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ge THE NATURAL HISTORY 
tle. —Thefe infects woul be very painfut to, chem, q 
when they increafed to great numbers. - 7 : 
Ravens and Crows live upon carrion, thatisto — 
fay, upon dead carcafi jes, which men do not eat. 
Thefe carcafles would foon {mel difagreeably, and 
in hot countries infect the air » and perhaps make 
the inhabitants die, if they were not devoured by a 
the Ravens and Crows, 
We ought to thank that good te too, for 
having taught the Rooks to feed upon the worms 
and larve, which live under the furface of the — 
earth; otherwife, they might increafe fo fait as — 
to eat up all the corn, and then there would be 
nothing left to make bread for us, 
The covering of the Magpie’s neft, fhews the 
_ kind care of that good Being from whom it learnt 
thus to preferve its young from birds of prey. 
How wonderfullyare the tails of the Nutcracker, 
the Woodpecker, and of other birds contrived, ta 
affidt them: in. climbing trees: becaufe they. are 
ob] ‘gpd to run up them in fearch of infects.. 
He has taught the Orioles to hang their nefts — 
at‘the ends of the lighteft boughs, to {ecure them 
from Monkies and Serpents. ' 
The Cuckoo in Africa cannot procure honey — 
himfelf ; therefore that good Being has direGted 
“him to feek the affiftanee of man. : 
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