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1 111- tl ie vegetable productions, are almoft entirely peculiar to 
-_ U - y j t& e place. And though it be difficult to follow them, on 
account of the quantity of underwood, and the climbing 
plants, that render travelling, for pleafure alone, uncom¬ 
monly fatiguing, yet a perfon, by remaining in one place, 
may ffioot as many in a day as would ferve fix or eight 
others. The principal forts are, large brown parrots, with 
white or greyiffi heads; green parroquets, with red fore¬ 
heads ; large wood pigeons, brown above, with white bel¬ 
lies, the reft green, and the bill and feet red. Two forts of 
cuckoos, one as large as our common fort, of a brown co¬ 
lour, variegated with black; the other not larger than a 
fparrow, of a fplendid green call above, and elegantly va¬ 
ried with waves of golden, green, brown, and white colours 
below. Both thefe are fcarce; but feveral others are in 
greater plenty ; one of which, of a black colour, with a 
greenifh caft, is remarkable for having a tuft of white 
curled feathers hanging under the throat, and was called 
the Poy bird * by our people. Another fort, rather fmaller, 
is black, with a brown back and wings, and two fmall gills 
under the root of the bill. This we called the fmall wattle 
bird, to diftinguifh it from another, which we called the 
large one, of the fize of a common pigeon, with two large 
yellow and purple membranes alfo, at the root of the bill. 
It is black, or rather blue, and has no refemblance of the 
other but in name ; for the bill is thick, flrort, and crooked, 
and has all together an uncommon appearance. A grofs- 
beak, about the fize of a thrufh, of a brown colour, with a 
reddiffi tail, is frequent; as is alfo a fmall greenifii bird, 
* See a drawing of this bird, Plate N° LII. in Captain CooPs Account of bis Second 
Voyage , Vol. i. p. 97. It had this name from its tuft of feathers, refembling the white 
flowers ufed as ornaments in the ears at Otaheite, and called there Poowa, 
which 
