. A general synopsis of birds . 2. Greater A. 3. Walking A. THIS genus has a compreffed^ greatly arched, half oval,thin bill; cultrated at round. Tongue flat, pointed at the feathers in the placed two and two. 1. -Crotophaga Ani, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 154. N° I. LESSER ANI. ,Le Bout de Petun, Brif. orn. iv. p. 177. pi. 18. f. 1. LAni des Savanes, Buf. oif. vi. p. Bout de Petun, PL enl. 102. f. congener Ani Braf. Rait Syn. p. 35. N° io.—Ani Braf. Marcg. id. p. 185.—Will. orn. p. Raii Syn. p. 168. N° 27 ?JRazor-billed Blackbird, Cate
. A general synopsis of birds . 2. Greater A. 3. Walking A. THIS genus has a compreffed^ greatly arched, half oval,thin bill; cultrated at round. Tongue flat, pointed at the feathers in the placed two and two. 1. -Crotophaga Ani, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 154. N° I. LESSER ANI. ,Le Bout de Petun, Brif. orn. iv. p. 177. pi. 18. f. 1. LAni des Savanes, Buf. oif. vi. p. Bout de Petun, PL enl. 102. f. congener Ani Braf. Rait Syn. p. 35. N° io.—Ani Braf. Marcg. id. p. 185.—Will. orn. p. Raii Syn. p. 168. N° 27 ?JRazor-billed Blackbird, Catejb. Carol, app. pi. 3 *. Great Blackbird, Sloan. Jam. vol. ii. p. 298. N° iz. pi. 256. f. I.—Brown. Jam. p. 474. Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. Description* A BOUT the fize of a Blackbird : length thirteen inches and a half. The bill is of a Angular fhape, about an inch in length, hooked at the end, and much compreffed, rifing to a iharp * The toes are here placed three before and one behind, no doubt by miftake. 9 ridge J4^J3fc A N I. 36E ridge at top; the colour of it a brownifh black : the colour ofthe whole bird is black, in fome parts glofied with purple, andabout the neck faintly tinged with green on the margins: thebafe of the bill is furnifhed with black briftles, which turn for-wards : the eye-lids have long hairs, like eye-lafhes: the tail isfix inches long, and much cuneated: the legs are black: toesplaced two before and two behind. This fpecies is found in Jamaica, St. Domingo, and other iflands Place a»&in the Weft-Indies ; alfo at Cayenne, and other parts of South- Ame- ^ °rica. Contrary to all other birds, they have the fingularity ofmany laying in the fame neftj to make which, they all unite inconcert, and after laying their eggs, fit on them clofe to eachother, in order to hatch them; each unanimoufly ftriving to dothe beft for the general good % and when the young are hatched,the parents, without referve, do the beft to feed the whole f
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