OF BIRDS. 
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middle toe being furnilhed with a ferrated claw, 
to retain its prey. 
The VIRGINIA GOATSUCKER 
Arrives in Virginia about the middle of April. 
A few minutes after the fun is fet, they frequently 
approach houfes, and fettling on a rail, or pod, 
utter a piercing and difagreeable cry, which has 
been thought to refemble the words, fVhip-poor- 
JVill , the firft and lad fyllables pronounced the 
loaded. This noife they repeat with little inter- 
miflion until the next morning, flying about from 
one place to another. 
It is very difagreeable, and didurbing; and 
being fometimes repeated by four or five affem- 
bled together, and reverberated and multiplied by 
echoes from the mountains, it is difficult to fleep 
in their neighbourhood. 
They are modly on the mountains; they make 
no neft, but lay their eggs in an expofed fituation, 
upon the bare ground. 
The GRAND GOATSUCKER; 
Is the fize of a fmall buzzard, and inhabits 
Cayenne. Like others of the fame genus it is 
folitary, retiring into the hollow of a decayed 
tree in the day-time, and preferring one fituated 
in the neighbourhood of water. 
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