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of bluiftiafti-colour •■> the Fowlers call it Dun, whence this Bird alfo is by them cal- 

 led the Dun Diver. The underfide of the body is of the fame colour as in the Male. 

 The quil-feathersof the Wings alfo do not much differ as to their colours. The Bill 

 and Feet agree with thofe of the Male. The Wings in both Sexes are fhort, and little 

 for the bulk of the body 5 notwithftanding by the very quick agitation of them, it flies 

 exceeding fwiftly near the furfaceof the water. 



The Stomach of this Bird is as it were a Craw and a Gizzard joyned together. The 

 upper part refembling the Craw hath no wrinkles or folds in its inner membrane, but 

 is only granulated with fmall papillary glandules, refembling the little protuberances 

 on the third ventricle of a Beef, called the Manifold ', or thofe on the (hell of a Sea- 

 Urchin. 



Chap. II. 



The Bird called at Venice, Serula: Mergus cirratus fufcus : Anas (ut puto) 

 longiroftra GeCnai, Jldroy. t.3 . p.2 8 1 . 



THis Bird is very common at Venice. In bignels it comes near to the common 

 Duck. All its Head and the upper part of its Neck are of a dark fulvous co- 

 lour, but the crown of the head darker or blackilh. It hath a pretty long 

 creft or tuft on its head hanging down backward. The Back is dusky, or of a very 

 dark cinereous. The Throat for an inch and halfs fpace is white, below grided of 

 black, white and red. The whole Belly white. The Bill from the tip to the angles 

 of the mouth three inches, (lender, and of a round figure: The lower Mandible 

 wholly red, hath in the end an afh-coloured oval fpot, the upper is of a dark brown 

 above with fbme mixture of green, red on the edges, hooked at the end, and marked 

 with a whitifh oval fpot : Both toothed on both (ides along the edges with teeth like 

 thofe of a Saw inclining inwards. The Eyes of a (anguine colour. The Wings are 

 very fhort and little for the bignefs of the bird, having each about twenty five or 

 twenty fix feathers in the firft row. Of thefe the outmoft ten are black, the eleventh 

 hath the tip white, and the three next in order (till more, the following fix have their 

 upper halves white : The reft are indeed white, but have their edges black, fome on 

 one fide only, (bme on both. Of the fecond row thofe that cover the white ones of 

 the firft are themfelves w hite halfway. Above toward the bafe of the Wing is a great 

 white (pot, beginning from the baftard Wing. The coverts of the underfide of the 

 Wing, and the interiour baftard wing are white} but tho(e under the outmoft quil- 

 feathers are dusky. The Tail is fhort, confiding of eighteen feathers. The Legs 

 fhort ; The Feet red, or of a deep Saffron colour. The Wind-pipe at the divarication 

 hath fuch a veflel as the precedent, and befides above fwells out into a puff-like cavity. 

 In the ftomach we found a Mullet. 



This Bird is not much more than half fo big as the precedent: It differs alfo in its 

 colour, its creft, the white fpot below the baftard Wing, and other accidents. We 

 fufpeft the Bird defcribed was a Female, and that its Male reprefents the Goofander, 

 though we have not as yet hapned to fee it 5 unlefs perchance it be that whofe skin 

 ftuft we faw in Sir William Fofiers Hall at Bambergh in Northumberland, which bad 

 on each Wing a white fpot, and two fmall tranfverfe black ftrakes. We cannot but 

 wonder f if the Male of this Bird be fuch a one as the Goofander ) that among fo many 

 Females at Venice we fhould not fee one Male. Mr. WMughby faw and defcribed at 

 Janice another Bird of this kind, perchance fpecifically different from this, under the 

 name of Cokall^ for 1. It was lefs : 2. It had no Labyrinth. This makes us doubt 

 again concerning the Sexesof thefe birds 5 for in others of the Duc^kind the Females 

 have no labyrinth j whereas in the dun Diver, which we take to be the female of the 

 Goofander we found a large labyrinth 5 and yet in this lefier Diver, called Cokall, it 

 feems there was none 5 fo that we will not be very confident that the Goofander and 

 Dun Diver differ no more than in Sex. This Bird Leon. Baltner calls Klein Mcrch, 

 i.e.z little Diver. 



Ge/kr befides thefe fets forth four or five fpecies of this kind of birds, whofe de- 

 fcriptions were fent him by a certain German. But thofe defcriptions are fo (hort, 

 general, andobfcure, that we cannot thence certainly learn what birds the Author 



means. 



Chap. 



