Bifhop\W\\kim to Mr. Willughby. $67 



to be reprefented in Figure. If you can afFord me 

 any of your Time at prefent for the digelling of 

 thefe Matters, 1 will get what I have dbnpiranfcrib'd, 

 and fent down to you, that you may add to, or alter 

 it as you think fit. I hope at your next Opportunity 

 to hear from you. lam, . i 



Mr. JefTop to. Mr. Willugliby. 



I Have packed up the Skins in a Box. There is 

 the two MoorgamC) a Cock and an Hen the 

 Cock is pretty perfefr, but the Hen hath a Wing 

 {hot oft. There is alfo a Bird that I take for a Ber- 

 nacle, a Colymbus major^ and .an horned Owl 7 with a 

 black-legg'd Linet in a little Paper a Friend of mine 

 kept it in a Cage till it dy'd j and fo it lay negle&ed, 

 till I found it by chance dried, as you have it. Altho* 

 it be fomethiiig like the ordinary Kind, yet they dif- 

 fer in Bignefs, (this being lefs 3) but much more in 

 Voice, this 'finging more ihrilly, and with a harfher 

 Tone than the ordinary one. The Beak alfo in fome 

 that I have feen alive is much greener than you fee 

 it in this. The Moor-cock \§ certainly none of the 

 Gallina Corylorum 4 and whether it.be the Grygallus 

 which Gefner defcribes, I alfo doubt, having com- 

 pared thefe with both his Cut and Defcription : It 

 agrees with it in many Particulars, but differs from it 

 in fome. The Feet are not like thofe of the UrogaUus 

 minor, but nearer refembling thofe of the L;gopuSj 

 being feather'd all over. The Veflitrices alfo wholly 

 cover the Tail, contrary to his Cut, which he 

 pretends to be very exa£t, as being taken from a li ve 

 Bird, which was brought him. The reft of his De- 

 fcription may agree with this, and for ought 1 know 



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