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animal, not able to get up to it, begins to gnaw the tree at the
bottom, whereby the Hottentots have a fecond method of difcoVer-
ing fuch as Contain honey *. Dr. Sparrman obferves, that no one
kept b^es about the Cape, while he was there, except the Jon of a
colonift; who ufed to fet out empty chefts and boxes, into which the
wild /warms would frequently enter s and he has no doubt, from
this circumfiance, but that hives might be ufed there, as in other
countries, with advantage.
There is great probability of this bird proving the Gnat-Snapper
o f Kolben: of which he fays the note is not fo fine as that of a H i-
tnou/e; and that it is a guide to the Hottentots, by directing them
to thehoney which the bees lay up in the clefts of the rocks.
GREY4-HEAD- y E K G T H ten inches. Head and neck-pale grey : breaft and
ED C. belly white, eroded with pale grey bars : wings deep afh,
D e s c r i p t i o n , fome o f the feathers edged with ru ft: tail almoft even at the endj
white, crodfed with equidiftant dufky bars: legs pale brown.
P l a c e . Inhabits India.— Lady Impey.— Perhaps a variety o f my Panay
an Cuckow\.
SONNERAT'sC Pet’ £ Concoti deslndes, Sen. Voy. Ind. ii. p.211.
D e s c r i p t io n . § I Z E o f a Blackbird. Bill and irides yellow : head, hind part
of the neck, back, and wings, red brown, eroded with ftreaks
o f black: fore part o f the neck, breaft, and belly, white, barred
with black : tail brown, fpotted on each fide o f the lhafts irregularly
with bla ck: legs yellow.
P l a c e . Inhabits India.
* Sfarrm. Voy. ii, p, 183, 194, f Syx, ii. p, 527,
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G e n u s X X , W R Y N E C K .
Wryneck, Gen. Syn. ii,p. 548,—Arft. Zool. ii. p. 267. B.
Yunx torquilla, Brun. N° 37.—.Muller, N° 96.— Faun. Arag. p. 73,
J T has been before obferved, that this bird is met with in various
places between Bengal and Kamt/chatka •, added to which,
I cannot help thinking that it is alfo found at the Cape of Good
Hope, as Kolben * mentions a bird by the name o f Long Tonguef
which inhabits that place.
* H>ß. Gaft, ii, p. 155.
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