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of the offal, &c. which was flung 

 into the flreets. To kill them 

 was forbidden ; and they were fo 

 tame as to take their prey in the 

 midft of the greateft crowds, 

 &c. Belon. vbf. ad finem Cluf. 

 exot. 108. 



Moor Buzzard, 146. Feeds on fifli; for we have dis- 

 covered the bones and fcales in 

 the ftomach of a bird of this 

 fpecies. 



Pheafant, 212. Mr. Brooks, the bird-merchant 



in Hclborn, mewed us a variety 

 of the common pheafant, which 

 he thought came from China ; 

 the male of which had a white 

 ring round its neck ; the other 

 colors refembled thofe of the 

 common fpecies, but were more 

 brilliant. 



Ring-ouzel, 229. Mr. Garnons of Rhiwgoch, in 

 Merioneth/hire, fays, that there 

 was in a rock near his houfe a 

 Heft of thefe birds with five 

 young ones. That he knew of 

 one that was kept in a cage 

 twelve years. That the fong of 

 \, "'•'* - thefe birds is very fine, and like 



that of a throttle. 



Swat- 



