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“ey, are not expofed to injury when their beaks 
are thruft deep in the ground. - ‘ 
i Lapwings and Plovers adios many arti« 
- fices to miflead the fowler from their little 
ones, The Plover ftrikes the ground with its | 
feet, and the worms thinking, perhaps, that a mole 
place fentinels to warn them of their danger, and 
fo feed in fecurity. 
. Of life; and the Beak of the Oyfter-Catcher, 
. which is flattened fideways, enables him to force 
_. the fhell-fith from the rocks. ae 
Coots live almoft conftantly on the water, their 

fuited to that element. ‘The purple Gallinule, 
=. - The beak of the Avofet is fuited only to its wap | 
feet have fcalloped membranes, and are perfectly. 
becaufe its legs are long, and its neck is fhort, 
js near, come out upon the furface. Plovers, too, 
a _ hasbeen taught by nature (in order to remedy any — 
___ inconvenience from fuch a form) to ufe its feet as 
___ Parrots do, to convey its food to its beak, 
Rails are furnifhed with a wonderful in 
) ftin& which teaches them, when purfued by a dog, 
to return back in the fame path, in order to bafite 
comes, they feem fupplied with new i wand unknown 
_ powers to perform their journey. Oh ic. 
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the fcent; and when the feafon of their migration _ 
