AFRICA. 
Such a calculation, however, would not be 
exad. I have fpoken above of birds among 
which one male is in common • to feveral fe- 
males, becaufe the females are much more 
numerous than the males. The fame Is the 
cafe with many other fpecles, both in the 
environs of the Cape and in the colony ; but 
it is particularly fo among the republicans. 
Whenever I have fired at a flock of thefe 
birds, I have always killed four times as many- 
females as males. 
For the reft, thefe birds have nothing very 
remarkable in their plumage. It is an uniform 
brown grey, diverfified by a few black fpots 
on the fides, and a large patch of the fame co- 
lour on the throat. The male is a little larger 
than the female ; in other refpeds they exadly 
refemble each other. 
It often happens that one republic is ex- 
pelled by another. This may eafily be con- 
ceived ; and I have already had occafion to 
remark, that I had feen one of their towns 
become the conqueft of a troop of little 
parrots. 
The birds that commit thefe depredations 
are thofe which, like the barbets, pies, titmice, 
and 
