■54 Of Lice. 
In the hawk and turkey hen he obferved three forts,, 
four in the wild duck, in the wild goofe, fwan, keftrel,. 
and plover two ; yet there are feveral forts of birds which 
have either the lame fort of lice, or fome nearly like 
them. The keftrel hath a fort of lice differing only in. 
colour from thofe of the raven j and the raven others, 
like thofe found upon the egret: on the wood-pecker and 
chafinch are fome refembling thofe of the darling; on 
the large wild duck are fome much like thofe of the wild 
goofe. It is alfo obfervable, that the bignefs of each 
bird’s lice bears no adequate proportion to the bignefs of 
the birds they are found upon; but that on the largeft 
birds both large and fmall lice of different kinds may be. 
found ; for on the black- bird hath been feen fome as large 
as thofe on the fwan. 
There is alfo a little animal in lhape and colour like a> 
Joufe, commonly found among the leaves and covers of 
books, and in rotten wood it has a fwift motion and 
runs by ftarts $ it is called a wood-loufe b or wood-mite. 
If this animal be ftuck upon the point of a very fine 
fewing needle with a little turpentine, it will be found a 
very curious object j its whole body being cafed in an¬ 
nulary circles, full of filver hairs, efpecially towards the 
tail, with fix legs, that terminate in two talons; it hath 
two horns, but pointing backwards; its eyes are of a 
golden colour, and pufhed out or drawn in at pleafure * 
it hath alfo two pointers before like a pair of pincers. 
b Power’s Micro. Obf. p. 10. 
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