3H ~~ 0^^ClTH0L0g7, Book III, 



this groove the Bill is covered with a thick, fhort, foft down, like the nap of Velvet. 

 The upper Chap is crooked at the end, concave and overhangs the lower : Both are 

 of equal length, channelled with two tranfverfe furrows or grooves [ the upper for 

 the moft part with three, ~] that next the Head, which is the wideft, and almoft 

 erodes the whole Bill, being white. In thefe furrows there is forrie diverfity in feveral 

 birds, for fome have more than two : Yet are the white lines like and equal in all. 

 Befides from each Eye to the corner of the upper Mandible is a narrow white line 

 drawn. The Mouth within is of a lovely yellow r The Eyes hazel-coloured. The 

 Legs are fituate as in the Penguin' and Coulterneb, of a black colour,as are alfo the Feet 

 and Claws. It wants the back-toe. 



It lays, fits, and breeds up its Young on the ledges of the craggy Cliffs and fteep 

 Rocks by the Sea-fhores, that are broken and divided into many as it were ffairs or 

 ihelves, together with the Coulternebs and Guillemots. The Manly men are wont to 

 compare thefe Rocks, with the Birds fitting upon them in breeding time to an Apo- 

 thecaries (hop, the ledges of the Rocks refembling the {helves, and the Birds the pots. 

 About the Ifle of Man are very high Cliffs, broken in this manner into many ledges 

 i one above another from top to bottom* They are wont to let down men by ropes 



from the tops of the Cliffs to take away the Eggs and young ones. They take alfo the 

 birds themfeives when they are fitting upon their Eggs, with fnares fattened to the 

 tops of long poles, and fo put about their Necks. 1 hey build no Nefts, but lay their 

 Eggs Upon the bare Rocks. They fetch many circuits in getting up to their Nefts, and 

 if they have not aimed right, andfo mifs of them, they drop down into the Sea,' and 

 afcend up again by degrees. 



All the birds of this kind that we know lay extraordinary great Eggs in proportion 

 to their bodies : This birds are two inches three quarters long, the J'efler ends not fo 

 fharp as in the Guillemots, white, varied with black fpots, as Hoierus rightly defcribes 

 them. They feed altogether upon fifli. 



Chap, III. 

 * Tom. 3 . * T/;e Mergus ofBelloniuSy * JldroV. (perchance the fame with the precedent, 



BElloniw, in his Book of Obfervations writes, that there is a peculiar fort of Sea- 

 diver in Candy, differing from the * Phalacro-corax, and other divers, which 

 he thinks to be the JEtbj/ia of Ariftotle. The Inhabitants of the Candy-fhores 

 ( faith he ) call it TJtamania. It is of the bignefs of a Ted Q d' une Sarcelle ~] hath a white 

 Belly, a black Head and Back, as alfo Wings and Tail. This alone among whole- 

 footed birds wants the back-toe. [ Herein BellonJw.h miffaken. ] Its feathers are 

 like down, flicking faff in the skin. Its Bill hath fharp edges, is hollow, and almoft 

 plain, for a good part of it covered with downy feathers 3 the upper Chap being 

 black, the lower white : the crown of its Head is broad. 



This bird in many things refembles the Au\_, and perchance it may be the fame, for. 

 its figure is not unlike : But if it be indeed, as it is defcribed, no bigger than a Teal, 

 and the lower Mandible of its Bill be white, it muff be different. 



Chap. IV. 



The Bird called by the Weljh and Manks-men, a Guillem 5 by thofe of 

 Northumberland and Durham, a Guillemot, or Sea-hen 5 in Yorkshire about 

 * it is another Scarburgh, a *Skout 5 by the Cornijh, a Kiddaw: Lomwia Hoieri in 

 Sf *" Epift.adClufium. 



about the Bafs 



the Nortbum- W T is like the Auk* but greater, coming near to the bignefs of a Ducl^: In length 

 fZ m°nd he I fr° m ^ to Tail eighteen inches and an half 5 in breadth the Wings being fpread 

 ailsfyut*' out thirty. Its Head, upper-fide of the Neck, Back, Wings, and Tail, and be- 



vi%. the Ai\a fide, the Chin alfo as far as the middle of the Throat are of a dark brown, or black 

 of how: afa-colour .• Its Belly,Breaft, and the reft of its Throat are white,as in the Auk. The 



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