Gir (Ber Res. - 
It isan American bird, and builds its neft in the 
holes of trees, and fits with its bill at the entrance, 
ready to peck at and drive away the Monkies, 
who often come in order to kill and eat the young: 

ones. 
| The Indians take the feathers from their breafts, 
and wear them on their cheeks on account of 
their beautiful colours, 
The Toucans make a kind of whiftling noife. 
' They frequent moift places where the palm- 
trees grow, on account of their fruit, upon which 
_ they feed. 
They fly in little flocks of fi to ten, and 
| though they fly awkwardly, (on account of their 
large beak and fmall wings) they generally perch 
- upon the tops of high trees. | 
They lay but two eggs, and are eafily brought 
_ uptame. . They fwallow whole every thing that 
_ is given them, ‘their beaks being too flight to 
| break any thing.’ Their manner of feeding is to 
_ take their food with the point of the beak, and 
throw it up in the air, and to receive it into their 
throats as it is falling, their {wallow being very 
wide. 
They cannot bear cold, and even in warm cli- 
g mates, when they have been tamed, they make 
“for themfelves a bed of Jeaves, or of ftraw, or of | 
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