great numbers; and on the water, near the rocks, there were thousands of lummes and razor-bills, fwimming and diving for food. We faw two flamingos within the bay, wad1741. ing up to their long mid-legs. One of them a gentleman with us fhot. On the land were rabits with long tails. The fea pye. ; The Sea-Pye is what Gefner calls the biymantopus, and it is named the fea-mag-pye, because its feathers are a mixture of black and white; that is, the head, neck, half the back, and upper part of the wings, a deep black; the breaft, belly, etc. a bright white the tail white feathers, variegated with black. This bird is eighteen inches from the extremity of its bill to the end of its tail: Its head very small: Its eyes very large and bright: its beak an inch long, of a beautiful red. Its wings are very long and large, and the principal feathers black. Its legs are likewise very long, the finest scarlet, and its three toes of the fame colour. It has no toe behind. We found it true what an excellent poet says of this bird, and the Fulmar, on a rifing ftorm At once to warble. The fea-pye ceas'd Screaming from his neft and fhot a weftward flight On came, before her hour, Invading night, and hung the troubled sky With fearful blackness round. Sad ocean's face A A curling undulation fhivery swept Thrice were we in these difmal circumftances on those tumbling feas, and each time we obferved the fea-pye ceafed to warble, and the fulmar in vaft flocks came from the iflands to the weftward fea. The feamen are then fure it will be a ftorm. The fea-pheafant is the anas cauda acuta of The feaWillughby, and is called a pheasant, on ac- pheafant. count of its forked tail, which distinguishes it from all other ducks. It confifts of twenty long ones, and the two middle ones project into points feveral inches beyond the reft. The body is black, the neck white, and the head white, with two black fpots on each fide. It has very large bright eyes, and is bigger than a widgeon. Its beak is fomething harper than the wild ducks, and for one third in the middle is a bright red. It is a very fine bird. The gentlemen who were with us fhot many of them, and we found them delicious eating. bert's duck, St. Cuthbert's duck is the anas plumis mol- st. Cuthlifimis of Bartholine and Willughby. It is a beautiful bird, and of all birds has the fofteft feathers. The male is milk white, excepting its tail, which is black, fome black fea I 2 The lumme feathers in its wings, and a black spot on the top of its head, which looks like a hat. The female is the colour of a woodcock, with one vein of white running over the wings. This duck is excellent eating: and their eggs the most delicious morfel I believe in the world. We got many hundreds of them. The plover's egg is poor to them. There are amazing flocks of this bird, and the phea fant aforementioned, and scarce any one to eat them. The lumme is an extremely beautiful bird, in bignefs equal to the common wild duck. 1741. The breaft and belly are as white as fnow, June 24. and the back and wings a fhining black, finely marked with spots of white of various forms: but most of them are fquare. The neck and head are a gloffy blueifh grey: the eyes large, bright, and penetrating. It has a feathered ornament on its head that refembles - our hoods: And on the infide of the neck, a large beautiful black spot, that is on fome of them oblong; on others round: Their beak is black and fhining, two inches long, and at the extremity fharp: their legs black, short, and strong, and placed fo far behind, that with difficulty they walk they were made for fwimming. They are web-footed, and exceed all birds in diving. They continue half an hour under water. This bird lays but one large egg, and it is fine eating, tho not fo rich as the St. Cuthbery-duck-egg: the flesh of this creature is better than the wildduck. This bird Ray calls Colymbus Articus; and Bartholin, Anas Aquatica. Dr. Hill fays it is only to be found on the coasts of Norway and Sweden, and towards the north-pole: but in refpect of this bird, and feveral other articles in his Natural History, he is mistaken. bill. The razor-bill is what Ray calls the Alca The razorboieri. It is about the fize of a teal. The upper furface of it is black: the under white; excepting the throat, which is a beautiful red. The legs of this creature stand as far backward as thofe of the lumme, which renders it as unable to walk; and its wings very fhort, and fo made as to affift it in moving fwiftly on the water. The flesh of these birds is fine eating: their eggs delicious: as good as thofe of the Cuthbert duck and tho the bird lays but one egg, yet the eggs are to be had in great plenty at Troda, so numerous are the flocks of them at that place. mingo. The flamingo is not a common bird at the The flawestern islands. It is very tall, but its body not large. The legs are almoft two yards long, and the neck in length about a yard and a half. It wades as far as it can, and with that neck very eafily takes up the fifth its bright piercing eyes behold at the bottom. The large head, neck, and body of the bird I 3 The long bird, are white: the long feathers of the broad short wings, are black; but the covering feathers of them are a glowing scarlet, with a few intermixed of the finest green. The beak is about a foot long; ftrong and broad, but terminating in a point: its colour a fine blue, to a couple of inches at the end, which are a burnished black. Its three toes are linked by a membrane; and it has a small one behind, which feems more for ornament than use. The flesh of this bird is not good. The rabbit with a long tail is larger than tailed rab- our common rabbit, and the fur very valuable, exceeding fine and long: the colour bit. . is a beautiful grey, with ftreaks of black. The tail is half a yard long, which makes it feem a very different creature from our rabbit and hare; tho it refembles them in moft other refpects; excepting that its ears are as long again as the hare's; and that its fur is very fine. Thefe things excepted, it is 1741. more like the rabbit than the hare. Its flesh June 24 is white as the rabbit, but wild, and higher than the hare. These rabbits are not to be found on the other western islands, and as they are common in Ruffia and Tartary, I fuppofe they have been left at Troda, by fome fhip that was obliged to ftop, or perhaps was wrecked there. As |