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beautiful olive glofs of the plumage of thefe birds; 

 nor that the bill affumes a fuller and brighter red in 

 the courting feafon : his natural hiftory of it in ether 

 refpects is fo very ample, that we (hall prefent it 

 to the reader, almoft in his own words. It gets its 

 food on grafly banks, and borders near frefh waters, 

 and in the very waters, if they be weedy. It builds 

 upon low trees and fhrubs by the water-fide ; breed- 

 ing twice or thrice in the fummer; and when the 

 young are grown up, drives them away to fhift for 

 jthemfelves. They lay feven eggs of a dirty white 

 color, thinly fpotted with ruft color. It ftrikes with 

 its bill like a hen ; and in the fpring has a fhrill calL 

 "We may obferve, that the bottoms of its toes are fo 

 very flat and broad (to enable it to fwim) that it 

 feems the bird that connects the cloven footed aquatics 

 with the next tribe ; the fin toed. 



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