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“Yet though fearlefs of man, they are incapable 
of confinement in a cage: deprived of liberty 
they pine, and die. Sometimes they have been 
_ known to fy on board a fhip at fea, to famil iarife 
_themfelves with the failors, and only quit the a 
| when it reached its bas 
SECOND DIVISION. OF THE 
-MOTACILLA, OR THE WARBLER, 
‘Their bills are flender and weak. 
The noftrils fmall. and funk. 
‘The outer toe united — the laft j joint, ‘to the mil 
foe. 
The Warblers are very different from the | 
Wagtails, and very properly eis under a dit 
ferent divifion, “ 
“J For the moft part they perch on trees; prox 
ceed by leaps, and not by running, feldom twit- 
tering as they fly. - 
They are very numerous, and inhabit the. 
‘warmer regions, where infects abound; inl 
being their principal food, : | 
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