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9. What are the character, plumage, food 

 and oeconomy of the Indian ravens (Buceros 

 Lin.) 



10. Are there any humming birds (Trochilus 

 Lin.) in the Indies or China with a filiform long 

 tongue confiding of two femicylinders ? 



it. What are the peculiar diftinctions of the 

 true wild peacock? Are there any white pea^ 

 cocks in India, and of a feparate fpecies? Is 

 the change in plumage obvious in wild peacocks, 

 or is this the refult of domeftication ? Do white 

 peacocks breed with grey and green ones, and 

 what is the color of the young breed ? 



12. Where is the Hirundo efculenta, Linn, 

 found, and of what fubftance is the neft com- 

 pofed, which is fo much in requeft with the 

 Chinefe and Europeans ? Is it made from fome 

 mollufcas or feaworms, as Ksempfer fays *, or 

 from fifti fpawn, as M. le Poivre author of the 

 Travelling Philofopher affirms; or from fea 

 weeds, agreeable to what Dalrymple relates? 

 Where is the neft fixed, and what is the fpecific 

 character of this fpecies of bird ? 



13. Is there to be found in the Indian feas a 

 Jaculator fifli, Sciaena Jaculatrix (£), different 

 from the Chastodon roftratus, Linn ? or is the 

 faculty of fhooting at infects with a drop of 

 water peculiar to thefe fifh, or common to any 

 others ? 



14. Has the Raja Torpedo, Linn, or the 

 cramp or numb-fifh, the fame electric qualities 

 as the Gymnotus electricus ? 



15. As there is not yet one good figure of 

 the fea cow (Trichechus Manatus Lin.) it 



(b) Philofophical Tran factions, Vol. 54. and Vol. 56. 

 t. 8. p. 186. 



would 



