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with hunger, rather than expofe the eggs to 
danger by going to feek for food. 
The male rooks and crows at the time of 
incubation bring food to the females. 
Pigeons , fmall birds , and other birds? which 
pair§ fit by turns ; but where polygamy pre- 
vails, the males fcarcely take any care of the 
young. 
Moft of the duck kind pluck off their fea- 
thers in great quantity, and cover their eggs 
with them, left they fhould be damaged by the 
cold, when they quit their nefts for the fake of 
food ; and when the young are hatched, who 
knows not how folicitous they are in providing 
for them, till they are able to fly, and-fhift for 
themfelves ? 
Young pigeons would not be able to make 
ufe of hard feeds for nourifhment, unlefs the 
parents were to prepare them in their crops, 
and thence feed them. 
The eagle owl makes its neft on the higheft 
precipices of mountains, and in the warmeft 
fpot, facing the fun; that the dead bodies 
brought there may by the heat melt into a foft 
pulp, and become fit nourifhment for the 
young. 
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