BOOK III. 



Thefe, as well as the preceding, 

 are by the fportfmen efteemed ^afjie. 



Houfe-pigeon, 

 Bantam ditto, 

 Barbary Dove, 

 Ground Dove, 

 Peacock, 

 Guracoa Bird, 

 Curacoa Fowl, 

 Turkey [<?], 

 Dunghill Fowls [<^], 

 Giame Fowls, 

 Rumplefs Fowls, 



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'Mountain Cock, 



Guiney Hen, and varieties [^], 



Partridge of North America, 

 I Englifli Quail, 



Clucking Hen [s"",. 



Grey crefted Galding, 



Blue Galding, 



Grey Plover, 

 Bantam Fowls, 

 Parrot, 

 Parroquet, 

 Englifh Goofe[c], 

 North American ditto, 

 China ditto, 

 Mufcovy Duck, 



Englifii Duck [f J, *" 



Red-faced Coote, 

 Plantane Coote, 

 Water-hen. 



308. Quadrupeds. 



Horned Cattle, of Spanifli breed, Ditto, Englifli tame, 



wild and tame. Sheep Spanifli [d'\, 



[_^] This well-known bird is thougHt equal ar leaft to the pheafant; it is very valuable on ano-' 

 tber' account, it lays from 20 to 80, arid 100 eggs, and raifes a great number of young at a time. 



[pi] Tliis is looked upon as thu bell wild fowl in the iiland. 



[a] Some- of thefe are fo l.irge as to weigh in their plumage 251b. or upwards. 



[i] Some capons weigh 5! lb. without their plumage. 



[f] They feem to thrive bell in the cooler parts of the ifland. 



[</] The bleed of our fhecp requires croffing, othcrwife they degenerate ; changing an old rain 

 for a young one is abfolutely necefliiry. One ram is fufficient tor about fitly ewes. Carried to a' 

 cold climate, they acquire longer hair, but no wool. The grafs mutton here, at the proper fea- 

 fons, is remarkably fweer, juicy, and well-tafled, but fmall ; and woulil be much better meat if kept- 

 to a proper a^e, lor it is generally flaughtcred too young; nor is any care bellowed on the choice 

 i)f palKirage, The lamb is alv/ays delicious. The llall-fed is as grofsly fat as the Eifex mutton, 

 und the flefli whitifii. The lowland grafs-fed is generally moil: approved of: but the bell I' have 

 feen, is what has been pailured at Pedro's in St. j\nn'3. It might be ^vorth while to i; j-oit the 

 Llamas or Peruvian fiieep, and pro[)agate them here. Thefe :inimals are equal in height to an afs 

 of between one and two years old; the Indians ufe them as bealls of burthen, and they will carry 

 any load under an hundred weight; when they are pill labour, they are fattened and flaughtcred, 

 and their flelh is efteemed fweeter than that of other mutton; they are extremely docile, and calily 

 kept. 



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