The Barker.
Numb. LXXI.
' I "'His Bird, when meafured, was from the Point of the Bill to the End
of the Tail twenty three Inches and a Quarter, to the End of the
laws twenty nine and a half; Breadth, when the Wings were expanded,
thirty nine Inches; the Head and upper part of the Neck cinereous, with
fmall black Spots interfperfed here and there; the Back, covert and fca-
pular Feathers of the Wings dark, rediih, brown, their Edges and Tips
white; the Quill-Feathers black;'the Edges of the exterior Webs white;
the whole under fide a dusky white, with a Tindture of yellow; the Tail
is made up of twelve ihort Feathers of a dusky brown Colour, regularly
ftriped with White on both the Webs.
The Legs long, and bare above Knee, both Legs and Feet are of a
cinereous Colour, with a Tindture of green and dusky yellow ; the hind
Claw very ihort.
Its Places of feeding are in the fait Marihes near the Sea. It is a timorous
Bird, not fuffering any Man to come near it, therefore feeks its
Food in the Night, moft of the Marih Birds being nodturnal. I was
credibly informed by a Man, which goes often to the Decoys, that it
makes a Noife like the barking of a Dog, from which they give it the
Name of the Barker. I take it to be the Berge of Bellonius, which the
French call Petit Corlieu, who fays it hath a Cry like a Goat. It is
efteemed a delicate Bird by the French.