Note g — BOOK VIII.

Many, if not most Sort of Birds, are infested with a distinct Kind of Lice, very different from one another in Shape, Size, &c. For Figures and Descriptions of them, I shall refer to Signieur Redi of Insects. See also Moufet, L. 2. c. 23. These Lice lay their Nits among the Feathers of the respective Birds, where they are hatched and nourished; and as Aristotle saith, would destroy the Birds, particularly Pheasants, if they did not dust their Feathers. Loco infr. citat.