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Mr. Ray to Dr. Robinfon. 



SIR, B.N. April u.*- 94 , 



THERE are fome Things new in my Synopf, 

 Av. &f Pifcium. By new, I mean fuch as were 

 not comprehended in Mr. WUlughbf t Works. Thofe 

 are Hernandez's Mexican Birds, z. Some Names and 

 Defcriptions of Birds out of Nieuhoff. 3 . Frid. Mar- 

 tem-s Spitzberg Birds and Fijhes. 4. Sir Robert Sib* 

 halds's Whales, f. Dr. Sloanes Jamaica Birds and 

 Fijhes. 6. Tour Birds and Fijhes taken out of the 

 Leyden Catalogue: And laftly fome few Things out of 

 Du <fertre. Thofe Birds of Hernandez being fhortly 

 defcribed, and no Figures added, are very puzzling 

 and confounding : A little to illuflrate them, and 

 make them eafier to be compared with the Defcri^ 

 ptions of other Authors, I have reduced them to a 

 kind of Method according to their Bignefs. 



z. I will not confidently affirm that there are in 

 this Ifland any Topical Plants fo peculiar to one Place, 

 or Spot of Ground, as not to be found in any others- 

 Some Species, which for a long 'Timp I thought to 

 be fuch, I afterward found my felf miftakeninj for 

 Example, Eryngium vulgare S. campejlre, Rhamnus 

 fecundus Clufii^ and Pifum Maritimum Aldeburgenfe $ 

 to which I might add the Box-tree : Yet I am verily 

 perfuaded there are fome fuch 3 as to name no more, 

 Periclymenum parvum Prutenicum Gluf. and Calceolus 

 Marine. But that there are fome peculiar to a 

 County, and that few Counties of any Extent want 

 fuch, is my prefent Opinion and Aflertion. How- 

 ever, it is enough for my purpofe, and I pretend to 

 no more, than that there are fome, for ought hath 



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