Book I. O^^lTHOLOgT. zj 



The L E S S E R S P O T T E D Woodpcker, or WitvoaU, or Hkkrvall. Pkus va- 

 ries minor. I fuppofe WitroaU'xs a name common to both Species. 



The Wryneck, Jynx five Torquilla. This agrees with the forementioned Wood* 

 peckers in the difpofition of the toes and fabric of its tongue : It differs from them 

 I. In having a flenderer and weaker bill : So that it hews not for it (el fa hole in the 

 (olid Wood, but builds in rotten and hollow trees. 2. In having its tail not fo 

 ftifT. 



The NUTHATCH, or Nut-jobber. Picm cinereus. She hath not a long tongue as 

 the other, becaufe (he feeds not on Cojji as they do, but on other Infecf s, and efpeci- 

 ally on Nut-kernels. It is a pretty fight to lee her fetch a Nut out of her hoard,place it 

 in a chink,andthen ftand over it with her head downward, fcrike it with all her might, 

 and breaking the (hell catch up the Kernel. The feathers of her tail are not ftiffaird 

 pointed, becaufe her motion is rather down than up trees : nor hath fhe two hind- 

 toes : but the inner toe is feparated a little from the middle, and falls fbmewhat acrofs 

 ( as in the Owl-fend*) whereby fhe can fiipport her felf in any motion. Her voice is ve- 

 ry fhrill. Mv.JohnJbn. 



The Creeper, or Ox-eye-Creeper, Certhia. It hath a long flender Bill, 

 bending like a Bow, more commodioufly to reach into the chinks of the bark of 

 trees. 



The Ho or, or Hoopoe, Z)pupa, Epops. Why we fubjoyn this Bird totheJ'FW- 

 peckers (hall be faid when we come particularly to treat of it. This is fufficiently 

 differenced from all other Birds by its creft all along the head 5 it is more rare with 

 us. 



The Poultry Kind. 



The House Cock, Roofl-Cocl^, or Common Dunghill Cock and Hen, Gallus Gal- 

 linaceus & Gallina domeftica. Of thefe there are feveral fpecies or varieties, which 

 we fhall enumerate afterwards. 



The Peacock, Pavo, both the common, and the white. 



The Turkey, Gallop avo Jeu Avis Numidica & Meleagrk. Neither Turkeys nor 

 Peacocks are native of England, but becaufe they are tame fowl, and eafily bear our 

 Winters, and it is now a long time that they have been brought over, we may very 

 well reckon them among Englifi birds. 



The Co c K of the Wo o D or Mountain, UrogaUus feu Tetrao major.Aldrov. This 

 is not found m England, but in Ireland therebe of them. 



The Black Cock, his Hen the Grey hen $ his Brood the Grey Game. This 

 Bird is called alfo the Hcath-Cock., and Grous, Tetrao, Jive UrogaUus minor. In great 

 Heaths in many places of England. 



The Red Gam E,Lagopus altera Plinii, an Attagen Aldrov. In the North o£Eng- 

 land'it is called, TheGor-CocJ^and Moor-Cock,, the Hen the More-hen, the Brood Gor- 

 fowl. Heath-Coc^ is alfo a name common to this with the precedent. Turners More- 

 hen is the Female of the precedent or Blacky Cock. Gor in the North of England figni- 

 fies red, fo the Gor-Cockjs the red Cock,e^c For the underftanding and exact diftin- 

 dion of thefe names we are beholden to Mr. Joknfon of Brignal'mTorkeJhire. 



The Pheasant, Phafianus : a bird well known,and for the beauty of its colours 

 comparable to the Peacock- 



The Common Partridge, Perdixcinerea. We have been informed that the 

 Red-leg 'd Partridge, Perdix ruffa is found in the Ifles of Jerfey and Guernsey. 



The Qu AIL, Coturnix. 



The Ra 1 L or Daker-hen, Ortygometra, Aldrov. ftu Rallus terrefiris. This is very 

 common in Ireland, but more rare with us. Turmr faith he never faw nor heard of it 

 but in Northumberland. 



The Pigeon Kind. 



The Common Wi ldPigeon, or Houfe-Dove, or Culver, Cohmba domejlica feu 

 vulgaris. 



The Rock -Pigeon, Cohmba ruphola 3 afh-coloured, with red legs,of fmall fize, 

 obferved by Mr. Johnfon. 



The Ring-Dove, or gneeft, in the North of England Cujhat, Pahmbns tor^ 

 quatus. 



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