to Nor th- America, 239 



A Defer iption of fuch Birds as are not accounted -for in 

 my Letters. | 



TH E Huards are a Frefli water- frowl, The Fowl or 

 as big as a Goofe, and as dull bnd f rd f °f **f 



* r rni l. i_« 1 j Southern Cotin« 



heavy as an Als. They nave biack and trie5% 

 white Feathers, a pointed Beak, and a 

 very ihortNeck. They only duck or dive in the Sum- 

 mer, for they cannot ufe their Wings ; and in that 

 Seafon, the Savages take the Diverfion of furround- 

 ing "em with feven or eight Canows, difpers'd here 

 and there, and fo obliging 3 em to dive down, when 

 they offer to come up to take breath. The Savages 

 have Entertained me feveral times with this agree- 

 able Amufement, during the courfe of the Voyages 

 I made with them. 



The Red Partridges are wild and little, and much 

 different from the Red Partridge we have in Europe, as 

 well as the Pheafant, whofe Feathers being of a 

 white colour with black fpecks, make a very agree- 

 able diverfky. 



The largeft Eagles we find in this Country, are 

 no bigger than Swans. Their Head and their Tail 

 is white, and they have frequent Ingagements 

 with a fort of Vultures, that commonly have the 

 better of it. In our Voyages we had frequent occafi- 

 ©ns of feeing thefe Ingagements, which laft as long as 

 the Eagle can keep up the force of its Wings, 



The Parrots are met with in the Ilinefe Country, 

 and upon the River of Miffifipi. They are very 

 fmall, and are the fame with thofe that we bring 

 from Brazil and Cayenne* 



That fort of Nightingale that I faw, is of a pecu- 

 liar form ; for 'tis of a leffer fize than the European , 

 and of a blewifti colour, and its notes are more di- 

 verfified ; befides that, it lodges in the holes of 

 Trees, and four or five of 'em do commonly keep 



together 



