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yo , THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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The plumage is Brey, the head black, {potted with white, 
It inhabits India, and . is about the fize- ofa 
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Tae W HUTE CAP AS EEN: 
The head 1s shi the general plumage: a grey brown, 
It inhabits Brazil and Surinam, frequents reeds, 
and ae itd i 
THE TUNEFUL MANAKIN. 
The hed | is yellow, the crown of the head and neck” 
bine: the reft of the plumage above, dufky, and black ; the 
lower part of the back, breaft, and thighs, orange. 
It inhabits St. Domingo, where it has acquired 
_ the name of Organift, from its fong, which forms 
a compleat octave, in the moft agreeable fice 
ceffion of notes. | : | a 
It is probably the fame bird mentioned by Du 
Pratz ; its notes, he fays, are fo varied, fo me+ 
lodious, and warbled in a ftile fo tender, sa exe 
-preflive, that thofe who have heard it are lefs cape 
_. tivated with the fong of the Nightingale. | 
Mr. Du Pratz obferves, that it fang perched of on 
: an ak near the houfe where he lived. 

