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iand ravenous birds. They appear chiefly in sum- 

 mer, and at the approach of cold weather, they 

 retire to their winter recesses, and lie torpid in 

 the holes and crevices of hollow trees. It fre- 

 quently happens, that a few warm sunshiny clays 

 so invigorate them, that they will come out of 

 their holes, and appear abroad ; when on a sud* 

 den the weather changing to cold, they become 

 so feeble as to be unable to return to their ie^ 

 $reats, and consequently expire. 



