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ful andalmoft infinite variety in the colours of the feathers of the Cocks, fo that in 

 the Spring-time there can fcarce be found any two exa&ly like one to another. 

 After Midfummer, when they have moulted their feathers they (ay they become all 

 alike again. 



The Hens are fbmewhat lefs than the Cocks 5 they change not their colours, and 

 are like the Bird here defcribed : They feldom or never fight. 



Their Bills are like the Trmgds, black, but fomewhat red about the Nofthrils, 

 The upper Mandible a little longer than the nether. The Tongue reaches to the end 

 of the Bill. The Eyes are hazel-colou,red. The Legs from yellow incline to red : The 

 back-toe fmall : The outmoft fore-toe joyned to the middlemoft below with a mem- 

 brane : The Claws black, pretty long, and almoft ftreight. The Stomach within 

 yellow: The Gall large. 



They breed in Summer-time in the Fens of Lincohfiire about Crorvland. They are 

 fatted with white bread and milk, like Knots^ being (hut up in clofe dark rooms : 

 For let in but the light upon them, prefently they fall a fighting, never giving over 

 till one hath killed the other, efpecially if any body ftand by. The Fowlers when 

 they fee them intent upon fighting, fpread their Nets over them, and catch them be- 

 fore they be aware. 



In the Spring time they come over alfo to the Low Countries : And it is reported^ 

 that at their firft coming in the beginning of the Spring there are many more Cocks 

 than Hens, but that they never ceafe fighting till there be fo many Cocks killed, as to 

 make the number of both Sexes equal. 



The Hens never have any Ruffs, the Cocks have none immediately after moulting 

 time. When they begin to moult, white Tumours or Warts break out about their 

 Eyes and Head. 



Chap. IX. 

 The Sanderling 7 called alfo Qurwilkt about Penfance hi Cornwall 



IT is fomthing bigger than the Sand-pper, though both take their names from (and* 

 It weighs almoft two ounces. Its length from the Bill to the end of the Feet is 

 eight inches and an half, to the end of the Tail eight. The breadth of the Wings 

 fpread fixteen. It is rather long than round-bodied. 



Its Bill is ftreight, black, (lender, an inch long} for its figure and make like to a 

 Tringds Bill : The upper Mandible a little longer than the nether. The Tongue ex- 

 tended to the end of the Bill: The Nofthrils oblong. The Ears great. The Legs, 

 Feet, and Claws black : And, which is efpecially remarkable, it wants the back-toe * 

 The fore-toes disjoyned from the>ery rife. 



The Head is (mall, particoloured of cinereous and black. The Neck more cine- 

 reous. The middle of the Back, the Shoulders, and (capular feathers are of a lovely 

 colour, in fome various, of black and white $ in others of black and ath-colour, 

 each feather being black about the (haft, and cinereous about the edges. The reft of 

 the Back to the Tail is of the (ame colour, but more faint and dilute. But the edges 

 of the feathers have more of a reddilh afh-colour. 



Each Wing hath twenty two quil-feathers : The four outmoft (excepting the (haft% 

 which are white ) all of a dark brown, or dusky colour. The reft have their upper 

 halves, as far as they appear, above the fecond row brown, the lower white. How- 

 beit, thefe colours do not divide all the feathers equally, but from the fifth the white 

 is gradually increafed, fo that in the twentieth it takes up almoft the whole feather. 

 The next following after the tenth have alfo their tips white. The firft row of covert- 

 feathers [ next thequils ] have white tips, which when the Wing is fpread make a 

 long tranfverfe white line, broader and broader by degrees from the beginning. The 

 feathers near the ridge of the Wing, and on the outmoft joynt, are all dusky, in the 

 Cocks almoft black, of the fame colour with the middle of the Back. The Wings, 

 when clofed, reach as far or further than the Tailitfelf 5 which is fhort, of about an 

 inch and half, or two inches, confifting of twelve feathers, ofanafti-colour; The 

 two middlemoft darker than the reft, and almoft black. 



The whole Belly and underfide of the Wings as white as Snow. The Breaft in 

 fome (potted or clouded with brown 5 in others ("perhaps thefe are the Males) no 



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