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them in their talons, and carry them to their hefts 

 and airies. The reft are entirely grey, and only 

 make war on birds. They are all excellent rimers; 

 The falcon, the gofs-hawk, and taftel, are abfo- 

 lutely the fame with thofe of Europe ; but we have 

 here a fecond fort of them, which live folely by 

 fi filing. 



Our partridges are of three forts • the grey, red, 

 and black partridge. The laft are the leaft efteem- 

 ed ; they favour too much of the grape, juniper, 

 and fir-tree. They have the head and eyes of a, 

 pheaiant, and their flefh is brown ; they have all 

 long tails, which they fpread like a fan, or like the 

 tail of a turkey-coek. Thefe tails are exceeding 

 beautiful i fome of them are a mixture of grey, 1 

 red, and brown ; others are that of a light and dark 

 brown. I faid the black partridge was not efteem- 

 ed ; fome there are, however, who prefer theni 

 even to the red fort they are all bigger than ours 

 in France, but fo ftupidly foolifh as to fuffer them- 

 felves to be mot, and even to let you come near 

 them, almoft without ftirring. 



Befides fnipes which are excellent in this country,' 

 and fmall water-game, which is every where in great 

 plenty, you meet with fome woodcocks about 

 fpring, but thofe in no great numbers. In the 

 country of the Illinois, and all over the fouthern 

 parts of New France, they are more common. M. 

 Denys afferts, that the raven of Canada is as good: 

 eating as a pullet. This may be true on the coafts 

 of Acadia ; but I don't find people of this opinion 

 in thefe parts ; they are larger than in France, fome- 

 thing blacker, and have a different cry from ours. 

 The ofpray, on the contrary is fmaller, and their 

 ery not fo difagreeable. The owl of Canada has no 



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