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VAg ie the voung are able to fly, their pa- 
~ ‘Yents ftill attend them for three weeks or a month), 
feeding them plentifully with infects, and ants 
: eae They, feem always to eat in great hafte, - 
; , {earcely giving themfelves time to {wal low the 
worms, flies, and gnats, which theycatch. They 
“are conftantly tifing, and wheeling in-the air, to 
take infe@s ; “when they fly it is by jerks, up and 
down ; whild they are flying we often hear their 
mote, Hut more frequently perhaps -* as they have 
_ atrowly « efcaped a bird of prey. 
They are not. much afraid of man, and even 
: ake: they have been fhot at, they fly but a little 
. _ Way, and return again ; ‘they may like the lark 
taken by a net, and looking glais. : = 
In France they are migratory birds. nau 
‘tumn they aflemble together among willows, by 
- the fides of the water, or on the roofs of mills, 
y or other fituations near the water ; they are then 
~-Femarkably iprightly and {portive,. twittering to, 
and purluing one. another ; ; at length by common 
: -Sonfent, they all fly away together, to warmer 
Climates ; and in the winter it is faid they are 
q found in F Typt, and at Senegal, which are tee 
pa Africa, 
’ - They conftantly a attend the plough, to pick up 
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