J io P.flgfl C lTHOLOgi. Book III. 



Candle, by imitating the geftures of the Fowler: For if he ftr etches out an Arm, 

 that alfo ftretches out a Wing 5 if he a Foot, that likewife a Foot: In brief, what- 

 ever the Fowler doth, the fame doth the Bird 5 and fo being intent upon mens ge- 

 ftures it is deceived, and covered with the Net fpread for it. I call it Morinellus for 

 f Fiemmings. two reafons, firft, becaufe it is frequent among the* Mmni ; And next, becaufe it is a 

 fbolifh bird, even to a Proverb, we calling a foolifh dull perfon a Dotterel. 



Of the catching of Dotterels, my very good Friend Mr. Peter Dent, an Apothe- 

 cary in Cambridge, a Perfon well skill' d in the Hiftory of Plants and Animals, whom 

 I consulted concerning it, wrote thus to me. A Gentleman of Norfolk^, where this 

 kind of fport is very common, told me, that to catch Dotterels fix or feven perfons 

 ufually go in company. When they have found the Birds, they fet their Net in an 

 advantageous place ; and each of them holding a ftone in either hand get behind the 

 Birds, and (hiking their ftones often one againft another roufe them, which are natu- 

 rally very fluggiih} and fo by degrees coup them, and drive them into the Net. The 

 Birds being awakened do often ftretch themfelves, putting out a Wing or a Leg, and 

 in imitation of them the men that drive them thruft out an Arm of a Leg forfafhion 

 fake, to comply with an old cuftom. But he thought that this imitation did not con- 

 duce to the taking of them, for that they feemed not to mind or regard it. 



Chap. IV. 

 The Sea-Lark : Charadrius five Hiaticula. 



"N bignefs it fomewhat exceeds the common Lark,: From the point of the Bill to 

 the end of the Tail or Legs ( for they are equally extended ) being eight inches 

 and an half long, a line of black compafles the bafe of the upper Bill. This 

 black line from the. corners of the mouth is produced through the Eyes as far as the 

 Ears, and then turns up and pafles crofs the middle of the Head, encompaffing a 

 broad bed or fillet of white drawn from the inner corner of one Eye to the inner 

 corner of the other. The hinder part of the Head is aih-coloured ; The Chin white. 

 The Neck encompalfed by a double ring or collar, the upper white, which under- 

 neath reaches as far as the Bill, and under the Chin is dilated almoft to the Eyes 5 the 

 lower black, which is broader in the middle, and takes up part of the Breaft, before 

 alfo runs out toward the Bill. The Back and leiler covert feathers of the Wings are 

 * Or grey. * afh-coloured. The Breaft and Belly white. 



Theoutmoft of the quil-feathers of the Wings is black, on the middle of the fhaft 

 only fpotted with white, which colour fpreads it felf gradually and continually 

 more and more in the following feathers, infomuch that the twentieth and twenty firft 

 are wholly white. Thofe next the body are of the fame colour with the Back. The 

 feathers of the fecond row have white tips, excepting the foremoft or outmoft. 

 Hence, and from the white of the firft row arifes a long tranfverfe white line in the 

 Wings. The outmoft feather of the Tail on each fide is white, as alfo the tip and ex- 

 teriour half of the next 5 of the three following only the tips: The two middlemoft 

 are of the fame colour with the Back, or a little darker. The Tail is two inches and 

 an half long, made up of twelve feathers, of which the outmoft are the longeft, of 

 the reft the interiour are a little ihorter in order than the exteriour. [ The Tail-fea- 

 thers in divers birds vary in colour, for in fome the two outmoft feathers are wholly 

 white, and the tips alfo of the middlemoft. ] 



The Bill is fhort, fcarce an inch in length, of two colours : For beneath toward the 

 Head it is of a deep yellow or gold-colour more than half way, toward the point 

 black. The upper Mandible a little longer, and fomewhat crooked. [ In others 

 ( perhaps they were young ones ) we obferved the whole Bill to be black. ] The 

 Tohgueis not divided : The Eyes are hazel-coloured : The Legs and Feet of a pale 

 yellow : The Claws black. It wants the back-toe. The outmoft of the fore- toes is 

 joyned to the middlemoft by a membrane reaching to the firft joynt. The Stomach 

 hath not very thick mufcles, in it difle&ed we found Beetles. The Gall-bladder is 

 large. 



It builds on the Sea-rocks, making its Neft of grafs, ftraws, and ftalks of Plants : 

 Its Eggs are of a greeniih colour, fpotted with brown, all the blunt end being 

 dusky. It runs very fwiftly on the fhores, and makes fhort flights, ringing or crying 



continually 



