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Gofs Hawk, and the Ta/Tel, are entirely the fame as in France^ 

 but we have a fécond Sort of Falcons which live only on 

 Fifh. 



Our Partridges are of three Kinds, grey, red, and black ; the 

 Three Sorts of leaft elleemed, they have too much 



re 0 s Of Tafte of the Grape, Juniper, and Fir : Their 

 rarmages. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^.j^^ Pheafant's, and 



their Flelh is brown. They all have a long Tail, and fpread 

 it as a Fan, like the Turkey Cock : Thefe Tails are very fine> 

 fome are mixed with red, brown, and grey ; and others of a 

 light and dark grey. I faid that the black Partridges were not 

 moft eil:eemed, but feme People prefer them to the red. They 

 are all bigger than in France, but fo filly, that they fuffer 

 thenifelves to be fiiOt, and even approached, without fcarce 

 ftirring. 



Befides the Snipes, which are excellent in this Country, and 

 Other Birds fmall Game of the Pvivers, which is eve- 



^' ry where plenty, they find fome Woodcocks 

 about the Springs, but in a fmall Number. Amongft the llinois^ 

 and in all the fouthern Parts of Ne^M Fra7ice, they are more 

 common ; M. Denys afferts, that the Crows of Canada are as 

 good to eat as a Fowl. This may be true on the Side of Acadia^ 

 î>ut I do not find in thefe Parts that they are much of this Opi- 

 nion. They are bigger than in France, and fomething blacker, 

 and have a different Cry. The Ofprey on the contrary is 

 fmaller, and its Cry is not fo difagreeable. The Screech-Owl 

 of Canada differs from that of France only by a little white 

 Ruff about die Neck, and a particular Cry : Its Flefh is good 

 to eat, and many People prefer it to a Fowl. Its Provifion for 

 the Winter is Field Mice; whofe Feet it breaks, and then nou- 

 rifhes and fattens them with Care till it has Occafion to feed 

 upon them. The Bat is bigger here than in France* The Black- 

 birds and Swallows are here Birds of Paffage, as in Europe. 

 The firff are not black, but inclining to red. We have three 

 Sorts of Larks, the fmalleft of which are as big as a Sparrow. 

 The Sparrow is but little different from our's, and has the fame 

 Inclinations, but an ugly Sort of a Look. We fee in this Coun- 

 try a prodigious Quantity of Ducks, they reckon twenty-two 

 different Species. The moil beautiful, and thofe whofe Flelh is 

 moft delicate, are the Branch Ducks : They call them fo becaufe 

 they perch on the Branches of Trees ; their Plumage is very 

 much varied, and very brilliant. Swans, Turkies, Water-hens, 

 Cranes, Teal, Geefe, Buftards, and other great River Birds 

 fvvarm every where except in the Neighbourhood of the Habi- 

 tations, which they never approach. We have Cranes of two 

 Colours, fome white, and others gridelin. AH of them make 



• excellent 



