oe Bt -R bs. 43 

Giunusg. >. CROTOPHAGA. 
O'S e FOR N I, 
The beak is comprefled, thin, but deep; a little oval ; 
arched, and with a keel on the top; ‘the upper Shae eA 
bowed, and the lower ftraight. The Noftrils round, Tongue 
flat, and pointed at the end. 
Toes two before and two behind, for climbing, 
Ten feathers in the tail. 
PX HEY live in Aftica and America, and 
T fifty of them often build together a very 
large neft. “Their food is grafshoppers, and the 
ticks which infeft cattle. The oxen fuffer them 
quietly to pick the ticks from their {kins, which, 
but for thefe birds, would aficteate fo faft as to be 
quite troublefome. 
_ The Crotophagz, or Anis, fly in little flocks, 
They cover their eges with leaves, and whilft 
fome are fitting, others are enlarging the nett, 
_ Sometimes they feparate their eggs by little par- 
titions. 
Tf one fees a cat or any other animal that would 
hurt them, he informs the teft by a very fhrill 
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