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Iii the field breedeth the Partridge, quaile, raile, lapwinge and 

 larke, and many other sorte of small byrdes, and in shrubbes, 

 groves and hedges breedeth the pheasant thoughe scarcely in this 

 Contrye. The Curlieue * contynueth allwayes in this Countrye, 

 yet never fond to breede, and they flee in small herdes together. 

 The Countrie yeeldeth allso diuerse other fowle, as wild geese, 

 Whyniardes,t the Puett, t the Curlew knave, § the gwylim, || the 

 Sheldrake, both sorts of dyvers or dippers, the pilwater,1T the 

 Wigion, Cootes, w ch allso keep in Companies, sea pies and sea 

 crowes,** being most water fouies, beside the blacke bird, thrushe, 

 the wynter socke, the stare, ft the house and headge sparrowes, 

 the fynche, the bunten, all w ch shold haue beene seated t+ w th 

 small birdes before. And as I ended my last chapter of fishe 

 w th three strandge natured fishes, so lett me shutte vp this of 

 fowle w th the like ; of w ch I finde two, the one strange in 

 accompt, the other in nature ; first of w ch is the Puffine, a bird 

 in all respectes bredd of byrdes of his kinde by layeing egges, 

 fethered & flieing wth other birdes in the ay re, and yet is reputed 

 to be fishe, the reason I cannot learne. But if I were so cere- 

 moniouse as to refrayne fleshe at seasons, I shold hardely adven- 

 ture to eate this fowle for fishe, yt is a water fowle lesser then the 

 ducke and lardger then the teale, footed and beaked like vnto 

 them, and breedeth on the Hand of St Dauids§§ and other like 

 places. 



The second is the Barnacle a goodlie byrd in all respectes like 

 the wilde ducke, but much lardger, having head and foote like to 

 the ducke and ys in eatinge like yt allso. This fatherlesse byrd 

 is bredd of noe parent, but engendred by secreat nature out of 

 some peece of tymber remayninge long in the sea, and at shippes 

 sides having remayned long in the salt water, out of w ch vpon 

 longe stringes or roapes shalbe seene x. xx. or xxx of these 

 byrdes growinge out of two shells, like muskle shells, where you 

 shall find some beginninge to appeere out of the shells, having 

 the perfect forme of a fowle, some more ripe, readie to fall of, 



* The Curlew (Fr. courlicu), in Welsh (y) Gyljin-hir, corrupted in the 

 Vale of Dovey into Glyfeinir. 



f Shoveller Duck. J Black-headed Gull. § The Whimbrel. 



|| The Guillemot. 11 The Manx Shearwater. 



** Oystercatchers and Cormorants (called in Welsh morfran, mulfran)* 

 |f The Fieldfare and Starling. \\ Set down. §§ Rainsey Island* 



