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14. Toobferve what colours are moft frequent in Birds, and in what parts 5 as 

 for example, the rumps of many birds are of the fame colour, viz. Larks, Thrufbes 

 Sp 'arrows, &c. 



15. What Birds wag their tails oft, as Water-wagtails, Blackbirds, Morehens, Trin- 

 g£, &c. One of the twomiddle feathers of th^tail when it is clofed covers the'other, 

 enquire whether the right or left feather liesoftneft uppermoft, or either of them in- 

 difterently,as it happens. 



1 6. In what kind of Birds there are more Cocks ufually bred, as in Ruffs 5 in what 

 more Hens, as in Poultry ? 



17. What Birds build upon the ground, as all of the Poultry kind, Lapwings, and 

 in general all fuch as run and feed themfelves fofoon as they are hatcht, being covered 

 with a thick down? What build on trees and in hedges, as the greateft part of Birds > 

 What in the water, as Morehens .<? What Birds fit always on the ground, never light- 

 ing upon trees? What peteh upon trees? 



18. What Birds hide themfelves or change places, whether in Winter or in Sum- 

 mer ? f 



19. What would become o£,Nightingales,Cuckpws,Scc. in Winter 5 and of Field- 

 fares, &c. in Summer, if they were kept in Cages, and carefully tended*, fed and che- 

 rilhed? 



20. How cometh it to pafs that the moft vehement cold in Winter-time, if they 

 have but food enough, doth not congeal or mortifie the tender bodies offmall 

 birds? 



2 1. Whether the age ofPheafints, i&^k&e.-inay be known by the cfofs bars in 

 their tails? •*• 1 / 



22. How many Birds have whitefeathers under their tails ? How manjthave briftiefs 

 under their chin, at the corners of their mouths, or about their nofthrils r 



23. What Birds, either terreftrial, or aquatic, have two crofs lines in their 

 wings ? 



24. How many Birds have the exterior vanes of their flag-feathers broader than 



the interiour ? . 



Chap. VII. 



6/fome remarkable Ifles, CMfs, and ^pchs about England, where Sea-fowl do 



yearly build and bued xifgreat numbers. 



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r Any Water but efpecially Sea- fowl do yearly breed and bring forth young in 

 great companies, either in high Rocks, orDefart, and ^lefs inhabited Iflands 

 in the Sea, or on high and fteep Cliffs by the Sea-fide. The more noted and 

 famous places of this kind about England are, 

 The BafTe. h The Ba/fe Ifland in the great Bay called Edinburgh-Frith or Forth, not far from 

 the fhore : which Dr. Harvey doth not left truly than elegantly defcribe in thefe 

 wbrds : There is a little Ifland, the Scots call it BafTe, jlanding very high, environed 

 with fteep and craggy Cliffs { one might more truly and properly call it a huge Rock_ than an 

 Ifland ) not much more than a mile in compafi. In the months of May and Tune the fur- 

 face of this Ifland is almofi wholly covered with Nejis, Eggs, and young Birdf^ fo that for 

 the multitude of them one can far ce any where freely Jet ones foot : and fuch a number of 

 Birds there isfying over ones head, that like Clouds they cover the Skje-, and take away the 

 fight of the Sun : mating fuch a noife and din with their cries that people talking together 

 near'hand can fear ce hear one another. Iffom thence^ as from a lofty Tower, or high Pre- 

 cipictyou lookjlown upon the Sea underneath, you Ji hall fee it every way covered with an infi- 

 nite ratmber of Birds of divers forts fwimming up and down, intent upon their prey: In 

 lik§ manner as Pods of water in fome places in the Spring time arefeen, over- fir ead with 

 Frogs : or the open hills' and fteep mountains are beheld at a diftance, thickjfet, and as it 

 were cloathed with flocks of Sheep and Goats. If yon lift to fid about the Ifland, and from 

 below look, vp the Cliffs as it were over-hanging your head, yon might fee on all the Ji helves 

 and ledges, of the Rocks an d craggy Cliffs innumerable rows of birds of all forts and magni- 

 tudes, more in number than the Stars that appear in a clear and Moonlefs night. If you 

 look, at them that are coming to the Ifland, or flying away at a difiance, you would take 

 them to be huge fwarms of Bees. Thus far Dr. Harvey. But I fuppofehewas miftaken 



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