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Tt 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 iodine take the feathers fois their tilts, 
and wear them on their cheeks on account of | 
their beautiful colours. ~~ 
‘The Toucans make a kind of whifling ie, 
‘They frequent moift places where the palm- 
trees grow, on account of their — Jor which | 
they feed. | 
They fly in little flocks of fix to ten, ahd 
though they fly awkwardly, (on account of their | 
large beak and fmall wings) they generally fabs : 
ee the tops of high trees. = 
| They lay but two EBES, and are eafily brought’ ~ 
up tame. .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 fwallowe being very 2 
wide. 
» They cannot bear cold, ee even in warm on : 
‘ aes when they have been tamed, they make 
for themfelves a bed of leaves, or of ftraw, or of 
any 
