BIRDS. 
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Greenland. In this country it is only to be met with on 
the summits of some of our highest hills, chiefly in Scot- 
land, and in the Hebrides and Orkneys, but sometimes in 
Cumberland and Wales. 
THE COMMON COCK. (Gallus domestica.) 
While the Cock, with lively din, 
Scatters the rear of darkness thin ; 
And to the stack, or the barn door 
Stoutly struts his dames before. MILTON. 
THIS bird is so well known, that it would be lost labour 
to say much of him. His plumage is various and beautiful, 
his courage very great and proverbial, his sobriety as- 
tonishing, and his inward knowledge of the station which 
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