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long and white: The reft having their outer Webs cinereous, their inner 

 white. 



Its Bill is long, almoft (freight,, black at the tip, elfe red. Its mouth is red within ; 

 Its Tongue (harp : Its Legs red 5 the back-toe final 1: The fore-toes web'd together 

 as far as the very Claws. The craw was large, out of which we took aGudgeon: 

 The Gizzard full of fifti-bones : The Cuts twenty inches long : The blind guts very 

 Ihort. 



Thefe Birds flock together, and build and breed on Iflands uninhabited near to 

 the Sea-fhores many together in the fame quarter. In thelfland of Caldey, adjacent 

 to the Southern (hore of Wales, they call them Spurns 5 £ a name (as appears by 

 Baltner) common to them with the Germans about Strasburgb,"] and that little Met 

 where they build Spurrelftznd. In other places of England they are called Scmys, 

 a name, I conceive, framed in imitation of their cry: For they are extraordinarily 

 clamorous. In the Northern parts they call them Terns, whence Turner calls them in 

 Latine, Sterna, becaufe they frequent Lakes and great Pools of water, which in the 

 North of England are called Tarns. 



They lay three or four Eggs, either upon the bare ground, or in a Neft made of 

 Reeds. Their Eggs are like the great Gulls Eggs, though much lefs : The Young are 

 alfofpotted with Slack like theirs. They fly up and down over the water, intent up- 

 on their prey, and when they efpy a fifh, they caft themfelves down with wonderful 

 fwiftnefs into the Water, and catching it up, fly t away with it in a trice, They frequent 

 Rivers far remote from the Sea, as for example, the Rhene about Strasburgh, where they 

 were taken, defcribedand painted by Leonard Baltner, by the title of Em Speurer-, 

 who tells us alfo that they build in gravelly and fandy places by the banks of the Ri- 

 ver 5 fo that if it happen there be a floud in their breeding time,their Eggs are marred , 

 and Nefts deftroyed. 



This Bird for its long Wings, fmall Feet, forked Tail, continual flying, and final-, 

 ly, for the figure of its whole body, is commonly, and not undeservedly, called, the 

 Sea-Swallow. 



The lejfer Sea-Swallow : Larus Pifcator of Gefner andAldrov. Ein Fifcherlin of Baltner, 



GEfner defcribes this Bird thus. They lay that it is white, with a black crown! 

 It is leller than the a(h-coloured Gullj with a black head like the Sterna, Bill 

 and Feet of a pale difcky colour: Of fwi ft flighty and when it catches fifti, plunging 

 it felf into the water, which the a(h-coloured G////doth not. 



Leonard Baltmr defcribes his Fifcherlin after this manner. It is a very little kind of 

 Speurer, that is, Sea-Swallow, even lefs than a Blackbird. It hath long afh-coloured 

 feathers : Bill and Feet of a Saffron-colour : A black crown: The nether fide of the 

 body all white, in like manner the Tail. It preys upon fmall fifties, whence it had its 

 name: Its guts are half a yard long. The Females are lefs than the Males. Their flefl! 

 is good to eat. The Picture reprefents the Tail forked, and the point of the Bill 

 black : The greater quil-feathers of the Wings likewife black. 



It diners from the greater Sea-Swallow chiefly in bignefs, and the colour of the Bill 

 arid Feet. 



Mr. J^hnfon thus briefly defcribes it. It hath the Wings, Tail, and fwiftnefs of^ ! 

 Swallow .» • A red Bill 3 a black crown 5 brown Legs } a forked Tail fix inches long. In 

 the colour of the Legs he agrees with Gefner: but perchance the colour , may vary 

 with Age, or differ in the Sqxcs. 



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The Scare-trow t Larite niger GefneH 5 * Aldrov. Ein Brand vogel or Megvogei of Baltner. * Tom./. 



pag.8.1. 



THis ! fmall Gull hath black Bill, Head, Neck, Breaft, Belly, and Back, (as far as 

 one Can judge by the Picture) aih-coloured Wings, reaching beyond the Tail. 

 The Legs have a light dafh of red. About Strasburgh it is called Megvogelin, that is, 

 the 'May-fowl, becaufe ( faith Baltner} it comes to them in the month of May. Bdltner 

 defcribes and paints it under the title of Brand-vogel. It is ( faith he ) of the' bignefs 

 of a Blackbird j hath long Wings,' fmall and ihort Legs and Feet, partly cloven, a 

 black Bill, of which colour is aifo the whole body. They fly in flocks for the moft 



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