I brought home with me from hence a good number of plants, dried between the leaves of books; of some of the choicest of which that are not spoiled I may give a specimen at the end of the book.

Of their wildfowl, macaws, parrots, etc.

Here are said to be great plenty and variety of wildfowl, namely yemmas, macaws (which are called here jackoos, and are a larger sort of parrot, and scarcer) parrots, parakeets, flamingos, carrion-crows, chattering-crows, cockrecoes, bill-birds finely painted, corresoes, doves, pigeons, jenetees, clocking-hens, crab-catchers, galdens, currecoos, muscovy ducks, common ducks, widgeons, teal, curlews, men-of-war birds, boobies, noddies, pelicans, etc.

The yemma, carrion-crow and chattering-crow, bill-bird, curreso, turtledove and wild pigeons; the jenetee,

The yemma is bigger than a swan, grey-feathered, with a long thick sharp-pointed bill.

The carrion-crow and chattering-crows are called here mackeraws, and are like those I described in the West Indies.  The bill of the chattering-crow is black, and the upper bill is round, bending downwards like a hawk’s bill, rising up in a ridge almost semi-circular, and very sharp, both at the ridge or convexity, and at the point or extremity:  the lower bill is flat and shuts even with it.  I was told by a Portuguese here that their negro wenches make love potions with these birds.  And the Portuguese care not to let them have any of these birds, to keep them from that superstition:  as I found one afternoon when I was in the fields with a padre and another, who shot two of them, and hid them, as they said, for that reason.  They are not good food, but their bills are reckoned a good antidote against poison.

The bill-birds are so called by the English from their monstrous bills, which are as big as their bodies.  I saw none of these birds here, but saw several of the breasts flayed off and dried for the beauty of them; the feathers were curiously coloured with red, yellow, and orange-colour.

The curresos (called here mackeraws) are such as are in the Bay of Campeachy.

Turtledoves are in great plenty here; and two sorts of wild pigeons; the one sort blackish, the other a light grey:  the blackish or dark grey are the bigger, being as large as our wood-quests, or wood-pigeons in England.  Both sorts are very good meat; and are in such plenty from May till September that a man may shoot 8 or 10 dozen in several shots at one standing, in a close misty morning, when they come to feed on berries that grow in the woods.

The jenetee is a bird as big as a lark with black feathers, and yellow legs and feet.  It is accounted very wholesome food.

Clocking-hen, crab-catcher, galden, and black heron:  The ducks, widgeon and teal; and ostriches to the southward, and of the dunghill-fowls.