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ther with that piece of fifh, upon which it might be then 
feeding. 
He told me further, that every one of thofe fmaileft 
parts* had motion when it was a- 
live, and a tenacious ftrength ; but .tee the Figure of th^^ 
after it was dead and extended to a 
flat round ^ it was fo britle that it could not be handled 
without breaking fomc parts of it > but by carefullaying 
of it to dry, it was thereby fomewhat hardened. 
He added, that he had taken one of this kind of fifli the 
latter end of this Summerjbut had left it with a friend at a- 
nother port where he had been* Mean time he promifed to 
procure it for me when he fhould fail thither again, if it 
were not then broken or defaced. I hope I fliall en- 
gage him for the future to take better notice of what 
may be remarkable about it* Upon occafion I have 
inquired of divers other Fiihermen and MarinerSj but can 
meet with none other that ever have taken any of thefc 
fiflies* This Fifherman could not tell me of any name it 
hath,and 'tis in all likelihood yet namelefs^being not com- 
monly known as other Fifli are. But, until a fitter En^lffi 
name be found for it, why may it not be called (in regard 
of what hath been before mentioned of it ) a Basket-} ijh^ 
or a TSlet Fijhj or a Vurfneufifh > 
I fend you withat a litis Box^with a CurioCty in it^which 
perhaps will be counted a triflle , yet *tis rarely to l>e met 
with even here. It is the curioufly contrived Neft of a 
Hummingbird'^, fo called from the ^ 
, . ./V , , I .jtn. • ^ OFwmch fee a notable 
humming noile it maketh whil It it Dsrcription in the Hifto |? 
flies* 'Tis an exceeding htle Bird, o£th.Q Amnesi.i.ci^.aruij,, 
and only feen in Summer^and moft^ ^^^J^^ 
ly in GardenSjflying from flower to 
flower, lucking Hony out of the flowers as a Bee doth; 
as it flieth not lighting on the flow- ^ xhdfe Eggs wer ^ fo 
er, but hovering over it, fucking fmaU, that being weighed 
with its long Bill a iweet fubftance. ^^^^ It^^u' 
• r -iwT a . c weighed but about grains^ 
There are in the lame Nelt two of the other 3^; And the whole 
that Birds EggS^? Whether they Neft weighed no more thea 
ufe to have more at once, I know S^^*"*- 
not, I never faw but one of thofe Nefts before 3 and that 
LI I was 
