' The 3\Catural Hijlory 
gratorU^ hefide Swallows^ and fome well known winter Fowl: 
The Cormorant has been obferved Co come hither about Harveji 
time, whereof there was one killed from St. Maries fteeple (ti- 
red with a long flight) An.i6j^. and another young one taken up 
in Arncot-fieU fallen down in the Corn, and brought me to Oxford. 
12. But what is fom what ftranger, in the year 1^44. the i'i- 
ca Brafilienfis^ or Toucan^ whofe beak, is near as big as its whole 
body, was found within two miles of Oxford, and given to the 
Bepofitory in the Medecine-SchcoU where it is ftill to be feen ; which 
argues it a 5/>^/ of a very rank, wing, there being a necefficy of 
its flying from America hither, except we fliall rather fay it might 
be brought into England by Ship, and afterwards getting away 
might fly hither, 
13. Of Birds well known of unufual colours^ 1 have met with 
two remarkable examples : the one a white Linnet^ given me by 
Mr. Lane Deddington ; and the other a fort of white^ and/j- 
ed Phefants^ kept by the Right Honorable James Lord Norreys of 
Ricot I Whereof hovv fome happen to be of different colours from 
the reft of their fj^ecies^ efpecially when they have deviated from 
their kind by whitened, hath been a queftiont\\ow^t worthy of fe- 
vere examination. In the profecution whereof, it hath been ob- 
ferved (as before in the Chapter of Plants^ §. 38.) that vphitenejl 
often proceeds from a defeQ: of moifture or nourifliment ; and it 
hath been a received opinion concerning Birds^ that they may 
become white by pluckmgoft their firft feathers, which will caufe 
their new ones to come forth of that colour, Butbefide thefe 
ways of art and privation^ it is manifeft that Nature her felf fom- 
times pofitively defigns fuch a colour, even in fj^ecies too that 
feldom are of it, many other Animals as well as Birds^ having 
been produced of /te colour unufual to the (j^ecies^ as brisk and 
well liking as any others whatever, fuch as white Moles ^ Rats, Mice^ 
and fomtimes white Fawns^ where there has been neither Buck. 
nor Doe of that colour in the Park. 
14. And this Iguefs ftiedoes by giving fome certain Individ 
duals of each (pedes a fliin of finer and more contrafted/'ore^ than 
others, which will caufe whiteneft in feathers, hair, isrc. by not 
permitting of the fulphureou6 particles to expire, which give varie- 
ty of colours ; thus we fee in the cicatrization of wounds where 
^ Vid. Willi fiumde Ferment, ca^.z. 
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