OF BIRDS 13 
feeds principally.on water plants and reptiles, 
(that is creeping things. ) 
The Crefted Screamer has no fpurs, but it has 
a tuft of black feathers juft above the bafe of its 
bill. It inhabits Brafil, and other parts of South 
America; frequents marfhes, and feeds upon fifth. 
The toe behind is placed fo high up, as not to 
touch the ground when it walks. 
In Quito, in Seuth America, they are called 
Awakeners ; for if they hear the leaft noife, or 
fee any body, they immediately rife from the 
ground, and make a loud chattering like a mag- 
pie, and hover above the object that alarmed 
them, ‘This noife roufes the other birds, and 
gives them an opportunity to efcape. 

