SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. 47 



places, but I cannot heare any man speake of having seen 

 them ripe. The Puffyn hatcheth in holes of the Chtfe, 

 whose young ones are thence ferretted out, being ex- 

 ceeding fat, kept salted, and reputed for fish, as commmg 

 neerest thereto in their taste. The Burranet hath like 

 breeding, and, after her young ones are hatched, shee 

 leadeth them sometimes over-land, the space of a mile 

 or better, into the haven, where such as have leasure to 

 take their pastime, chace them one by one with a boate, 

 and stones, to often diving, untiU, through wearmesse, 

 they are taken up at the boates side by hand, carried home 

 and kept tame with the Ducks : the Egges of divers of 

 these Foules are good to be eaten. 



" Sea-fowle not eatable are Ganets, Ospray (Plynyes 



Haliseetos).* j r 



"Amongst which Jacke-Daw (the second slaunder of our 

 Countrie) shall passe for companie, as frequenting their 

 haunt, though not their diet : I meane not the commonDaw 

 but one pecuUar to Cornwall, and there-through termed 

 a Cornish Chough : his bill is sharpe, long, and red, his 

 legs of the same colour, his feathers blacke, his conditions, 

 when he is kept tame, ungratious, in filching, and hiding 

 of money, and such short ends, and somewhat dangerous 

 in carrying stickes of fire." 



The full title of the book is as follows :— 



" The / Survey of / Cornwall / written by Richard 

 Carew / of Antonie, Esquire. / London / Printed 

 by S. S. for John Jaggard, and are to bee sold / 

 neere Temple-barre, at the signe of the Hand / 

 and Starre. 1602." 

 1 vol. f. c. 4to. 

 Collation pp. 10 unnumbered + fol. 160 + pp. 6. 



* Cf "The Ornithology" of Francis Willughby (London, 1678, 1 

 Vol., Liorin the aJLtof the Bald-Buzzard p^ 70 occurs he 

 following : " At Pensans in Cornwal we saw one that was ^hot havmg 

 a Mullet in its claw: for it preys ^P^^ f^^ jhich seems very s^^^^ 

 and wonderful, sith it is neither whole-footed nor provided with long 



^^rshua^^Childrey, in his ^^ Britanma Baconia " (London 1661 

 1 vol., 12mo) in his article on Cornwall observes JP- 20) T^ere^^^ 

 also Sprayes here, the same fowle that Pliny calls Hahaetos, but it is 

 not eatable." 



