C a p. X V. The Caribby-I flands. ^ 



hath him faftin his hand, and (hews only his neck or back, he 

 might be taken even at a fmall diftance for a lighted coal : Un- 

 der the wings and belly he is of Sky-colour, and the feathers 

 of the wings and tail are of a dark red, chequer'd with little 

 white points difpos'd at an equal diftance one from another, 

 which have the figure of the apple of his eye: he hath alfothe 

 beak and note of the Sparrow, and therefore we thought fit to 

 call him the Sparrow of America. 



EAGLE of Or inoca. 



THere erodes over from the Continent a kind of large 

 Bird, which maybe ranked among thechiefeft of the 

 Birds of Prey that are in the Caribbies : The firft Inhabitants of 

 Tabago cali'd him the Eagle of Orinoca, becaufe he is about the 

 bignels, and differs not much in figure from the Eagle, and that 

 this Bird,who is but aPaflenger in that Ifland,is commonly feen 

 neer the great River of Orinoca, in the Southerly part of Am^ 

 rica: All his feathers are of a light grey marked with black 

 fpots, lave that the extremities of his wings arid tail are yel- 

 low: hernth a quick and piercing fight; his wir.gs are very 

 long, his fight fteady and fwift, confidering the weight of his' 

 body .• hefo-ds on other Birds, on which he furioufly fattens 

 his talions, and having mafter'd them he tears them in pieces., 

 and devours them: yet doth he (hewfo much genetoliry that 

 he never fets upon the weaker fort, and fuch as are not able to 

 defend thtmklves; but he engages only againft the Arras, the 

 Parrots, and allthofe which as himfelf are armed with crooked 4 ' 

 beaks, and (harp talions : Nay it hath been obferv'd, that he* 

 falls not on his game while it is on the ground, or lodg'd in a 

 Tree, but frays till it hath taken its flight, that he may engage 

 it in the open air with equal advantage. 



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 MANSFENY. 



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THe Mamfeny is alio a kind of fmall Eagle, which, as the 

 oth^r, lives by prey , but hath hot the courage of the fore- 

 mentiontd^for his hoftility is only againft Wobd-Quifrs,Doves 9 

 Chickens, and other leffer Birds^ which are not able to op i 

 pdfe him. ■■<[. 



1 here are moreover in thefelflands abundance of Other Bi rds 

 of different kinds, whereof moft have yet no names among the 

 foreign Inhabitants of thofe parts. 



COLIBKY. 



WE will conclude this ftory of the Caribbean Fowl, with 

 an account of the Colibry^ or as it is otherwife com- 

 monly 



