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what short and crimson, and crescent-shaped at the tip. 

 ( )thers are entirely green. Others, though they arc green 

 on the body, are yellowish on the long tail. All have like 

 habits, and the same kind of food, save that the Sacropsittacus 

 eats bread soaked in beer, flesh, and even fish. 



Of White Ravens. 



In the year 1548, in the month of August, I saw two 

 white Ravens from the same nest, and handled them at the 

 very place in Cumberland of our Britain, bred on the property 

 of a lord of that county, and trained for bird-catching just 

 like hawks. For they had been taught both to sit quietly on 

 the arm of the falconer, and when loosed to fly as quickly as 

 possible to his call and sign even from a distance. Nothing 

 unlucky followed them, as in the case of those white Swallows, 

 about which Alexander Myndius wrote according to ^Elian. 

 For he who notes a white Raven notes the colour; as he does 

 who 'notes a white Bear and a black Fox ; both of which I 

 have seen here in Britain from Muscovy. Yet I can hardly 

 call a Fox black, although the common people call it black; 

 but rather dusky or dull grey on the rest of the body. For it 

 has only the cheeks and the legs, with the rump and the tail, 

 dusky. 



And now those things being finished which I have 

 written to you of flying creatures, my Gesner, the fishes 

 follow in due order. 



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