Mr. MKray to Mr. Lifter. 



Dear S I R y 



I Have fent you enclofed two Papers ; the one con* 

 taining Defcriptions of Birds, which you com- 

 municated to Mr. Will at his laft being atWollarton ; 

 to which we have added the Latin Names of Aldrov. 

 Only the third I take to be a Fowl diftincfc from the 

 common Widgeon, which is not unknown to you. 

 Indeed I do not remember that ever I faw any Bird 

 of the Duck-kind, which hath a Circle of white 

 Feathers round about the fettingonof the Bill. Your 

 Defcriptions of the reft that I have feen are very exa£L 

 Thepther Paper being a Table of our EngHJh Spiders 

 I have fent, not that I can difcover any Error or De- 

 feat in it, but becaufe you defire it. In profecuting 

 jthe Experiments about the Afcent and Motion of the 

 Sap in Trees ? I was interrupted by a few Fits of a 

 Tertian Ague y which, I thank God, I have been 

 now a good while rid of. Something I have lince 

 done 5 of the Succefs I will give you an Account 

 when the Seafon of Bleeding is quite over. Some 

 Experiments I haye made this Spring, which feem 

 pot well to agree with thofe I made the laft. My 

 Catalogue I believe is not yet begun, the Undertaker, 

 Mr. Martin^ Haying for a new Letter : He promileth 

 me to take fpecial Care both of the Letter and Paper, 

 and correcting, that it may ? in all Refpe£fo, be well 

 done. My ColleSlion of Proverbs I have given to 

 Mr. Morden of Cambridge^ who defired it of me, and 

 promifes to get it well printed. We do now fhortly 

 expeft the Bijhop of Chefier here, for whom princi- 

 pally i ftay at prefent, my private Affairs calling me 

 into Ejffex. W hen I have had Conference with him, 



