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PLatea is a birde that is in ye wat & is a greet ēnemye to all othere byrdes of the water / and byteth them by the hede / and so ouercometh them. & this byrde eteth his bely full of mus / kles / and whan he hath almoste disies¦ted them than he vomiteth them out the shelles agayne. ¶Pluuialis is a byrde with many maner of colours. and some saye that he leueth only of ye ayre