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Grebes. 
Web-footed. 
Rapacious. 
Pies. 
P R E F A C E. 
Grebes in the water, a floating neft, perhaps adhering to fome 
neighboring reeds. 
Web-footed fowl breed either on the ground, as the Avoset, 
Terns, fome of the Gulls, Mergansers, and Ducks : the laft 
pull the down from their breafts, to make a fofter and warmer 
bed for their young. Auks and Guillemots lay their eggs on 
the naked fhelves of high rocks; Pinguins in holes underground: 
Among the Pelicans, that which gives name to the genus makes 
its neft in the defart, on the ground. Shags, fometimes on trees ; 
Corvorants and Gannets, on high rocks, with flicks, dried Al- 
GjF.y and other coarfe materials. 
E G G S. 
Rapacious birds, in general, lay few eggs; Eagles, and the 
larger kinds, fewer than the lefler. The eggs of Falcons and Owls 
are rounder than thofe of moft other birds. 
The order of Pies vary greatly in the number of their eggs. 
Parrots lay only two or three white eggs. 
Crows lay fix eggs, greenifh, mottled with dufky. 
Cuckoos, as far as I can learn, two. 
Woodpeckers, Wryneck, and Kingsfisher, lay eggs of a mofl 
clear white and femi-tranfparent color. The Woodpeckers lay 
fix, the others more. 
The Nuthatch lays often in the year, eight at a time, white, 
fpotted with brown. 
The Hoopoe lays but two cinerous eggs. 
The Creeper lays a great number of eggs. 
The Honeysucker, the left and moft defencelefs of birds, lays 
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