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Le Cou-iaune, Buf. oif. v. 165.— PL enl. 686. f. 1. 37- 



J J J 3 PENSILE W. 



Ol ZE of the Pettichaps: four inches and three quarters long. Description. 



The bill is dufky : the head greyifh black, growing paler at 

 the back part of the neck, which, with the back, is of a deep 

 grey : over the eye, and round it, is a ftreak of white; and ad- 

 joining to it, between the bill and eye, a range of yellow dots : 

 wing coverts white and black, in bands: quills bordered with 

 grey : the thfoat, neck, and breaft, are yellow : fides of the neck 

 marked with- black fpots : belly white : fides dotted with black : 

 the tail and quills dark grey, and the four outer feathers marked 

 with large fpots of white: the legs greenifh grey. 



This .is a mod beautiful little bird; and the manners are as Place and 

 lingular as its beauty. It is found at St. Domingo ; and forms a 

 penfile neft, of a curious conftruclion. It is compofed of the fmall 

 dry fibres of plants, finall roots, and decayed leaves. It hangs 

 by the top, and plays with every blaft of wind. The opening is 

 at the bottom, through which the bird rifes fome way over a kind 

 of partition, and defcends again to the bottom, where it lays the 

 eggs on a foft downy matter fpread thereon, and hatches the 

 brood in perfect fafety. 



The eggs are only three or four in number ; but the bird re- 

 peats this more than once in the year ; for young ones have 

 been obferved in June; again in March; and a third time at the 

 end of Auguft or beginning of September. 



It is moft fond of fufpending the neft on fuch withs as hang from 

 tree to tree, and chiefly thofe which overlook the water, whereby 

 the fecurity is made more certain. 



Added to the reft, birds of this fpecies have a very delicate 

 Voi.. II. 2 L fong, 



