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continually as it flies. It is with us in England 'every where very common upon the 

 Sea-coafts. We faw it alfo about the Lake of Geneva, and it hath been brought to us 

 killed upon the banks of the River Tm?f , not far from Notingham. 



This Bird is the very fame which Marggrdvim defcribes, Book $• Chap.<$. by. the 

 name of Matuitui, as he faith the Brazilians call it, as will clearly appear to him that 

 (halibut compare them together. So 'that it feems there are fome Birds common to 

 Europe, and even the Southern part of America. Leonard Baltner defcribes and 

 pictures two forts of this bird. Perchance his teller kind is that which the Welfi call 

 Goligod, and fay isXi&e a Sea-Lark, butlefs. 



Chap. V, 











Tl?e Turn-ftone, or Sea-Dottrel : Morinellus marinus of Sir Thomas Brown, 

 An Cinclus Turneri ? 



IT is leffer than a Plover, and fomething bigger than a Blackbird: in length from 

 the tip of the Bill to the points of the Claws ten inches : In breadth between the 

 extremities of the Wings extended twenty. It is long-bodied, and hath but an 

 indifferent Head. The Cocks and Hens differ not in colours. Its Bill is (freight,, 

 black, an inch long,from a thick bafe leflening by degrees into a fharp point,fbmething 

 flat, ftronger and ftiffer than in the Woodcock kind. 



The colour of the Plumage in the Head, Neck, Shoulders, Wings, and upper part 

 of the Breaft is brown. [ Mr. WiUughby makes the feathers covering thefe parts to 

 be black, or purplifh black in the middle, cinereous, or of a white rufiet about the 

 edges.] All the under-fide, but the Breaft, is as white as fnow. The Plumage on 

 the middle of the Back is whiter but on the very Rump is a great, tranfverfe, black 

 fpot. The long fcapular feathers are brown, with edges of an afh-colour, or dirty 

 white. The quil-feathers of the Wings are about twenty fix, of a brown or dusky 

 colour: But from the outmoft three or four their bottoms are white, continually 

 more and more, till in the nineteenth and twentieth the white fpreads almoft over the 

 whole feather. In the fecond row the foremoft feathers are wholly black : The tips 

 of the following being white, together make a broad line of white crofs the Wing. 

 The edges of the lefier rows are red. Near the fecond joynt of the Wing is a white 

 fpot. The Tail is two inches and an half long, confifting of twelve feathers,of which 

 the lower half is white, the upper black, yet the very tips white. 



The Legs are (hort, of a Saffron or Orange colour. The Claws black : The Toes 

 divided almoft to the bottom, but the outmoft and middle toe coupled by a mem- 

 brane as far as the firft joynt. It hath the back-toe. 



The Liver is (Jivided into two Lobes, ^of which the * dexter is much the bigger. I * S^g* the 

 found no Gall, yet dare not fay that it wants one. Upon the Weftern fhores of Eng- 

 land, about Penfans in Cormoal, and Aberdaren in Merionetb-{Kixe in Wales, we ob- 

 ferved many of them, where they fly three or four in company : Nor are they lefs 

 frequent on the Sea-coafts of Norfolk- 



Our honoured Friend Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich fent us the Pi&Ure of this bird 

 by the title of the Sea-Dottrel. 



Chap. VI. 

 * The firft J unco rf * Mrovanl |^£ 



IT is of the bignefs of a Sparrow, hath a black, channelled Bill, fuffieiently hard, 

 and crooked at the end 5 the Tongue alfo channelled, and at the tip hard, and 

 cloven. The upper part of the Head, Neck, and the Belly are of a chefnut- 

 colour. All the underfide of theNeck and Breaft white. All the other parts 

 of the body from * dusky incline to black; The Tail is three inches long, confifting ^ k r £° f a n 

 of ten feathers .-The Legs and Feet dusky. The Cock differs from the Hen only in 

 this, that in her the colours are more dull, in him more lively. 



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