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of CkfiHSol fome uncommon I mots, fo docile, as to learn what- 
ever they are taught by thofethatinftrufl: them. 
Amongft thofe that have Straight Beaks and CIaws,he obferves: 
IhAt the Caffamre (as well as the PelUcany is without a tongue ; 
fwalbwing not only bits of Iron as x\itOJlriches^bm alfo red-hot 
Coals; yet not digefting the Iron, but voiding it whole, as the 
alfo doth: Ihzt Capons may be made to keep, feed, call 
together, and cover under their wings young Chickens, juft as 
Hens will do ; adding the method for accuftoming them to it : 
Thar the Cuftom of making ufe of Pigeons for carrying of Letters 
is as ancient as the Seige of ^Mutina or Modem , in the time of 
Hirtius and Brutas : That Pigeons^flejh is good for Paralytica! per- 
fons; That SwallmSy diftilled withfome Caftoreum.Vyony roots, 
and White-wine, are an approved remedy againft the Epilepfy, &c. 
And fbmuch of the fecond Book, 
The Jhird, treating of Water-forvlj is fubdivided into three 
parts.' The jfry? contains thofe Birds, that live near water, but 
not in or upon it. The fecond^ thofe that live much in the water , 
being Fiffipeds (having their toes fever*d,) and long /hanked, and 
of the amphibious kind, partaking of the nature of both thofe that 
live »^'4r water and fwim/;^ it. The thirds thofe that are Palmi-^ 
peds^ whofe toes are joyned together with a membrane. Of thofe 
that rive;;^^r wet places, fome again live upon Fifh, or Slime 
(out of which they fuck fomethingthat is oleofe, and from thence 
yield a delicate flefli, as Wood-cocks, Snipes ^ Curlem^&c. ) or 
on Infeits. Of the Pifcivorous , the Stork is by our Author no- 
ted to be {Qtvi'm England only when he is driven thither by high 
winds or other accidents* The like is obfer v'd by Faber the Lyn- 
^f<i;? Academift, of Italy: Which may be fomewhat wondred ar, 
fince 'tis certain, thdit Storks Ao^ before the approach of Winter, 
pafsaway out of Germany^ (where they fummer in great num- 
bers,) into warmer places, and yet not in^o i/^/y, which is conti- 
guous to Germany ^ and much- warmer than it, Jht Penguin ^ 
though it likewife lives on Fifti, yet is faid not to taft of it, as o^ 
ther Fifh-earers do; Befides^the fame is obferv'd to digg'deep 
holes, like Conies , on the Sea-fhore, and to make the whole 
ground thereabout fo hoHow, that the Seamen walking over it do 
of en fall in knee-deep. The Anfer Bajfanm ^ the Soland Goofe^ 
breed ng in the IQe of -P^s/f^, -near Edinburgh^ lays and hatches no 
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