(seq. 237)

and as pilferer make free with the [fruit?] of human Industry
they build in trees & Bushes

They are the Raven, the Crow, Magpie, Woodpecker, Bird
of Paradise, the Cuckoo, parrot, Pigeon &c

Birds in general live longer than Quadrupede, a Raven 100 years
The Bird of Paradise is a Native of the Molucca Isles
Woodpeckers have a tongue ended with a bony [?] with two
bowed Cartilages running backwards to the skull supplied
with Muscles, they [?] the Ants &c with the lingua
Linneus makes 47 species ^Varieties of Parrots

The Pigeon is furnished with a crop containing Air by
Means of which the throng up the grain for feeding
the young like a [??]

Fourth
Sparrow Kind, from the Pigeon down to the humming Bird
The [?], the Nightingale ^{& other soft Biled singing birds} the Canary Bird & other
hard billed singing birds, the Swallow, the
humming Bird

The Nightingale visits England in the Beginning of April
& leaves it in August

Fifth
Crane Kind, The Crane, the Storck, the balearic Crane, the
[?] - They live among the Waters, but cannot swim
in them