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Some live in Afia, and fome in Africa.. Their 
feathers are beautiful fhades of — and green, 
‘and white. 
They generally build their nefts in birch-trees:; 
but in thofe countries where there are none of 
thefe'trees, as in the ifland of Malta, and Africa, 
they are faid to make their nefts in the ground, 
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The bill is conic, convex, very fharp, and firait; the up 
per mandible flightly margined, and a little Jonger, 
The tongue fharp and bifid, 
4 The feet formed for walking or. hopping, or three toes 
before and one behind, 
‘HERE are a on many birds of this 
kind, They live in Europe, Afia, Africas 
xt America, but moftly in warm climates. wD. 
- The Galbula, or Golden Thrufh, which is‘one 
of them; lives on infeéts and berries, and makes a 
_ neftin the form of a pitcher or jug, of leaves, and 
at the end of the fmaller branches of trees. 
_ Some of thefe birds have a ftripe, which reaches 
4 from one eye to the other, round the back part of 
the head, 
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