New Englands Prospect / A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants

by active 1629-1635 William Wood

The Turky-Phesant, Heathcocke, Partridge rare,

The carrion-tearing Crow, and hurtfull Stare,

The long liv'd Raven, th' ominous Screech-Owle,

Who tells as old wives say, disasters foule.

The drowsie Madge that leaves her day-lov'd nest,

And loves to roave when day-birds be at rest:

Th' Eele-murthering Hearne, and greedy Cormorant,

That neare the Creekes in morish Marshes haunt.

The bellowing Bitterne, with the long-leg'd Crane,

Presaging Winters hard, and dearth of graine.