LECTURE VI. 227 



as we term it, humping, t>v putting its bill into a 

 NMd, as m. or as B"llonius and .V 



vain I: iv , by putting the same in water or 



mud, and alter a while retaining tlic air l>y >ud- 

 dt nly excluding it again, is not 

 out. F<>r my own part, though after diligent 

 MHj.inv, 1 ( <>uld never behold than in this motion; 



. ithstandinu; by others whose observation 

 have expressly r< <i informed, that 



some hau- beheld them making this noise on the 

 >hore, their bills being i'ar enough removed from 

 reed or water; that is, fust strongly attracting the 

 air, and unto a manifest distent ion of the neck, 

 and presently after with great contention and vio- 

 lence excluding the same again. As for what 

 others affirm of putting their bill in water or mud, 

 also hard to make out. For what may be 

 observed from any that walketh the fens, there is 

 little intermission, nor uny observable pause, 

 tween the drawing in and sending forth of their 

 breath. And the expiration or breathing forth 

 doth not only produce a noise, but the inspiration 

 or hailing in of the air, aflfordeth a sound that maj f 

 be heard almost a flight shot. 



Now the reason of this strange and peculiar 



