LETTERS TO MERRETT. 73 



I think like the puffin differenced from all others by a 

 peculiar kind of bill 



\_Fol. 43 verso.'] Barganders {see Note 18] not so rare 

 as Turn [Turner] makes them comon in Norfolk so 

 abounding in vast & spatious warrens. 



If you haue not yet putt in Larus minor or a sterne 

 \see Note 13] it would not bee omitted, comon about 

 broad waters and plashes not farre from the sea. 



Haue you a Yarwhelp, Barker, or Latrator {see Note 

 39] a marsh bird about the bignesse of a Godwitt 



Haue you Dentalia {see Note 83] which are small 

 vniualue testacea whereof sometimes wee find some on 

 the seashoare 



Haue you putt in nerites another little Testaceum 

 which wee haue {see Note 83]. 



Haue you an Apiaster a small bird calld a Beebird."' 

 Haue you morinellus marinus or the sea Dotterell 

 better colourd then the other & somewhat lesse {see 

 Note 28]. 



I send you a draught of 2 small birds the bigger 

 called a Chipper or Betulae Carptor {see Note 48] 

 cropping the first sproutings of the Birch trees & comes 

 early in the spring. The other a very small bird lesse 

 than the certhya or ox eyecreeper called a whinne 

 bird 



I send you the draught of a fish taken sometimes in 

 our seas {see Note 69]. pray compare it with Draco 

 minor Johnstoni. this draught was taken from the fish 

 dried & so the prickly finnes less discernible. 



There is a very small kind of snielt {see Note 71] butt 

 in shape Sc-smell like the other taken in good plenty 

 about [wh crossed out] Lynne & called Primmes. 



"' Probably the Spotted Flycatcher is here referred to, the prefix not 

 being used in a technical sense ; it is known here as the Beam-bird, either 

 of which names may be a corruption of the other. Another Norfolk name 

 for this bird is the Wall-bird. 



