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neck, and holds it fast, though without any 
violence, raises the lip, first upon one side, 
and then upon the other, to look in its cheek, 
or between its teeth, for the prize; and, 
however loudly the lesser monkey may 
scream, never fails to get the nut at last !” 
‘* Such, my dear, is the way of the world, 
whether human or animal; but, by the way, 
I should much like to see our Indian Badger 
in a cage, separated from his Coatimondi 
only by bars, and to know how he would be- 
have to it if he could see it, and had constant 
intercourse? Going back, however, to our 
Pirate, Frigate, or Man-of-War . Bird, I 
shall tell you, that I suspect those names 
and their history belong to a species of Alba- 
tross, or Alcatraz, the largest description of 
Gull, and not to any Pelican. Of these 
latter birds, the Wandering Albatross* is the 
largest, and of that species you have a spe- 
cimen at the Museum in Bruton-street, and 
an engraved figure in the Catalogue. The 
size of this species across the wings, is nine 
* Albatross. Burron. — Wandering Albatross, 
Man-of-War Bird. Atrin. — Diomedia exulans. 
Linn. 
