It appears contented in confinement, but is play, or pass from the benefit of the game'; 
completely silent in it with respect to any and here it is to be observed that the cards 
song. It may often be perceived to hang have the same values as in honours. Yon 
its food, before devouring it, on the wires may play upon every card what sum you 
of its cage. See Aves, Plate VIII. fig. 4. please, from a penny to a pound ; and if 
L. colluris, or the red-backed shrike, is looed, that is, win never a trick, you must 
much more frequently to be met with in lay down to the stock so much for your five 
this country than the last species. It is cards, as you played upon every one. of 
particularly fond of grasshoppers and bee- them. Every deal rub olf a score, and for 
ties, which, as indeed various other articles every trick you win set up a score, till the 
of its food, it will stick upon a thorn. The first scores are out ; then counting your 
manners of this species and the last are, in scores, or the numbers of the tricks you 
fact, extremely similar. It imitates the have w'on, you are to take from the stock in 
sounds of other birds to decoy them to proportion to- the- value. A flush, or five 
destruction. During incubation, the female cards of a suit, looes all the other hands, 
discovers herself to any person approaching and sweeps the board ; and if there be two 
her nest by violent clamours of alarm. In flushes, the eldest in hand hath the advan- 
St. Domingo there is a species of these tage ; the knave of clubs, called paam, has 
birds daring in the extreme, particularly in this privilege, that he makes a suit with any 
the breeding season, in which they will other cards, and saves the person who has 
attack every bird that approaches, without him from being looed. 
hesitation or distinction. In Carolina there The other way is this : the dealer lays 
is another species equally intrepid and fero- down so much for every card as the com- 
cious. They will assail the crow, and even pany please to play for ; and the cards be- 
the eagle if it attempts to intrude upon ing dealt, all must play ; if any be looed, 
their premises, collecting in considerable they must each lay down so much as the 
numbers against the aggressor, and seldom cards are valued at, for their loo ; and if the 
failing to make him repent of his temerity, person next dealing be looed, he mu^t lay 
These are denominated the tyrants of down double the said sum, viz. one for 
Carolina. dealing, and the other for his loo. In case 
LANTANA, in botany, a genus of the of a loo, the gamesters are asked wb.ether 
Didynamia Angiospermia class and order, they will play or not, beginning at the elde.st 
Natural order of Personatae. Vitices, Jus- hand ; but if there is no loo they must all 
sieu. Essential character : calyx obscurely, play as at first ; and this necessity they 
four-tootlied ; stigma hook, refracted ; drupe justly call force. 
with a two-celled nucleus. There are nine- If there be never a loo the money may be 
teen species. These are mostly shrubs, divided by the gamesters, according to the 
very few being herbaceous. The branches number of their tricks, or left till one be 
are quadrangulai' ; the leaves opposite, in looed, as they shall judge proper, 
pairs, except in a few cases, where there LANTERN, magic, an optic machine, 
are tliree or four together, ovate and wrin- whereby little painted images are repre- 
kled ; flowers aggregate, in axillary and sented so much magnified as to be account- 
LANTERLOO, or Loo, a game at Optics. 
cards, played several ways, whereof we The contrivance is briefly this : A BCD 
The first way is this : lift for dealing, and from whose side there proceeds a square 
the best put carries it ; as many may play tube b n kl me, consisting of two parts ; the 
as the cards will permit ; five being dealt to outermost of which, n k I m, slides over the 
each, and then turning up trump. Now, other so as that the whole tube may be 
if three, four, five, or six play, they may lengthened or shortened by that means. In 
lay out the threes, fours, fives, sixes, and the end of the aim, nklm, is fixed a con- 
sevens, to the intent they may not be quick- vex glass, /r 1 ; about de there is a contri- 
chalks. Then ask every one, beginning usually some ludicrous or frightful repre- 
with the eldest in hand, whether they will sentation, the more to divert the spectators ; 
