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" tion, and report, that the Pelican, in feeding 

 her young, pierced her own breaft, and nou- 

 «' rifhed them with her blood." 



The reverend Mr. Durand, F. R. S. has 

 obliged me with an obfervation on the paflage of 

 birds, which he himfelf made in Spain, and is 

 as follows : " I can aver, that being in Spain in 

 " 1707, in the kingdom of Valencia, upon the 

 " fea coaft, a little way from Caftillon de la Plane, 

 I faw, in Odlober, great flocks of birds com- 

 ing from Africa, in a dired line from thefouth; 

 ^' fome of them, being ftiot, were found to be 

 " Thruflies [Grives], but fo dry and lean, that 

 " they had little fubftance or tafle ; the people 

 •* of the country told me, that they came every 

 year at the fame feafon in flocks, but that the 

 " greatefl: part of them go on farther j they grow 

 fat in Switzerland by feeding on juniper ber- 

 ries, and are delicious all the winter long." 



The above paragraph of Mr. Durand feems 

 to contradid my opinion relating to the pafl!age 

 pf birds J but though thefe Thrufhes come frpn) 



the 



