THE 



SECOND PART 



OF THE 



FIRST BOOK. 



Of "Birds frith freighter or lefs hooded "Bills. 



The First Section. 

 Of Greater Birds, 



Chap. I. 

 Birds -frith thick, freight, and large faills. 



T^Hefe either feed indifferently upon Infects and Fruit, fome of them alfo are 

 carnivorous and rapacious, being very greedy of dead Carkafles and Car- 

 rion 5 or upon Infe&s only. The firft may be divided into fuch whofe bo- 

 dy is for the raoft part of one colour, and that black, which we call the 

 Crow-kjnd : Or fuch whofe body is particoloured, and who chatter much, viz,, the 

 Pie-kind. Of thofe which feed upon Infects only there is but one family, to wit, 

 Wood-peckers. Yet the Reader is to take notice, that wheri we affirm Woodpeckers to 

 feed only upon Infers, we underftand Woodpeckers properly and ftrictly lb called: 

 For there are fome birds which we have referred to this Genus of Woodpeckers largely 

 taken, which feed alfo upon fruit, as for examptej the Nut hatch, Wall-crelperfcc. 



Chap. II. 

 !B'irdsof the €row-kind. 



§. L 



The Raven, called in Latine Corvus, in Greek. Ko'e^f. 



THe Bird we defcribed weighed two pounds and two ounces : Its length from its height, 

 the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail was two feet and one inch. The [jjjf ^J nd 

 diftance between the extremities of the Wings extended was four feet and 

 half an inch. The Bill long, thick, (harp, and Very black: The upper Chap fome- The Bill, 

 thing hooked, but not fo as in jjaa^the lower ftreight : The Tongue broad, cleft at Tongue, 

 the tip, rough, and black underneath. The Iris of the Eye or ring encircling the Eye, 

 Pupil confifts as it were of a double circle, the exteriour being of a light cinereous 

 or afh-colour^ theinteriourof a dark cinereous. Black hairs or briftles bending front 

 the Head downwards cover the Nofthrils. The Plumage is black all over the body, Nofthrils, 

 having a blue fplendour or glofs 5 which is fcen efpecially in the Tail and Wings. The gj™^ < hc 

 Belly is fomething paler, inclining to brown. On the middle of the Back grow only 

 downy feathers : For the Back is covered with thofe long feathers that (pring from 

 the moulders, as in many other birds. The number of prime feathers in each Wing The Prime 

 is twenty, of which the firft is fhorter than the fecond, the fecond than the third, and JJ^ 8 ^*" 

 that than thefourth,which is the longeft of all. In all from the fixth to the eighteenth qu jis. 

 the lhaft extends further than the Vanes, and ends in a (harp point. 



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