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or powder, in fuch abundance as to flam the 1 and upon 

 grafping them, This I fhall presently m mtion .11 the dcf- 

 cription of one of thefe birds, the golden eagle of Lamal- 

 mon. In looking at this duft through a very (Irong mag- 

 nifying power, I thought I difcerned it lo be in form ot a 

 number of fine feathers. 



Though all the deep and grafly bogs have fnipes in them-, 

 I never once faw a woodcock : fwallows there are of many 

 kinds, unknown in Europe; thofe that are common in 

 Europe appear in paflage at the very feafon when they take 

 their flight from thence. We faw the greatefl part of them 

 in the iiland of Mafuah where they lighted and tarried two 

 days, andthenproceededwith moon-light nights to the fouih- 

 weil But I once faw in the country of the BaharnagaiTi, 

 in the province of Tigre, the blue forked-tailed fwallow, 

 which builds in the windows in England, making his neft 

 out of feafon, when he mould have been upon his migra- 

 tion ; this I have already taken notice of in my journey 

 from Mafuah to Gondar, 



There are few owls in Abyffinia ; but thofe are of an 

 immenfe lize and beauty. The crow is marked white and 

 black nearly in equal portions. There is one kind of ra- 

 ven ; he, too, of a large lize, his feathers black intermixed 

 with brown ; his beak tipt with white, and a figure like a 

 cup or chalice of white feathers on his occiput, or hinder 

 part of his head. I never faw either fparrow, magpie, or 

 bat in Abyffinia. Pigeons are there in great numbers, and 

 of many varieties ; fome of them very excellent for eating. I 

 fliall hereafter defcribe one of them whofe name is Waalia. 

 All the pigeons but one fort are birds of paflage, that one lives- 



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