Volume 1
The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin.
- Thomas Browne
- Date:
- 1890-1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![piirrot-jay ? I have one tliat was killed upon a tree about five years af^o.'- Have you a May chit, a small dark grey bird, about the big- ness of a stint, which cometh about May, and stayeth but a :nonth; a bird of exceeding fatness, and accounted a dainty dish? They are plentifully taken in Marshland, and about Wisbeech. Have you a caprimulgus, or dorhawka bird as a pigeon, with a wide throat bill, as little as a titmouse, white feathers in the tail, and paned hke a hawk P Succinum raro occurrit, p. 219 of yours. Not so rarely on the coast of Norfolk.'* It is usually found in small pieces; sometirofis in pieces of a pound weight. I have one by me, fat and tare, of ten ounces weight; yet more often I have found it in handsome pieces of twelve ounces in weight. Dr. Browne to Br. Merritt.—Sept, 13, [1668.] Sib,—I received your courteous letter; and with aU respects I now again salute you. The molapiscis is almost yearly taken on our coast. This last year one was taken of about two hundred pounds weight. Di- vers of them I have opened ; and have found many lice sticking close unto their gills, whereof I send you some. In your Pinax I find onocrotalus, or pehcan; whether you mean those at St. James's, or others brought over, or such as have been taken or killed here, I know not. I have one hung up in my house, which was shot in a fen ten miles ofi, about four years ago; and because it was so rare, some conjectured it might be one of those which belonged unto the king, and flew away. Ciconia^, raro hue advolat. I have seen two in a watery marsh eight miles ofi; another shot, whose case is yet to be seen. Yitulus marinus. In tractibus boreaUbus et Scotia. No rarity upon the coast of Norfolk.* At low water I have known them taken asleep under the cliffs. Divers have been brought to me. Our seal is different from the Mediterranean seal; as having a rounder head, a shorter and stronger body. ' The Garrulous Roller. ' Not tinconimon ; I had a young one brought me a few years ago.—G. * It is becoming scarce at Cromer. The fat amber most commonly occurs.—G. * The Stork. * Very rarely Been at Cromer. I think they are met with on sanl banks near Hunstanton.—G,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650337_0001_0519.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
