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to eat, they feed in the vfoods on aeorns and 

 beech feeds *. 



On the banks of rivers there are birds called 

 Egret Sy they are exceeding white ^nd the ladies 

 employ their feathers as aigrettes f. 



The Pelicafiy which the inhabitants of the 

 country call great throat, on account of a 

 pouch he has under his throat, is as white 

 and as large as a fwan, its bill is about twelve 

 inches long ; they make muffs of its (kin, and 

 precipitate the pafte of indigo with its fat. 

 This pafte is made from a plant, the grain 

 of which comes from the Eaft Indies, for dying 

 blue |. 



The fpoon-bill §, having a bill like a Spatula, 

 an apothecary's inftrument fo called. There is 

 likewife a bird called Lancet-hill^ whofe beak is 



aftually 



* This is the Jnas arhorea, Linn. 



t Egrets, Ardca alba? Linn, thq great white heron f 

 FoiU. North. Am. Animals, p. 14. 



\ Pelican, Fde<anus Onocroialusy 0. Linii. 



§ Spoon-bill, Platalea Leucorodia, Linn. 



