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as thofe of Java do. The fmaller fort are 

 feather cl about the Legs like Carrier-pidge- 

 ons, and have very bufhy Tails, which 

 they carry upright $ and the tips of the 

 Wings are generally black. This fmall fort 

 keep" apart from the other. They all keep 

 the fame Crov/ing Seafon, before Day, as 

 our Cocks do. They are conftantly about 

 the Houfes, not ranging far into the Woods 5 

 and both their Flefn and their Eggs are as 

 well tafted as any we ha ve in England 5 and 

 they are generally fatter 5 for the Indians 

 give them Maize good ft6re, which is very 

 fattening. 



Thefe are all the kinds of Land-birds I 

 noted among them : Though there are ma- 

 ny fmall ones which I did not fo particular-^ 1 ] 

 ly obferve ; and thefe generally very pretty ; r " 

 and mufical. 



About the Samballoesmd other thelflands- 

 and the Sea-Coaft, on the North-fide^fpe- 

 daily, there are great uumbers of Sea-fowl. Sea fowl 

 The South-Sea-Coaft , more to W i rid wo rd 3 

 has many of them too^ But whether it be 

 that the Bay of Panama does not afford fo ma- 

 ny Fifh to invite them 3 for 3 tfs not near fo 

 well ftock'd with Fifh as the Cpaft about the 

 Samballoes y there are but very few Sea-fowl 

 on the South-Sea-Coaft of the Ijilomm 9 to 

 what there are on the North-Coaft ; and as 

 to 'Pelicans particularly, which are ve ry fie- ?^ !; < > , 

 quent among tke Saatbtlloes, and all ajong 



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