llow gills about the bigness of
a Black-Bird: And another sort there is of the same bigness, called
Cau-cowda, yellow like gold, very beautiful to the eye, which also
might be taught to speak.

[Such as are beautiful for colour.] Here are other sorts of small
Birds, not much bigger than a Sparrow, very lovely to look on, but I
think good for nothing else: some being in colour white like Snow, and
their tayl about one foot in length, and their heads black like jet,
with a tuft like a plume of Feathers standing upright thereon. There
are others of the same sort onely differing in colour, being reddish
like a ripe Orange, and on the head a Plume of black Feathers standing
up. I suppose, one may be the Cock, and the other the Hen.

[A strange Bird.] Here is a sort of Bird they call Carlo, which never
lighteth on the ground, but always sets on very high Trees. He is
as big as a Swan, the colour black, the Legs very short, the Head
monstrous, his Bill very long, a little rounding like a Hawks, and
white on each side of the head, like ears: on the top of the crown
groweth out a white thing, somewhat like to the comb of a Cock;
commonly they keep four or five of them together; and always are
hopping from bough to bough; They are seldom silent, but continually
make a roaring noyse, somewhat like the quacking of a Duck, that
they may be heard at least a mile off; the reason they thus cry,
the Chingulayes say, is for Rain, that they may drink. The bodies of
these Fowls are good to eat.

[Water-Fowls resembling Ducks and Swans.] Here is a sort of Bird
very much resembling a Duck, but not very plentiful. And another
sort of Fowl as big as a Duck, cole black, which liveth altogether
upon Fish. It is admirable to see, how long they will remain under
water, and at what a distance they will rise again. Besides these,
there are many other kinds of Birds, much larger than Swans, which
keep about the Ponds and Marshes to catch Fish, but the people eat
them not: Nature hath endowed them with an admirable understanding,
that they are not to be catched by the Allegators, tho there be many
of them in those waters.

[Peacocks.] The Peacocks in rainy weather are sometimes hunted and
caught by Dogs; for their Feathers being wet, they are uncapable of
flying far.

[The King keeps Fowl.] The King hath Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Pigeons,
which he keeps tame, but none else may. Turkeys he delights not in,
because they change the colour of their he