colors: the head, neck, wings, and tail being*black, 
with varying glolTes of green and purple, while the 
remainder of the bird is of a beautiful pale rofe- 
color. It feeds, in general, on infecfls, and efpeci- 
ally on the different kinds of locufts; for which 
reafon it is confidered as a kind of facred bird in 
fome of the Eaffern countries, where it contributes 
greatly to the deftrudlion of thofe noxious animals. 
This is faid to be particularly the cafe in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Aleppo. A beautiful fpecimen of this 
bird was fhot in the courfe of the laft year in Ox- 
fordftiire, of which an account was politely commu¬ 
nicated by Captain Jenner, of the marines. 
