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are either dug out, or drawn from their burrows by a hooked ftick: 
they bite extremly hard, and keep fuch faft hold on whatever they 
faften, that it is with difficulty they can be difengaged; when they are 
taken, their noife is very difagreeable, being like the efforts of a dumb 
perfon to fpeak. are 
It flies with great ftrength and fwiftnefs when it gets on the wing, 
but meets with many falls before that can be effeéted: the legs are 
placed fo far behind, that it cannot ftand except quite erect; and at 
that time it refts not only on the feet, but on the whole length of the 
legs alfo. 
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