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rent genera, and different fpecies, fet about the tafk in manners 
fuitable to their feveral natures ■, yet every individual of the fame 
fpecies collects the very fame materials, puts them together in the 
fame form, and chufes the fame fort of fituation for placing this 
temporary habitation. The young bird of the laft year, which ne- 
ver faw the building' of a neft, directed by a heaven-taught faga- 
city, purfues the fame plan in the ftru&ure of it, and fele&s the 
fame materials as its parent did before. Birds of the fame fpecies, 
of different and remote countries, do the fame. The Swallows 
of England , and of the remoter parts of Germany , obferve the fame 
order of architecture. 
The nefts of the larger rapacious birds are rude, made of flicks 
and bents, but often lined with fomething foft. They generally 
build in high rocks, ruined towers, and in defolate places : ene- 
mies to the whole feathered creation, they feem confcious of at- 
tacks, and feek folitude. A few build upon the ground. 
Shrikes, the left of Rapacious birds, build their nefts in bullies, 
with mofs, wool, &c. 
The order of Pies is very irregular in the ftru&ure of their 
nefts. Parrots, and, in fact, all birds with two toes forward and 
two backward (as far as I know) lay their eggs in the hollows of 
trees. And moft of this order creep along the bodies of trees, 
and lodge their eggs alfo within them. 
Crows build in trees : Among them, the neft of the Magpie, 
compofedof rude materials, is made with much art, quite covered 
with thorns, and only a hole left for admittance. 
The nefts of the Orioles are contrived with wonderful faga- 
city, and are hung at the end of fome bough, or between the forks 
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