46 $rto=GHnc$lantis Parities. 



[12] The Loom. 



The Loom is a Water Fowl, alike in fhape to the Wob- 

 ble, and as virtual for Aches, which we order after the 

 fame manner. 1 



The Owl. 



The Owl, Avis devia, which are of three kinds; the 

 great Gray Owl with Ears, the little Gray Owl, and the 

 White Owl which is no bigger than a ThrufJi? 



The Turkie Buzzard. 



The Turkie Buzzard, a kind of Kite, but as big as a 

 Turkie, brown of colour, and very good meat. 3 



What Birds are not to be found in New-England. 



Now, by what the country hath not, you may ghefs at 

 what it hath ; it hath no Nightingals, nor Larks, nor Bul- 

 finches, nor Sparrows, nor Blackbirds, nor Mag\\2\pies, 



1 "He maketh a noise sometimes like a sow-gelder's horn." — N. Eng. 

 Prosfiefi, I. c. 



2 The first is the great-horned or cat-owl ; the second, probably, the mottled 

 or little screech-owl, which Wood notices more fully as " small, speckled like a 

 partridge, with ears" (7. c.) ; and the third, the Acadian or little owl. There are 

 but two owls reckoned in New-England's Prospect; the second of which — "a 

 great owl, almost as big as an eagle ; his body being as good meat as a partridge" 

 (/. c.) — is, perhaps, the snowy owl, which, according to Audubon, is good eat- 

 ing. — Peabody Report on Birds of Mass., p. 275. 



3 It is not clear what is meant here. The author merely mentions the bird 

 again, in Voyages, p. 96. 



