
os Reb ke ae 
. ‘The bill of the Swan, and the Goofe, and: the 
_ Duck are broad, becaufe they gather their food 
very much out. of the mud: their tongues are 
fringed, and the fides of their bills toothed, or 
e -ferrated, that. they may filter the water through,. 
and only keep behind the {pawn of the fifh, the 
egos, or the larva of infedts ; or the erain OF ey 7 
a ; which they Gnd in the water,’ 
De The Auks, place their eggs upon: the bare rock, 
and “have been. furnifhed: by that good Being, 
with a kind of glue, or cement, which, prevents it. 
a ; from falling. : 
The Petrels,. which inhabit. cold climates, be- 
se fides a warm covering of feathers, are very fat,. 
ae and abound in oil. This preferves them from the — 
re cold ; for no animal that is fat is much affeted | 
i with cold. Mr. Ray has obferved pigs, that 
ay were fat, lie on the bare ground, expofed on cold 
_ frofty nights, without any inconvenience ; whilft. 
_ fome pigs, that were leaner, ran fhivering into: 
i | the ftye, and feemed to be quite bamties with : 
ae the cold, 
 Albatrofles have lone Wings, “which onthe 
a eo to take very diftant flights, and to feize the 

2 flying. Fifth the moment that they-quit the water. 
2 E Whil f ‘the Penguins have fcarcely any wings; 
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