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half black from the tip.] By its figure the Bill feems to be framed by Nature,to thruft 

 » fauu*. under * Limpets, and to raife them from the Rocks, that fo it may feed upon their 

 meat. The upper Chap is a little longer than the nether. The hides of the Eyes and 

 edges of the Eye-lids of a curious red colour, [in another bird they were from 

 yellow hazel-coloured. ] The Legs and Feet red. It wants the back-toe. The out- 

 moft and middle toe are for a good way up joyned together by a membrane : So that 

 this Bird feems to be of a middle nature between whole and cloven footed, f I n f me 

 we obferved the feet to be of a pale dusky colour, perhaps thofe alio were young 

 ones. ] The Claws were black. ° 



The Head, Neck, Back, and Throat to the middle of the Breaft were black. The 

 reft of the Bread and Belly white, as alfo the Rump. From this likenefs in colour it 

 took the name of Sea-pie. In one bird there was a great white fpot under the Chin and 

 another leffer under each eye. 



The Tail is made up of twelve equal feathers, of four inches long, the lower half 

 white, the upper black. The prime feathers of each Wing are about twenty eight of 

 which the fir ft is black, having only the interiour edge white: In the reft in order'the 

 white part is enlarged, till in the twentieth and three following it takes up the whole 

 feather. The fucceeding from the tweenty third grow gradually black again. The 

 covert-feathers of the middle quils are white, and together make up a tranfverfe bed 

 of white in the Wing. 



The Stomach is great, not mufculous, but membranous, in which diffected we 

 found Limpets entire, upon which it feems chiefly to feed and live $ as from the make 

 of its Bill we gathered before. It hath a great Liver, divided into two Lobes, with 

 a Gall annexed : A fmall Spleen : Huge Ureters. The Cock differs not from the Hen 

 in colour. Its flefh is very black, hard, having a rank tafte, in a word very bad 

 meat 3 which we cannot but wonder at, feeing it feeds chiefly upon Shel-fifh 3 as do 

 alfo the beft relliftYd and moft favoury of Water-fowl. On the Coaft of Wales 

 and elfe where on the Weftern Shores of England we faw abundance of thefe birds. 



Care is to be taken that theHtfmatopus be not confounded with the Himantopus or 

 Loripes, fo called from the weaknefs and flexibility of its long legs, as we faid 

 before. 



Chap. IV. £. I. 



* Ornkhd. 



Tlx greater Plover of * JldroVand : The Venetian Limofa of Gefner : As alfo 

 iib.20.cap.Stf. t y e Glottis of the fame Gefner and 'Baltner : Called at Venice Totano, 4 

 name itjhould feem common to this and the following bird. 



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[T weighs near feven ounces : In length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the 

 Claws it exceeds feventeen inches 5 to the end of the Tail fourteen 5 in breadth 

 from tip to tip of the Wings expanded it is about twenty four and an half. Its Bill 

 is black, yet at the angle of the lower Mandible red, {lender, (height, two inches 

 and an half long. Its colour on the upper fide of the Head, Neck, Wings, Shoul- 

 ders, and forepart of the Back is mixt of brown and whitifh, we commonly call it 

 grey. On the Head the outer borders of the feathers are white, the middle parts 

 black. A white line pafles above the Eyes. The under fide of the body is all white 

 and alfo the lower part of the Back or Rump. 



The quil-feathers of the Wings are in number aboutt twenty fix, all dusky or dark 

 brown. The five outmoft darker than the reft, their interiour Webs being powdered 

 with white fpecks : The inner quils are paler, fpeckled with white. The Tail is three 

 inches long, compofed of twelve feathers, waved with croft lines or bars of brown 

 and white alternately placed. 



Its Legs are very long, bare of feathers for two inches above the firft joynt [ or 

 * lead colour Knees ] of a middle colour between green and livid, or * plumbeous : The back- 

 toe fmall: The Claws black. The outmoft Toe joyned to the middle at bottom. Its 

 Stomach fmall, lefs flelhy than in granivorous birds. 



This bird feemed to me in bignefs to exceed the Redfiank*' Its Legs are alfo lon- 

 ger. Gefners defcription of the Limofa, which you have in Aldrovands Ornithology, 

 iib.20. cap.28. anlwersinall points exactly to this bird. The defcription alfo of the 



Glottis 



