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as the bill ; this is flat at top, and rounded behind, and projects 

 over the back part of the head ; this laft part is whitifh, but the 

 reft of it, as well as the bill, is afli-colour : the upper part of the 

 head is blackifh : the cheeks and throat quite black ; the laft is 

 furrounded by a dirty grey band, about three quarters of an inch 

 in breadth, forming an arch, with the concave part uppermoft : 

 the hind head and neck are of a pale cheftnut : the back, fcapu- 

 lars, wing coverts, and rump, brown : upper and under tail co- 

 verts the fame, with a mixture of fulvous : breaft, upper part of 

 the belly, and fides, are blackifh, with a mixture of grey : thighs 

 yellow brown : bottom of the belly, and under tail coverts, pale 

 yellow : quills black ; the outer edges of the fecondaries grey : 

 the tail is even at the end, in length eight inches, and of a dirty 

 cinereous white : the legs are grey brown : claws black. 

 Place and Inhabits the Molucca IJles. Willughby obferves, that it refem- 



Manners. bi es our Raven in the bill, but is red on the temples, like fome 

 kinds of Turkies; has wide noftrils, and ill-favoured eyes; and 

 that it feeds chiefly on nutmegs, whence its fleih is very delicate^ 

 and has a fine aromatic relifh. 



This, in its native places, is frequently tamed, and is ufeful 

 in deftroying rats and mice in houfes *. 



* Salernt. 



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