HONEY-GUIDE CUCKOW. 
description, in Latin: which BufFon presents , 
in a more familiar dress ; and, therefore, more 
suitable to the nature of our work, as well as 
his own. 
The great French naturalist, after lightly- 
sketching an outline of the chief facts in the 
above history, remarks, that this is not the 
idle tale of a common traveller : it is," says 
he, " the observation of an enlightened man, 
who assisted at the destruction of several re- 
publicks of Bees betrayed by this little spy, and 
who communicates an account of what he saw 
to the Royal Society of London. I shall add," 
continues BufFon, i6 the description of the Fe- 
male, which he made from the only two sub- 
jects that he could procure ; and which he 
shot, to the great scandal of the Hottentots : 
the existence of a useful creature is every 
where precious ! 
" The upper side of the head is grey- The 
throat, the fore-part of the neck, and the 
breast, are whitish ; with a greenish tinge, 
which grows more dilute as it spreads, and is 
scarcely perceptible on the breast* The belly- 
is 
