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CHAP. VII. 

 Of 'Brutes. 



HAVING done with the Vegetative, I proceed to the 

 Animal Kingdom , wherein I (hall confider firft , that 

 part of it that indeed has apprehenfwn of external Qbjefls, 

 of Fkafures and Pains, and Locomotion to make addrefs to the one, 

 and fly the other, but is void of reafon ; within which may be 

 comprehended all manner of Brutes, fuch as Birds, Infefts, Fijhes, 

 Reptils, and four-footed Beafis, which 1 prefume may be a fuhjeft 

 fufficient for this Chapter, though as in the former of Plant % I in- 

 tend only to mention7<i>, as cither have not been noted before^ 

 are very unufual, or have fomthing extraordinary attending them ; 

 Leaving what concerns Men for a Chapter by it felf. 



1. And herein, as before in the Chapter of Formed ftones (and 

 as I intend for the future in all other Chapters fo far forth as they 

 will bear it) I (hall ohferve the method of the whole Efay, ancj 

 firft treat of fuch Animals as are Inhabitants of the Heavens,thp^ 

 of thofe that belong to the Waters, and laftly of fuch as inhabit 

 the dry Land; of which in their order. 



3 . But amongft the inhabitants of the Air or lowermoft Hea- 

 ven, it cannot be expe&ed in fo fmall a Cpunty , I (hould produce 

 many not already noted, fince the feathered JCingdom has been fo. 

 lately and fo carefully furveyed, py the Learned and induftrious 

 F ranch Willughby Efq; Nor indeed could I rneet wJth any omitted 

 by him, except perchance a UttleBird, forntimes feen, but oft - 

 ner heard in the Park at Woodiiock.-, from the noife that it makes, 

 commonly called the Wood- cracker : Defcribed to me (fpr I had 

 not the happinefs to fee it) to be about the PJgnefs of a Sparrow, 

 with zblut back, and a reddijb breaft, a wide mouth and a long 

 bill, which it puts into a crack or fplinter of a rotten bough of a 

 Tree, and makes a noife as if it were rending afunder, with that 

 violence, that the noife maybe heard at leaft twelve fcore yards, 

 fome have ventured to fay a mile from the place. 



4. Which is alU could find in the County of Oxford omitted by 

 that careful and ingenious Author^ except I may have leave to 



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