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meat. The flrft defcribers of the animals of the new world are 

 very inaccurate, as they always enumerate lions amongft the qua- 

 drupeds, to which there is no American animal that bears the leaft 

 refemblance. 



ADDENDA to the Essay on the Migration of Birds, 



p. 174. 



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. STORKS are a bird ofpaffage at Perfepolis as elfewhere, and 

 only ftay to build and rear their young. LeBruyn, vol. IV. p. 306. 

 This is precifely what they do in Holland, though there are fb 

 many degrees of difference in Latitude. In Cyprus they fay, 

 that during winter ftorks retire beyond the Jordan. Ibid. vol. II. 

 p. 205- As they thus migrate from all places during the winter, I 

 rather fufpecl that they are torpid during that time. If the fize of 

 this bird is confidered as an obje&ion, why mould it not for the 

 fame reafon be feen fomewhere during that feafon ? 



Birds are fometimes by florins of wind blown from the fea coaft 

 far inland ; a puffin was, not many years ago, killed upon Thar- 

 field-common, in Hertfordfhire. 



Turnefort mentions woodcocks, amongft other birds of game, 

 in the ifland of Crete, where he happened to be during the month 

 pf July, which feemes to imply that they were to be found on 

 .thatJUand after Midfummer. 



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