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severall kinds : i Eagles, 2 Hawkes, of six or several! kinds, 3 

 Parteridges, 4 Wild Turkies, some weighing sixtie pound weight, 

 5 Red Birds, that sing rarely, 6 Nightingales, 7 Blue Birds, 

 smaller than a Wren, 8 Black Birds, 9 Thrushes, 10 Heath 

 Cocks, II Swannes, 12 Cranes, 13 Hemes, 14 Geese, 15 Brants, 

 16 Ducks, 17 Widgeons, iS Dottrells, 19 Oxeyes, 20 Parrots, 21 

 Pidgeons, 22 Owles. Many more that have no English Names ; 

 for one called the Mock-bird, that counterfeits all other severall 

 Birds cryes and tunes." 



Thomas Glover* (1676) writes asfollows : '' On the Bay [Ches- 

 apeake] and Rivers feed so many wild fowl, as in winter time 

 they do in some places cover the water for two miles ; the chief 

 of which are wild Swans and Geese, Cormorants^ Brants, 

 Shield-fowl^ Duck and Afallard^ Teal, Wigeons, with many 

 others. * * * 



The Fowls that keep the Woods are wild Tui-kies, Turkic Buz- 

 zards, Turtle-Doves, Partridges, Hawks of several sorts, with 

 many others of less note. There are also divers kinds of small 

 Birds, whereof the Mocking-bird, the Red-bird and Humming- 

 bird are the most remarkable ; the first, for variety and sweetness 

 of notes, the second for his colour, and the last for the smalness 

 of his body. As to the Mocking-bird besides his own natural 

 notes, which are many and pleasant, he imitateth all the bii'ds in 

 the woods, from whence he taketh his name ; he singeth not only 

 in the day, but also at all hours in the night, on the tops of the 

 Chimneys ; he is strangely antick in his flying, sometimes flutter- 

 ing in the air with his head right down and tail up, other times 

 with his tail down and head up ; being kept tame he is very 

 docible. The Red-bird, as I hinted before taketh his name from 

 his colour, being all over of a pure blood red. The Humming- 

 bird taketh his name from the noise he makes in flying : This is 

 of divers colours, and not much bigger than a Hornet and yet 

 hath all the parts of a bird entire." 



From these extracts we observe, as might be expected that of 

 the more striking individual species, the Red-winged blackbird 



*An Account of Virginia, its Scituation, Temperature, Productions. Inhab- 

 itants and their manner of planting and ordering, Tobacco etc. Communicated 

 by Mr. Thomas Glover an ingenious Chirurgion that hath lived some years in 

 that Country.— Philos. Trans. No. 126, June 20, 1676, pp. 626 and 631. 



