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Of the Mozambkk Hens. 



T He feathers, flefh and bones of thefe Hens are fo black that being boil'd one 

 would think they had been fodden in ink j yet are they thought to be very 

 favoury, and far better than thole of other Hens. This hiflcry k as true as the pre- 

 cedent. 



Of the laughing Bird or Quapachtototl. 



|1 /firth is often unfecure. "Quapachtototl or the fulvous Bird imitates humane J 

 IV1 laughter, and yet is dreaded and hated by the Indians as inaufpicious and omi- 

 nous, fore-boding (ome evil or mifchief. The body [-from Bill to Tail] is eight 

 inches long} and the Tail as much. The Bill from blue inclines to black, being pretty 

 long and crooked. The circle about the Pupil of the Eye is white : The Breaft ci- 

 nereous: The Belly from thence to the Tail black. TheTail ofa dark fulvous : But 

 the Wings,Neck, and Head fulvous, whence it got its name among the Indians. They 

 fay it is pleafant and wholfom meat. 



Of the Water -Quail or Acolin. 



A Certain brown Bird of the Lake of Mexico is called Acolin, beeaufe it is of the 

 bignefsof agnail. It hath a long Bill, bending downward 5 and long Legs. 

 It runs very fwiftly near the top of the water : And feldom or never flics. It feeds 

 upon filh : And it felf is made food by man. 



Of the Cornet Ducks. 



THere is a certain fort of Ducks in Afia, which one may not undefervedly reckon 

 among Cornets or Horn- winders: Their voice doth fo nearly referpble the found 

 of a horn fuch as Poft-boys ufe. This fame Bird though it be feeble and weak, yet is 

 it bold and ftout, and the Turks have a perfwafion that it frightens and drives a way 

 evil fpirits. Certes it is fo conftantly defirous of liberty, that though it be kept up 

 and fed three whole years in a Cage, "if it get an opportunity of efcaping, it will pre- 

 fer its liberty before its eafe, and fly away to its natural and ufual haunts and manner 

 of living. 



Of Birds that cannot fiand. 



THe Indians call a fort of Duck with a black Bill, indifferently broad 5 tho whole 

 body almoft being white, black, and grey, but about the Head and Neck pur- 

 ple, white, blue, green, and changeable according as it varioufly refle&s the Sun- 

 beams, like the Heliotrope ftone, or a Peacocks head, T%taB%on Tayauhqui, or the Bird 

 Of a particoloured Head. Its Legs and Feet are red : Its food like that of other maifti- 

 birds. It is a Bird of paiTage, coming to the Lake of Mexico at a certain feafon. 

 We rriuft not omit to tell you, that this Bird like the Acitli or Water-Hare cannot 

 walk but only fwim 5 the Legs of both growing in like manner at the very end of 

 their bodies. 



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Of the broad-bill* d Bird or TempatlahoaC. 



^Here is a certain fort of wild Duck among the Indians, called by them Tern- 

 patlahoac, [the Spaniards, Natives of America, call it a SwaI/ow~] of the big- 

 nefs of a tame Ditck^, and therefore called among the Indians by the fame name. It 

 hath abroad, long Bill, all over black; A white Tongue : Pale-red Legs and Feet : 

 Its Head and Neck fhine with green, purple and black colours, like thofe of a Pea- 

 cock, or the heliotrope ftone. Its Eyes are black, and Irk pale s Its Breaft white? 

 But the reft of the body beneath fulvous, and adorned with two white fpots on both 

 fides near the Tail s above beautified with certain femicircles, the circumference of 

 which from white tended to brown, the middle or inner part from black to a fhining 

 green. The Wings at the fetting on £ or beginning ] are blue^ next white, and then 

 laftly of a fhining green. Yet their extremes are on one fide fulvous, on the other fide 



Ddda fhining 



