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in Scpp’s plate the neft is placed in the hollow of a tree; it is 
compofed of foft bents, and fmooth within. The eggs, four in 
number, of a blue#h white, marked with pale brown {pots. 
Buffon mentions one of this fpecies which lived with a lady for three 
months, fubfifting only on bread and cheefe; and, contrary to the 
common opinion, drank frequently, and that by gulps. Another was 
kept for eighteen months on raw meat, and would not eat any thing 
eife, 
Olina fays, that this bird lives three years. 
In fome countries it is efteemed as good eating. It feldom perches 
on trees, unlefs they are very low. It does not erect its creft, except 
when agitated by furprize: in a natural ftate the creft falling behind 
the neck*; but whenever it alights on the ground, it is faid to fpread 
its cref{t beautifully. 
Some authors mention a variety of this fpecies. Ka/ben + mentions 
one at the Cape of Good Hope, which is fmaller; the bill fhorter. in 
proportion; and the legs longer: the creft is not fo long, and has no 
trace of white in it throughout: and in general the plumage is lefs 
variegated. Another fpecimen from the fame place, had the upper 
part of the beak of a deep brown, and the belly varied with brown 
and white; but as this was lefs in every refpect, it was probably a 
young bird. 
_ Gerini mentions one which he faw at Florence, and again on the 
Alps, which had the creft bordered with tky-blue. Orn. Ital. Hifi. des 
a Vi. p.,462. 
» Pitan he, + Kelben. iif, du Cap. I. Pp: 152-6 
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