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nor Jackdawcs, nor Popinjays, nor Rooks, nor Phcafants, 
nor Woodcocks, nor Quails, nor Robins, nor Citckocs, &C. 1 
1 So Wood: "There are no magpies, jackdaws, cuckoos, jays, &c." — New- 
England's Prosfcit, I. c. Our author, in his Voyages, adds to the above list of 
New-England birds the following: "The partridge is larger than ours; white- 
flesht, but very dry: they are indeed a sort of partridges called grooses. The 
pidgeon, of which there are millions of millions. . . . The snow-bird, like a chaf- 
finch, go in flocks, and are good meat. . . . Thrushes, with red breasts, which 
will be very fat, and are good meat. . . . Thressels, . . . filladies, . . . small 
singing-birds; ninmurders, little yellow birds ; New-England nightingales, paint- 
ed with orient colours, — black, white, blew, yellow, green, and scarlet, — and 
sing sweetly; wood-larks, wrens, swallows, who will sit upon trees ; and starlings, 
black as ravens, with scarlet pinions. Other sorts of birds there are ; as the tro- 
culus, wagtail or dish-water, which is here of a brown colour; titmouse, — two 
or three sorts; the dunneck or hedge-sparrow, who is starke naked in his winter 
nest; the golden or vellow hammer, — a bird about the bigness of a thrush, that 
is all over as red as bloud ; woodpeckers of two or three sorts, gloriously set out 
with variety of glittering colours; the colibry, viemalin, or rising or walking- 
bird, — an emblem of the resurrection, and the wonder of little birds. The water- 
fowl are these that follow: Hookers, or wild swans; cranes; . . . four sorts of 
ducks, — a black duck, a brown duck like our wild ducks, a grey duck, and a 
great black and white duck. These frequent rivers and ponds. But, of ducks, 
there be many more sorts ; as hounds, old wives, murres, doies, shell-drakes, 
shoulers or shoflers, widgeons, simps, teal, blew-wing'd and green-wing'd didapers 
or dipchicks, fenduck, duckers or moorhens, coots, pochards (a water-fowd like a 
duck), plungeons (a kind of water-fowl, with a long, reddish bill), puets, plovers, 
smethes, wilmotes (a kind of teal), godwits, humilities, knotes, red-shankes, . . . 
gulls, white gulls or sea-cobbs, caudemandies, herons, grey bitterns, ox-eyes, birds 
called oxen and keen, petterels, king's fishers, . . . little birds that frequent the 
sea-shore in flocks, called sanderlins. They are about the bigness of a sparrow, 
and, in the fall of the leaf, will be all fat. When I was first in the countrie " (that 
is, in 163S; in which connection, what follows is not without its interest to us), 
" the English cut them into small pieces to put into their puddings, instead of 
suet. I have known twelve-score and above killed at two shots. . . . The cormo- 
rant, shape or sharke" (pp. 99-103). 
