Cap. XV. The Caribby-Mands. 



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them, that the fmellof the powder may not eafily be carry s d 

 to them, then they cover themfelves with an Ox-hide, and 

 creep on their hands and feet till they come to a place whence 

 they may be fure to kill. By this Height there Birds, who 

 are accuftomed to fee the wild Oxen that come out of the 

 Mountains to the watering-places below, become the prey of 

 the Huntf-men. They are commonly fat, and a delicate 

 meat : Their fkins are kept, which are cover'd with a foft 

 down, to be put to the fame ufes as thofe of Swans and 

 Vultures. 



like it, faving that the two great feathers of the tail were a 

 little (horter, and the beak turn'd downwards like a Parrot's, 

 and the feet like a Duck's : It was black, fave only that un- 

 der the belly there was a little white like our Swallows 5 in 

 fine it was To like them, that it may well be called the Swal- 

 low of America. We have aflign'd it a place among the Sea 

 and River-fowl, inafmuch as its feet difcover its fubfiftence by 

 the waters. And in regard it is fo rare a Bird that no Author 

 that we know of hath fpoken of it, we thought fit to give a 

 Sculp of it, the draught whereof was taken from the living 

 Bird. 



BEfides all thefe Birds, which have their fubfiftence out of 

 the Sea, Rivers and Ponds, there are in thefe Iflands a- 

 bundance of Partridges, Turtles, Ravens, and Wood-quifts, 

 which make a ftrange noife in the Woods : There are alfo 

 three forts of Hens 5 fome, ordinary Hens, fuch as are in thefe 

 parts 3 others,like Turkies$ others,a kind of Pheafants,which 

 are called Pintadoes^ becaufe they are as it were painted with 

 colours, and have about them fmall points like fo many eyes 

 on a dark ground-work. 



There are alfo Blacks-birds , Feldivars, lhrufhes 3 and Horto- 

 lans, in a manner like thofe of the fame name among us. 



As to the other Birds which are peculiar to the Forefta of 

 the Caribbies 0 there are fo many kinds, and thofe fo richly a- 

 dorned, that it muft be acknowledge, that if they are not 

 comparable to thofe of Eitrofe^ as to their tinging, they very 

 much excell them in the bravery of their feathers , as will ap- 

 pear by the defcriptions we (hall make of fome of the more 

 confiderable. 



LAND-FOWL. 



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Arras. 



