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diftant fouthern countries, is only carrying them 

 a long journey to feek what they might find 

 near at hand. We know that the Stork, who 

 inhabits fome of the more northern parts of Eu- 

 rope in the fummer, retires in the winter no far- 

 ther than Egypt, about the mouths of the Nile, 

 which is on this fide of the Line : but according 

 to Mr. Catefby's opinion, fhe muft retire into 

 fome fouthern erra Incognita ; for we know of 

 no land, on the old-world-fide of the globe, of 

 fo high a f suthern latitude as Flolland lies north, 

 which is one of the fummer habitations of the 

 Stork. There remains fomething yet more diffi- 

 cult to be cleared up in relation to the pafTage of 

 fome birds ; I mean feveral of the Ihort-winged 

 water-fowl, that, during the fummer months, in-, 

 habit the northern iOands of Europe; fuch as 

 the Danifli iflands of Farro, and Iceland, and 

 many others farther north, even on the coaft of 

 Greenland. Amongfl. thefe, the moft remark- 

 able for its fiiort wings, is my Northern Penguin, 

 figured in plate 1 47 of my large work, which is a 

 bird never fuppofed to be capable of any flight 

 at all, not even fo much as to free itfelf from 

 the water. There are feveral others with ftiort 



wings. 



