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whence it has its name ; it is nothing of the same sort of Bird 

 with our English Turky Bustard, but is rather a Species of the 

 Kites, for it will hover on the Wing something like them, and is 

 carnivorous ; the Fat thereof dissolved into an Oil, is recom- 

 mended mightily against old Aches and Sciatica Pains.* 



The Pica Glandaria or Jay is much less than our English 

 Jay, and of another colour, for its' all blue where ours is brown, 

 the Wings marbled as curiously as ours are, it has both the same 

 Cry and sudden jetting Motion. 



There are great Variety and Curiosity in the Woodpeckers, 

 there's one as big as our Magpye, with blackish brown Feathers, 

 and a large scarlet Tuft on the Top of the Head if There are 

 four or five sorts of Wood-peckers more, variegated with green, 

 yellow and red Heads, others spotted black and white, most 

 lovely to behold. * * * 



Their mocking Birds may be compared to our singing Thrushes 

 being much of the same Bigness; there are two sorts, J the grey 

 and the red, the gray has Feathers much of the Colour of our 

 grey Plovers with white in the wings like a Magpye ; this has 

 the much softer Note, and will imitate in its singing, the Notes of 

 all Birds that it hears, and is accounted much the finest singing 

 Bird in the World. * * * Of Virginia nightingale, or red 

 Bird, there are two sorts, § the Cocks of both sorts are of a pure 

 Scarlet, the Hens of a duskish Red ; I distinguish them into two 

 sorts, for the one has a tufted Cops on the head, the other is 

 smooth-feather'd. I never saw a tufted Cock with a smooth- 

 headed Hen, or on the contrary ; they generally resorting a Cock 

 and Hen together, and play in a Thicket of Thorns or Bryars in 

 the winter, nigh to which the Boys set their Traps, and so catch 

 them and sell them to the Merchants for about six Pence apiece ; 

 by whom they are brought for England; they are something 

 less than a Thrush. * * * They have a Lark nothing differ- 

 ing from our common Lark ; they have another Bird 

 which they call a Lark|| that is much larger, as big as a Starling; 



•T. Anburej- (Travels in the interior parts of America Vol 2 p. 434) mentions a 

 similar belief. 



\Ceoplila:its />il€atus. 



XMimiis potygiottus: Har^orhynchus ru/us. 

 %Cardinalis cardinalis; Piranga rubra. 

 \\Siurnelia magna. 



