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be eradicated, becoming a greater plague than that from which
their firft prefence relieved them.
They build twice in a year, chiefly in the forked parts of the
■ palm-trees, though not unfrequently in out-houfes; and generally
lay four eggs at a time. The young birds are eafily tamed, and
foon learn to fpeak, imitating the cries of the common domeftic
poultry, and other animals.
4-
FETID
GR.
Gracuta fcetida, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 164. N° 3.
D escription. g I Z E of a Magpie. The bill not unlike that of a Cuckow : the
tongue plain, flelhy, and pointed: the noftrils oval and naked:
the head is black, covered with upright, fhort feathers, like velvet
; on the neck is a band, which is bare of feathers: the body
is black : the outer edge of the quills of a blueifh colour, but no-
white fpot on any' of them : the tail even at the end.
Pla.ce» Inhabits America.
+- BOAT-
TAILED
GR.
Gracula barita, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 165. N* 4.
Monedula tota nigra, or fmall Blackbird, Rati Syn. p. 185. N° 2$•—Sloan*.
Jam. p. 299. t. 257. f. 2.
Boat-tailed Grakle, Amer.Zoal. N°
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf..
Disc&istion. C IZ E o f a Cuckow : length nearly thirteen inches. The bill
lharp,, black, and an inch and a half in length ; it is naked at
the bafe, and the upper mandible bent: the general colour of the
glumage is black, with a glofs of purple, efpecially on the upper
parts j,