits St. Domingo and Jamaica. 



M. Brijfon does not mention any yellow on the head j but I can 

 affure him that it is in this bird as well as the former. I have 

 received feveral fpecimens from Jamaica, which differed from 

 thofe of North America only in the tail being tipped with dingy 

 white, which is not in the firfl : alio a fpecimen from Cayenne, 

 wherein the colours of the body were more brilliant, and the yel- 

 low ftripe on the head more confpicuous. 



Thefe are called Titiri or Quiquiri*, from their cry, which re- 

 fembles thofe words. The firft is called the black-headed or 

 great-billed Pipiri ; the fecond, the yellow-headed Pipiri, or 

 Pipiri of paflage. The firft, though in plenty, are feldom feen 

 but in pairs j the fecond in great troops, about the month of Au- 

 guft, when they are very fat, and killed in great numbers for the 

 table, as their fiefh is accounted good eating. 



All authors agree in the manners of thefe birds, which are fe^ 

 rocious to a great degree while the hen is fitting : no bird what- 

 ever dare approach their neft : they will attack the firft which 

 comes near, without referve, and ufually come off conquerors. 

 From hence by fome they are called King -birds. 



Var. A. 



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DOMINGO 



TYRANT 



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Description, 



Place, 



Manners. 



Buffon calls it Pipiri, Hifi. etes eif, jv. p. 575. 



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