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as perfectly in the form of a circle as if made with the afliftance of a 

 pair of compafTes, and is hollowed out to a proper depth before the 

 eggs are depofited. They lay generally five, fometimes fix * eggs ; 

 the young birds climb up and down the trees before they can fly. 



According to Pmnant the eggs are of a beautiful femitranfparent 

 white; grecnifh, with black fpots, Latham*, and greyifh or yellowifh 

 white, marked with irregular pale yellow brown lines in the figure of 

 the egg in Sepfs plate f . 



It feeds on Infects, which it fometimes extracts from beneath 

 the bark of trees, or from the folid wood by means of its ftrong, 

 though (lender barbed tongue > is faid to make great havock among 

 bees. 



In the Leverian Mufeum there is a variety of this fpecies, entirely 

 of a flraw colour, except the crown s which is faintly marked with red. 

 It was mot at Belvolr chafe. 



fVilloughby. Fennfikt. f Sepf* Vog. fl. in />. 43. 



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