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25. L'Organifte, Buf. oif. iv. p, 290. — PL enl. 809. f. t. 



TUNEFUL M. L'Eveque, Hiji. de la Louif. vol. ii. p. 140. 



Description. T ENGTH four inches. Bill dulky : forehead yellow: 

 , crown and nape blue : chin, fides of the head below the 

 eyes, and throat, black : upper part of the back, the wings, and 

 tail, dufky black ,• the laft fhort : lower part of the back and 

 rump, the breaft, belly, vent, and thighs, orange : legs duflcy. 

 Place and This is indigenous to St. Domingo, where it has gained the 



Manners. name of Organifte from its note, forming the complete oftave in 

 the mod agreeable manner, one note fucceflively after another. 

 It is faid not to be uncommon ; but not eafy to be lhot, as, like 

 the Creeper, it perpetually fhifts to the oppofite part of the 

 branch from the fpeclator's eye, fo as to elude his vigilance. 



It is moll likely the very bird mentioned by Du Pratz, above- 

 quoted ; whofe notes, he fays, are fo varied and fweet, and which 

 warbles fo tenderly, that thofe who have heard it value much lefs 

 the fong of the Nightingale. It is faid to fing for near two hours 

 ■without fcarce taking breath j and, after a refpite of about the 

 fame time, begins again. 



Du Pratz, who himfelf has heard it, fays that it fang perched 

 on an oak, near the houfe he was then in. 



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