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to guard them ; and to hunt, to fet, or to deftroy 

 other kinds of animals, as birds, or vermin ; and 

 in fome countries to catch fi(h, in others to find 

 truffles, and to pra&ife a great variety of tricks ; 

 is it more furprifing that the crows mould teach 

 each other, that the hawk can catch lefs birds, by 

 the fuperior fwiftnefs of his wing, and if two of 

 them follow him, till he fucceeds in his defign, that 

 they can by force mare a part of the capture ? This 

 1 have formerly obferved with attention and afto- 

 nifhment. 



There is one kind of pelican mentioned by Mr. 

 Ofbeck, one of Linnseus's travelling pupils (the 

 pelicanus aquilus), whofe food is fim ; and which 

 it takes from other birds, becaufe it is. not formed 

 to catch them itfelf ; hence it is called by the Eng- 

 Jim a Man-of-war-bird, Voyage to China, p. 88. 

 There are many other interefting anecdotes of the 

 pelican and cormorant, collected from authors of 

 the beft authority, in a well-managed Natural Hif- 

 tory for Children, publifhed by Mr. Galton. John- 

 fon. London. 



And the following narration from the very accu- 

 rate Monf. Adanfon, in his Voyage to Senegal, 

 may gain credit with the reader : as his employ- 

 ment in this country was folely to make obferva- 

 tions in natural hiftory. On the river Niger, in his 

 road to the ifland Griel, he faw a great number pf 

 pelicans, or wide throats. " They moved with 

 great ftate like fwans upon the water, and are the 

 largeft bird next to the oftrich ; the bill of the one 

 I killed was upwards of a foot and half long, and 

 the bag fattened underneath it held two and twenty 

 pints of water. They fwim in flocks, and form a 

 large circle, which they contract afterwards, driv- 

 Jng.the fim before them with their legs : when they 

 fee the fifh in fufficient number confined in this 



fpace. 



