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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 dc la Plane, 

 " I faw, in 06lober, great flocks of birds com- 

 ing from Africa, in a direct line from the fouth ; 

 fome of them, being fhot, were found to be 

 Thrufhes [Grives], but fo dry and lean, that 

 they had little fubftance or tafte ; 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; they grow 

 ^' fat in Switzerland by feeding on juniper ber-> 

 *5 ries, and are delicious all the winter long." 



The above paragraph of Mr. Durand feems 

 tp contradid my opinion relating to the paflage 

 of birds ; but though thefe Thrufhes come from 



the 



