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moil beautiful birds in nature, and has a very mdodious note, we animal 

 have numerous inflances here to the contrary. The wild forefts of 



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New Zeeland, and the cultivated groves of 0-Taheitee, refound 

 alike with the harmony of the fliining fongfters. There is only one 

 tame fpecies of birds, properly fpeaking, in the tropical illes of 

 the South Sea, viz. the common cock and hen ^ they are found nu- 

 merous at Eafter Ifland, where they are the only domeftic animals : 

 they are likewife in great plenty at the Society Illes, and Friendly 

 liles, at which laft they are of a prodigious fize : they are alfo not 

 imcommon at the Marquefas, Hebrides, and New- Caledonia ^ 

 hut the low ifles, and thofe of the temperate zone^ are quite def- 

 titute of them. We can hardly reckon certain parroquets and pi- 

 ^eons among domeflic birds ; for though the natives of the Friendly 

 and Society liles, fometimes catch and tame them, yet they never 



any breeds of them 



The 



umber of our new birds fr 



New-Zeeland, is thirty-feven ; that of the tropical ille 



forty- 



feven; the fpecies from the ocean, the Southern extremities of Ame- 

 rica and the Southern lands, are upwards of twenty. The whole 

 number thus amounts to 1 04 • of which one half are aquatic : we 

 havehefides thefe, met with about thirty Linnajan fpecies, of which 

 ■above twenty are aquatic 5 and I am well perfuaded that we have not 

 i>een able to procure every fpecies in the fame manner, as we have not 

 obtained a compleat Flora of every country we vifited ; the number 



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