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Shape of a Kings-fiflier, tho' not altogether 

 fo curioully Feathered ; it has a large Crop, 

 as I remember, there is a little Kings- fifiier 

 much the fame in every refpeft with ours. 



If I much miftake not, I have feen both 

 Gofs, Hauk, and Falcon befides there are 

 feveral Ibrts of the lefier Kind of Stannels. 



There is likewife the Kite and the Ring- 

 tale. 



I iicvey heard the Cuckow there to my re- 

 membrance. >iid 



There^s both a brown Owl an<i white Owl, 

 much what as large as a Goofe, which often 

 kills their Hens and Poultry in the Night % 

 the white OwlHs a very delicate Feather'd 

 Bird, all the Feathers upon her Breaft and 

 Back being Snow-white, and tipp'd with a 

 Punftal of Jet-black : befides there is a Barn 

 Owl much like ours and a little fort of 

 Scritch Owl. 



There's both the Raven, and the Carrion- 

 Crow I do not remember I ever faw any 

 Rooks there. Dr. Moulin aad my felf, when 

 we made our Anatomies together, when I 

 was at London^ we ftiew'd to the Royal Society^ 

 that all Flat-biird Birds that groped for their 

 Meat, had three Pair of Nerves, that came 

 down into their Bills whereby as we con- 

 ceived they had that accuracy to diftinguifli 

 what was proper for Food, and what to be 

 rejeded by their Tafte when they did not 

 fee it ; and as this was moft evident in a 

 Duck's Bill and Head, I draw'd a Cut there- 

 of, and left it in your Cuftody : A Duck 

 has larger Nerves that come into their Bills 

 than Geefe or any other Bird that I have 



y 4 feen 



