THOMAS MUFFETT. 269- 



CUCULI. 



Cuckoes . . . and albeit the old ones feed filthily upon 

 Dorrs, Beetels, and venomous spiders, yet the young ones are 

 fed by the Titling (their foster- dam) with gnats, flies, and red- 

 worms, . . . 



Fedo.e. 



God wits are known to be a fenny fowl, living with worms 

 about Rivers banks, and nothing sweet or wholsom, till they 

 have been fatted at home with pure corn ; but a fat Godwit 

 is so fine and light a meat, that Noble- men (yea and Merchants 

 too by your leave) stick not to buy them at four nobles a dozen. 

 Lincolnshire affordeth great plenty of them, elsewhere they are 

 rare in England wheresoever I have travelled. 



Erythopodes and Glottides. 

 Redshannks also and Gluts feed in the Fens ... 



OCHROPODES. 



Smirings live in watrish copses . . . 



Pici. 

 Pyes or Haggisses feed upon flesh, eggs, worms and 

 ants . . . 



Graculi. 

 Jayes feed upon akorns, beech- mast and worms, . . . 



Pici Martii. 

 Wood- Peckers . . . feed upon timber- worms . . . 



Orioli. 



Witwols are of excellent good nourishment, . . feeding 

 upon bees, flies, snails, cherries, plums, and all manner of 

 good fruit. 



Arquatul^ Terrestres. 



Stonechatters feed as they doo. . . [i.e. as Witwols.] 



ISPIDA. 



The Kings- fisher feedeth most upon water- worms and little 

 fishes . . . 



Coccothraustes. 



The Clot-bird (called sometimes a Smatch, or an Arling) is 

 as big almost as a Thrush, feeding chiefly upon cherries, and 

 cherry-kernels. [There is some confusion here, clot- bird, 

 smatch and arling being synonyms for the Wheatear, while 

 Muffett is clearly referring to the Hawfinch.] 



