There be other sorts of Goldfinches variegated with Orange and Yellow Feathers, very specious and beautiful. Sparrows not much different from the _English_, but build not in the Eaves of Houses that ever I saw. The Snow-bird which I take to be much the same with our Hedge-Sparrow; this is so called because it seldom appears about Houses but against Snow or very cold Weather. The Humming Bird that feeds upon the Honey of Flowers: I have been told by some Persons, that they have kept of these Humming Birds alive, and fed them with Water and Sugar: they are much the smallest of all Birds, have long Bills and curious coloured Feathers, but differ much in colour. Herons three or four several sorts, one larger than the _English_, feather'd much like a _Spanish_ Goose. Another sort that only comes in Summer Milk white, with red Legs very lovely to behold. The Bittern is there less than in _England_, and does not make that sounding Noise that ever I heard. Curlews something less than our _English_, tho' bigger than a Wimbrel. The Sandpiper much resembling the _English_. The Snipe, two sorts, one resembling ours, the other much less. The Tewits are smaller than the _English_, and have no long Toppins, but just like a young one that begins to fly. There are a great number of wild Swans. Wild-geese and Brent-geese all Winter in mighty Flocks, Wild-ducks innumerable, Teal, Wigeon, Sheldrakes, Virginia-didapers, the Black-diver, _&c._ In my return home for _England_, _May 1686._, off of the Banks of _Newfoundland_, when we were, according to account, a hundred Leagues from the Shoar, we saw several prodigious floating Islands of the Ice, no less to our Wonder than Terror, for they were very dangerous: I got the Master to sail one day as nigh one of them as we securely durst, which we judged to be full a League in length, and was higher above Water than the top of our Main-mast; the Snow drove to and fro upon it as upon a large Plane. There was a great Flock of small Black-divers, that were not much bigger than a Fieldfare, came to us a little before, but all of them then left and betook themselves to this Island of Ice. They dived the constantly'st, and the longest at a time of any Bird that I ever saw. We saw, as I remember, nigh Thirty of these Islands of Ice. Captain _Rider_ being some fews days later in his Passage, and bearing more to the _Nore_, told me, he saw many more of these Islands of Ice, and some much larger. There are in _Virginia_ a great many Cormorants; several sorts of Gulls, and in about the Bay many Bannets. Thus much for the Birds. _Yours_, &c. _A Continuation of Mr. _Clayton_'s Account of _Virginia_._ _Of the Beasts of _Virginia_._