4 6 
[12] The Loonc. 
The Loonc is a Water Fowl, alike in fhape to the Wob- 
ble, and as virtual for Aches, which we order after the 
fame manner. 1 
The Owl. 
The Ozvl, Avis devia, which are of three kinds; the 
great Gray Ozvl with Ears, the little Gray Owl, and the 
White Ozvl which is no bigger than a ThruJJi? 
The Turkic Buzzard. 
The Turkie Btizzard, a kind of Kite, but as big as a 
Turkic, brown of colour, and very good meat. 3 
What Birds are not to be found in New-England. 
Now, by what the country hath not, you may ghefs at 
what it hath ; it hath no Nightingals, nor Larks, nor Bul- 
Jinchcs, nor Sparrows, nor Blackbirds, nor Mag\\z\pies, 
1 " He maketh a noise sometimes like a sow-gelder's horn." — N. Eng. 
Prosfccl, I. c. 
- The first is the great-horned or cat-owl; the second, probably, the mottled 
or little screech-owl, which Wood notices more fully as "small, speckled like a 
partridge, with ears" (/. c.) ; and the third, the Acadian or little owl. There are 
but two owls reckoned in New-England's Prospect; the second of which — "a 
great owl, almost as big as an eagle ; his body being as good meat as a partridge" 
(/. e.) — is, perhaps, the snowy owl, which, according to Audubon, is good eat- 
ing. — Peabody Report on Birds of JSlass., p. 275. 
3 It is not clear what is meant here. The author merely mentions the bird 
again, in Voyages, p. 96. 
