. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . , of thesize and sljape of a round dish, where they laytheir eggs, and hatch their young ones; thesenests are of a white colour, tending to yellow,and of a hard, dry consistence, the taste beinginsipid, and almost like that of nests, as well as those of a certain birdvery much like a swallow, are brought from theEast Indies into France and other parts of Eu-^rope, where for their fine flavour they are es-teemed a very great delicacy, and are said toafford very good nourishment, being boiled inwater with jl fowl and ging
. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . , of thesize and sljape of a round dish, where they laytheir eggs, and hatch their young ones; thesenests are of a white colour, tending to yellow,and of a hard, dry consistence, the taste beinginsipid, and almost like that of nests, as well as those of a certain birdvery much like a swallow, are brought from theEast Indies into France and other parts of Eu-^rope, where for their fine flavour they are es-teemed a very great delicacy, and are said toafford very good nourishment, being boiled inwater with jl fowl and ginger. The small Bengal King-fisher is about thesize of the common English king-fisher; thebill of a fine scarlet colour, shaped like the for-mer, with a spot of yellow upon the forehead,adjoining to it, and a large spot of white underthe throat, with a broad black line interveningfrom the bill, and encompassing the top of the head is of a dirty colouredred, under which there runs a dark blue line,which is separated from the back by a broad stripe.
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