[An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies by Robert Knox]@TWC D-Link bookAn Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies PART I 100/117
And so much of their Beasts. CHAP.
VII. Of their Birds, Fish, Serpents, Commodities. [Their Birds.] In the next place I will entertain you with some relation of the other living Creatures among them.
I begin with their Birds.
In that Land there are Crowes, Sparrowes, Tom-titts, Snipes, just like these in England, Wood-Pigeons also, but not great flocks of any sorts, as we have, onely of Crowes and Pigeons.
I have seen there Birds just like Woodcocks and Partridges, but they are scarce.
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