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HABITS OP BIRDS. 



the vegetable origin of these animals * an emblem of 

 the Saviour f. 



Bernacle Goose-Tree from Aldrovand. 



Amongst our own countrymen, in times approach- 

 ing to our own, we find similar records of ocular 

 testimony, from which it will suffice to quote the 

 following by Sir Robert Moray, which was published 

 as authentic by the Royal Society. " In the western 

 islands of Scotland," says Sir Robert, " the west 

 ocean throws upon their shores great quantities of 

 very large weather-beaten timber; the most ordinary 

 trees are fir and ash. Being in the island of Uist, 



* See Insect Transformations, pp. 129-32. 

 t The title of one of his chapters is " Quod finis proprius hujus 

 volucris generationis sit, ut referat duplici sua natura, vegetabili et 

 animali, Christum. Deum et hominem, qui quoque, sine patre et 

 matre, ut ilia, existit." 



