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Chap. V. 

 * The Sula of Hoier * Cluf near of kin to, if not the fame with the Soland-goofek nbtjlca*!?. 



exotic. 



FRom the bottom of the Neck to the Rump, meafuring along the Back, it was 

 a Roman foot long. From the top of the Head to the Back were eleven inches. 

 The Neck was as much about. The length of the Bill ( which was very fharp^ 

 pointed and ftrong) was five inches and an half. The thicker part of the Bill, and 

 that about the Eyes was black. The compafs of the body was full twenty four inches, 

 that is, two RSman feet. The Wings were more than a foot long ; but the longer 

 feathers of 'the Tail did not exceed the length of feven inches, ft had but flender and 

 infirm Legs, and thole not more than two inches long, and wholly of a black co- 

 lour, as were al(b the Feet, which were very broad, coofifting of four Toes, of which 

 the outermoft, and that next it ( which were the longeft ) confifted of three articu- 

 lations, the third of two, the leaft of one, each armed with afmall claw, except the 

 fecond, the Nail whereof is a little broader than the reft, and ferrate on one (ides 

 but they are all joyned together by a black membrane. The longer prime feathers of 

 the Wings are all black, as are alfo thofe three, which are longeft, and lie uppermoft, 

 and take up the middle part of the Tail. The reft of the body was covered with 

 white feathers, which yet in the Back were fomething yellowifh, as if they were 

 ftrowed with clay or duft. 



This Bird in many things agrees with the Soland-goofe, yet in fome it differs, viz.the 

 fharpnefsoftheBill, the black colour about the Eyes, the fmalnefs of the Legs, and 

 the black colour of the middle feathers of the Tail. But I fuppofe Cluftus was mi- 

 staken in the number of the joynts of the outer Toe, for the outer and middle Toe in 

 nobirdthatlhaveyethapnedtofee, except only the Swift, do agree in the number 

 of joynts: Nor doth the outer Toeconfiftof three articulations, but four, the mid- 

 dle of three, the inner of two, and the leaft or back- toe of one. 



Clufius took this defcription from a dried bird, fent by Dr. Henry Hoier, Phyfician 

 in Bergen in JSforwey, to Dr. Peter Pauw, firft Profeffor of Phyfick in Leyden. It is 

 ( he faith ) called ShU by the Inhabitants of the Iflands Ferroyer, where it is taken. 

 Thofe Iflands, Hoier, writes in his Epiftle to Clufius, are faid to be fo called from the 

 abundance of feathers there. 



■Chap. VL 

 The Tropic Bird* 



IT is of the bignefs of a Duck,, hath a red Bill, about two inches long, fomewhat 

 bending downward, and fharp-pointed. A line pf black is drawn on each fide 

 from the corner of the mouth to the back of the Head. The Belly is white : 

 The Back alfo is white, but variegated with tranfverfe lines of black thick fet^ 

 which make it very beautiful to behold. The Wings are very long, yet each fingle 

 feather fhort, as in the Soland-goofe. In the outmoft quil-feathers the one Web, 

 i. e. that on the outfidethe (haft is black, the other or inner Web white, in the next 

 to thefe the middle part of the feather along the (haft is black, the edges on both fides 

 white 5 the next to thefe are all white 5 thofe next of all to the body black, and longer 

 than the reft. The Feet are black, the Legs white : All the four Toes web'd toge- 

 ther. In the Tail ( if one may rely upon the ftuft skin, or credit the relation of thofe 

 thofe that fent it ) are only two very long feathers, of about eighteen inches, narrow^ 

 and ending in (harp points. This defcription I took from the cafe of the bird eon- 

 fervedinthe Repository of the Royal Society. , 



It is called the Tropic-bird becaufe it is found about the Latitude of the Tropic 

 circles, and no where elfe, fo far as hath been by our Englifh Travellers hitherto 

 obferved. 



My honoured and ingenious friend, Mr. Martin Lifter of York, takes this to be 

 the bird defcribed in the Hiftory of trie Carribbee Iflands in thefe words: There art 

 fern near thefe I/lands, and fometimes at a great diftance fromthemin theSea^ certain birds 



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