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which the natives fuppofe it to be fond of 5 but it is full as probable
that its fearch is after the infedts which frequent the trees,
as the fruit itfelf.
This feems.to havefome affinity to the laft.
YELLOW-
BREASTED FL.
D esciuptiqn.
Wellow-breafted Elycatcher, Brown's Jll. p. So. pi. 82.
g I Z E of a Goldfinch. Bill grey : head, and cheeks, blackt
back, and wingicoverts, cinereous brown, mixed with yellow:
breaft yellow: quill?, and tail, dulky, edged with pale yellows
P l a c e .
legs pale blue.
Inhabits Ceylon; where it is called Malkala-kourla. It is much
admired by the natives for its fong, and frequently kept in cage*
■ for that purpofe.
2-2.
GREEN FL.
iDEJCRIP.TIQW. g I Z E of alargeHummingBird. "Bill llender, and rather long:
head, backhand wing coverts, a variable green and gold : tail
long, green on the outer webs, dulky within : wings dulky:
throat, and breaft, fox-colour: rump, and belly, yellow.
P l a c e . Inhabits India *.
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•WREATHED
FL.
Le Gobe-mouches verdatre delaChine, Son.Voy. 2nd, vol, ii. p. 107.
DESdU*T£QN. D I G G E R than a Houfe Sparrow. Bill black: irides red:
the head Black: over the eye a ftreak of white, arifing from
* Mx. Pennant.
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the bill, and palling to the hind head, making a fort of wreath :
the hind part of the neck, the back, rump, wing coverts, and
tail, greenifh grey : the quills yellowifh green : the throat white:
fore part of the neck and bread: greyilh : the belly and vent pale
yellow : legs black.
Inhabits China *. F laci .
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GREY-NECKED
FL.
D e sc r ip t ion.
FT' H E upper parts of this bird are black : acrofs the wing coverts
a band of white : fore part of the neck dark grey:
breaft and belly pale red : the tail a little cuneiform: legs yel-
lowifb brown.
Inhabits China.
J ^ E N G T H fix inches and a half. Bill red : the forehead,
over the bill, dufky black : on each fide the jaw a ftreak of
the fame, like a whifker : round the eye yellowilh, palling in a
ftreak behind, where it is pointed : upper parts of the body
green : fore part of the neck yellow, inclining to red on the fides
of the breaft: top of the head pale yellow: belly pale green,
marked with three fpots of yellow one above the other: quills
dulky, edged with yellow : tail the fame, and much forked ; the
two middle feathers tipped with white : legs reddilh.
From China: called there §>uy lum long fu. Peace.
The Wreathed Shrike, vol. i. p. 178. Hems to bear much affinity to thij.
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