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three toes forwards, and one backwards, all 
of a black colour." 
The bird, Edward tells us, is a native of Ja- 
maica ; and was brought from thence, with 
other natural curiosities, by Patrick Browne, 
M. D. who was pleased to favour him with 
the use of it, and it's nest, as well as several 
other birds, to make drawings from. He 
finds, he says, no description published that 
agrees exactly with this bird. The descrip- 
tions that comes nearest to it, are those of the 
Icterus Minor Nidum Suspendens, of Sloane's 
Natural History of Jamaica ; and of the Ic- 
terus Minor, or Bastard Baltimore Bird, of 
Catesby's Carolina. But these are both de- 
scribed to be smaller, and a little varying in 
colour : yet he believes them to be the same, 
or very nearly allied to it ; because the nest 
agrees nearly with what Sir Hans Sloane has 
described his to be, which is as follows— 
*' They build their nests of the stalks or in- 
ward hair of that kind of vifcum, Herba Pa- 
rasitica, moss, or herb, called Old Man's 
Beard ; which they carefully weave amongst 
one another, from the utmost extremities of the 
twigs 
