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Even formerly, when all the birds were so tame, it was impossible by Pernety's account to kill the black-necked swan a bird of passage, which probably brought with it the wisdom learnt in foreign countries.
Even formerly, when all the birds were so tame, it was impossible by Pernety's account to kill the black-necked swan a bird of passage, which probably brought with it the wisdom learnt in foreign countries.
Here is a kind of duck, called by our people race-horses, on account of the great swiftness with which they run on the water; for they cannot fly, the wings being too short to support the body in the air. This bird is at the Falkland Islands, as appears by Pernety's Journal*. The geese too are there, and seem to be very well described under the name of bustards.
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