The _frugivorous_ birds with hooked-bill are the _macaws_, _parrots_, and _parrakeets_. Those having the bill and claws nearly straight, are divided into large, middle-sized, and small. The large are the _ostrich_, _emeu_, and _dodo_; the middle-sized are the _crows_ and _woodpeckers_, _peacock_, _pigeons_, &c.; the small are such birds as the _swallow_ and _lark_, which have the bill slender, and the _sparrow_, _greenfinch_, &c., in which it is thick. The _aquatic_ birds are of two kinds; some frequent watery places, without being capable of swimming, while others betake themselves to the water. Of the former some are large, as the crane; others of smaller size. The latter either live on fish, as the _heron_, _spoonbill_, _stork_, _ibis_, &c., or search for insects in the mud, as the _oyster-catcher_, _plover_, _sandpiper_, &c. Of the swimming water-birds some have the toes separated, as the _coot_ and _water-hen_; while in others they are united by membranes. The web-footed birds are either long-legged, as the _flamingo_ and _avocet_, or furnished with short legs. Of the latter some have three toes, as the _penguin_, _auk_, &c.; others have four. The four-toed aquatic birds either have all the toes webbed, as the _pelican_, _gannet_, _cormorant_, &c., or have the hind toe loose. Of the latter some have a narrow bill, which is hooked at the tip in the _merganser_ and _albatross_, or acute and straight in the _divers_ and _gulls_. Others have the bill broad, as _geese_ and _ducks_. Of the figures which accompany the descriptions there certainly are not ten that bear a tolerably accurate resemblance to their originals; but, in criticizing ornithological plates, we are apt to forget that it was not until Audubon displayed his drawings that artists began to see how well nature might be imitated. Mr Willughby's sons having been withdrawn from Mr Ray's inspection, in 1675, he left Middleton Hall where he had resided, and removed with his wife to Sutton Cofield, about four miles distant, where he continued till Michaelmas 1677, when he went to Falborne Hall in Essex, near his native place. In the course of his residence there his mother died, to whom he was affectionately attached, and of whom he says that she stuck constantly to her profession, and never "left the church in these times of giddiness and distraction." Immediately after this event he repaired to Black Notley, where he resolved to remain during the "short pittance of time he had yet to live in this world."