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Of BIRDS. 



THE number of birds in Abyflinia exceeds that of other 

 animals beyond proportion. The high and low coun- 

 tries are equally ftored with them, the firft kind are the 

 carnivorous birds. Many fpecies of the eagle and hawk, 

 many more ftill of the vulture kind, as it were overftock 

 all parts of this country. That fpecies of glede calkd 

 Haddaya, fo frequent in Egypt, comes very punctually into 

 Ethiopia, at the return of the fun, after the tropical rains. 

 The quantity of fhell-fifh which then covers the edges of 

 the defert, and leaves the fait fprings where they have been 

 nouriftied, furprifed by the heat, and deferted by the moif- 

 ture, are the firft food thefe birds find in their way. They 

 then are fupplied in the neighbouring Kolla, by the carca- 

 ses of thofe large beafts, the elephant, rhinoceros, and gi- 

 raffe, the whole tribe of the deer kind, and the wild affes 



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