i%4 o^^citho Logr. book ill, 



cannot fly at all, nor unlefs they do ever and anon dip their Wings in the water. The 

 Tail is two inches long, made up of twelve feathers, all black. The Stomach within 

 h yellow : The Liver divided into two Lobes, with a Gall annexed. 



They build no Neft, but lay their Eggs upon the bare ground. They breed in 

 holes under ground, which either they dig for themfelves, or'borrow of the Rabbets, 

 whom they drive out and difpoflefs of their burrows. They lay but one Egg apiece 

 (" which is efpecially remarkable ) but if you takeaway the Egg out of any Neft, that 

 Bird will lay afecond 5 if you remove that, a third, and fo on to the fifth. It lays 

 huge Eggs for its bignefs, even bigger than Hens or Ducks ; ofareddifti orfandy co- 

 lour, much (harper at one end than Hens Eggs, and blunter at the other. 



In the Illands of Man, Bardfey, Caldcy, Farn, Godreve, Sillies, and other fmall de- 

 fert Iflets near the Sea-fhore they breed yearly in great numbers : And not only in 

 Iflands, but alfo on Rocks and Cliffs by the Sea-fide, about Scarborough, Tenby, and 

 elfewhere. 



In the Summer time they abide in the places mentioned, being bufie in breeding 

 and feeding their Young : In the beginning of Autumn they flyaway, returning again 

 the next Spring. Whither they fly, and where they f pend their Winter we know not. 

 It is reported, that in the latter end of March, or beginning of April there come over 

 firft fome Spies or Harbingers, which ftay fome two or three days as it were to view 

 and fearch out the places they ufe to breed in,and fee whether all be well : Which done 

 they depart, and about the beginning of May return again with the whole troup of 

 their fellows. But if that feafon happen to be ftormy and tempeftuous, and the Sea 

 troubled, there are abundance of them found call: upon the fhores lean and perifhed 

 with famine. For they cannot, unlefs the Sea be calm, either proceed in their jour- 

 ney, or fifh for their living. In Augufi they all depart, nor are they feen any more 

 any where about our Coafts till the next Spring. The Young which cannot then fly 

 they leave to (hift for themfelves. All thefe things are to be underftood alfo of the 

 Auk^ and Guillemot. For thefe three kinds do for the mod: part fly together,and build 

 in the fame places. 



A certain Fifherman told us, that in the middle of Winter he once found a Puffin 

 *TMsiflandis under water, torpid, among the Rocks not far from* Bardfey Ifland, which being 

 from die 'vZ a § ain caft into the Sea ftreightway fank to the bottom. Believe it that will. Mr. Fr. 

 montory of Jejfop fent us one killed in the frefh waters not far from Sheffield in Yorkshire, much 

 cmarvanjhire Ids than this we havedefcribed, which yet I think differed only in age 5 for all marks 

 agreed. 



Of all the birds of this kind hitherto defcribed I think it to be true which Mr. John- 

 fin hath obferved, that the underfide is fo far white as it is immerfed in the water in 

 fwimming, the upper fide as far as it is extant above the water being black. 



The Auk,, Guillemot, this Bird, and perchance all the reft of this kind and the So- 

 land-Goofe lay but one Egg, and bring up but one young one at once, which is a thing 

 very remarkable and worthy the obfervation : But that Egg for the bignefs of the 

 birds is an extraordinary great one. 



Chap. VI. 

 The 'Greenland*DoVe or Sea-Turtle : Columba Groenlandica di&a.' 



[Ither alfo is to be referred that bird which in Holland they call the Greenland- 

 Dove, for that alfo wants theback-toe. It is like the Coultemeb, but lefs : Its 

 Legs alike red : Its Bill longer, not comprefied fideways, fharp-pointed, a 

 little crooked at the end, and prominent. 



It hath a large white fpot on the upper furface of each Wing, elfe it is all over 

 black,of the colour of a Coot. We counted in each Wing twenty fix or twenty feven 

 quil-feathers. 



I guefs this bird to be the fame with the Puffinet of the Farn Iflands, which they 

 told us was of the bignefs of a Dove: Its whole body in Summer-time being black, 

 excepting a white fpot in each Wing, but turning white in the Winter : That it had a 

 narrowjfharp Bill,that it built in the holes of the Rocks,and laid two Eggs. I perfwade 

 my felf alfo,that it is the fame with the Turtle-dove of the Bafs Ifland near Edinburgh in 

 Scotland, being thereto induced by the agreement of names. 



