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PLACE, 
Pett RO USE. 
This bird inhabits South America, chiefly Guiana and Brafi, 
in the neighbourhood of large ant-hills, on the inhabitants of 
which it chiefly feeds, as do feveral other fpecies; many forts of © 
which unite together into bands: but what is obfervable in this 
fpecies, it is feldom feen except one in a flock of the others, or 
at moft a pair. 
Thefe birds for the moft part keep on the ground, and appear 
lefs active than thofe which it keeps company with. The flefh 
is accounted very good to eat. 
This, like the laft, is an intermediate fpecies between the two 
genera before-mentioned, but on infpection is neareft that of the 
Crow ; and had we then been lucky enough to have feen the real 
bird, which has been the cafe fince, it would have been placed at 
the end of that genus. 
10 GENUS 
