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Crane took away a whole boiled fowl, and {wal- 
lowed a cat whole. 
This Crane flew about where it liked, and 
perched upon the filk cotton trees; from thofe 
trees 1 
or three miles; and when the dinner was carry- 
ing in, it lew down, and entered the room with 
the fervants who were taking in the difhes. 
The head of thefe gigantic Cranes is covered 
thinly with white down, fo that it looks, at a dif- 
tance, like a grey-headed old man; and on the 
middle of the neck before, there is a long mem- 
brane like a bladder, which feems to be inflated 
or blown up, it is thinly covered with fhort down, 
and rifes and falls as the bird moves its beak. 
When they are feen at a diftance, at the mouths 
of large rivers, running with their wings extend- 
ed, they have been miftaken for canoes; and 
when they have been feen on fand-banks, they 
look a little like men and women picking up 
thells. 
Storks have a naked circle round their eyes. 
There are two fpecies of Storks; one is black, 
and the other white. 
The black Stork feeks lonely places, perches in 
woods, frequents marfhes, and builds its neft in 
thick forefts. E 
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