4s THE NATURAL HisToRY: 
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Tus BEEF-EATER, 
The beak is fraight, and rather four-fided ; each mandible 
1s enlarged at the end, Its feet are formed for walking 
_ “  orhopping ;- that is, it has three toes before and one behind. 
The twelve feathers of its tail are rather pointed. 
See: E colour of. the body is a brownifh grey, _ 
 »  ™®* “Te is found in Senegal, in Africa, and feeds 
| upon the larvee 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 larvee, which were produced from the. 
eggs that the flies had laid there. | 
Thete are fome flies which have a little Shethee. 
in the tail part of the body, and they make holes 
with it into the fkin of pee and fo we their 
| Le ae . 
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