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I have only to i add, that though Dr Sparman and his 

 learned aflbciates, that feed upon the crumbs from other 

 people's tables, may call this bird a cuckoo, ftill I hope he 

 will not infill upon correcting my miftake, as, in the article 

 of the fennec, by ignorantly tacking to it fome idle fable of 

 his. own, that he may name k Cuculus Indicator. 



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S H E REGR I: Qg 



THIS bird is one of thofe called Rollier in French, ancf 

 Rollier in Englifh, without either nation being able ta 

 fay what is its fignification in either^ language. In the 

 French it is the name of a tribe,. always as ill, delineated as 

 it is defcribed, becaufe fcarce ever feen by thoie that either 

 defcribe, or delineate it ; in LatiiMt is called Merops. Its true 

 name, in its native country, is Sheregrig, and by this name 



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