270 BRITISH BIRDS. 



NUCIFRAGA. 



The Nope feedeth upon mast, nuts and cherries. [This 

 may refer to the Nutcracker. Nope was also a name of 

 the Bullfinch ; cf. Swainson, Provincial Names of British 

 Birds, p. 66.] 



SiTTA. 



So also doth the little Pyot, which we call a Nutjobber 



[i.e. the Nuthatch]. 



Houpes [i.e. Hoopoes] were not thought by Dr. Torner 

 [i.e. Turner, cf. Evans' edition, p. 175] to be found in England, 

 yet I saw Mr. Serjeant Goodrons kill of them in Charingdon 

 Park, when he did very skilfully and happily cure my Lord 

 of Pembroke at Iv;v^church ; . . . 



TURDI AND TURDELiE ANGLICAN^. 



Thrushes and Navisses feed most upon hawes, sloes, misle- 

 berries and privot- berries . . . 



TURDI EXOTICI. 



Feldefares are of the like feed . . . 



Merul^. 

 Blackbirds . . . Their feed is on little grasshoppers, 

 worms , . , 



Sturni. 

 Stares-flesh . . . [i.e. Starlings] is dry and sanery [i.e. 

 sound.] 



NOCTU^. 



Concerning Owles . . . they feed upon mice, frogs, grass- 

 hoppers and all kinds of flesh. 



CORAT LeGUMINALES. 



Rooks . . . feed chiefly upon pure corn . . . 



CORVUS. 



The carrion crow is generally condemned, and worthily 

 despised of all men : as also the Cadesse or Jackdaw. . . 

 Now we are come to treat of small Birds of the land, which we 

 will divide according to the order of the Alphabet . . . 



MONTIFRINGILL.E. 



Bramblings are a kind of small Birds, feeding chiefly upon 

 seed, sloes, and ha wt home kernels. 



Rubetr.f:. 

 Buntings feed chiefly upon little worms. 



