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irfoves to and fro as he pleafes : He has Gills alfo 

 likfe a Turkey ; but the Hen has neither Plume nor 

 Gills. They live on the Trees, and feed on Fruits. 

 They fing and make a Noife big and grofs, yet ve- 

 ry fweet and delightful ; efpecially to the Indians^ 

 who endeavour to imitate them : And the Indians 

 and they will fometimes anfwer one another this 

 way, and the Indians difcover their Haunts by it. 

 The old ones alfo call their young ones by this 

 Sound. The Flefh is fomewhat tough, but other- 

 wife very good and well-tafted Meat. The Indians 

 either throw the Bones of the Corrofou into the Ri- 

 ver, or make a Hole and bury them, to keep them 

 from their Dogs, being thought unwholfome for 

 the Dogs to eat ; and the Indians fay they will make 

 the Dogs run mad : Neither do /the Englijh in the 

 TVeft-Indies let the Dogs eat of them. The Indians 

 fhoot down all thefe Birds with their Arrows. 



They have Parrots good Store, fome blue, and Parrots. 

 fome green, for Shape and Size like the Generality 

 of the Parrots we have from Jamaica. There is 

 here great Variety of them, and they are very 

 good Meat. 



They have alfo many Parakites, mo ft of them Parakites. 

 green ; generally much the fame as in other Places. 

 They don't fort with the Parrots, but go in large 

 Flights by themfelves. 



Macaw-birds are here alfo in great Plenty. 5 Tis Macaw- 

 jfhap'd not much unlike a Parrot, but is as large a- bircJs - 

 gain as the biggeft of them. It has a Bill like a 

 Hawks, and a bufliy Tail with 2 or 3 long drag- 

 gling Feathers, all red or blue : The Feathers all 

 over the Body are of feveral very bright and lovely 

 Colours, blue, green and red. The Pinions of the 

 Wings of fome of them are all red, of others all 

 blue, and the Beaks yellow. They make a great 

 Noife in a Morning, very hoarfe and deep, like 

 Men who fpeak much in the Throat, The Indians 



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