Gnatts or Knots [only so far on p. 14, but as follows on fol. 13 _verso_]. Gnats or Knots a small bird which taken with netts grow excessively fatt. If [by mew _struck out_] being mewed & fed with corne a candle lighted in the roome they feed day & night, & when they are at their hight of fattnesse they beginne to grow lame & are then killed or [else they will fall aw _struck out_] as at their prime & apt to decline. [resume p. 14.] Erythropus or Redshanck a bird co[=m]on in the marshes & of co[=m]on food butt no dayntie dish. A may chitt[29] a small dark gray bird litle bigger then a stint of fatnesse beyond any. it comes in may into marshland & other parts & abides not aboue a moneth or 6 weekes. [29] Mr. Stevenson, "Birds of Norfolk," ii., p. 233, gives his reasons for coming to the conclusion that the Sanderling (_Calidris arenaria_) is here referred to, which the absence of a hind toe (see third letter to Merrett) tends to confirm. The "_Churre_" is only a variant of the name "_Purre_," by which the next species, the Stint, is commonly known, and the _Green Plover_, now applied to the Lapwing, is an old name for the _Golden Plover_, which he rightly says [p. 20] does not breed in Norfolk. [fol. 13 _verso_.] Another small bird somewhat larger than a stint called a churre & is co[=m]only taken amongst them. [resume fol. 14.] Stints in great numbers about the seashore & marshes about stifkey Burnham & other parts. Pluuialis or plouer green & graye in great plentie about Thetford & many other heaths. they breed not with us butt in some parts of scotland, and plentifully in Island [Iceland]. [_Fol. 15._] The lapwing or vannellus co[=m]on ouer all the heaths. Cuccowes[30] of 2 sorts the one farre exceeding the other in bignesse. some have attempted to keepe them in warme roomes all the winter butt it hath not succeeded. in their migration they range very farre northward for in the summer they are to bee found as high as Island. [30] The circumstance which gave rise to the idea that there were two kinds of Cuckoos, differing only in size, might possibly be discovered were it worth the research; possibly it would be found that the second species was of foreign origin. Aldrovandus, as quoted by Willughby, says, "Our Bolognese Fowlers do unanimously affirm, that there are found a greater and a lesser sort of Cuckows; and besides, that the greater are of two kinds, which are distinguished one from the other by the only difference of colour: but the lesser differ from the greater in nothing else but magnitude." Perhaps it was Browne's latent respect for antiquity which led him to mention the tradition.