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late John William Bacon, Efq; of Ether/ton, with whom it grew 

 fo tame and familiar, that it would follow him with its body 

 erect to be fed. 



6. The Conlterneb, or Pope (f), a remarkable bird, is an annual 

 vifitant of the ifland of Farn, where it breeds. It is lefs than the 

 common duck. The beak is of a different ftructure from the 

 duck-kind, of a triangular form, fhort, broad, and comprcfled 

 fide-ways, curvated and fharp at the extremity, with a callous 

 fubftance at the bafe, as in parrots. It is of two colours, cinere- 

 ous towards the bafe, and a bright red at the point. It hath 

 three or four tranfverfe furrows in it. The eyes are large ; the 

 iris grey, the eye-lids armed with a black cartilage -, a fmall car- 

 neous protuberance on the upper one, livid, and triangular; 

 with another of the fame kind on the under one, but roundifh ; 

 a grey lift round the eyes. The upper plumage is black, the 

 lower one a bright white, with an elegant black fillet or collar 

 on the throat. The wings are very fhort ; the tail two inches 

 long. The legs of the old ones are red ; thofe of the younger 

 ones, not full grown, a bright yellow ; the claws a bluim-black. 

 It wants the back-toe. Its legs are fo fhort, and fituated fo far 

 backwards, like the divers, or loons, that it is with difficulty it 

 can take wing, without the advantage of fome little eminence, 

 a ftone, or a mole-hill, which makes it often a captive if fur- 

 prized upon a level ground ; but it does not tamely part with its 



(f) COULTERNEB. TOMMY NODDY. Northumbr. GOLDEN HEAD. BOTTLE-NOSE-. 

 Ebvrac. POPE. Ccrnub. Puphinus ANGLICUS. Gcfn. Av. p. 725. Pica marina. Aldr. 

 Orn, l.ig. t. 37. Alb. Orn. 2. p. 73. t. 78, 79. Anas artica. Cluf. exot. p. 104. Olear. 

 Muf. t. 15. f. 5. Worm. Muf. p. 3-2. fffll.Orn. p. 244. t. 65. Raj. Av. p. 120. Alca 

 roftri fulcis quatuor, oculorum regione temporibufque albis. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 42'. 

 n. 118. 



liberty, 



