


G:F. Barwa. 7 
Phe Kine-Fithers make dais nefts on the 
‘banks of rivers, and on the cliffs near the fea; 
they make holds more than three feet deep ; ; fome-_ 
times they find holes ready made ‘by water rats, 
~ which the water rats have left ; then: they make. 
their neits there, and line on with. the down of 
the Ww! llow, ° 
- Though the King- Fither be a very pretty bid, 
his neft. is dirty; for as he feeds upon fith, 
we find in it a great quantity of bones, and of 
~ feales, which makes it {mell very difagreeably. > 
‘Whilft the hen King- Fifher fits upon her eggs, 
"the cock is very bufy, and brings her fith to eat, 
_ Formerly fome people were fo filly as to be- 
—Hieve, that thefe birds built their nefts .upen the 
fea, in the middle of winter; that it floated upon 
the furface ; and that all the time they were fitting 
upon their eggs to hatch them, the weather was 
perfectly fine—and fo they called thofe days, when. 
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_ nothing made them unhappy, Alcyon days; for 
Alcyon was the name which they eae fo the’ 
~ King- Fifher.. 
The King-Fither has a very large fhointigh; te 
| other birds of prey; and like them, he throws up* 
- ii little round pellets, thofe parts of his food which | 
he cannot eaane as the fcales of the fith, &c, 
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