Bird-The Corvorant-The Shag-The Gannet, or Solar Goose-The Booby-The Albatross-The Yellow-nosed Al batross-The Skimmer—The Penguin-The Patagonian Pen guin-The Magellanic Penguin-The Tropic Bird—The Darter-The White and Black-bellied Darters. CHAP. VII. Of Fishes in General-Of cetaceous Fishes-The Whale-The Fin Fish-The Narwal, or Sea Unicorn-The Spermaceti Whale-The Dolphin-Grampus, Porpesse, &c. CHAP. VIII.-PART I. 64 Of Cartilaginous Fishes-Of the Shark-The White SharkThe Blue, the Long-tailed, the Basking, the Hammer-headed, and the Angel Shark-The Remora-The Pilot Fish-The Dogfish and its Varieties-The Sawfish-The Ray-The Skate The Rough-Ray-The Thornback-Manner of fishing for Flat Fish-The Sting Ray-The Torpedo-The Sea Devil —The Sea Eagle―The Lamprey—The Sturgeon―The Isingglass Fish-The Angler-The Diodon, or Sun Fish-The oblong and short Diodon-The Sea Porcupine-The Lumpsucker-The Sea Snail-The Pipe-Fish-The Hippocampus -The Galley Fish CHAP. VIII.--PART II. 88 Of Bony Fishes in general-Apodal Fishes-The Eel-The Conger-The Netted Eel-The Cordated Eel-The Electrical Eel-The Launce-The Wolf Fish-The Sword Fish-Jugular Fishes-The Dragonet-The Weever-The Cod-Three and five bearded Cods-The Haddock-The Whiting PoutThe Bib―The Poor-The Coal Fish-The Pollock-The Whiting-The Hake-The Ling-The Burbot-The Blenny -The Crested and Viviparous Blenny-The Butterfly FishThe Star-gazer-Thoracic Fishes-The Goby, or Rock FishThe Remora, or Sucking Fish-The Bullhead-The Miller's Thumb-The Pogge-The Flying Scorpaena--The Doree-The Opah-The Flounder-The Halibut-The Plaise-The Dad-The Turbot-The Sole--The Lantern Fish-The Pearl -The Whiff-The Gilthead-The Streaked Gilthead-The Dorado The Wrasse-The Ballan, &c.-The Perch-The Basse-The Ruffe-The Lanceolated Holocenter-The Stickleback-The Mackerel-The Tunny-The Scad-The Surmullet-The Gurnard-The Bow-banded Chaetodon-The Beaked Chatodon-The Parrot Fish-Abdominal FishesThe Loach-The Four-eyed Loach-The Salmon-The Sea Trout-The White Trout-The Samlet-The Trout-The Gillaroo, or Gizard Trout-The Char-The Grayling-The Smelt-The Gwiniad-The Pike-The Sea Needle-The Saury-The Argentine-The Atherine---The Mullet-The Flying Fish-The Herring-The Pilchard-The Herring Fishery-The Sprat-The Anchovy-The Shad-The Carp -The Barbel-The Tench-The Gudgeon-The Bream--The Rud---The Crucian---The Roach---The Dace---The Chub --The Bleak---The White Bait---The Minnow---Gold and Silver Fishes---The Telescope Carp---The Horned Silurus -The Trumpet Fish---The Tobacco-pipe Fish---The Sea Cock 115 CHAP. IX. Of Shell Fish in general---The Crustaceous kind---The Lobster --The Spiny Lobster---The Crab---The Land Crab---The Violet Crab---The Soldier Crab---The Shrimp---The Prawn---The Tortoise--The Land Tortoise---The Turtle---Of Testaceous Fishes--Of the Turbinated, or Snail kind---The Garden Sn ---The Fresh-water Snail---The Sea Snail---The Nautilus--- Bivavled Fish---The Oyster---The Cockle---The Scallop---T СНАР. Х. Of Reptiles---The Frog--The Toad---Varieties---Surinam To ---Of Lizards---The Crocodile and Alligator---The Open-belli Crocodile---The Salamander---The Cordyle, &c.