■ obfcure dufky marks : thefe it places on the bare ground, or at
lead: in a fmall excavation of the earth, or fheltered by a done or
two, and drs thirty days. It feems to hatch late in the feafon, as
the young have been brought to me, unable to Ry, the middle*
of OStober-, and indeed authors have obferved this. The young
will follow like chickens as foon as hatched, and for a long
time are of a grey colour, and downy like a young O wi.
The cry is dngular j an hoarfe kind of whidle three or four
times repeated, to be heard more than a mile off; in my opinion
much refembling the creaking of a well handle, or that of a
grindjlone wanting greafe. This noife it makes in the evening
and night only. Buffon compares it to turrlui, turrlui-, and fays
the bird is common in feveral of the provinces of France-, and,
if the fame with the Kervan of Hajfelquijt, is found in Arabia.
The Turks and Egyptians, he fays, keep it alive in cages for the
fake of the noife, which to them, is agreeable. He likewife
adds, that it is ufeful in dedroying mice, too common in Palef-
tine: with us it may perhaps do the fame, if noticed, but in
thefe parts is fuppofed to live on worms, caterpillars, toads, and
fuch like.
I have feen a fpecimen of this bird, brought from the Cape of
Good Hope -f, perfefitly the fame, but larger, being twenty inches
in length; it is likewife mentioned as a native of Owhyhee J.
* The end.—Albin.———Said to breed twice a year in the ijlandvf Malta*
f Now at Sir Jofeph Banks's*
% Ellis's Narrat, ii. p. 143.
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I R E C T I O N S
F O R T H E
P L A T E S.
T C 'R O N T IS P IE C E fo Part the Firft. O t a h e i t e '
P x A T E
X X X V I . Wattled Starlings — to face Page 9
X X X V I I . T hick-billed T hrush - 34
X X X V I I I . White-tailed D° 49
X X X IX . Long-tailed D° — 72
X L . Caruncblated Chatterers 98
X L I . White-backed Coly ____ 101
XL II. Parrot-billed Grosbeak ■ 108
X L I I I . Black-headed D° — I CO
X L IV . Black-throated Bunting — 107
X L V . Black-crowned D ’ — 202
X L V I . Variegated T anager 219
X L VII. Crimson- crowned Finch ----- 2S9 X L V I I I . Parrot Finch — - , . 287
X L IX . Fan- tailed Fly-catcher — 34°
L. Red-bellied D° ---- 343
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