MS. RAWL. D. cviii.
Draft of a letter containing further particulars with regard to the Stork. There is nothing to indicate to whom it was addressed.
[Fol. 77.] A kind of stork was shott in the wing by the sea neere Hasburrowe & brought aliue vnto mee. it was about a yard high red lead coloard leggs and bill. the clawes resembling human nayles such as Herodotus describeth in the white Ibis of Ægypt The lower parts of the wings are black which gathered up makes the lower part of back looke black butt the tayle vnder them is white as the other part of the body. it fed readily upon snayles & froggs, butt a toad being offered it would not touch it: the tongue very short [not crossed out] an inch long. it makes a clattering noyse by flapping one bill agaynst the other somewhat like the platea or shouelard.[V] the quills [about crossed out] of the biggnesse of swans bills [sic quills?] when it swallowed a frogge it was sent downe into the stomak by the back side of the neck as was perceaued upon swallowing. I could not butt take notice of the conceitt of some who looked upon it as an ill omen saying if storks come ouer into England, pray god a com̄on wealth do not come after.
[V] The Spoonbill.
In addition to these letters there are in the Bodleian Library a letter from Elizabeth Browne to her brother, describing the above-mentioned Stork, and desiring him to keep one of the two pictures himself, and to give the other to his sister Fairfax (MS. Rawl. D. 108, fol. 71), and a draft of a letter from Sir Thomas Browne about a remarkable fly (see ante [p. 68] and [Note 110]), which offended the cattle extraordinarily, found at Horsey Marshes (MS. Rawl. D. 108, fol. 103). There is also (MS. Rawl. D. 391, fol. 55) a letter from Sir Hamon le Strange to Sir T. B., dated Jan. 16, 1653. About half this letter is printed by Wilkin, i., pp. 369-70. He mentions towards the end that he sends certain observations on T. B.'s "Enquiries into Common Errors," at page "27 thereof I write of a whale cast upon my shoare." This criticism is now separated from the letter, which originally covered it, but happily is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Sloane, 1839. fols. 104-145.
INDEX.
A.
- Acorus verus, [58]
- Acus, Needlefish, [40], [41], [66]
- Adders, [55]
- Addercock, [66]
- Alcedo ispida, [21]
- Allis Shad, [42 (note)]
- Alni carptor, [76]
- Amber, [63], [88]
- Alosa, [42]
- Anas arctica, [17], [73]
- Anas macrolophos, [82], [88]
- Anas alis oculatis, [80]
- Anatula, [76], [79]
- Anglorum, Sand Eel, [44]
- Apiaster, [73]
- Aphia cobites, [42]
- Appendix A., [86]
- Appendix B., [90]
- Appendix C., [95]
- Appendix D., [96]
- Aquila Gesneri, [3], [67], [87]
- Ardea stellaris, [17]
- Arcuata, [23]
- Armed Bull-head, [41 (note)], [62], [65], [87]
- Avicula Maialis, [19], [66]
- Ascidians, [50 (note)]
- Aselli, [43]
- Asprage, [45]
- Aspredo, [53], [83], [88]
- Astacus, [46], [57]
- Atherine?, [42 (note)], [73]
- Auk, Little?, [79 (note)]
- Avis pugnax, [20]
- Avis trogloditica, [26]
- Avocet, [24], [67]