8 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
It is very ftrange that a bird, whofe wings are | 
{o {mall in proportion, fhould fly fo fwiftly; if a 
fh chance to fall out of his beak, from the branch 
upon which he is perched, he will fometimes catch 
it before it reaches the water. | t 
He darts down fo rapidly, that his fall has been 
compared to the fall of lead. 4 
In warmer climates there are ‘many fpecies of 
the King-Fifher; here we have butrone ; ‘yet he 
can bear the cold very well; for in the winter, he is 
{een fometimes to plutige under the ice after his, 
prey. Yet fometimes they perifh in the winter. 
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Gah geuy. | J opMii/ RD ARES. 
othe BEE-RA TER. 
"The beak is bowed, or bending; compreffed and ket 
fhaped. Z 
“The tongue flender, and lacerated (or fringed) at the 
‘point, ending in two Jong threads. 
In the feet the three joints of the outer toc grow to the 
middle toe, as in the King-Fifher’s. 
THE Bee Eater eats wafps, and grafshoppers, 
# gnats, flies, bees, and other infects, which 
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he catches like the Swallow, as he flies. 
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The children in the ifland of Candia (which 

