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of Hawk, fome fay an Eagle, four times as big as a Gof- 
hawk, white Mail'd, having two or three purple Feathers 
in her head as long as Geefes Feathers they make Pens 
of the Quills of thefe Feathers are purple, as big as 
Swans Quills and tranfparent; her Head is as big as a 
Childs of a year old, a very Princely Bird; when fhe 
foars abroad, all fort of feathered Creatures hide them- 
felves, yet fhe never preys upon any of them, but upon 
Fawns and Jaccals : She Ayries in the Woods upon the 
high Hills of OJfapy, and is very rarely or feldome feen. 
The Turkie} 
The Turkie, who is blacker than ours; I have heard 
feveral credible perfons affirm, they have feen Turkie 
to be sufficient by some writers to show the probable existence of " a bird of prey, 
very large and bold, on the back of some of our American plantations." But our 
author's account indicates clearly a crested eagle, which we cannot explain by 
any thing nearer home than the yzquautli, or crested vulture of Mexico and the 
countries south of it (Falco Harpyja, Gmel.) ; two notices of which (cited by 
Linnasus) had been published some twenty years before Josselyn wrote, and may 
have been supposed by him to be applicable to a large bird which he had heard 
of as inhabiting mountains about Ossipee. The great heron — an inhabitant of 
the coast, and so uncommon inland that " one . . . shot in the upper parts 
of New Hampshire was described to" Wilson "as a great curiosity" (Amer. 
Ornith., by Brewer, p. 555) — has the size and the crest of Josselyn's bird; and, 
if this last was only (as is possible) the name of a confused conception made up 
from several accounts of large birds, the heron may well be thought to have had 
a share in it. 
1 "Of these, sometimes there will be forty, threescore and a hundred, of a 
flock; sometimes more, and sometimes less. Their feeding is acorns, hawes, 
and berries : some of them get a haunt to frequent English corn. In winter, 
when the snow covers the ground, they resort to the seashore to look for shrimps, 
and such small fishes, at low tides. Such as love turkey-hunting must follow it 
in winter, after a new-fallen snow, when he may follow them by their tracks. 
Some have killed ten or a dozen in half a day. If they can be found towards an 
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