---The Igua Of Serpents---Of the Venomous kind---Vipers--The Asp---T Rattlesnake---The Whip Snake--The Jaculus---The Hæmor hois---The Seps---The Coral Snake---The Cobracapella---Se pents without Venom---The Ringed Snake---The Blind Wor ---The Amphisbæna---The Esculapian--The Boyuna---T Surinam Serpent---The Prince of Serpents---The Gerenda- The Great Boa--The Indian Boa---The Anaconda---The D pona 23 NATURAL HISTORY. REL.. CHAP. VI. Of Web-footed Waterfowl... The AvOSET... The Scooping, American, and white Avoset... The COURIER... The FLAMINGO... The AUK... The Great Auk... The Razorbill... The Puffin... The Little Auk... The Tufted and Crested Auk, &c. ... The GUILLEMOT... The Foolish, Lesser, and Marbled Guillemot... The DIVER... The Northern, Speckled, Black, and Redthroated Diver... The Chinese Diver... The TERN...The Great, Lesser, Black, and Striated Tern... The Noddy... The PETThe Fulmar... The Shearwater...The Stormy Petrel.. The Giant Petrel... The GULL... The Black-backed, Skua, Wagel, Herring Gulls, &c.... The Kittiwake... The Common Gull ...The Blackcap, &c....Modes of taking Seafowl... The MERGANSER... The Gooseander... The Dun River.... The Smew... The Hooded Merganser... The DUCK... The Swan... The Black Swan... The Goose... The Bean Goose... The Barnacle... The Brent Goose...The Mallard... The Eider Duck... The Velvet, Scoter, Tufted, and Scaup Duck... The Golden Eye... The Shoveller...The Pintail... The Pochard...The Long-tailed Duck... The Widgeon... The Teal.. The Muscovy, Brazilian, American, and Chinese Ducks...Decoy for Ducks... The PELICAN...The Frigate Pelican, or Man-of-War Fird... The Corvorant... The Shag... The Gannet, or Solan Goose... The Booby ...The ALBATROSS... The Yellow-nosed Albatross... The SKIMMER... The PENGUIN... The Patagonian Penguin... The Magellanic Penguin... The TROPIC BIRD... The DARTER... The White and Black-bellied Darters.. WEB-FOOTED WATERFOWL. Or the web-footed waterfowl, the few which are distinguished by the name of long-legged, have so near an affinity with the birds of the preceding order, that some naturalists have classed them among the cranes, or waders; and, indeed, were it not for the very accurate distinction which the form of the foot affords, analogy would direct us to this arrangement in preference to every other. THE AVOSET Is easily distinguished from all other birds by the form of its bill, which is very thin, slender, and bends considerably upwards. The SCOOPING AVOSET is about the size of the lapwing, or eighteen inches long; the bill is three inches and a half in length. The top of the head is black, the rest of the head, neck, and all the other parts of the body white, except the inner scapulars, the middle of the wing coverts and outer webs, and ends of the quills, which again are black. The legs are long, and of a bluish gray, and the toes have a connecting membrane. It weighs about thirteen ounces, and is frequent, in the winter, on most of the seacoasts of Europe, as well as in the fens of Lincolnshire, Cambridge, &c. in England. It feeds on worms and insects, which it scoops out of the sand with its bill. The AMERICAN AVOSET differs only in being something larger, and having the neck and breast of a deep cream colour. In Hudson's Bay there is a WHITE AVOSET. AMERICAN AVOSET. THIS species from its perpetual clammer and flippancy of tongue, is called by the inhabitants Cape May, the Lawyer. I found these birds, as well as the Long-legged Avoset, in the salt marshes of New-Jersey on the 20th of May. They flew around the shallow pools, uttering the sharp note of click, click, alighting on the marsh, or in the water, fluttering their loose wings, and shaking their half bent legs, as if ready to tumble over, keeping up a continual yelping note. The nest was built among the thick tufts of grass, of sea |