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The ftraight make of the bill, the length of the tail, and the continued web that 

 runs between all the toes, diftinguifb this genus fufficiently from all others. It lives, 

 like the following, within the tropics, and rciembles it very much in make, 

 flight, and manner of nouriihment; but it is feldom leen (o near thefliore, It bit ds 

 on the mod defolate rocks and lonely iflands, and is often ieen at very coniidcrable 

 diftances from land. 



ALCYON 2. Major pull a, caudd Iongiori /Thz Man-of-war Bird ; or the 



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dark- coloured Alcy 

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This bird is of a confiderable fize, coming neareft to the Pelican oi all the bird 





that live in thofe feas: but it keeps chiefly abroad, and is often (ecn from 



hundred leagues from ilio 



It is remarkable for 



fty eafy fligl 



unin- 



bered make, reforts to the mod unfrequented rocks and lonely pi 



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 and is ft 



dom feen near any inhabited mores 







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HOUGH thehab 

 are very well know; 



ufes, and properties of the greatefl: part of this clafs 

 there are many of the individuals, and fome of thofc 



names, or fome 





very ufeful too, of which we hardly know more than the 



other diftant p 

 and. amonsr thofe th 



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deed, but few that are peculiar to 7 



we hardly find one of any 



but, as there are g 



numbers of different forts daily imported there, as well from Africa as from 

 neighbouring coafts, and that the methods of living, or other 



natural caufes 



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frequently obferved to change the difpofitions even of thofe th 





from Europe, I was induced to g 



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of this clafs I obferved there; and I doubt not but every m 



m ported 

 if all the 

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the pa 



of fome of the bell known fp 



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part of the work 







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Note. The individuals of this tribe are chiefly the prey of moft of the 





d for this reafon generally very fearful and wary, feldom 



kind, ar 



turing abroad but by night, or in the du(k of the evening; which h 



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fog 



of their flothfulnefs. from whence 



they have received this app 





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S^'CIURUS 1. Major grifeus, caudd extrema comofd, pihs\ _, c npir «i 



diffufo. . I 1 nc grey 5qu i.„i. 



diffufis. 



SCIURUS 2. Medius rufejcens. 



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The brown Squirrel. 







SCIURUS 3. Minimus, hypocondriis prolixis volans, 



ventre albido. 



The Flying-Squirrel 



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