That whch I call'd a betulæ carptor & should rather have calld it Alni carptor [_see Note 48_] whereof I sent a rude draught. it feeds upon alder [budds mucaments or _written above_] seeds which grow plentifully heere & they fly in little flocks. That [calld by some a _written above_] whin-bird is a kind of ox eye butt the shining yellow spot on the back of the head [_see Note 48_] is scarce to bee well imitated by a pensill. I confess for such litle birds I am much unsatisfied on the names giuen to many by countrymen, and vncertaine what to giue them myself, or to what classes of authors cleerly to reduce them. surely there are many found among us whch are not described; & therefore such whch you cannot well reduce may (if at all) bee set downe after the exacter nomination of small birds as yet of uncertain classe or knowledge. I present you with a draught of a water-fowl not co[=m]on & none of our fowlers can name it [_see_ p. 79 _infra_] the bill could not bee exactly expressed by a coale or black chalk, whereby the litle incuruitie [at the end _written above_] of the upper bill & small recurvitie of the lower is not discerned. the wings are very short, & it is finne footed. the bill is strong & sharp, if you name it not I am uncertaine what to call it pray consider this Anatula or mergulus melanoleucus rostro acuto. [_Fol. 107._] I send you also the heads of mustela or mergus mustelaris mas. et fæmina [_see Note 21_] called a wesel from some resemblance in the head especially of the female wch is brown or russet not black & white like the male. & from their praying quality upon small fish. I have found small eeles small perches & small muscles in their stomacks. Have you a sea phaysant [_see Note 22_] so co[=m]only calld from resemblance of an hen phaisant in the head & eyes & spotted marks on the wings & back. & wth a small bluish flat bill, tayle longer than other ducks, long winges crossing over the tayle like those of a long winged hawke. Have you taken notice of a breed of porci solidi pedes.[118] I first obserued them above xx yeares ago & they are still among us. [See also p. 80 _infra_.]