Part! Of Water-Fowles. 
prepared Oleum Stillatitmm , Sal volatile , Aqua Antepi- 
leptica, &c. Vulgus , ft decipi vult , decipiatur. 
They fometimes (faith Mr. Willughby (a) of the Storke) (A Omith.- 
devour Snakes and other Serpents: which when they be¬ 
gin to creep out at their Breeches, they will prefently clap 
them clofe to a Wall to keep them in. 
A BUNCH of black FEATHERS , of the Creft that 
grows on the Head of the lelTer afh-colour’d or grey Heron. 
The length of thofe whereof Mr. Willughby makes men¬ 
tion, was five inches; but of thefe, above eight. The 
Turks value thefe Feathers at a great Rate. It is reported, 
files Wormius, That in England it is death, to kill a Heron. 
But our Lawyers know of no fuch Law. 
The BALEARICK CRANE. He differs, as to his out¬ 
ward fhape, but little from the European : having that on 
his Head he hath a Crown of thick Hairs or Briftles very 
full and fpreading. See the Defcription and Picture of the 
Bird in Willughby s Ornithologia. 
I once difledted tins Bird, but found not the fame kind 
of Windpipe (with curious flexures) as is defcnbedby Bar- 
thol. ( b) and Mr. Willughby , and by them obferved in the (b) Hift. 
European Crane . They are therefore fo far two different Ccnt ' 4 ' 
Species. 
The HORN of the UNICORNE BIRD 5 In Bra file 
called ANHIMA. Defcribed by Marggravius, and Wil¬ 
lughby, out of him. His principal marks are thefe ; Headed 
and Footed like the Dunghill Cock, :, Tail’d like a Goofe. 
Horned on his Forehead (with fome likenefs) as the Vni- 
come is pictur’d 5 Spurd on his Wings ; Bigger than 
a Swan. The Male, fay Marggravius and Fifo, as big 
again. 
The HORN was given by Father Hieronymus Lob us. 
In the Bird which Marggravius defcribes, the Horn was 
but a little above two inches long. But this is above 
three, and about as thick as a Bodkin. The top alfo of 
this is not fharp, as figur’d ( and I doubt feigned) by the 
fame Author, but blunt; and, contrary to what is feen in 
Horns, rather thicker than toward the bottom. It is but 
of a foftilh and brittle fubftance, inferior to the fofteft fort 
of Horns. Confidenng which, and the bluntnefs of it, as 
well as fmallnefs, compared with the Bird, it cannot be 
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