



F? 







IRDS, from their elegant and 

 beautiful coloring, the graceful ease 

 of their flight, their varied music, 



their tender solicitude for their young, their singular and 

 engaging instincts, their susceptibility of domestication, and 

 their subserviency to the sustenance of man, have, for ages 

 past, attracted universal admiration, and, as objects of human 

 interest, nnd even affection, they stand foremost, perhaps, in 

 *he entire range of animated nature. 



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