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! never heard the Cuckovv there to my remem- 
brance. 
There's both a brown Owl and white Owl, much 
what as Jarge as a Goofe, which often kills their Hens 
and Poultry in the Night ; the white Owl is a very de- 
licate feather'd Bird, all the Feathers upon iicr Breaft 
and Back being Snow-white, and tipp'd with a Pun&al 
of Jet-black : Befides there is a Barn Owl much like 
ours ; and a little fort of Scritch Owl. 
There's both the Raven, and the Carrion Crow • I 
do not remember I ever faw any Rcoks there, Dr. Moulin 
and my (elf, when w 7 e made our Anatomies together, 
when 1 was at £0^0//, we fhew'd to the Royal Society, 
that all Flat-bill'd Birds that groped for their Meat, had 
three Pair of Nerves, that came down into their Bills ; 
whereby as we conceived they had that acuracy to dt 
ftinguifh what was proper for Food, and what to be re- 
jected by their Tafte when they did not fee it,- and as 
this was- mod evident in a Duck's Bill and Head, I 
draw'd a Cut thereof, and left it in your Cuftody : A 
Duck has larger Nerves that come into their Bills than 
Geefe, or any other Bird that I have feen, and therefore 
quafer and grope out their Meat the moft: But I had 
then difcovend none of thefe Nerves in Round-bili ; d 
Birds : But fince in my Anatomies in the Country, in a 
Rook I firft obferved two Nerves came down betwixt 
the Eyes into the upper Bill, but confiderably fmaller 
than any of the three Pair of Nerves in the Bills of 
Ducks, but larger than the Nerves in any other Round- 
bill'd Birds ; and 'tis remarkable thefe Birds more than 
any other Round-bill'd Birds feem to grope for their 
Meat in Cow- dung and the like : Since I have found in 
feveral Round-bill'd Birds the like Nerves coming down 
betwixt the Eyes, but fo very fmall that had I riot feen 
them firft in a Rook I (hould fcarce have made .the dif- 
covery in the lower Bill there are Nerves have much 
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