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Jicet; in Kent*; but the old birds had not been obferved.”—It was 
well known, as a vifitor in Lngland, at the time Abin publifhed his 
Hiftory of Birds; his obfervations deferve notice. “ The hen-of 
this bird was fhot in the garden of Mr. Starkey Mayas, at Woodfird 
on Epping Fore/i, where they had obferved it fome time, and ufed all. 
the means to take it they could; but it was fo thy, that it avoided all 
their traps which were laid for it; which the gentleman obferving, 
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ordered it to be thot: it was fent to me to be preferved for him, 
“* ‘The cock of this kind I drew from a piQure done in Germany, 
by a great matter there, now in the pofleffion of Mr. Nifbet, a gc wees 
man, who had it drawn from the bird when alive. 
“© ‘There is fome difference in the colours. of the hen, ei this bird 
which was a cock, I was credibly informed by Robert Br yiow, Efq3 
who faw both the drawings of the cock and hen, and told me his fon 
fhot the cock, which was like the drawing at his feat at A@icheler, near 
Winchefter in Hampfhire.” — Albin, Vol. Ul. 42, 43- 
Latham obferves, “ it is a folitary bird, and feldom more than 
two are feen together; though it is faid that in Egypt it affembles in 
fall troops. It is very common in Cairo, where it builds in the 
ftreets, on the terraces of houfes, &c. It is alfo common in the deferts 
of Ruffia and Tartary, though fcarce beyond the river Ob; however 
fome are found beyond the Lake Baikal. Dr. Pallas confirms the 
account of the filthy manners of this bird, as he met with an inftance 
of a pair breeding in the privy of an uninhabited houfe in the fuburbs 
of Tzaritzn +. 
“ Tam informed by colonel Davies, that they every year are feen 
in Gibraltar in March, in fmall flocks of ten or twelve; hence are 
* By Mr, Godden of that place. + Arh. Zool. 
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