BOOK VII.ASurveyofBirds.
ASurveyofBirds.
Having briefly, as well as I could, dispatch’d the Tribe ofQuadrupeds, I shall next take as brief and transient a View of thefeather’d Tribe.
And here we have another large Province to expatiate in, if we should descend to every Thing wherein the Workmanship of the Almighty appears. But I must contract my Survey as much as may be; and shall therefore give only such Hints and Touches upon this curious Family of Animals, as may serve for Samples of the rest of what might be observ’d.