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of feed, as would foon overfpread the earth, and which, if 
e more ufeful 
y fpecies are ufeful in tranfporting feeds 
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and palatable, as an article of diet ; 
of their eggs have been found to poffefs 
any oS. quite: a a pe well known to fea- 
imconvenience from 
article = food, all carnivorous birds are avoided, 
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from u wo ds that live almoft 
wholly on infe&s are likewife Saal avoided as an article 
of food ; while the fmaller birds, that fubfift upon grain or 
feeds, are ver och efteemed. The woodcock, the {nipe, 
and bittern, the whole tribe called mud- ficken: are ac- 
counted a great delicacy. 
_It has been remarked as a matter of furprife, that fo few 
fly the haunts of men, and by f sal the Japa part continues 
in the primitive wildnefs of na n of thofe that 
we denominate domettic, difcover that familiarity or affec- 
e€ 
one {pecies that has ever 
ut in the order Gallinz, 
eral fpecies which have, with great advantage, 
cae eee to the purpofes of domeftic economy : 
fuch are the peacock, turkey, the barn-door fowl, and the 
Gui . O e columbine tribe, one {pecies only has 
iz. that of the common pigeon. None of the 
pier or ftruthious orders have ever been domefticated, 
though many of the former are reckoned delicate food. 
Four f{pecies of the duck kind have been brought from their 
wild ftate to the fervice of man; the fwan, goofe, Guinea 
{cribed by Latham, not more than ten or twelve have been 
rendered ferviceable to the human race 
HOMANCY, a kind of divination, or method 
of arriving at the ape : futurity by means of birds. 
OrniTHomancy, amongtit ay ieee = fame with 
augury among the Romans. oe Avcu MEN. 
ORNITHOPARCHUS, AxDaEA, in Bicgraply, was 
born at ae : he was mafter of ar f the 
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cites John the traét written by 
our countryman John Cotton, hein he calls pope John X XII. 
His treatife, though the beft of the time, feems too 
and fuccinct to have b 
{uch mufic as was then praGifed. It wa 
lated into Englifh in 1609, feventy vears after its firft pub- 
lication, by our countryman John Douland, the celebrated 
lutenift ; a labour which he might have well {pared himfelf, 
as Morley’ 8 Introduétion, which was fo much more full and 
fatisfaGtory, precluded all want of fuch a work as that of 
Ornithoparchus. 
ORNITHOPUS, in Botany, a name altered by Linnzus 
rom the Ornithopodium of preceding botanifts, and derived, 
like that, from oeus, a bird, and res, a foot, the legumes 
having a ftriking refemblance to the toes of many {mall birds. 
Gen a 23: Willd. 
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155. nithop afs 
and order, Bindphie ‘Devandvin Nat. Ord. Papilionacea, 
Linn. Leguminofe, Ju 
n. Ch. Cal. Perianth Lhe el ‘a one leaf, tubular, 
with ae nearly equal m teeth Cor. 
papilionaceous. 
Win, 
(one fimple, the other in nine divifions) ; anthers fimple. 
Pift, Germen linear ; ftyle briftle-fhaped, sending ; ftigma 
a terminal point eric. Legume awl-fhaped, round, 
curved, jointed, with intermediate partitions, the joints 
falling off feparately. _ Seeds pool — fh. 
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Cemmon "Bird’s a ” Linn, Sp. Pl. 
Engl. Bot. t. 369. 
te. Flowers capitate, a nied 
8 incurved, beaded.—Native of fandy 
heads, on axillary ftalks, with a leaf, of fewer leaflets than 
the others, at the fummit of each common ftalk, clofe to 
the flowers. The fandard and wings are alice, the former 
rettily ftreaked with crimfon; deel greenifh. Legumes pa- 
rallel, beadlike, flightly compreffed, pointed, downy, con- 
taining one feed in each of the numerous joints. There is a 
more luxuriant variety, whofe floral leaf, as well as the 
flowers, are much larger than in our Britifh kind. This is 
Ornithopodium majus, Ger. em. 1241. 
2. O Comprefled Yellow Bird’s-foot. 
Pl. 1049. Sm. Fl. Gre 
isi see leg uminofa ; 
Linn, 
c. Sibth. t. 714, unpublithed. 
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pom relied even-jointed, rugged, recurv of 
Italy, Sicily, and Greece, fometimes raifed for curiofity in 
our gardens, where it hardy annual, flowering about 
June, 
Larger than the former, with which it much agrees 
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