iy6 The J^atural Hijlory 
number the Diaholu^ marinws^ or Sea Devils- bird mentioned by 
yohnHon^^ and others, and to be feen in the Repofitory of the 
Bodleyan Library : Which though it has fo ill a name, contraded 
I fuppofe from its exquifne blacknefs, and the ill it bodes to Sea- 
men whenever they fee it ; yet is a very beautiful Bird, and has 
therefore by fome been numbered amongft the Manucodiata's^ and 
called the ^/^2C^5/r<^ of Paradife. But of this no more, bccaufe 
no nihabitant of the Land^ much lefs of this County. 
5. Which yet I think I had not forborn to defcribe, had our 
been pcrfed:, it not being to be found in Sculpture \n any 
Author that 1 know of; For though 1 did it not in Foreign un- 
defcribed Plants growing in our Gardens., well knowing the much 
abler Dr. Morifon to be about it : Yet I think I may take the liber- 
ty to do it in Animals., not hearing of any body elfe nowdefign- 
ing fuch a work. 
6. And therefore fiiall not omit the from the Ifleo? St. 
Hilen^ now living, and in the pofieiTion of the Right Honorable 
the Lord Norreys^ a great lover of Curiofities in all forts of ^nU 
mals: which for her kind 1 think may be accounted one of the 
yifjL(p()ovv^£s^ and amongft them of the rapacious, carnivorous fort, 
having her beak near its end, crook'd after the manner of a Vul' 
tur^ and ftr iking with hev pounces like a Hawk^ though her talons 
indeed are not much more turned than thofe of a common houfe 
Hen, 
7. In her headWs true flie is fomwhat like the fecond fort of 
Gypaetos of Aldrovandus °, or the Percnopteros of Johnfion °, be- 
ing bald and wrinkled, but not quite to the hinder part of the 
head., as they are faid to be ; having from the crown of her head 
down to the beginning of her neckr> and fo behind her ears to her 
throat., a fort of He ndcr plume, like brifiles^ which flie erefts or 
lets fall at pleafure : in het gorge alfo and pounces flie is very unlike 
them, for though (lie be carnivorous., yet her gorge is flender, and , 
though (lie ftrike with her pounces^ they (carce exceed in bignefs 
thofe of 'd common bouje Hen., whereas the ^or^e and pounces of 
the Gypaetos^ ^nd Percnopteros^ are protuberant and very long; 
nor has fhe like them any part of her plume fo difpofed at the 
top of her back.., as to reprefent a Monks hood, thrown backward 
from his head P. 
"> Ps Aniihusjil).^. tit. cap. ^. " OrnithoIog.Tom. i lib. 2. cap. lo. ° Hip. Nat. Je Aviius, lib. i. 
Tit. I. ftfp. 2. Art. 4. P Vid. Willughbeii Ornitholog. lib. 2. caf. 3 Artie 8. & Tab. 4. 
8. How- 
