LESSER EON" AN A BIRD. 
the same with the Icterus Minor, &c. but,'* 
concludes Edwards, " I have carefully com- 
pared the descriptions of both these birds, and 
find no similitude between them. Dr. Browne, 
in his Natural History of Jamaica, says that 
the Lesser Bonana Bird builds it's nest with the 
fibrous part of the Renealmia." 
BufFon, who seems to have described the 
Lesser Bonana Bird somewhat too generally, 
says that it has a jargon nearly like that of 
the Loriot, and shrill like that of the Mag- 
pye. " They suspend their nests,'' says he, 
" which are of a purse-shape, from the ex- 
tremity of small branches, like the Troupi- 
ales : but, as I am informed, they chuse such, 
branches as are long and naked ; and select 
those trees which are stunted, ill-formed, and 
lean over the course of a river. It is also 
said, that these nests are subdivided into com- 
partments for the separate families ; which has 
not been observed in the Troupiales. These 
birds are exceedingly crafty, and difficult to 
ensnare. They are nearly of the size of a 
Lark: their length eight inches; their alar 
extent twelve or thirteen ; the tail three or 
four 
