and rivers abound with innumera

provided with wings of great length, the mufcles which move them being proportionally large and ftrong, whereby they are enabled to keep long upon the wing in fearch of their prey; they are armed with ftrong hooked bills, fharp and formidable claws; they have alfo large heads, fort necks, trong and brawny thighs, and a fight fo acute and pie.cing, as to enable them to view their prey from immeasurable heights in the air, upon which they dart with inconceivable fwiftnefs and updeviating aim; their stomachs are fipaller than thofe of the granivorous kinds, and their inteftines are much shorter. The analogy between the ftructure of rapacious birds and carnivorous quadrupeds is obvious; both of them are provided with weapons which indicate deftruction and rapine; their manners are fierce and unfocial; and they feldom herd together in flocks, like the inoffenfive granivorous tribes.. When not on the wing, rapacious birds retire to the tops of fequeftered rocks, or the depths of extenfive forefts, where they conceal themfelves in fullen and gloomy folitude. Those which feed on carrion are endowed with a fenfe of imelling fo exquifite, as to enable them to fcent putrid-carcases at astonishing diliances.

ble fwarms of birds of various kinds, which all find an abundant fupply in the immeasurable ftores with which the watery world is every where stocked. There are other tribes of aquatic birds, frequeating marthy places and the margins of lakes and rivers, that feem to partake of a middle na ture, between thofe which live wholly on land, and thofe which are entirely occupied in waters; fome of these feed on fishes and reptiles; others derive nourishment by thrusting their long bilis into foft and muddy fubftances, where they find worms, the eggs of infects, and other nutritious matter: they do pot fwim, but wade in queft of food, for which purpose Nature has provided them with long legs, bare of feathers even above the knees; their toes are of the fwimmers, but are only parnot connected by webs, like those tially furnished with membranous appendages, which are juft fuffici doubtful ground they are accuf ent to fupport them on the foft and kinds have very long necks and tomed to frequent. Moft of thefe bills, to enable them to fearch for and find their concealed food. To thefe tribes belong the Crane, the Heron, the Bittern, the Stork, the Snipe, and many others. Spoonbill, the Woodcock, the

Befide thefe great divisions of birds into granivorous and rapacious kinds, there are numerous other tribes, to which Nature has given fuitable organs, adapted to their peculiar habits and modes of living. Like amphibious animals, a great variety of birds live chiefly in the water, and feed on files, infects, and other aquatic productions: to enable them to fwim and dive in queft of food, their toes are con nected by broad membranes.or webs, with which they ftrike the water, and are driven forward with great force. The feas, the lakes,

Without the means of conveying themfelves with

from one place to another, birds great fwiftners could not easily fubfift: the food which Nature has fo bountifully provided for them is fo itregularly distributed, that they are obliged to take long journies to diftant parts, in order to gain the neceflary fup plies: at one time it is given in great abundance; at another it is adminiftered with a very fpering hand; and this is one caufe of thofe migrations fo peculiar to the feathered tribe. To be continued.)

THE

THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS.

CONTAINING TEN SELECT GAMES, &C.

"GENERAL RULES FOR PLAYING THE CAME.

THE HE table must be placed with an. upper white corner towards the player's right hand.

After this, let the white fquares be numbered from 1 to 32 as in the fubjoined plan.

The black men are placed upon the first twelve fquares in all the fubfequent games.

The letters N, C, F, T, at the top of each Game, imply Number, Colour, From, To.