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Crane took: away a whole boiled fowl, and fwal. 
lowed a cat whole. 
This Crane flew about where it liked, and 
perched upon the filk cotton trees; from thofe 
"trees it could fee. the houfe, at the diftance of two 
: or three miles; and when the dinner was carry- 
ing in, it flew down, and entered the room with 
the fervants who were taking in the difhes. 
The head of thefe gigantic Cranes is covered 
thinl y with white down, fo that it looks, at a dif- 
tance, like a grey-headed old man; and on the 2 
_ middle of the neck before, there is a long mem- ~ 
brane like a bladder, which feems to be inflated 
or blown up, it is thinly covered with fhort down, 
and rifes and falls as the bird moves its beak. 
| When they are feen ata diftance, at the mouths 
of large rivers, running with their wings extend- 
_ ed, they have been miftaken for canoes; and 
when they have been feen on fand-banks, they 
look a little like men and women picking. up . 
“fhells, 
— Storks have a naked. circle rou ue their eyes. 
- There are two fpecies of Storks ; one is black, 
and the other white. | 
-The black Stork feeks lonely sec ooh in 
x woods, frequents marthes, and builds its neft in 
_ thick forefts. : aa 
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