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When the young ^re able to fly, their pa¬ 
rents Hill attend them for three weeks or a month, 
feeding them plentifully with infedts, and ants 
eggs. They feem always to eat in great hafte, 
fcarcely giving themfelves time to fwallow the 
worms, flies, and gnats, which they catch. They 
are conftantly rifmg, and wheeling in the air, to 
take infers; when they fly it is by jerk*:, up and 
down ; whilft they are flying we often hear their 
note, but more frequently perhaps juft as they have 
narrowly efeaped a bird of prey.. 
They are not much afraid of man, and even 
after they have been fliot'at, they fly but a little 
way, and return again •, they may like the lark be 
taken by a net, and looking glafs. 
In Fiance they are migratory birds. In au¬ 
tumn they afTcmble together among willows, by 
the Tides of the water, or on the roofs of mills, 
or other fttuations near the water ; they are then 
remarkably fprightly and fportive, twittering to, 
and purfuing one another ; at length by common 
confent, they all fly away together, to warmer 
climates ; and in the winter it is faiJ they arc 
found in Egypt, and at Senegal, which arc both 
in Africa. 
Thfey conftantly attend the plough, to pick up 
the worms. 
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