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it were, cities over our heads; they evidently dif- 

 tinguifli, that the danger is greater when a man is 

 armed with a gun. Every one has feen this, who 

 in the fpring of the year has walked under a rookery 

 with a gun in his hand : the inhabitants of the trees 

 rife on their wings, and feream to the unfledged 

 young to flirink into their nefts from the fight of 

 the enemy. The vulgar obferving this circumftance 

 fo uniformly to occur, aflert that rooks can fmell 

 gun-powder. 



The fieldfairs, (turdus pilarus) which breed in 

 Norway, and come hither in the cold feafon for our 

 winter berries ; as they are affociated in flocks, and 

 are in a foreign country, have evident marks of 

 keeping a kind of watch, to remark and announce 

 the appearance of danger. On approaching a tree, 

 that is covered with them, they continue fearlefs 

 till one at the extremity of the bum rifing on his 

 \vings gives a loud and peculiar note of alarm, when 

 they all immediately fly, except one other, who 

 continues till you approach flill nearer, to certify 

 as it were the reality of the danger, and then he 

 alfo flies off repeating the note of alarm. 



And in the woods about Senegal there is- a bird 

 called uett-uett by the negroes, andfquallers by the 

 French, which, as foon as they fee a man, fet up a, 

 loud feream, and keep flying round him, asif their 

 intent was to warn other birds, which uponhearing 

 the cry immediately take wing. Thefe birds are the 

 bane of fportfmen,. and frequently put me into a 

 paffion, and obliged me to (hoot them (Adanfon's 

 Voyage to Senegal, 78). For the fame intent the 

 letter birds' of our climate feem to fly after a hawk, 

 cuckoo y or owl, and feream to prevent their com- 

 panions from being furprifed by the general enemies 

 of themfelves, or of their eggs and progeny. 



But the lapwing, (charadrius pluvialis Lin.) when 

 her unfledged offspring run about the marfhes, 



where 



