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the t.mexicana, the t. punctata, the t.archiepis- 

 copus, the t. episcopus, the red tanager from the 

 Mississipi, the scarlet one from Brazil, and the 

 silver beaked tanager from Cayenne ; they live in 

 the woods like some of our sparrows, and feed 

 equally on seeds, berries and insects. Below the 

 tanagers are the manakins [pipra), small birds 

 which live on insects in the forests of equinoctial 

 America. They are all adorned with brilliant co- 

 lours. That with a long tail [pipra caudata, Sh.), 

 makes a noise like the barking of a moderate sized 

 dog. The titmice are placed after the manakins. 

 These birds of a very lively nature, are incessantly 

 suspended to the branches of trees, busied in split- 

 ting the bark to find the larvae of insects, or in 

 breaking hard seeds, on which they feed. They 

 line their nest with down, and lay from sixteen 

 to eighteen eggs : the great titmouse {partis ma- 

 jor}, the marsh titmouse (p. palustris), the blue 

 titmouse (p. cceruleus), the long tailed titmouse 

 {p. caudatus), are natives of France, the rest are 

 foreign ; by the side of the titmice is the rerniz 

 (par us pendulums) : this little bird from the 

 south of Europe, builds its nest in the form of a 

 purse, with the down of the catkins of the wil- 

 low or poplar, and suspends it to the flexible 

 branches of aqua lie trees. Another species from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, builds its nest with 



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