3 5z O^AClTHOLOgr, Book III. 



This Bird is as yet to us unknown, and therefore we have no more to add concern- 

 ing it. What the Ancients have left us concerning the Cepphm Tee in Aldrovand. Tur- 

 ner thinks that bird which we call the Pewit to be the Cepphus of the Ancients as we 

 have already told the Reader. 



§. VIII. 



The brown Tern ; Larus cinereus minor Aldrov. called by Baltner, Ein Kefller. 



IT is about half fo big as Bellonius his afh-coloured Mew, for it fcarce exceeds a 

 fpan in length. On the Back and Wings it is of an alb-colour, but far deeper than 

 in that,inclining to a blue. The quil-feathers of the Wings are on the outfide cinereous 

 * The word but on the infide black} on both fides at * the ends white. The Bill is flender f or 

 which' may S fma11 ] for the proportion of the body, a little bending and black. The crown of 

 well fignifie the head towards the hind-part black. The Feet, Legs and membranes uniting the 

 fremities eX " ^ oes °^ a Sanrron - co l° ur : The Claws black. All the other parts purely white. 

 This is the bird which Leon. Baltner defcribes and paints under the title of Ein KeJJ'ler 

 of the bignefs of a Blackbird, with long Wings, fhort legs, a fmall Head, and black 

 for the moft part 5 the Back and quills of the Wings brown, the covert-feathers cine- 

 reous, yellow or Saffron-coloured Feet} a black, (harp Bill, moderately bending. 

 It flies up and down continually over the water in purfuit of Gnats and other water- 

 Infe&s. It feeds alfo upon fifh. This is alfo the brown Tern of Mr. John fin, ( if I be 

 notmiftaken) whofe underfide is all white, the upper brown: The Wings partly 

 brown, partly aili-coloured : The Head black : The Tail not forked. The Birds of 

 this kind are gregarious, flying in companies, 



§. IX. 



* Marggraves BrajilianGull, called Guaca-guacu, Gaviota ofthePortughefe. 



IT is of the bignefs of a common Hen , hath a {freight, long, thick, yellow Bill. 

 Its Head above is covered with black feathers, as are alfo the hinder moieties of 

 the Wings and Tail. The Throat, whole Neck,Breaft, and lower Belly, and fore-part 

 of the Wings are white. It lays its Eggs in the fand, which are like to a Hens for 

 figure, bignefs, and colour: They are indeed well tafted, buttheflefh of the Bird 

 is nothing worth. 



Chap. III. 

 The kjfer Gulls with forked Tails. 



i. 1. 



The Sea-Swallow : Hirundo marina, Sterna of Turner, Speurer of Baltner. 



THe weight of this Bird* was near five ounces: Its length from Bill to Tail fix 

 teen inches : itsbreadth from Wings end to Wings end thirty two inches. 

 It is a fmall bird, flender, and long-bodied : Hath a forked Tail, whence 

 itgotthenameof a Swallow: A black crown, the black being terminated by a line 

 drawn from the Nofthrils through the Eyes to the Neck, fo that above the Eyes the 

 Head is black, under the Eyes white. The Cheeks, Chin, lower Belly, under- 

 fide of the Wings are all white : The Breaft hath fomething of cinereous ming- 

 led. The Rump is white : The Back and upper fide of the Wings are of a dark afti- 

 colour. Each Wing hath twenty nine quils 5 the outmoft ten whereof have their 

 outer Webs running out into (harp points, the reft their inner. The exteriour Web 

 of thefirft or outmoft feather is black, the (haft white, and of a notable thicknefs: 

 The tips of the folio wing till the tenth, and the infide of all white, and moreover 

 half the interiour Web of the four or five foremoft. The Tail is compofed oftwdvc 

 feathers, the outmoft being half afoot long and better, and having their exteriour 

 Webs from cinereous inclining to black : The two middlemoft fcarce three inches 



long 



