Currecoos are waterfowls, as big as pretty large chickens, of a bluish
colour, with short legs and tail; they feed also in swampy ground and are
very good meat. I have not seen of them elsewhere.

The wild ducks here are said to be of two sorts, the muscovy and the
common ducks. In the wet season here are abundance of them, but in the
dry time but few. Widgeon and teal also are said to be in great plenty
here in the wet season.

To the southward of Bahia there are also ostriches in great plenty,
though it is said they are not so large as those of Africa: they are
found chiefly in the southern parts of Brazil, especially among the large
savannahs near the river of Plate; and from thence further south towards
the Straits of Magellan.

As for tame fowl at Bahia the chief beside their ducks are
dunghill-fowls, of which they have two sorts; one sort much of the size
of our cocks and hens; the other very large: and the feathers of these
last are a long time coming forth: so that you see them very naked when
half grown; but when they are full-grown and well feathered they appear
very large fowls, as indeed they are; neither do they want for price; for
they are sold at Bahia for half-a-crown or three shillings apiece, just
as they are brought first to market out of the country, when they are so
lean as to be scarce fit to eat.

OF THEIR CATTLE, HORSES, ETC.

The land animals here are horses, black cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits,
hogs, leopards, tigers, foxes, monkeys, peccary (a sort of wild hogs