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From any land the better 6 ) and not from the inhabitants of a 

 continent ; as it does not feem to be a fair inference, becaufe cer- 

 tain birds leave certain fpots at particular times, that they there- 

 fore migrate acrofs a wide extent of fea. 



For example, ftorks difappear in Holland during the winter, 

 and they have not a very wide tract of fea between them and Eng- 

 land ; and yet this bird never frequents our coafts f . 



The flork, however, may be truly confidered as a bird of 

 paffage by the inhabitants of thofe parts of Europe (wherever 

 fituated) to which it may be fuppofed to refort during the winter, 

 .and where it is not feen during the fummer, 

 I am, &c„ 



* I would particularly propofe the iflands of Madera and St. Helena ; 

 to thefe, I would alfo add the tfland of Afcenfion (had it any inhabitants), 

 as likewife Juan Fernandez, for the Pacifick ocean. 



f Kempfer however mentions that ftorks continue throughout the 

 whole year at Japan, vol. I. p. 129.. 



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