1 54 Regulus — Rubecula — Ruticilla 



Trocldlus, efil auium omnium minima, cauda longa 

 & fempcr erecla, rojlro longiuficulo, fed tenuijjimo, 

 colore fere fuluo. nidum facit foris ex mufco, intus ex 

 plumis aut /ana, ant floccis, fed plurimii ex plumis. 

 Old erecli & in alter o fuo fine cojiflentis, forma nidus 

 habet, in medio uclnti latere hoftiolum efil, per quod 

 ingreditur & egreditur. In poflicis cedibus & ftabilis 

 flramine teclis, iuterdu nidu couftruit, fed fivpius in 

 fiyluis. aids eft etiam foliuaga, & gregatim nunquant 

 uolat, imb quoties alium fid generis ojfendit, mox illi 

 bellum indicit, & coufiiclatur. Quare aucs illce, qua; 

 in Bauaria pennis auricoloribus, quas in capitibus ceu 

 coronas aureas feruut, in fiyluis cefiate degeutes, & gre- 

 gatim ad urbes hyeme aduolantes, rcguli non fiunt fed 

 tyranni Arifilotelis, id pofilea docebo. 



[p. 127] DE RVBECVLA ET 



ruticilla. 



Rubecula EpiOaKos, rj epidea, rubecula, Auglice a robin red- 



brefle, Germanicc er/n votbruft/ ober etytt vitfdehen. 



Ruticilla. <$>oLviicovp6<i, &, ut alter textus habet, (poivi/covpyos, 



Plinio phcenicurus, Ga.cce ruticilla, A uglice a rede tale, 

 Germanice etyii rot fier£. 



Aristoteles 1 . 

 Rubecula & ruticilla uermibus aluntur. 

 Rubeculse, & quae ruticilla^ appellantur, inuicem 

 tranfeunt, eft'que rubecula hyberni temporis, 

 ruticilla seftiui, nee alio fere inter fe differunt, 

 nifi pectoris colore & caude 2 . 



1 Hist. An. Bk ix. 256. 



2 The three words 'pectoris & caude' are not in Aristotle. 



