LESSER BONANA BIRD* 
twigs of high trees, sack-fashion, after the 
manner of hang-nests ; and therein lay their 
eggs, to avoid the Snakes, ckc. These stalks, 
or threads, are vulgarly, though falsely, 
thought to he horse-hair." The nest which 
was brought with the bird, by Dr. Browne, 
.Edwards remarks, seems at first sight to be 
wade of black horse-hair. He observes, that 
Gatesby has given his Icterus Minor a Hen ; 
which seems rather to belong to his Balti- 
more Bird in a preceding plate. " There is," 
adds Edwards, 44 another bird published and 
described by this name, and said to be a bird 
of Jamaica ; though it is, according to Dr. 
Browne's report, a native of the Continent of 
New Spain, and not found in that Island. 
See Albin's History of Birds, where he calls it 
the Bonana Bird. Catesby calls the same bird 
the Yellow and Black Pye. Sloane has also 
called it the Yellow and Black Pye : see his 
History of Jamaica. This differs from oi:r 
bird, in that it is a little bicker, in having the 
" CO < o 
Lead wholly black, the bill larger in propor- 
tion, and a bar of black across the upper part 
of the back. Mr. Ray, and Sir Hans Sloane, 
snake the Jupujuba, or Jauu, sf Marcgravc, 
the 
