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Treating of the /^g^ of Birds, andof fomeof their obfervable 
proprieties and qualities, he notes, that they live long; that their 
ftrudiure fojnewhat refembles the built of a Ship; that fome of them^ 
as Partridges and Pigeons , lead a Conjugal life, and that of rhofe 
Birds that do fo,there are more Males than Females, as among thofe 
where one Male is fufficient for many Females, there are more Fe- 
males than Males ; that fomeof them are very ingenious, and imi- 
tate the Human voice. Parrots ^ Ihrujhes^ Blackbirds^ Jack^ 
dam, Starlings J Nightingales , of which laft, and of Parrots^ he 
relatcsvery extraordinary things, p.79,1 6 r. 
To all which he fubjoynsfome ^uare'sof pafticukrs, further 
to befatisfied 5 and then rakes bo tice of fome Ifles, Rocks and 
Cliffs about EngUr?d, notable f jr great multitudes of Birds breed- 
ing therein. 
He concludes this firfi Book with an accurate Divifion of Birds, 
and with a Catalogue both of fuch as do conftantly ^bide in Eng' 
land^ and fuch as come at one feafon of the year, an<il go away in 
another. 
In the feconi Book, treating of Land-forvl^ he confiders firjl 
thofe that have JS'tft?^^'^ Beaks and Claws ; and fecondly thofe that 
have them more Straight. The former are either Carnivorous^ and 
of thefe, fome intent upon their prey by day, others by night; 
ot Frugivorous, Concerning the Carnivorous or Rapacious, he 
takes notice; i.That, though Ay//?^j//i? gives out, they fly folita- 
ry, when he faith, ytiJL^vixf»¥ iHf dytKetlov ; yet that holds not in 
alls feeing that F/^/z^rj have been obferv'd to fly in troops, fifty 
orfixty together. 2. That the Females of the Ravenous Birds 
are bigger, ftronger, andof greater courage than the Males ; Na- 
ture feeming to have been fo provident as to furniOi thofe Females 
with fuch advantages, upon the account that they muft procure 
food not only for themfelves but alfo for their young ones. 3. That 
whereas all other Birds make their own nefts, if need be , and fit 
upon and harch their own Eggs, the Cuckorv makes ufe of other 
nefts, deferts her Eggs, and leaves them to be hatched by other 
Birds. Of the Frugivorous he obferves amongft other particulars : 
That, as ^»4/7/ eat Hellebore, and Starlings Hemlock, without 
any harm to themfelves; fo Parrots not only eat innoxioufly the 
feed of Carthamus or bajlard Saffron y but alfo grow fat thereby ; 
which yet is a Purgative to Man. To which he adds relations out 
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