^^ LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



\Fol. io6 verso.\ A draught of the morinellus 

 marinus or sea doterell I now send you. the bill 

 should not have been so black & the leggs more red, 

 \see Note 28] & [the crossed oui\ a greater eye of dark 

 red in the feathers of wing and back : it is lesse & 

 differently colourd from the coifion dotterell, wch [wee 

 haue crossed out\ cometh to us about March & Sep- 

 tember, these sea-dotterells are often shot near the sea. 



A yarewhelp or barker \some words smeared out 

 [see Note 39] a marsh-bird the bill 2 inches long the 

 legges about that length the bird of a brown or russet 

 colour. 



That which is knowne by the name of a bee-bird [see 

 Note 1 17] is a litle dark gray bird I hope to get one for 

 you. 



That whch I call'd a betulae carptor & should rather 

 have calld it Alni carptor [see Note 48] whereof I sent a 

 rude draught, it feeds upon alder [budds mucaments or 

 written adove] seeds which grow plentifully heere & they 

 fly in little flocks. 



That [calld by some a written s.bove'] whin-bird is a 

 kind of ox eye butt the shining yellow spot on the back 

 of the head [see Note 48] is scarce to bee well imitated 

 by a pensill. 



I confess for such litle birds I am much unsatisfied on 

 the names giuen to many by countrymen, and vncertaine 

 what to giue them myself, or to what classes of authors 

 cleerly to reduce them, surely there are many found 

 among us whch are not described ; & therefore such whch 

 you cannot well reduce may (if at all) bee set downe 

 after the exacter nomination of small birds as yet of 

 uncertain classe or knowledge. 



I present you with a draught of a water-fowl not 

 coihon & none of our fowlers can name it [see p. 79 infra] 

 the bill could not bee exactly expressed by a coale or 

 black chalk, whereby the litle incuruitie [at the end 



