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and fay^ that they never appeared in their coun- 

 try before that flaughter. Many people here 

 look on them as birds of ill omen. I have 

 been informed they lay two eggs, of a dark 

 green, fpotted and fcrawled with black, in the 

 plain beaten paths, without any fign of a neft, 

 upon which they fit very clofe, and will fufFer a 

 near approach before they fly off." 



The P E T E R I L. 



The Peteril is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where it is called the Pantado, which is a 

 name the Portugueze have given to other birds, 

 of a difierent nature, where they find them fpot- 

 ted or painted, as the name denotes. 



Dampier fays, " between Brafil and the 

 Cape of Good Hope, we pafled by a dead 

 whale, and faw (as I may fay) millions of fea- 

 fov/ls about the carcafs, (and as far round about 

 it as we could fee) feme feeding, and the reft 

 flying about, or fitting on the water, waiting to 

 take their turns. We firft difcovered the whale 

 by the fowls, for indeed I neyer faw fo many 



f(5wls 



