Fulica and cotta Anglorum [_see Note 23_] are different birds though good resemblance between them, so some doubt may bee made whether it bee to bee made a coote except you set it downe fulica nostras. & cotta Anglorum I pray consider whether that waterbird whose draught I sent in the last box & thought it might bee named Anatula or mergulus melanoleucos may not bee some gallinula. it hath some resemblance with gallina hypoleucos of Johnst Tab 32 [31] butt myne hath shorter wings by much & the bill not so long [_Fol. 198 verso_] & slender & shorter leggs & lesser & so may ether be calld gallina Aquatica hypoleucos nostras or hypoleucos or melanoleucos Anatula or mergulus nostras.[119] [119] The "draught" of this bird sent to Merrett is not forthcoming. Professor Newton has been kind enough to send me the following note on this puzzling passage. "Jonston's figure (tab. 31) of _Gallina hypoleucos_, to which Browne says it bore some resemblance, undoubtedly represents what we know as the Common Sandpiper, _Totanus hypoleucus_ or _Actitis hypoleuca_, the _Fysterlin_ of the Germans of Jonston's time (p. 160), and _Fisterlein_ or _Pfisterlein_ of modern days. But there seems to be some strange confusion that cannot now be cleared, between this bird and Browne's _Anatula_ or _Mergulus melanoleucos_ [_see_ p. 76 _ante_], of which some years later, he sent a drawing, under the latter name, to Willughby, in whose work it is described and figured (Lat. Ed. p. 261, Engl. 343, tab. lix.), for this most certainly is the Rotche or Little Auk, _Mergulus alle_ of modern ornithology." In the next letter (p. 81), Browne mentions that he encloses the draft of "Ralla aquatica" here referred to. Tis much there should be no Icon of Rallus or Ralla Aquatica I haue a draught of one & they are found among us Feb xii 1668. The vesicaria I sent is like that you mention [_see Note 91_] if not the same the co[=m]on fanago resembleth the husk of peas this of [Part _crossed out_] Barly when the flower is mouldred away. [See also p. 89 _infra_, where Merrett aptly compares the latter to the flowers of the Grape Hyacinth.] No. VII. [BIBLIOTHECA BODLEIANA. MS. RAWLINSON D. cviii. SR THO BROWN TO DR. MERRETT.]