BIRDS. Pi'C.E. 17. Pardifea. 
Afg 
lutabits PkUrpinnc IjUnd^ ; 9I md:es lc«g; feeds <^n fruU 
iidetb, mice and every kmd of grain; bnilds t^vK.c a v-ear 
ill the forked branches of tiecs ; eggs 4 ; when young is cafi.y 
tamed, and becomes docile and imitative. , , , . . 
JiSid/e« velleiiv; brownin. ; qmll-fcathns M 
from thc^aib to the middle ; UlL-J.ath.rs (except the middle 
ones'i lipt willi white. 
This bird has a great adinity in all its habits to the grakle genus, 
yet on accouift of the downy feathers at the bafeof the bill it 
is placed here. 
« 
'l”ilSta. Chefout-btown above, cbin green, with goUen lunules, 
c„w„ with a tnlt of yellow j, 
Inhabits A'esi Gmz ' tea ; 9 inches long. 
Flrfl ^u,:Llf. ath:rs brown, ibcondary ^ep yellow ; middie 
vc.^long, with a very fhort fringe; kgs and 
ki: yellow, the lattftr black at the bafe and tip. 
5 ‘‘«. 
Head, neck a.nd wings black ; tuft of 
crown and frontlet yellow. 
Inhabits Kctu Guin^d ! inches Icnig- 
S versions, black, hooked; tuft on the crown 3 .«;che* 
big? appearing as if briftly : probably a variety of 
the laft. 
Black • beneath flight green ; hind-head, nape, cfown and 
Z middll of the belly fine green ; under the 
chin a fplendid gold-colour crefeent. irorget I'.. 
Inhabits iflands of tlw Indian Ocean ; 28 inches long- 
unequal, the 2 middle ones 23, the cuter 
ones 5 inches long-. 
Black; crown Ihining copper ; quill-feathers white, edged 
with bhek «b the bbtltde , «.l very 1"^; ,,, 
length 25 inches ; bill blaek, hardly curved ; R^thers of the 
chin long ; tail very long, 2 middle feathers 20, t 
7 inches long. 
Crefted ; head, crown and belly green ; chin ^ n* 
wings black ; tail with a made of gree • '^n'Jij,bits 
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