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leucotophiis ,) which assembles in flocks of about 
twenty or thirty, in the recesses of forests, and 
whose note so exactly resembles the human voice in 
loud laughing, that a person, ignorant of the real 
cause, would fancy that a very merry party were close 
at hand. 
There is also a species of Skylark in India, whose 
powers of imitation are described as astonishing. 
One of these birds had so completely learned the 
wailing cry of a kite soaring in the air, that although 
the lark's cage was in a room, and within a few feet 
of the listener, he could scarcely persuade himself 
that the cry he heard did not, in reality, proceed 
from a distant kite. They are taught by being 
carried daily to the fields and groves, in close-covered 
cages, and are so prized, that a fine, well-instructed 
bird, has been known to sell for 4/. 
We have spoken of our English Goat-sucker, but 
there are many of this family never seen in our 
island, and far more interesting. In South America 
there are several sorts, whose notes are so singular, 
that the natives look upon them with a degree of awe 
and reverence, and will never kill them. They have 
received names from the different words they are 
supposed to speak, and absolutely bewilder strangers 
on first arriving in those parts. Thus, one of the 
most common will alight close by the door, and, on 
a person's going out, will flit, and settle a few yards 
before him, crying out, “ Who are you ? who, who, 
who are you !" another calls out 66 Work away, work 
away, work away!" a third, in a mournful tone, 
says u Willy come go; Willy, Willy, Willy come go!" 
While another, which is also a very common one, is 
