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COLIES.
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five or six eggs. Their flesh is said to be of delicate flavour, and is prized not only by man, as it constitutes the ordinary food of several species of birds of prey.
SENEGAL COLY.
We illustrate the genus, concerning which comparatively little is known, by the above species (Colius Senegalensis, Lath.), which, as its name