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They frequent Rivers and Pools of water. I have teen of them about the River 

 Tame in Warwick? hire, the Lake of Geneva^&c. 



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Chap. VIL 

 17?e i\not : Canuti regis avis. An Bellonii Callidrys nigra I 



T weighed four ounces and an half 5 from the tip of the Bill to the end of the 

 Feet was ten inches long 5 between the ends of the Wings ftretcht out twenty- 

 inches broad. 

 •^ As for the colour, the Head and Back were of a dusky afh-colour, or dark 

 grey : The Rump varied with white and black lines : The Breaft and Belly white : 

 The fides under the Wings fpotted with brown. [In fome Birds we obferved a white 

 line between the Eyes and the Bill. ] 



The greater quil-feathers of the Wings were black, with white (hafts : The outer 

 edges of the next after the fifth white: Of the fecond row of Wing-feathers, the 

 foremoft were black, with white tips : From the fourth the white increafed, orfpread 

 it felf further down the feather. The lefler covert-feathers of the Wings were of the 

 fame colour with the back, only fringed as it were with white. The Tail was two 

 inches and a quarter long, made up of twelve feathers, the outmoft whereof on each 

 fide was white. 



The Bill was near an inch and half long, black, as m the Woodcock i bigger and 

 ftronger than in the Snipe-kind: The Tongue extended to the very end of the Bill. 

 £ Some Birds have a knob or eminency under the Bill like Gulls. ] The Eyes great, 

 and hazel-coloured. The feet greenifli .* The back-toe fmall : The fore-toes divided 

 from the very beginning of the divarication, no membrane intervening. The Liver 

 divided into two Lobes, with a Gall appendant. 



About the beginning of Winter they are faid to come into Lincolnfiire, where the f 

 continue two or three months about the Sea-fhores, and away again. They fly in 

 flocks. [ In the month of February.; in the year of our* Lord 1671, on the Coaftof 

 LancajJdire about Leverpool, I obferved many of this fort of birds flying in company 5 

 fb that they are not peculiar to Lincolnffire. ~] Being fed with white bread and milk 

 they grow very fat, and are accounted excellent meat. King Knout is reported to 

 have been fb fond of them, that from him they got the name of Knots or Knouts. 



They may at firft fight be eafily diftinguithed from the Tringz by the line of white 

 crofs their Wings, were other notes wanting. 



Chap. VIII. 

 * Tom. 3 . Tloe tfiuff, ivhofe Female is called a %eeye. Avis pugnax * Aldrov. 



*Hat we defcribed was a young one. It weighed five ounces : Its length from 

 the tip of the Bill to the end of the Feet was fifteen inches. Its Neck was 

 afh-coloured .• Its Head of a dusky afh-colour, fpotted with a dark brown. 

 The Back and fcapular feathers particoloured, of cinereous, black, and white: The 

 Breaft and Belly white : The Throat white and cinereous : The Chin white. The 

 outmoft ten Wing-feathers of the firft row were black : Of the following the tips 

 began to be white : From the fourteenth to the twentieth the edges were alio white. 

 The five next the body were of the lame colour with it, having darker fpots. The 

 tips of the fecond row of Wing-feathers were white ( of the foremoft more obfcure- 

 ly ) the remaining part of the fame colour with the Back. The coveit-feathers of the 

 under fide of the Wing were white. Thofe of the exteriour baftard wing purely 

 white. The Tail was two inches a quarter long, made up of twelve feathers, of a 

 dusky colour, with whitiih tips. 



In the Cock birds a circle or collar of long feathers, fomething refembling a Ruff, 

 encompafTes the Neck under the Head, whence they to'ok the name of Raffs. This 

 fhaft in fome is white, in Ibme yellow, in fome black, in fome afh-coloured, in fome 

 of a deep blue, or black, with a glofs of blue fhining like filk. For there is wonder- 

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