SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. 45 



snap, eating onely the kernels. It was taken at first for 

 a forboden token, and much admired, but, soone after, 

 notice grew, that Glocestershire,and other apple Countries, 

 have them an over-familiar harme. 



" In the West parts of Cornwall, during the Winter 

 season, Swallowes are founde sitting in old deepe Tynne- 

 workes, and holes of the sea cliff es : but touching their 

 lurking places, Olaus Magnus* maketh a farre stranger 

 report. For he saith, that in the North parts of the 

 world, as Summer weareth out, they clap mouth to 

 mouth, wing to wing and legge in legge, and so after 

 a sweete singing, fall downe into certaine great lakes or 

 pooles among the Canes, from whence at the next Spring 

 they receive a new resurrection : and hee addeth for 

 proof hereof, that the Fishermen, who makes holes in the 

 Ice, to dip up such fish with their nets, as resort thither 

 for breathing, doe sometimes light on these Swallowes, 

 congealed in clods, of a slymie substance, and that 

 carrying them home to their Stoves, the warmth restore th 

 them to life and flight : this I have seen confirmed also 

 by the relation of a Venetian Ambassadour, employed 

 in Poland, and heard avowed by travaylers in those 

 parts : where-through I am induced to give it a place 

 of probabilitie in my mind, and of report in this 

 treatise." 



Dealing next in order with fresh and salt water and 

 the fish thereof, Carew comes in due course to the 

 " sea-foule," of which he writes as follows :— 



" Besides these flooting [i.e. floating] burgesses of the 

 Ocean, there are also certaine flying Citizens of the ayre, 

 which prescribe for a corrodiet therein ; of whom some 

 serve for food to us, and some but to feed themselves. 

 Amongst the first sort, we reckon the Dip-chicke (so named 

 of his diving and littlenesse), Coots, Sanderlings, Sea-Larkes, 



* Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala, whose " Historia de Gentibus 

 Septentrionalibus " (Romae, 1555, 1 Vol., folio) Carew here quotes. 



t Corrodie — an allowance, or right of sustenance. M. L. — Corrodium 



