BRITISH BIRDS* 
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ty, will attack him with the utmoft vigour, wound- 
ing his legs, or aiming at his eyes with its fliarp 
and piercing bill. It was formerly held in much 
eflimation at the tables of the great, and is again 
recovering its credit as a fafhionable difli. 
This bird lives upon the fame water animals as 
the Heron, for which it patiently watches, unmov- 
ed, for hours together. 
