iy6 The Statural Hijlory 



number the Viabolu* marinwi, or Sea Devih-bird mention 'd by 

 JohnSion m , and others, and to be feen in the Repofitory of the 

 Bodleyan Library \ Which though it has fo ill a name, contracted 

 I fuppofe from its exquifite blacknefs, and the ill it bodes to Sea - 

 men whenever they fee it; yet is a very beautiful Bird, and has 

 therefore by fome been numbered amongft the Manucodiata's, and 

 called the black Bird ot Paradife. But of this no more, becaufe 

 no inhabitant of the Land, much lefs of this County. 



5. Which yet I think I had not forborn to defcribe, had our 

 Bird been perfeft, it not being to be found in Sculpture in any 

 Author that I know of : For though 1 did it not in Foreign un- 

 defcribed Hants growing in our Gardens, well knowing the much 

 abler Dr. Morifon to be about it : Yet 1 think I may take the liber- 

 ty to do it in Animals, not hearing of any body elfe nowdefign- 

 ing fuch a work. 



6. And therefore (hall not omit the Hen from the Ifle of St. 

 Htlen, now living, and in the poffeffion of the Right Honorable 

 the Lord Norreys, a great lover of Curiofities in all forts of AnU 

 mats: which for her kind I think may be accounted one of the 

 yifAfurvxesi and amongft them of the rapacious, carnivorous fort, 

 having her beak near its end, crook'd after the manner of a Vul- 

 tur, and ftr iking with her pounces like a Hawk, though her talons 

 indeed are not much more turned than thofe of a common houfe 

 Hen. 



7. In her head 'tis true (lie is fomwhat like the fecond fort of 

 Gypaetos of Aldrovandu* n , or the Percnopteros of Johnfion , be- 

 ing bald and wrinkled, but not quite to the hinder part of the 

 head, as they are faid to be ; having from the crown of her head 

 down to the beginning of her neck-, and fo behind her ears to her 

 throat, a fort of (lender plume, like brifiles, which (he ere&s or 

 lets fall at pleafure : in her gorge itio 2nd pounces {\\e is very unlike 

 them, for though (he be carnivorous, yet her gorge is (lender, and 

 though (he ftrike with her pounces, they (carce exceed in bignefs 

 thofe of a common houje Hen, w T hereas the gorge 2nd pounces of 

 the Gypaetos, and Percnopteros, are protuberant and very long ; 

 nor has (he like them any part of her plume fo difpofed at the 

 top of her back, as to reprefent a Monks hood, thrown backward 

 from his head p . 



DtAvibui./ii.^. tit 2. cat>. 4. Omithofog.Tom. 1. lib. 2. cap. 10. Hifr.Nat. de Avibus, lib. j. 

 Tit. 1. cap. 2. Art. 4. * Vid Willughbeii Ornitholog. lib. leap. 3 Artie. 8 & Tab. 4, 



8. How- 



