. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . nk they had no Neck. Its Legs and Feet are of an orange Colour; the Claws black, that of the middle Toefliarp on the infide. It hath a huge Liver divided into two Lobes, a Gall annexed to the right Lobe, TheStomach more mufculous than in carnivorous Birds; the blind Guts fhort but little, yetturgid and full of Excrements. The Cor7iip Men relate for a Truth, that this Bird is wont to perfecute and ter-rify the Sea-Swallows, and other fmall Gulls fo long till they mute for fear; an
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . nk they had no Neck. Its Legs and Feet are of an orange Colour; the Claws black, that of the middle Toefliarp on the infide. It hath a huge Liver divided into two Lobes, a Gall annexed to the right Lobe, TheStomach more mufculous than in carnivorous Birds; the blind Guts fhort but little, yetturgid and full of Excrements. The Cor7iip Men relate for a Truth, that this Bird is wont to perfecute and ter-rify the Sea-Swallows, and other fmall Gulls fo long till they mute for fear; and thencatches their Excrements before they fall into the Water, and greedily devours them asa great Dainty: but I rather believe, they take from them the Fifh which they have be-fore taken, caufing them to caft it up out of their Stomachs, which example I havefeen in the Wejl-Iridies, of the Bird called the Man of War and the Booby; which lafl: asfoon as he has taken a Prey, the other perfecutes him till he has thrown it up, whichhe catches in the Air immediately. 31 ^^ ^^ fj>^-? t?^* Ly^^S % -^ Is, Tke A 3. jLiay//. ///r/c/fj ///fri^ //uuj F/ie /jfrrrr^ ^r/TY Cru// &.:}.
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