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to one, when we do not run after them, yet they 

 will never grow tame. As soon as they are 

 caught they shed tears without crying, and 

 refuse all manner of sustenance till they die." 



*' We find in the gizards of both male and 

 female a brown stone of the bigness of a hen's 

 egg. . . . We believe this stone was there 

 when they were hatch'd, for let them be never 

 so youDg }oa meet with it always. They 

 have never but one of 'em, and besides the 

 Passage from the Craw to the Gizard is so narrow 

 that a like Mass of half the bigness could not pass. 

 It served to whet our knives better than any 

 other Stone whatsoever. . . ." 



"All the Avhiie they are . . . bringing up 

 their young one, w^hich is not able to provide 

 for itself in several Months, they will not suffer 

 any other Bird of their Species to come within two 

 hundred yards round the Place : But what is 

 very singular is, The Males will never drive away 

 the Females ; only when he perceives one he 

 makes a noise with his Wings to call the Female, 

 and she drives the unwelcome Stranger away, not 

 leaving it till 'tis without her Bounds. The 

 Females do's the same as to the Males, whom she 

 leaves to the Male, and he drives them away. 

 We have observed this several times, and I affirm 

 it to be true ! 



"... We have often remark'd that some 

 days after the young one leaves the Nest, a 

 Company of thirty or forty brings another young 

 one to it; and the new fledg'd Bird with its 

 Father and Mother joining with the Band march 

 to some Bye Place, We frequently foUow'd them, 



