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1^1 TRAVELS IN UPPER
rope : it is also paler, and, as well as all the rest
of the game in the torrid zone, wants that gout
which constitutes its principal merit. Perhaps it
is this difference in the flesh of the hare, which
has occasioned it to be deemed unwholesome, and
led to its prohibition as an article of food in the
East.
Some lizards, likewise, of the species described
towards the latter end of the first volume, had
their holes at the foot of the shrubs : and in the
environs I saw some birds running about, of an
ash-colour, of the same shape and genus as the
ouzel, or blackbird. Solitary as the place of
their abode, they do not congregate, but remain
single, never perch on the bushes, trip along with
great quickness, fly little, and, if you oblige them
to take wing, soon alight on the ground again, to
run along afresh.
Near one of these ouzels I observed another
running bird, the plumage of which was ruddy,
but the shape of which I could not possibly dis-
tinguish. Both these birds feed on little flics and
insects; and wc may presume, that they never
drink, or at least very seldom, since they pass their
lives in plains where a drop of water is a rare
phenomenon.
We
rope : it is also paler, and, as well as all the rest
of the game in the torrid zone, wants that gout
which constitutes its principal merit. Perhaps it
is this difference in the flesh of the hare, which
has occasioned it to be deemed unwholesome, and
led to its prohibition as an article of food in the
East.
Some lizards, likewise, of the species described
towards the latter end of the first volume, had
their holes at the foot of the shrubs : and in the
environs I saw some birds running about, of an
ash-colour, of the same shape and genus as the
ouzel, or blackbird. Solitary as the place of
their abode, they do not congregate, but remain
single, never perch on the bushes, trip along with
great quickness, fly little, and, if you oblige them
to take wing, soon alight on the ground again, to
run along afresh.
Near one of these ouzels I observed another
running bird, the plumage of which was ruddy,
but the shape of which I could not possibly dis-
tinguish. Both these birds feed on little flics and
insects; and wc may presume, that they never
drink, or at least very seldom, since they pass their
lives in plains where a drop of water is a rare
phenomenon.
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