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part, twenty or thirty together. They catch Gnats, and other water-Infects. Their 

 flefh is good to eat. 



This is ( Ifuppofe ) the fame With that Which Mr. Johnfon faith, they in the North 

 call the Scare-Crow 3 and thus briefly defcribes. It cannot abide the prefence of men : 

 Its Head, Neck, and Belly are black 3 its Wings alh-coloured 3 its Tail a little forked; 

 Its feet fmall and red. The Male hath a white fpot under his chin. 



J. IV. 



Our blacky cloven-footed Gull. 



IT islefs than the Sea-Swallow : In length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the 

 Tail ten inches : in breadth from Wingg end to Wings end twenty four. The Bill 

 from the point to the angles of the mouth is an inch and half long, (harp-pointed, and 

 black: The Tongue (harp, and flit at the end: The Head black : The back and up- 

 per furface of the Wings of a dark cinereous: The Throat and Breaft black: But the 

 feathers of the lower belly under the Tail pure white. The number of quils in each 

 Wing twenty (even : The Tail forked, made up of twelve feathers, the outmoft 3 ' r 

 inches long, the middlemoft two and an half. The outmoft on each fide is all white, 

 all the reft alh-coloured. The Legs are bare up to the middle of the (econd joynt : 

 The Feet fmall, ofareddifh black colour: The Claws black: The hind-toe little 3 

 the middle fore-toe thelongeft, and next to rfiat the outmoft. The membrane con- 

 necting the inirioft and middle toes jn the inmoft is extended to the Claw, in the middle 

 toe proceeds not beyond the fl rft joynt 3 Co the upper bone of the Toe is altogether 

 free and loofe. That which joyns: the outmoft and middle Toes, though it begins in 

 both from the very Claws, yet is it deprefled in the middle, and as it were hollowed 

 into the form of aCrefcent, whofe horns are the Toes. The Claw of the middle 

 toe on the infide is thinned into an edge, Its cry is hardly diftinguiihable from that 

 of the Sea-Swallow. It builds among the Reeds, and lays three or four Eggs, like to 

 thole of other Gulls, of a fordid green, fpotted with black, compalTed with a broad 

 black girdle about the middle. The blind Guts, as in the reft of this kind, are very 

 thort. In the Stomach were Beetles, Maggots, &c. 



This Bird comes, very near to the black cloven-footed Gull of Aldrovand : But it* 

 Tail is forked, of which remarkable note he makes no mention, which fure could not 

 haveefcaped him, if it had been in the birds he defcribed. 



It frequents Rivers, Mears, and Plaftiesof Water far from the Sea. 



§. V. 



* Aldrovands cloven-footed Gull, with longer Wings, 



THis Bird on the Wings and Breaft is all afh-coloured, hath very large Wings, ex- 

 ceeding the Tail three inches in length, and towards the end black. The Tail 

 is fhort, and cinereous : The part under the Tail white.- The Toes are of a good 

 length, and armed with notable Claws 3 the Legs ftiort 3 both black. The Eyes very 

 black, as is the whole Head, and alfo the Neck, and the Bill befide, which 'u pretty 

 long, and a little crooked at the end. 



$. VI. 



* The other cloven- footed Gull of Aldrovand, with fiorter Wings, 



IT is almoft of the fame bignels with the precedent, but hath far fhorter Wings, and 

 on the contrary a much longer Tail. Its bignefs is equal to that of a Blackbird 3 its 

 colour cinereous 3 its Head black. Its length from the Head to the Rump is nine 

 inches : The Tail is a full Palm [ hand-breadth ] long. The ridges of the Wings are 

 white : The Bill black, (lender, a little crooked. The feathers under the Tail are 

 white. The Feet arereddilh, fmall, asm Swallows, It hath four Toes, withfome 

 rudiment of a membrane between them. The Claws are black, and fmall, however 

 crooked.. 



Thefe Birds ( faith Aldrovand) becaufe they do in the fhape of their bodies Ibme- 

 thing refemble Swallows^ve cMled by us Rondinimarinu 



§. VII. 



