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and their teeth are fit to chew more folid food. 
Nay their love toward them is fo great, that 
they endeavour to repell with the utmoft force 
every thing, which threatens danger, or de- 
ftrudtion to them. The ewe which brings forth 
two lambs at a time, will not admit one to her 
teats, unlefs the other be prefent, and fuck 
alfo ; left one ftiould famifh, while the other 
grows fat. 
Birds build their nefts in the moft artificial 
manner, and line them as fo ft as poffible, for 
fear the eggs fhould get any damage. Nor do 
they build promifcuoufiy in any place ; but 
there only, where they may quietly lye con- 
cealed and be fafe from the attacks of their 
enemies. 
The hanging bird , A (ft. Bonon. vol. 2, 
makes its neft of the fibres of withered plants, 
and the down of the poplar feeds, and fixes it 
upon the bough of feme tree hanging over the 
water ; that it may be out of reach. 
The diver, Fn. 123. places its fwimming neft 
upon the water itfelf amongft the rufhes . I de-> 
fignedly pafs over many other inftances of the 
like kind. 
Again birds fit on their eggs with fo much 
patience, that many of them choofe to perifh 
with 
