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of their Pullen. They breed in Ijland, in the Me of Mona 
in Scotland, in thofe of Few and the SyUies 5 alfo in Ireland, 
and other places 3 laying their Eggs under ground. 
The Puffin, Penguin, and Guillemot, all want the Heel or 
hinder Toe. Have all black Backs, but their Bellies, which 
are much under water , are White. All lay but one 
Egg at a fitting : proper perhaps to other Birds of this 
kind, (a) C^WiUugfc 
The HEAD of a PUFFIN: ° rnltL 
The HEAD of the MAN of WAR 3 called alfo At- 
bitwjfe. Suppofed by fome to be the Head of a Dodo. 
Bat it feem? doubtful. That there is a Bird called The 
Man of War, is commonly known to our Sea-men 3 and 
feveral of them who have feen the Head here preferved, 
do affirm it to be the Head of that Bird 3 which they de- 
fcribe to be a very great one, the Wings whereof are eight 
feet over. And Ligon, (b) fpeaking of him, faith, That 0>) W> 4 
he will commonly fly out to Sea, to fee what Ships are Baibad, P- dl ° 
coming to Land, and fo return. Whereas the Dodo is 
hardly a Volatile Bird, having little or no Wings, except 
fiich as thofe of the Cajfoary and the Ojhich. Belides, al- 
though the upper Beak of this Bill, doth much refemble 
that of the Dodo 3 yet the nether is of a quite different 
Ihape. So that either this is not the Head of a Dodo, or 
elfe we have no where a true figure of it. I /hall defcnbe 
it as follows. 
The SKULL is four inches long 3 the Bill, feven 3 two 
and x i high 3 one and * broad. The upper Beak is hollow. 
Is compofed of fix Bones. The uppermoft whereof is four 
inches and i long, above ? inch high, and convex. The 
middlemoft on each fide , alfo four inches long , and 
about * of an inch high or thick. The lowermort, above 
five inches long, and * high. Their Edges are furrow'd 
with oblique and deep Grooves both before and behind. 
All thefe five Bones are refimated or bended upward, with 
fome refemblance to a Saddle. The fixth, at the end of 
the Beak, is a wonderful ftrong Bone, crooked exacLly like 
the Bill of a P arret , and hollow 3 by the bow , almoft 
three inches, and near an inch over. Its Edges are very 
keen, and (landing out with two fharp or pointed Angles. 
The Noftrils are I of an inch long, and almoft two inches 
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