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times, basks in the gravel in fine weathei. His food, in 

 confinement, is almost every tiling vegetable, except unbruised 

 seeds; as bread, fine pastry, cakes, scalded corn-meal, fruits, 

 particularly those which are juicy, and now and then insects 

 and minced flesh. 



The length of this species is about nine inches. Above 

 deep slate color, lightest on the edges of the primaries, and 

 also considerably paler below. The under tail coverts red- 

 dish chesnut. Tail rounded. Upper part of the head, 

 legs and bill, black. It occurs rarely pye-bald, with the head 

 and back white, being nearly an albino. In a caged bird, I 

 have also observed one or two of the tail feathers and prima- 

 ries partly white on their inner webs. In the young, before 

 the first moult, the rufous vent is paler, and the black of the 

 head indistinct. — NuttalVs Ornithology. 



DISSERTATION ON TOBACCO. 



[A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the 

 Habitual use of Tobacco : read according to appointment, before the 

 Medical Society of the county of Oneida, at their Semi-annual Meeting 

 January 5, 1830. By A. 'McAllister M. D. Second Edition, Improved 

 and enlarged, with an Introductory Preface, by Moses Stuart, Associate 

 Professor of Sac. Lit. in the Theol. Inst, at Andover. Boston: Peirce 

 & Parker, 1832.] 



This work is accompanied with the following strong testimo- 

 nial by Dr. Warren of this city, which cannot but secure it a 

 wide circulation, and the attentive perusal of every man who 

 values his health. 



Dear Sir — In compliance with your request, I have read 

 over the pamphlet of Dr. McAllister on the use of tobacco. 

 Though my present occupations have prevented my doing it 

 so carefully, as to entitle me to suggest any alteration or 

 improvement. 



The general tendency of the pamphlet is excellent : and 

 I most cordially give my opinion in its favor : for I have 

 often had occasion to observe the pernicious effects of the 

 free use of tobacco. Many instances of'dyspepsia have come 

 under my notice, the origin of which was traced to the prac- 

 tice o^ chewing ; and on the abandonment of the habit, the 

 patients were restored to health. I have seen a number of 

 cases of injury to the voice, from the introduction of snuff 

 into the facial sinuses. As to smoking, I am well satisfied 



