OF BIRDS. 
107 
Some of them approach in fize to the Butcher 
bird, others are fmaller than the Nightingale. 
There is no melody in their notes, their cha¬ 
racter is favage, and folitary. They are feldom 
on the ground, as their fubftftance is in the 
air, they are moftly feen upon trees, which they 
have little inducement to quit. 
In cold countries there are but few fpecics; as 
their food confifts of infeCts, it is natural to fuppofc 
that they Ihould exift in the greateft numbers in 
warm climates; in Europe the fpecics are few, 
more numerous in Afia, and in America, they are 
confiderably multiplied. 
The PARADISE FLY-CATCHER. 
The head and rreft are black, (he body white (he tail 
long and wedge i<I er '.kc the tail of a pheafant, the middle 
feathers are very long. 
It is found at Senegal, the Cape of Good 
Hope, and at Madagafcar. It frequents the man¬ 
grove trees on the folitary parts of the banks of 
the rivers Senegal, and Gambia,.feeding upon 
infeCts, 
£ 6 
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