Book III. O^^IT HO LO qr. 355 



§. VII. 



Mr. Johnfons fmall cloven-footed Gull. 



JT is of the bignefs of a Blackbird, or fomething fefs. Its Bill is (lender, frreigh.^, 

 (harp-pointed, black, round, having no knob in the lower Mandible. The crown 

 of a black or dark red. The (ides and under- fide of the Neck are red : The Belly and 

 whole nether fide white : The Back and Wings brown, fpotted with yellowifh ipots. 

 In the Wings is a tranfverfe white line in the tips of the feathers. The VVingsare long 3 

 the Tail {hort. The Toes not web'd together, but bordered on each fide with lateral 

 membranes fcalloped,and elegantly ferrate : Whence when Ifirft faw the skin of it (tuft 

 at Mr.Johnfons at Brignal'm Yorkshire, from the make of its Feet I judged to be of the 

 0<tf-kind.But afterwards being informed by Mr.Johnfon that it is much upon the wing, 

 hath (harp Wings, and cries like a fmall Gull, differs alfo in the faihion pf the Bill, I 

 changed my opinion, and think that it ought rather to be referred to the Gulls, to 

 which I have fubjoyned it. 



SECTION VH. 



Of Whokjooted 'Birds mtb broad Bills. 



jHefe may be divided into the Goofe-kptd, and the Duckckind. The marks 

 of the Goofe-kind, of which we (hall firft treat, are a bigger body : Large 

 Wings 5 a long Neck 5 a large, and round-ended train : A white ring about 

 the Rump: A rounder Back, not fo flat and depreffed as in the Duck:kl 'na : 



A Bill thicker at the bafe, flenderer toward the tip, and not (o flat and broad at the end 



as in Ducks : To which might be added fhorter Legs. 



MEMB. I. *'* 

 The (joofe^nd. 



Chap. I. 

 Of the Swan : De Cygno. 



§. I. - y j 



The tame Swan : ' Cygnus manfuetus. 



* His Bird is muchthebiggeftof all whole- footed Water-fowl with broad Bilk 

 An old one we made trial of weighed twenty pounds .• From the tip of the 

 Billto the end of the Tail was fifty five inches long, to the end of the Feet 

 fifty (even. The diftance between the tips of the Wings extended was feven foot and 

 eight inches. 



The whole body is covered with a foft, delicate Plumage, in the old Ones purely 

 white, in the young ones grey. The quils of the greater Wing-feathers in this Bird 

 are greater than in the mid Swan. 



The Bill in the young ones of the firft year is of a lead colour, having a round 

 nail as it were at the tip, and a black line on each fide from the Nofthrils to the Head. 

 From the Eyes to the Bill is a triangular (pace, bare of feathers, of a black colour, 

 the bafe whereof refpe&s the Bill, the vertex the Eyes. In old ones the Bill is red, the 

 hook or nail at the end being black. Above at the bale of the Bill grows a great Lobe 

 of tuberous flefh of a black colour, bending forward or downward." The fpace un- 

 der the Eyes always continues black. The Tongue is indented or seethed : The Feet 



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