BRITISH BIRDS. 



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shun their foes, the Kite, Moor Buzzard, and others 

 of the Hawk tribe, make dreadful havoc among* 

 them;* and this, notwithstanding the numerous 

 brood, may account for the scarcity of the species. 



* The Pike is also the indiscriminate devourer of the young of al 

 these water birds. 



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