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the air *. Certain it is that the moft ufeful arts were 

 originally copied from animals •, however we may 

 now have improved upon them. Still in thofe nations 

 which are in a ilate of nature, (fuch as the Samoieds 

 and Efqtiimcmx) their dwellings are inferior to thofe 

 of the beavers, which thofe fcarcely human beings but 

 poorly copy. 

 Defer. The weight of this fpecies is forty-four ounces: the 

 length twenty-feven : the breadth five feet one inch : 

 the bill is two inches long, and very much hooked at 

 the end. The cere yellow : the head and chin are of 

 a Jight grey, in fome, white, marked with oblong 

 Hreaks of black : the neck and breaft are of a tawny 

 red, but the middle of the feathers black. On 

 the belly and thighs, the fpots are fewer, and under 

 the tail they almofl vanifh. The back is brown. 

 The five firft quil feiithers are black : the inner webs 

 of the others blotched with white : the coverts of the 

 v/ings are varied with tawny black and white : the 

 tail is forked, and of a tawny red : the outmoft fea- 

 ther on each fide of a darker hue than the reft : the 

 thighs are covered with very long feathers ; the legs 

 are yellow and ftrong : the irides of a pale yellow. 



Thefe birds difi^er in their colors. We have feen a 

 beautiful variety ihot in Lincolnjhire that was entirely 

 of a tawny color. 



* lidem videntur artera gubernandi docuifle caudse fiexibus. I/i. 

 ic. C. 10. 



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