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The Black small-Crows, whereof there are two sorts. The 

 first is bigger than our Elack-bird, and exactly of that Colour, 

 but different in it's Notes. These Crows are the most hurtful 

 and pernicious Vermine (especially to Com) in all America. 

 They flie sometimes in such vast Flocks, that they destroy 

 every thing before them. Their Flesh is white and excellent 

 Food. 



The second are bigger than the former, and that part of 

 the Head next the Bill and the Pinions of their Wings, are 

 of an Orange and most beautiful Crimson Colour; and the 

 rest of the Body Black. These are as good Meat as the for- 

 mer, though very few trouble themselves to kill or dress them, 

 where large Fowl are so plenty. Both these kinds continue 

 here all the Year, are generally fat, and excellent good Meat, 

 and I have frequently eat of them. They build their Nest 

 in hollow Trees as the Parakeetoes do ; I look on them to be 

 a sort of Sterling, for they cry something like them, but do 

 not sing, and are about the same bigness. 



The Turkeys are here w^ild, in great plenty, and exceeding 

 large ; I have shot some of them which weighed forty pounds, 

 and I have been credibly informed, that some of them 

 weighed sixty. You shall see five hundred or more of them 

 in a Flock together ; sometimes the wild Breed with the tame, 

 which they account makes them very hardy. I am satisfied 

 it does, for the Indians frequently find their Nests, and bring 

 their Eggs to the Christians, which are hatched under Hens, 

 Ducks, tame Turkies, &c. As soon as they are out of the 

 Shell, they will fend for themselves, and are more easilv 

 brought up than a Chicken with us. Notwithstanding they 

 are thus hatched, and familiarly bred up, yet they still retain 

 a wild Nature, and commonly, when they are a Year and a 

 half old, and grown large, run wild into the Woods, and can 



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