
OE. BBR. Ss 
It is obferved, that the common Swallow does | 
not much alter the direction 4 his fight at the 
_ difcharge of a gun. 
Birds of pafiage, who are fo much on the wine, 
have not the fame opportunity as birds who-are 
perched upon trees, or concealed in hedges, of 
 ebferving, and knowing, their si dangerous 
enemy. i 
The legs. of Terns are bare. of didieeis and 
the body is covered with a thick down, which is 
. the cafe with moft water-fowl. They are found — 
in the Northern regions; and in the South 
a Sea, which divides. America from Afia, and in 
a almoft every climate between. 
_ © The Noddy is another ‘Tern; his tail j is in the 
Bape of a wedge, the body is of a brownith black, 
) | : _ the forehead white, with black round the eyes. Itis 
found in the feas, near the coaft of America; and — 
is {carcely afraid of man, for it frequently alights — 
upon the mafts and the yards of fhips, and fome-_ 
times upon the hands of the failors, if they hold 
_ them out. Noddies aflemble about breeding-time, 
and fifh together in flocks, fkimming continually 
: | ‘the furface of the fea, to catch thofe little: fith 
" which are crowded. together on account of ine 
un high winds. rey asta : fe 
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