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nor yackdawes, nor Popinjays, nor Rooks, nor Pheafants, 

 nor Woodcocks, nor Quails, nor Robins, nor Cuckoesf&c. 1 



1 So Wood: "There are no magpies, jackdaws, cuckoos, jays, &c." — New-' 

 England's Prosfeft, 1. c. Cur author, in his Voyages, adds to the above list of 

 New-England birds the following: "The partridge is larger than ours; white- 

 flesht, but very dry : they are indeed a sort of partridges called grooses. The 

 pidgeon, of which there are millions of millions. . . . The snow-bird, like a chaf- 

 finch, go in flocks, and are good meat. . . . Thrushes, with red breasts, which 

 will be very fat, and are good meat. . . . Thressels, . . . filladies, v . . . small 

 singing-birds; ninmurders, little yellow birds ; New-England nightingales, paint- 

 ed with orient colours, — black, white, blew, yellow, green, and scarlet, — and 

 sing sweetly ; wood-larks, wrens, swallows, who will sit upon trees ; and starlings, 

 black as ravens, with scarlet pinions. Other sorts of birds there are ; as the tro- 

 culus, wagtail or dish-water, which is here of a brown colour ; titmouse, — two 

 or three sorts ; the dunneck or hedge-sparrow, who is starke naked in his winter 

 nest; the golden or yellow hammer, — a bird about the bigness of a thrush, that 

 is all over as red as bloud ; woodpeckers of two or three sorts, gloriously set out 

 with variety of glittering colours; the colibry, viemalin, or rising or walking- 

 bird, — an emblem of the resurrection, and the wonder of little birds. The water- 

 fowl are these that follow : Hookers, or wild swans ; cranes ; . . . four sorts of 

 ducks, — a black duck, a brown duck like our wild ducks, a grey duck, and a 

 great black and white duck. These frequent rivers and ponds. But, of ducks, 

 there be many more sorts ; as hounds, old wives, murres, doies, shell-drakes, 

 shoulers or shoflers, widgeons, simps, teal, blew-wing'd and green-wing'd didapers 

 or dipchicks, fenduck, duckers or moorhens, coots, pochards (a water-fowl like a 

 duck), plungeons (a kind of water-fowl, with a long, reddish bill), puets, plovers, 

 smethes, wilmotes (a kind of teal), god wits, humilities, knotes, red-shankes, . . . 

 gulls, white gulls or sea-cobbs, caudemandies, herons, grey bitterns, ox-eyes, birds 

 called oxen and keen, petterels, king's fishers, . . . little birds that frequent the 

 sea-shore in flocks, called sanderlins. They are about the bigness of a sparrow, 

 and, in the fall of the leaf, will be all fat. When I was first in the countrie " (that 

 is, in 163S; in which connection, what follows is not without its interest to us), 

 " the English cut them into small pieces to put into their puddings, instead of 

 suet. I have known twelve-score and above killed at two shots. . . . The cormo- 

 rant, shape or sharke" (pp. 99-103). 



