The different Species of BIRDS found in this country, including the _water-fowl_, are very numerous. The following List includes the chief of them, and is taken mostly from Sir Thomas Browne’s Paper inserted in the 20th volume of the Monthly Magazine. 1. The _Sea_ or _Fen_ EAGLE. Some of this species are said to be so large as to measure three yards and a quarter in the extent of their wings, and are capable of being perfectly tamed, and will feed on fish, red herrings, flesh, or any kind of offal. 2. The OSPREY, which hovers about the fens, and will dip his claws into the water, and often take up a fish, and likewise catch _Coots_. It is sometime called the _bald-buzzard_. 3. The KITE. This species is said not to be very numerous. 4. The MERLIN, or _Hobby-bird_: said to be subject to the vertigo, and sometimes caught in those fits. 5. The WOODCHAT, or _bird-catcher_; a small bird of prey about the size of a thrush. 6. The RAVEN. 7. The ROOK. 8. The JACKDAW. 9. The ROLLER: a very uncommon bird. 10. The CUCKOO. 11, 12, 13, 14. The GREEN WOODPECKER; The GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER; The MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER; and the NUTHATCH. 15. The KINGFISHER. 16. The HOOPOE, or _Hoope-bird_, so called from its note. 17, 18, 19. The SKYLARK, WOODLARK, and TITLARK. These are very common; but another, called _the great crested lark_, it seems, is not so. 20. The STARES, or STARLINGS, are in vast, and almost incredible numbers about the fens, where they roost at night, about the autumn on the reeds and alders, from whence they take their flight in the morning like thick clouds. The rooks, though very numerous in some parts of the kingdom, are never any where seen in such flocks as these birds are about the fens. 21. The HAWFINCH. This bird is chiefly seen in summer, about cherry time; and is said to feed on the kernels of cherries and some other kinds of stone fruit; and by means of its amazingly strong bill it breaks the stone without much difficulty. 22. The WAXEN CHATTERER; which is said to be a very beautiful bird, but now a more uncommon bird than formerly. 23. The CROSSBILL; is migratory, and arrives about the beginning of Summer. 24. The GOLD-FINCH, otherwise _Fools-coat_ or _Draw-water_. 25. The WHEATEAR. These breed in rabbit burrows, and warrens are full of them from April to September. They are caught with a hobby and a net, and are accounted excellent eating. 26. The GOAT-SUCKER, or _Dorhawk_, so called from the circumstance of its feeding on dors, or beetles. It breeds here and lays a very handsome spotted egg. [It flies about later than most other birds except the owl; and while perching in the evening on a tree, it makes a noise somewhat like the croaking of frogs, or rather the twirling of a spinning wheel, from which it has in some parts been called, _The Spinner_.] 27. The BUSTARD. A writer whose signature is X. P. S. in the 20th volume of the Monthly Magazine, says that “the bustards