{Sand-Birds.}
The Sand-Birds are about the Bigness of a Lark, and frequent our Sand-Beaches;
they are a dainty Food, if you will bestow Time and Ammunition to kill them.
{Runners.}
These are called Runners; because if you run after them,
they will run along the Sands and not offer to get up;
so that you may often drive them together to shoot as you please.
They are a pleasant small Bird.
{Tutcocks.}
A sort of Snipe, but sucks not his Food; they are almost the same
as in England.
{Swaddle-Bills.}
Swaddle-Bills are a sort of an ash-colour'd Duck, which have
an extraordinary broad Bill, and are good Meat; they are not common
as the others are.
{Mew.}
The same Mew as in England, being a white, slender Bird, with red Feet.
{Shel-Drakes.}
The same as in England.
{Bald-Faces.}
The bald, or white Faces are a good Fowl. They cannot dive,
and are easily shotten.
{Water-Witch.}
Water-Witch, or Ware-Coots, are a Fowl with Down and no Feathers;
they dive incomparably, so that no Fowler can hit them.
They can neither fly, nor go; but get into the Fish-wares,
and cannot fly over the Rods, and so are taken.
Thus have we given an Account of what Fowl has come to our Knowledge,
since our Abode in Carolina; except some that, perhaps,
have slipt our Memory, and so are left out of our Catalogue.
Proceed we now to treat of the Inhabitants of the Watry Element,
which tho' we can as yet do but very imperfectly; yet we are willing
to oblige the Curious with the best Account that is in our Power
to present them withal.
