Duck^kiiid, The many Vulgar errours concerning the 
Origine of thele Birds, have fprung from the pofitive 
Relaiipns of unwary Obfervers,- and from the Writings 
of great men, as Munfier, Olau^ Magnus^ Cambden^ Car^ 
dan-, Lefley^ Julitis Scaltger , Wormius , Mayerm , 5cc, 
Kirchr (though credulous enough j himfelf, miftrufted 
their Relations, and fancied that the Eggs of thefe 
Birds might fometimes float from the Northern' Seas up- 
thefe Coafts, and there flicking to, and hatching 
upon Planks, Ship bottoms, Trees (or any rotten wood,] 
might give occafion to the rife of the aforementioned 
lUift^kes, That the Bernacle and Macreufe are both o- 
yjparpus, is beyond all doubt 5 the Anatomy of their 
part3 ferying for Generation^ many late Voyages into 
the North,' their laying Eggs^- and fometimes breeding 
anipng us, are all evident proofs thereof. 
yLon^XQxxv Cci'ttier in his traite de la Macreufe doth affirm 
fhat the ^TQXxchM^^creufeis the greater Coo^ of Bellonimy 
^nd Mr. WiUughby Ornithology p. 320. feems to be of 
the fame opinion; there are fome learned men, who 
jthink the Macreufe to be the Tufjin of the Sillies^ andl 
Jfle of Man 5 others take it for a fort of Colymbm or Mer- 
gtf^^ Boucher ovDiven but after all the French Macreufe 
j^s j^f the Duch;-kmd^ and is the Scoter, or J!nas niger 
minor defcribed by Mr. T^y in Mr. Willughby s Onitho'- 
fyg: p. 3 3<^. As the Skins of the Male and Female, to- 
gether with their lively Pidures, brought lately from^ 
^(tris^ by that mofl Curious and Worthy Gentleman 
Mr. Charlton^ do demonflrate 5 Hoyyever for your greater 
fatisfadipn, you mav confult Mrv T^^zyV letter, whofe 
^ao\yledge in the Hiftory of Animals, and of Nature in 
Generall, is as great and extraordinary, as itispartica- 
ja/ly e^icellent in that ofPlancs» 
The M^^r^^/^ is frequently taken in nets placed un- 
der water, upon the Coafls of Normandy ( moft plentiful- 
ly at the mouth of the Sem^) of Lmguedock^ anjJ Provence^ 
and- 
