[116] It is impossible to form an idea as to what is here intended. I know of no _Juncus_ which would answer the description. Professor Newton reminds me__ that "Junco" was a common name for "a bird that inhabited reeds," and was loosely applied, some old authors taking it to be the Reed Thrush (_i.e._, the Great Reed-Warbler of these days), and others, the Reed-Sparrow or Bunting. But bearing in mind Browne's practice of referring to Jonston, it seems possible that the latter's _Junco_ may be here intended, and that, as the figure (pl. 53) shows, is a small Sandpiper, almost certainly the Dunlin. It is lettered "Junco Bellonii," but this he must have taken second-hand from Aldrovandus, since Belon never used the word "Junco" in this connexion, but called it "Schoeniclus" or "Alouette-de-mer"--terms rendered _Junco_ by Aldrovandus (iii. p. 487). Charleton took the same view in his "Onomasticon" (p. 108), published in 1668 (the year assigned as that of this letter), stating that it was so-called because "in juncis libenter degat," and identifying it with the _Alouette-de-mer_ of the French, and the English "Stint, or Sparr, or Perr." Gilbert White appears to have thus applied the term (_cf._ "Life" by Rashleigh Holt-White, i. pp. 186, 194, 250). In one place he says, "No. five is Ray's _Junco_ and the _Turdus arundinaceus_ of Linn." That "Junco" is the name of a bird is absolutely certain, but the context, "very white when fresh," does not seem to admit of explanation. Also the draught of a sea fowle called a sherewater [_see Note 17_] billed like a cormorant, feirce & snapping like it upon any touch. I kept 2 of them aliue 5 weekes cramming them with fish refusing of themselues to feed on anything & wearied with cramming them they liued 17 dayes without food. They often fly about fishing [ves _crossed out_] shipps when they cleans their fish & throwe away the offell. so that it may bee referred to the Lari as Larus niger gutture albido rostro adunco. Gossander videtur esse puphini species [_Pinax_, p. 184]. worthy Sr that wch we call a gossander [_see Note 19_] & is no rare fowle among us is a large well colourd & marked diuing fowle most answering the [mer _crossed out_] Merganser. it may bee like the puffin in fattnesse and [Ranknesse _crossed out_] Ranknesse butt no fowle is I think like the puffin differenced from all others by a peculiar kind of bill [_Fol 43 verso._] Barganders [_see Note 18_] not so rare as Turn [Turner] makes them co[=m]on in Norfolk so abounding in vast & spatious warrens. If you haue not yet putt in Larus minor or a sterne [_see Note 13_] it would not bee omitted, co[=m]on about broad waters and plashes not farre from the sea. Haue you a Yarwhelp, Barker, or Latrator [_see Note 39_] a marsh bird about the bignesse of a Godwitt Haue you Dentalia [_see Note 83_] which are small vniualue testacea whereof sometimes wee find some on the seashoare