very little hind-toe, a (harp-pointed Train, white Belly, fpeckled feathers, black, 

 with glittering green in the middle Wing, with a white tranfverfe line on either fide! 

 For thisdiftincfion of Sea-Ducks and Pond-Ducks we are beholden to Mr. Johnfon. 



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Chap. II. 

 Of Sea-Ducks. 



* Wormius his Eider or /oft-feathered Duck 



Here hath been brought me ( faith Wormius ) from the F err oyer Iflands a cer- 

 tain fort of D**4.they call there Eider : What name the Latines give it I know 

 ♦Thefofc. -*- not, I have thought fit to intitle it, * Anas plumis mollijfimis. The Cock 

 ST" ed differs from the Hen in many things, though the lineaments of the body are much 

 what the fame. The Cock in figure or (hape exactly refembles a tame Drake or Mal- 

 lard j hath a flat, black Bill, coming nearer the figure of a Goofis than a Ducks 3 per- 

 forate in the middle with two oblong holes, ferving for refpiration 5 of the length of 

 three inches, pe&inated on the fides. From the Nofthrils through the crown of the 

 Head above the Eyes two very black fpots or ftrokes confiding of foft feathers tend to 

 the hinder part of the head, divided by a narrow white line ending in the upper part 



* Upper part of the Neck, * which from green inclines to white. The whole Neck, the lower 

 0f the Neck. p art f tne Head, the Breaft, the upper fide of the Back and Wings are white : The 



quils of the Wings black, as alfo the whole Breaft and Rump, The Tail, which is 

 three inches long, is alfo black : The Legs fhort and black : The Feet confift of 

 three black Toes, joyned together to the ends by a black membrane : The Toes armed 



* A back- toe with (harp, crooked Claws. They have a * Spur behind, fituate at the beginning of 

 he means. t h e Leg, furnifhed alfo with the like membrane and claw. 



The Hen is of the fame bignefs and figure, but all over of one uniform colour, 

 viz. brown, fprinkled here and there with certain black fpots : in its other lineaments 

 and parts agreeing with the Cock. 



They build themfelves Nefts on the Rocks, and lay good ftore of very favoury and 

 well-tafted Eggs, for the getting of which the neighbouring people let themfelves 

 down by ropes dangeroufly enough, and with the fame labour gather the feathers 

 ( Eider dun our People call them ) which are very foft,and fit to ftufTBeds and Quilts. 

 For in afmall quantity they dilate themfelves much ( being very lpringy ) and warm 

 the body above any others. Thefe Birds are wont at let times to moult their feathers, 

 enriching the Fowlers with this defirable merchandize.This fame defcription Wormius 

 repeats again in the third book of his Mufeum, pag.3 1 ©. 



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The CutberUDuck. ; Anas S. Cuthberti feu Farnenfis. 



IT is bigger than the tame Duck. The Male is particoloured of white and black, 

 the Back white, the Tail and feathers of the Wings black. The Bill is fcarce Co 

 long as a Ducks : The upper Mandible a little crooked at the end, over-hanging the 

 lower. The Legs and Feet black , having a back-toe. But, what is moft remarkable 

 in this kind is, that on both fides the Bill in both Sexes the feathers run down in an 

 acute angle as far as the middle of the Nofthril below [under the Nofthrils.] The 

 Female is almoft of the colour of a Hen-Groufi. This Fowl builds upon the Fam 

 Iflands, laying great Eggs. I fufpecf, nay, am almoft confident, that it is the lame 

 with Wormius his Eider. I law only the Cafes of the Cock and Hen ftuft, hanging up 

 in Sir William Fefiers Hall at Bambergh in Northumberland. It breeds no where about 

 England but on the Fam Iflands, that we have ever heard of. " When its young ones 

 are hatcht it takes them to the Sea, and never looks at Land till next breeding time, 

 nor is feen any where about our Coafts. 



