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Of all the feathered race, the fpecles mofl: 
fubjea to hunger and to the frequent want of 
food have appeared to me to be the pifcivo- 
rous, or fuch as feed on fifli. Nature has ac- 
J cordingly given them large gullets or pouches, 
in which they accumulate, for future want, a 
larger ftore of provifion. 
With regard to birds of prey, they can en- 
dure hunger for a very confiderable period. 
I have made on this fubjecl various experi- 
ments, but fhall content myfelf with relat- 
ing a fingle fa61:, which h truly aftonifhing, 
and feems to prove fomething more than thQ 
mere capacity of enduring abilinence. 
I had a vulture of the fpecies called at the 
Cape chajje-fiente ^ ^^dung-hunter) which I 
* The author gives here only a tranflation of the name 
ufed at the Cape. The Dutch name hjrrontjaager ; and 
the bird alluded to is the fame kind of vulture as that 
^- ailed in the Wefl-Jndies the (jarrion crow. T. 
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