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The Erkoom builds in large, thick trees, always, if he 

 can, near churches ; has a covered- neft like that of a mag- 

 pie, but four times as large as the eagle's.. It places its nelt 

 firm upon the trunk, without endeavouring to make it 

 high from the ground ; the entry is always on the eafl fide. 

 It would feem. that the Indian crow of Bontius is of this 

 kind: it is difficult, however, of belief, that his natural 

 food is nutmegs ; for there feems nothing in his {trueture 

 or inclination, which is walking on the ground, that is ne- 

 cefTary or convenient for taking fuch food. 



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A B O U HANNE& 



THE ancient and true name of this bird feems to be loft. 

 The prefent one is fancifully given from obfervation of 

 a circumitance of its ceconomy ; tranflated, it fignifies, Fa- 

 ther John, and the reafon is, that it appears on St John's day, 

 the precife time when firft the freih water of the tropical 

 rains is known in Egypt to have mixed with the Nile, and to 



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