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and, according to sonic lat<- observations on 

 and tield-miee. A | rdinary cir- 



cnm :i lately n !at d of tin- bird ; 



lliat it has been kiio'.\n to d-M end .suddenly 

 from IN Illicit, and Iron) some unknown capn .-, 

 l> attack a horse and its rider with great \i>- 

 lencc, and \\ ith such blind fury as to sulTrr it>-|f 

 to I- d 1>\ tin- traveller, rather than at- 



tempt an (>ca|)c. Two instances of this are 

 recorded in thr Gentle-man's Magazine of the 

 of about t\\o years jia-t. 



The two rcmainiujT Orders of Birds are the 

 (initU and jH.wrcs t or the Il'tidcm and the 

 Jl\b-footed Birds. The former of these tribes 

 is termed Oral/a on account of the general 

 length of the legs in these birds, which in some 

 ra is Mich as to give the appearance of the 

 bird.- walking as it Avere on stilts, the Latin 



d Gralhe signifying a pair of stilts. The 

 birds contained in this tribe are all the Herons, 

 Craticxj Storks, and nittcrn.s ; all the Snipe and 

 Plircer-kimL The Ibijtes, the Cools and Rails, 

 and several other birds, some of very large size, 

 and >ome ratlu-r small. I must also here ob- 

 serve, that systematical ornithologists differ in 



