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94 with a fine peckled Plumage. Thee build their Nets upon the Ilands as the Edder Fowls do. The econd ort is of a leer Size, their Bills long and pointed; keep mot in the Bays and in freh Waters, where they net among the Reeds. The third ort are called reemble very much thoe of the firt ort, though omewhat larger in Size; its Breat is black, the ret of the Body is gray. Thee do not propagate in the common Way of Generation by coupling like other Birds; but (which is very urprizing) from a limy Matter in the Sea, which adheres to old Pieces of Wood driving in the Sea, of which firt is generated a kind of Mucles, and again in thee is bred a little Worm, which in Length of Time is formed into a Bird, that comes out of the as other Birds come out of. Beides thee there is another Sea Bird,