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flroyed, build another in the fame place. Male and female fit upon 

 their eggs by turns ; are a month in hatching j are particularly folicitous 

 for the fafety of their young : thefe, unable to Hand on their thin and 

 feeble fupports, draw themfelves along in the neft on their knees. Belon 

 pITerts that they breed alfo while in Egypt. 



The Dutch are very folicitous for the prefervation of the ftork in their 

 1-epublic. This bird builds on the tops of their houfes without molefta- 

 tion, and is familiar in their ftreets. There are few towns on the conti- 

 nent, in low marfhy fuuations, but have the ftork among them. 



Is faid to maintain its parents, when infirm by accident or age ; and 

 to .give a kind of token at parting, and at returning to its ncft. 

 , The Black Stork is rather brown, than black j changing by reflexion 

 to violet and golden green ; a lively red fkin round the eyes ; red bill ; 

 wild and folitary j flies from habitations, and frequents marfhes and deferts, 

 or the deep reccffes of the woods. Neftles on old trees, high pines, by 

 the fides of lakes ; befides fifh, feeds on infeds j found in the Alps, and 

 Germany j is fuppofed to migrate : the fpecies is rare ; fcems to avoid 

 where the white ftork prefers. 



The Maguari inhabits the hot climates of America; and feems to 

 be reprefentative of the fpecies in the new world. 



The CouRicACA, ill denoted by the title wood-pelican (fince it has little 

 in common with the pelican), inhabits Guyana, Brafil, and South Ame- 

 rica. In fize equals the ftork, higher mounted on its legs, and having a 

 longer neck ; has a hard, ftrong, thick, and large bill : plumage brown, 

 black, and white: his throat capable of extenfion, but nothing like the 

 bag of the pelican. Is a bird of paffage ; frequents Carolina at the 

 clofe of fummer j haunts marfhes. 



THE IBIS. 



THE ancient Egyptians worfliipped the Ibis, a bird in appearance 

 between the crane and curlew; the moderns referring it to the latter 

 kmd, the ancients to the former. That man fliould at any time, or on 

 any occafion, worfhip brutes, is only to be accounted for on principles 

 heretofore hinted; and by remarking that, while fecond caufes were ele- 

 vated to the ftation of the great Firft Caule, there were no limits whereby 

 the influence of fo difhonourable and detrimental a principle could be 

 confined. 2 The 



