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PIES. 
The Lanius and Pie-Griefche of Brijfon , who reckons up XXVI, 
Buffon XIV. 
I reject the compound name of Butcher-Bird , and retain the old 
Englijh name of Shrike , from the noife. 
V. Parrot. Bill, hooked from the bafe : Upper mandible moveable. 
Nostrils, round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue, broad, blunt at the end. 
Head,, large j crown fiat. 
Legs, fhort. Toes, two backward, two forward. 
Ehc. Maccaw Edw. CLVIII. Parrot, CLXVI. 
Gregarious, clamorous ; the wild note loud and harfli. Very 
docile, imitative of founds ; imitates the human fpeech.. 
Climbs by help of the bill and feet. Makes ufe of the feet as 
hands to convey meat to the mouth, turning the legs out- 
ward. Frugivorous : Can crack the hardefl: kernels. Breeds 
in hollow trees. Makes no neft : Lays two or three white 
eggs : Inhabits within the Tropics, Africa , Afa, and Ame- 
rica ; a few are found as far North as Carolina : and South as 
the Straits of Magellan. 
Pfittacus of Linnaeus, and Brijfon , IV. 182. The firft has 
XLVII. the laft XC fpecies. 
'VI. Toucan. Bill, raoft difproportionably large convex and carinated at 
top, and bending at the end ; hollow ; very light, ferrated at 
the edges. 
Nostrils, final 1 and round, "placed clofe to the head, and hid 
in the feathers. 
Tongue, long and narrow, feathered at the edges. 
Toes, two forward, and two backward. 
Toucans 
