FOUND IN NORFOLK. 1 3 



sheldrakes sheledracus jonstoni 



Barganders a noble coloured fowle vulpanser wch breed 

 in cunny burrowes about norrold & other places. 



\_Fol. 9.J Wild geese Anser ferus. 



scoch goose Anser scoticus. 



Goshander." merganser. 



Mergus acutirostris speciosus or Loone an handsome 

 & specious fowle cristated & with diuided finne feet 

 placed very backward and after the manner of all such 

 wch the Duch call [Assf struck out] Arsvoote.^" they 

 haue a peculiar formation in the leggebone wch hath a 

 long & sharpe processe extending aboue the thigh bone 

 [it struck out] they come about April & breed in the 

 broad waters so making their nest on the water that 

 their egges are seldom drye while they are sett on. 



Mergus acutarostris cinereus [another d struck out] wch 

 seemeth to bee a difference of the former. 



Mergus minor the smaller diuers or dabchicks in riuers 

 & broade waters. 



Mergus serratus the saw billd diuer bigger & longer 

 than a duck distinguished from other diuers by a notable 

 sawe bill to retaine its slipperie pray as liuing much 

 upon eeles whereof we haue seldome fayled to find some 

 in their bellies. 



Diuers other sorts of diuefowle more remarkable the 



exists on the subject, and at present it only nests in the sand-hills in some 

 parts of the coast of N.W. Norfolk. 



1' This evidently refers to the Goosander, which as he says in another 

 place most answers to the Merganser. 



^ This well describes the Great-crested Grebe, which Browne rightly 

 says comes to us about the month of April. Browne notices the peculiar 

 formation of the tibia in this family of birds, but it had long been known. 

 The next, named Mergus acutirostris cinereus, is most likely the same 

 species in winter plumage. The other birds mentioned are Mergus 

 minor, the Little Grebe or Dabchick, and M. serratus, the Red-breasted 

 Merganser, even now known as the "Saw-bill." 



