[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Brant geese,^ and White heads; Ducks of various sorts; Widgeons, Divers, Coots, Spoonbills and several other kinds, but not so numerous as the foregoing. Various Borts of The rivcr Fish here is almost the same as in Netherland, and consists of Salmon, Sturgeon, Striped-bass, Drum-fish, Shad, Carp, Perch, Pike, Trout, Roach, Bull-heads, Suckers, Sun-fish, Eels, Nine-eyes or lampreys, but much more abundant and larger than in Netherland; there are various other species of fish, of which we know not the names. Various sorts of sea In the Saltwater are found cod-fish, shell-fish, weak-fish, herring, mackerel, thornbacks, flounders, plaice, sheeps-heads, (stecnbrnsems,) black-fish, sharks, (zeehonden,) tamyns^ and divers others, together with lobsters, crabs, concks, from which the Indians make white and black wampum, abundance of oysters and ' Faleo leucocephalus. White headed or Bald Eagle. Nuttal. ' Slrix Virginiana. Wilson. The Great Horned Owl, often called the Cat Owl. Natural Ilislory of New-York. Pai-t II., Ornithology, 24. ' Rotganzen. Writing of the Brant Goose, Nuttal says: the navigator Barent, found multitudes sitting on their eggs about the 21st June, 1695, in tlie great bay called Wibe Janz Water; and to his amazement, discoveivd them to be the Kotgamev. Oiuiilwlogy — Water birds, 8vo., 301. ^ In the piinted volume 'tis, Jfanyns. — Kd.