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BRITISH BIRDS. 
herbage, clofe by the water’s edge. They lay from 
two to four eggs at one hatching. 
The Ikins of thefe birds are dreffed with the fea- 
thers on, and made into warm beautiful tippets and 
muffs : the under part only is ufed for this purpofe; 
and a fkin of one of the fpecies fells as high as 
fourteen fliillings. 
