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'He feems to purfue the bees for vengeance or diverfion 

 as well as for food, as he leaves a quantity of them fcat- 

 tered dead upon the ground without feeking further after 

 them, and this paftime he unweariedly purfues without in- 

 terruption all the day long; for the Abyffmians do not look 

 fo near, or confider things fo much in detail, as to imagine 

 all the wafte which he commits can make any difference 

 in their revenue. 



His name is Maroc, er Moroc, I fuppofe from Mar, ho- 

 ney, though I never heard he was further concerned in 

 the honey than deftroying the 'bees. In fhape and nze he 

 feems to be a cuckoo, but differs from him in other reflects. 

 He is drawn here of his natural nze, and in all refpects fo 

 minutely attended -to, that I fcarcely believe there is a fea- 

 ther amiffing. 



The opening of his mouth is very wide when forced 

 Open, reaching nearly to under his eyes. The inude of his 

 mouth and throat are yellow, his tongue fharp-pointed. It 

 can be drawn to almoft half its length out of its mouth 

 beyond the point of its beak, and is very flexible. Its head 

 and neck are brown, without mixture. It has a number of 

 exceeding fmall hairs, fcarcely vifible at the root of his beak. 

 His eye-brows are black likewife, His beak is pointed, and 

 very little crooked ; the pupil of his eye is black, furround- 

 ed with an iris of a dulky dull red. The fore part of his 

 neck is light- yellow, darker on each tide than in the middle, 

 where it is partly white-; the yellow on each fide readies 

 near die moulder, or round part of the w>ng.; from this 

 his whole brcafl: and belly is of a dirty white to urjer the 

 tail ; from this, too, his feathers begin to be tipt.gently with 



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