
| nOuy Bekiteo Sect tev. 
- Some of them approach in fize to the Butcher 
bird, others are fmaller. than the Nightingale. 
There 3 is no melody in their notes, their cha-- 
radter is favage, and folitary. They are feldom. 
On the ground, as their fubfiftance is in the. 
air, they are ‘moftly. feen upon trees,. which they 
| : have little inducement to quit. . 
In cold countries there are but: few fpecies ; as 
their food confifts of infeéts, it is natural to fuppofe- 
that they fhould exit in the greateft numbers in. 
: warm climates; in Europe the fpecies are few, 
‘. more numeronsin Afia, and.in America,. they are: 
: Conliderably multiplied, | 
- Tue PARADISE FLY-CATCHER 
The head and creft are black, ‘the body white, the tail. 
_ long and wedge form like the taihof a pheafant, the middle. 
i head are very long. . 
: oe found. at: beak the ae of ern | 
Q Hope, and at Madagafear. It frequents the man- 
 $rove trees on the folitary parts of the banks of. 
the rivers Senegal, and Gambia, feeding vpon s 
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