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the outfide cinereous. The outmoft have their tips of a dark afh-colour, and under 

 that atranfverfe white fpot, the reft of the feathers being black. 



The Legs are fliort 3 both Legs and Feet of a dark flefh-colour. It hath but one 

 back-toe, equal to the middle of the fdre-toes. The Claws are great, crooked, and. 

 of a dusky colour 3 that of the back-toe the biggeft. The outmoft fore-toe the leaft i 

 Both outmoft and inmoft joyned to the middle toe at the bottom. 



It had a mufculous Stomach or Gizzard, in which we found Beetjes 3 fhort blind 

 Guts. The length of the Guts was fix inches and an half 



It builds in the holes of trees, and if the entrance be too big, it doth artificially (top 

 up part of it with clay, leaving only a fmall hole for it felf to pafs in and out by. 



It feeds not only upon Infe&s, but alio upon Nut-kernels. It is a pretty fpe&acle 

 to fee her fetch a Nut out of her hoard, place it faft in a chink, and then ftanding 

 above it, with its head downwards, ftriking it with all its force, breaks the (hell, and 

 catches up the Kernel. 



This bird is by Ariftotle called S/tTw, who makes two kinds of it, a greater, and a 

 lefler. Gaza retains the fame name, calling it mLatine, Sitta, Later Writers ftile 

 it Picus cinereus, i.e. the a fi-coloured Woodpecker 3 becaufe like them it climbs and runs 

 up the bodies and boughs of trees. It is called by fbme Xetaajrvyis ,and KiVai<T©^becaufe 

 it moves and flirts up the Tail. 



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* The Wall-creeper ■, or Spider-catcher. Picus murarius, Aldrov. 1. 1 2. c. 37. 



IT is fomewhat bigger than a Houfe-Sp arrow, almoft as large as a Stare. The colour 

 of the whole body is bell: feen when the Wings arefpread. It hath a long, (len- 

 der, black Bill. The Head, Neck, and Back cinereous : The Breaft white: The 

 Wings partly cinereous, partly red, viz,, toward the Belly: The Tail fhort : The long 

 feathers of the Wings, the lower part of the Back, the Belly, and Legs, (which, af- 

 ter the manner of Woodpeckers, are fhort) black : The Toes long, three ftanding for- 

 ward, and one backward,though Bellonius attributes to it two fore-toes, and fo many 

 back ones: Wherefore it is to be fiifpe&ed, that either he knew not the Wall-creeper^ 

 or elfefet forth one different from ours, which I do not believe, becaufe the reft of 

 the defcription he gives of it, agrees exactly to our Bird. Thus far Aldrovandus 3 who 

 writes, that this Bird is frequent and obvious enough in the Territory of Bologna 3 in 

 flying like to the Hoopoe, almoft always fhaking its Wings like that, never refting in 

 one place. By later Writers it is called Picus murarius, becaufe as Woodpeckers cling 

 to trees, and hang on them, fo this fticks to all Walls, efpecially thofe of Towers, 

 and leeks Infecf s in their chinks : Whence in Winter- time it is often feen in Cities. It 

 is a brisk and chearfulbird, and hath a pleafimt note. It flies alone, and fometimes 

 two in company. It builds its Neft in the holes of trees. They fay it is found in Eng- 

 land 3 but we have not as yet had the hap to meet with it. 



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The greater Reed-Sparrow, Junco Aldrov. Cinclus Turneri. 



THe Cock, which We defcribed, was for bignefs hot much inferiour to a Thruffj. 

 The Bill was great, fbmewhat crooked 3 from the tip of the Angles of the 

 mouth, more than an inch long. The upper Chap of a dusky colour, the lower 

 whitifh. The Tongue cloven, and divided into many filaments. The infide of the 

 mouth of a deep yellow or Saffron colour. The Nofthrils are round and great : 

 The hides of the Eyes of a red hazel colour. Not far from the Angles of the mouth 

 in the upper Mandible grow four or five black hairs. The Throat, Belly,and Breaft 

 are white, with a kind of yellowifh tin&ure, more yellow about the vent : The fu- 

 pine or upper fide of the body of a dusky yellowifh colour. Above each Eye is a 

 whitifh line. 



The number of prime feathers in each Wing is eighteen. The Plumage covering 

 the roots of thefe feathers underneath is yellow. TheTail is three inches and a quar- 

 ter long : I mean the middle feathers,for the extreme are but two and three quarters 3 

 They have aftrong fhaft, and are ftifflike thofe of a Woodpecker. 



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