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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Yet though fearlefs of man, they are incapable 
of confinement in a cage: deprived of liberty 
they pine, and die. Sometimes they have been 
known to fly on board a fhip at fea, to familiarife 
themfelves-with the failors, and only quit the fhip 
when it reached its port. 
SECOND DIVISION OF THE 
MOTACILLA, Oil THE WARBLER, 
Tlieir bills are {lender and weak. 
The noflrils final I, and funk. 
The cuter toe united beneath the Iafl joint, to the middle 
toe. 
The Warblers are vdry different from the 
Wagtails, and very properly placed under a dif¬ 
ferent divifion. 
For the mod part they perch on trees ; pro¬ 
ceed by leaps, and not by running, feldom twit¬ 
tering as they fly. 
They are vefy numerous, and inhabit the 
warmer regions, where infedts abound ; infedts 
being their principal food. 
The 
