48 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
- jnaked; and when it is angry, they appear very | 
red. It has-a black line of feathers on its head. 
One that was kept in a cage fwallowed a young — 
gat’ whole, it firft bruifed the rat again{t the wires 
to make it foft. Saab | 2 
Thefe bitds are very fond of grafshoppers ; a. 
pair of them was fent for to the Ifle of Bourbon — 
near Africa, to eat the grafshoppers which were 
yery troublefome; they increafed very faft and ; 
killed all the grafshoppers, and now they are very 
troublefome themfelves, for they eat the grapes 
and the dates and the corn, and fly into Pigeon- 
houfes and kill the young Pigeons. 
Some birds of this genus are found in America, 
and fome in Egypt. ! 
There is one that comes from China, called 
the Chinefe Starling; its feathers are black, but 
its bill and legs are yellow 5 and a little tuft of 
feathers grows from the bottom of its bill. 

