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the catalogue of uncultivated plants is too large to be enu¬ 
merated here. Befides the pemphis decafpermum , mallo- 
cocca , maba , and fome other new genera , defcribed by Dr. 
Forfter % there are a few more found here; which, perhaps,, 
the different feafons of the year, and his fhort ft ay, did not 
give him an opportunity to take notice of. Although it 
did not appear, during our longer ftay, that above a fourth 
part of the trees, and other plants, were in flower; a cir- 
cumftance abfolutely neceffary, to enable one to diftinguifh 
the various kinds. 
The only quadrupeds, befides hogs, are a few rats, and 
fome dogs, which are not natives of the place, but pro¬ 
duced from fome left by us in 1773, and by others got from 
Feejee. Fowls, which are of a large breed, are domefti- 
cated here. 
Amongft the birds, are parrots, fomewhat fmaller than < 
the common grey ones, of an indifferent green on the back 
and wings, the tail bluifh, and the reft of a footy or choco¬ 
late brown; parroquets, not larger than a fparrow, of a 
fine yellowifh green, with bright azure on the crown of 
the head, and the throat and belly red; befides another 
fort as large as a dove, with a blue crown and thighs, the 
throat and under part of the head crimfon, as alfo part of 
the belly, and the reft a beautiful green. 
There are owls about the fize of our common fort, but 
of a finer plumage; the cuckoos, mentioned at Palmerfton’s 
Ifland ; king-fifliers, about the ftze of a thrufh, of a green- 
ifh blue, with a white ring about the neck; and a bird of 
the thrufh kind, almoft as big, of a dull green colour, with 
two yellow wattles at the bafe of the bill, which is the only 
finging one we obferved here; but it compenfates a good 
* See his CharacterGcnenan Piantarum, Loud. 1776, 
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