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feeds principally on “water plants and teptiles, 
(that is creeping things. ) 
The Crefted Screamer has no fpurs, but it has 
a tuft of black feathers juft above the bafe of its 
bill.’ It inhabits Brafil, and other parts of South . 
~ America, frequents marfhes, and feeds upon fifh, 
The toe behind is placed fo high up, as not to 
touch the ground when it walks. J 
In Quito, in South America, they a are called 
Awakeners ; for if they hear the leaft noife, or 
fee any body, they immediately rife from. the 
ground, and make a loud chattering like a mag- 
pie, and hover above the objet that alarmed 
them. This noife roufes the other birds, and 
gives them an opportunity to efcape. 
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