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BIRDS. 
32. Charadrius Kervan 0 . The Oriental Dotterell* 
This bird is of the fize of a Crow, and is met 
with in lower Egypt, in the Acacia groves, neat' 
the villages Abufir and Sackhara, near the Sepul- 
chres of the antient Egyptians, and in the defarts. 
The Arabians call it Kervan. It has a thrill voice, 
fomewhat refembling that of the Black Wood- 
pecker (Pints martius), which it raifes and lowers 
fucceffively, uttering agreeable notes. The Turks 
and Egyptians value it much, if they can get k 
alive, and keep it in a cage for the fake of its hing- 
ing. Its fiefh is hard, and of a very good tafte, in* 
dined to aromatic. It is a very voracious bird, 
catching and devouring Rats and Mice (Glires)» 
which abound in Egypt. It feldom drinks, and, 
when taken young, and kept in a cage in Egyp r > 
they give it no water for feveral months, but feed 
it with frelh meat, macerated in water, which it de- 
vours very voracioufiy. It is found in defarts, and 
is therefore accuftomed to be without water. * 
kept'one of thefe birds alive in Egypt two months, 
and then fent it to Smyrna. 
33. Charadrius fpinofusP. The armed Dotterell- 
It is of the fize of a Dove : the French call lt 
Dominicanus, from the refemblance it bears l ^ e 
drefs of a Dominican Monk; as it has a black ne c ' 4 ’ 
but the hides of it are white. 
34. Fulica atrak The Coot. 
0 Lin. Syft. Nat. P. 151. N. 9. P P. 151. N. 11. sP-G 3 ' 
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