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wing, and is carnivorous like them 5 its fat,^ diflblvcd into an oilg 
is recommended much in old aches and ifchiatic pains: The ^ica 
Glandariay or jay, is much leis than our Englip jay, and of a 
different colour ; for it is all blue, whereas ours is brown 5 its 
wings are as curioufly marbled as thofe of ours are, it has both 
the iame cry and Hidden jetting motion : There is great variety 
and curiofity in the wood-peckers 5 they have one fpecies as big 
as our magpy, with blackifh brown feathers, and a large icarlet 
tuft on the top of the head 3 there are four or five forts of wood- 
peckers more, variegated with green, yellow and red heads, 
others are Ipotted red and white in a very beautiful manner : 
Their wild turkies are extreme large, fome of which are faid to 
weigh between 50 and do pound weight ; their legs are very 
long, and they run prodigioufly faftj their feathers are of a 
blackifh fliining colour, which, in the fun, fhine like a dove's 
neck, and are very fpecious : Their hens and cocks are for the 
molt part without tails and rumps 5 and our Ung^llJJj fowl, after 
being Ibme time there, have their rumps rotten off*^ the rumps in 
birds are furnifhed with a pair of glands, which contain a fort of 
■juice fo4: varnifhing their feathers: Their partridges are Imaller 
than ours, and keep in covies as ours do 5 their fle/h is very 
white, and much exceeds oi>rs : Their turtle-doves are of a dufk- 
i/li blue colour, Imaller than our common pigeon, with long 
tails: Their mocking-birds may be compared to our finging- 
thrufhes, being much of the fame bigneis3 there are two Ibrts of 
them, the grey and the red 3 the former have feathers much of 
the colour of our grey plovers, with white in the wings like a 
magpy 3 thefe have the io^ier note by far, and will imitate, in 
their finging, the notes of all other birds, and they are accounted 
the fineft finging-birds in the world 3 it is a brillc and bold bird, 
and yet feems to be of a very tender conftitution, neither finging 
in winter, nor in the middle of fummer, and with much diffi- 
culty are any of them brought to live in England: By difle6lion 
it appears that the ears of birds differ much from thofe of men or 
beafts 3 there is almoll a dire61: paflTage from one ear to the other 
in birds 3 but what is more remarkable they have no Cochlea^ but 
in lieu thereof a fmall winding paffage, which opens into a large 
cavity, that runs between two iculls, and palles all round the 
head, the upper fcuU is fupportcd by a great number of fmall 
thread-like pillars or fibres 3 and this paflage between the fculls 
is much larger in finging birds than in others 3 a mole has an 
ear much like that of a bird: The red mocking-bird is of a dufk^ 
ifh red, or rather brown, it fings very well, but has not fo foft 
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