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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Genus 8.  B.U Penne GS As 
Tue BERER-EAT ER. 
The beak isftraight, and rather four-fided ; each mandible 
is enlarged at the end. Its feet are formed for. walking 
or hopping; that is, it has three toes before and one behind, — 
The twelve feathers of its tail are rather pointed. 
THE colour of the body is a brownih grey. 
‘& Tt is found in Senegal, in Africa, and feeds 
upon the Jarvze of flies, that is, upon the little 
maggots that become flies: in order to procure 
them it perches on the backs of Cows, and — 
pierces their fkin with its beak, and thus takes 
away the larve, which were produced from the 
eggs that the flies had laid there. , 
Thete are fome flies which have a little piercer. 
in the tail part of the body, and they make holes 
with it into the fkin of cattle, and fo lay their 
eggs there. 
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