;3&:2 A N I. 



Tame manners, and are continually in a gregarious ftate, from ten 

 to thirty in a flock, whether it be in breeding-time or not. They 

 are not difficult to be fhot, not being fo wild as many other 

 birds; but are known to chatter much on the fight of a man, 

 though they do not fly to a great diftance ; hence are not well re- 

 lifhed by fportfmen *, as, like the Jays in England, they are the 

 occafion of hindering his fport in refpect to other game, without 

 making him amends in their own flefh, which is never fought af- 

 ter for food, being rank and unfavoury. 



2, Le grand Bout de Petun, Br if. orn. iv. p. 180. pi. iS. f. 2. — PI. enl. 



GREATER n° 102. f. 1. 



L'Ani des Paletuviers, Buf. oif. vi. p. 423. pi. 19. — Orn. de Salerne, 

 p. 73. N° 10. 



ANI. 



Description. r lpHIS fpecies is larger than the laft, being little inferior to a 

 Jay in fize, and eighteen inches in length. The bill is 

 longer in proportion, and rifes higher on the top, where it is un- 

 equal : the colours are much the fame as in the other, fo that one 

 defcription will ferve for both. We are allured, however, that 

 they are diftincl: fpecies, and never mix together; though each 

 have the fame manners, with this difference only, that the fmaller 

 frequent the open favannas, the larger only the falt-marfhes near 

 the fea-coafts. It is faid that they are eafily made tame, and will 

 learn to talk like Parrots. The male and female are both alike. 



* Sloane yam. vol. ii. p. 298. 



Crotophaga 



