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by the bill ; in a short time after, it commeth to 
full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it 
gathereth feathers, and groweth to fowle bigger 
than a mallard, and less than a goose, having 
black legges and bill or beake, and feathers black 
and white, spotted in such a manner as is our 
Afagpie, called in some places a Pie-Annat, which 
the people of Lancashire call by no other name 
than a tree-goose ; which place and all those parts 
adjoining do so much abound with, that one of the 
best is to be bought for threepence. For the truth 
hereof if any do doubt, may it please them to re- 
paire unto me, and I will satisfy them by the tes- 
timony of good witnesses.” 
The species of Lepas furnished with the coria- 
ceous tube are pretty numerous, several new ones 
having been of late years discovered : these ani- 
mals sometimes attach themselves to animated as 
well as to inanimate bodies, and are frequently 
seen on turtles and other marine animals. In the 
Museum of the late Mr. Hunter is an instance of 
a species of Sea-Snake, the Anguis platura of Lin- 
n^us (Hydrus bicolor) of more modern naturalists, 
which has a groupe of small Lepades affixed to one 
side of its tail. 
