Of these the _Humbird_, _Loon_, and _Humility_ are not to be pass’d by without particular observation. [Sidenote: The _Humbird_.] The _Humbird_ is one of the wonders of the Countrey, being no bigger than a Hornet, yet hath all the Dimensions of a Bird, as Bill, and Wings with Quills, Spider-like Legs, small Claws: for Colour, she is as glorious as the Rain-bow; as she flies, she makes a little humming noise like a Humble-bee, wherefore she is call’d the _Humbird_. [Sidenote: The _Loon_.] [Sidenote: The _Humility_, or _Simplicity_.] The _Loon_ is an ill-shap’d thing like a Cormorant, but that he can neither go nor flie; he maketh a noise sometimes like Sowgelders Horn. The _Humilities_ or _Simplicities_ (as we may rather call them) are of two sorts, the biggest being as large as a green Plover; the other as big as Birds we call _Knots_ in _England_. Such is the simplicity of the smaller sorts of these Birds, that one may drive them on a heap like so many Sheep, and seeing a fit time shoot them; the living seeing the dead, settle themselves on the same place again, amongst which the Fowler discharges again: These Birds are to be had upon Sandy Brakes, at the latter end of Summer before the Geese come in. [Sidenote: Fishes.] No less Poetical a Bill of Fare is brought of the Fish on the Sea-Coasts, and in the Rivers of _New England_ in these subsequent Verses. _The King of Waters, the Sea shouldering Whale, The snuffing Grampus, with the Oily Seale, The storm presaging Porpus, Herring-Hog, Line-shearing Shark, the Catfish and Sea Dog, The Scale-fenc’d Sturgeon, wry-mouth’d Hollibut, The flounsing Salmon, Codfish, Greedigut: Cole, Haddock, Hage, the Thornback, and the Scate, Whose slimy outside makes him seld in date, The stately Bass, old_ Neptune’s _fleeting Post, That Tides it out and in from Sea to Coast. Consorting Herrings, and the bonny Shad, Big-belly’d Alewives, Mackrills richly clad With Rainbow colours, Frostfish and the Smelt, As good as ever Lady_ Gustus _felt. The spotted Lamprons, Eels, the Lamperies, That seek fresh Water-Brooks with_ Argus _Eyes, These watery Villagers, with thousands more, Do pass and repass near the Verdant Shore_. Kinds of Shell-fish. _The luscious Lobster, with the Crabfish raw, The brinish Oyster, Muscle, Periwigge, And Tortoise sought for by the_ Indian _Sqaw, Which to the Flats dance many a Winters Jigge, To dive for Cocles, and to dig for Clams, Whereby her lazie Husbands guts she crams_. [Sidenote: The _Seal_.]