In your pinax I find onocrotalus or pellican [_see Note 25_] whether you meane those at St. James or others brought ouer or such as haue been taken or killed heere I knowe not. I haue one hangd up in my howse wch was shott in a fenne ten miles of about 4 yeares ago and because it was so rare some conjectured it might bee one of those which belonged vnto the King & flewe away. Ciconia rarò hue aduolat. I haue seen two [_see Note 14_] one in a watery marsh 8 miles of, another shott whose case is yet to bee seen. [See Appendix D.] Vitulus marinus. _In tractibus borealibus et Scotia_ [_see Note 53_]. no raritie upon the coast of Norfolk at a lowe water I haue knowne them taken asleep vnder the cliffes. diuers haue been brought vnto mee. our seale is different from the Mediterranean seale. as hauing a rounder head a shorter and stronger body. Rana piscatrix I haue often known taken on our coast & some very large [_see Note 59_]. Xiphias or gladius piscis or sword fish wee haue in our seas [_see Note 55_]. I haue the head of one which was taken not long ago entangled in the Herring netts the sword aboue 2 foot in length. Among the whales you may very well putt in the spermacetus [_see Note 51_] or that remarkably peculiar whale which so aboundeth in spermaceti. about twelve years ago wee had one cast up on our shoare neer welles wch I discribed in a peculiar chapter in the last edition of [_Fol. 41_] my pseudodoxia epidemica. another was diuers yeares before cast up at Hunstanton. both whose heads are yet to bee seen. Ophidion or at least ophidion nostras [_see Note 69_] co[=m]only called a sting fish hauing a small prickley finne running all along the back, & another a good way on the belly, with little black spotts at the bottom of the back finne if the fishermens hands bee touched or scrached with this venemous fish they grow paynfull and swell the figure hereof I send you in colours they are co[=m]on about cromer see Schoneveldeus de Ophidiis. Piscis octogonius or octangularis answering the discription of Cataphractus Schoneveldei [_see Note 66_] only his is discribed with the finnes spread & when it was fresh taken & a large one howeuer this may bee nostras I send you one butt I haue seen much larger which fishermen haue brought mee. Physsalus [_see Note 89_]. I send one which hath been long opened & shrunck & lost the colour when I tooke it upon the sea shoare it was full & plump answering the figure & discription of Rondeletius. there is also a like figure at the end of [Rondeletius _crossed out_] muffetus I haue kept them aliue butt obserued no motion [butt _crossed out_] except of contraction and dilation when it is fresh the prickles or brisles are of a brisk green & Amethest colours--some call it a sea mous.