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Sfsrrows not much different from the Engüßt , but they Build not in theE aves of Heufes that ever I saw.

The Snow Bird which I take to be much the fame with our Hedge Spar-rcw ; this is so call’d because it seldom Appears about Houfis , but againstShow or very Cold Weather-

The Humming-Eird, that feeds upon the Honey of Flowers. I have beentold-by sonje Persons, thatthey have kept of these Humming Birds Alive, andFed them with Water and Sugar ; they are much the Smaüest of all Birds,havcLong Bilis and Curious Coloured Feathers; but differ much in Colour.

Herons z or 4 several forts; one Larger than the Englißi, Featheredmuchlike a Spamfli Gooft\ Another fort that only comes in Summer, Milk-Wbite, with Red Legs, very Lovely to behold.

The Bittern is there lese than in England, and does not make that Sound-ing Noife, that ever I heard.

Curlews fomething Less than our Englifb , tho’ Bigger than a Wim-bei.

The Sand-Tiger much resembling the Enghfh.

The Snipe, two sorts, one resembling ours, theother much Leß.

The Tf wits are smaller than the Englifls, and have no longToppings, butjust like a Young one that begins to Fly.

There are great Numbers of Wild-Swans.

Wild-Geese and Brent-Geese all Winter in mighty Flocks; Wild-Dttcktinnumerable; Teal , Wigeon , Sheldrakei, Vtrgtnia-Didapers, the Black-Dtver, Scc.

In my Retum hörne for England, May 1686. off of the Banks of New-Found-Land, when we were according to Account, 100 Leagues from theShore,we siw several Prodigious Floating Iflands of the Ice,no less to our Wun-der than Terror ; for they were very Dangerous. I got the Master to Sail oneDay as nigh one of them as we securely Durst, which we judg’d to befüll a League in Lengtb, and was Higher above Water than the Top ofour Main-Mast : the Snow Drove too and ffo upon it, as upon a large

Plane. There was a great Flock of fmall Black-Divers , that were not

much bigger than a Feldefare, came to us a little before, but all of them thenlest us and betook themsclves to this Ifland of Ice. We säw, as I rcmem-ber, nigh 30 of these Iflands of Ice. Capt. Rider, being forne few Dayslater in his Pastage, and Bearing more to the Höre, told me, he säwmany more of those Iflands of Ice, and some much Larger.

There are in Virginia a great many Cormorants ; several sorts of GuHs, andin and about the Boy many Bannets.

the Braßt. There were neither Notfes, Bulls, Cows, Sbeep , or Swine, in all the

».no. p. in. Country, before the Corning of the Enghß), as I have-Heard, and have

much reason to Believe : But now amongft the Enghßs Inhabitants there aregood störe of Horfes , though they are very Negligent and Carelesi about theBreed. It is true, there is a Law, that no horse {hall be kept Stoned un-der a certatn Siz,c : but it is not put in Execution. Such as they are, thereare good Store, and as Cheap or Cheaper than in England, wortb about

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