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Eujtari. but itis radier a Spectes ofttie Kitt\ for it will Hörers on the Wingfomething like thun, and is Carnivorous. The Fat thereof distblvedinto an Osi, is recommended mightily against Old Acbes and ScuticaPatns •

The fica Glandaria , oxjay, ismuch leß than our Englifli Jay , andof another Colour: For it is ali Elue where ours is Br<fum\ the WingsMarblei as curioufly as ours are; it has both the fame Cry, and suddenJetting Motion.

'There are great Variety and Curiosity ia the Wood- peckers ; there’s one asbig as our Alagpye, with Blacktß > Bnwn Feaibers,and a Large Scarltt Taft ontbeTop of the Head. There are 4 or 5 setd ot Wood-peckers more, Va-riegated with Greers, Telia» and Red Heads ; others Spotted Black and White,most lovely to behold : There’s a Tradition amongst them, That the .Tvtigue of one of thefe Wood-seciert Dry’d will make the Teetb Drop outit Pick’d therewith, and Cure iheTooth-Acb.

There be Wili-Turkeys extream Large; they talk of Turhts that havebeen killd, that have Weighed betwixt 50 and 60 Pound weight; theLargeft that tver I sew, weighed something bester than 3 8 Pound. Theyhave very Long Legs, and will run prodigioufly fast: I remember not thatever I saw any of thetn on ehe Wing, except it were once. Their Featbersare os a Blackijh ßuning Colour , that in the Sunihine like a Dove't Neck, arevery Spedous.

Hots and Coeks are for the most part without Tails and Rumps : and asseine have aflured me our Englijh Hens, aster scme time being kept there,have their Rumps Rot off; which I am the apter to believe, being all theirHens are certainly of Englijh Breed. I’m scrry I made no Anatomical Obser-vations thereof, and Remarks about the Use of the Rumps in Bsrds, whichat present I take to be a couplc of Glands , containing a fort of Juice for theVarnishing of the Feathers; having observed all Bsrds have much recoursewith their Bills to the Rumps when they Dreß their Plumes, whereby theyScud through the Air more Nimbly in their Flight.

Fartridges there are much Smaller than ours, and resort in Covies as oursdo; their Flefh is very White, and much excells ours in my Mind : Sei de’ Gusti bus non efi disputandum.

Their Turtle-Do-ves are of a Dusktjh Blew-Colour, much less than ourCommon Figeont , the whole Train is longer much than the Tails of our Pi-geons, the Middle Feather being the Longest. There’s a stränge Story ofa vast Number of thele Pigeons, that came in a Flock a few Tears before Icame thither; they sey, they came through Neiv-ErglanJ, Tltw-Tork andVsrginia, and were se Prodigious in Number as to Darken the Sky for stve-ral Hours in the Place over which they Flew, and Brake Mallie Boughswhere they Lighted ; and many like things which I have had afferted tome byrnany Eye-Witnesies of Credit, that to me it was without doubt, theRektors being very Sober Persons, and agreeing in the Story ; nothing ofthe like ever happened fince; nor did I tver fee past 10 ina Flock togetherthat Iremembtr.

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