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fpscies of king-filher common to, all the South-Sea illes, e£ which animal 

 the. tropical varieties are much brighter than that of New-Zeeland. 

 The plumage of birds is likewifb adapted to . the climate in another 

 refpecft; for thofe of warm countries have a moderate covering, 

 whilft thofe of the cold parts of the worlds, and fuch efpecially, as 



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are continually fkimming over the fea, have an immenfe quantity of 

 feathers, each of which is double ; and thepinguins, which almofl 

 conflantly live in the water, have their ihort, oblong feathers lying 

 as clofe above each other as the fcales of fifiies, being at the fame 



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time furniflied with a thick coat of fat, by which they are enabled 



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to relifl the cold : the cafe is the fame with the feals, ; the 



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and all other Southern aquatic animals. The land birds, both with 



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and without the tropics, build their neil: 



the common quail, which 



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except only 

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manners- of the European one,. Of the water-fowl,_ fome make 



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their nefts on the ground, fuch as the grallas, which breed only in 

 pairs ; whilft feveral fpecies of ihags, (pelecani), live gregarious in 



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trees, and others in crevices of rocks j and fome petrels {procelhric^) 

 hy thoufands together, burrow in holes under-ground clofe by 



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Dther, where- they< educate their young, and to whicl 

 every night. The moft prolific fpeciesrin the South S( 



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the ducks, which hatch feveral eggs at one brood, and thouph the 

 ilwgs, penguins* and petrels, do not hatch more than one or two. 



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