58 Collurio Cohtmbi 



[p. 48] DE COLLVRIONE. 



Ko\\vpia)v, collurio, Anglice, a feldfare ant a felde- 

 fare. Qiiibufdd German, etyn frammefuofld. 



ARISTOTELES 1 . 



Collurio ijfdem, quibus merula uefcitur, 

 magnitude eius eadem quae fuperioribus, id eft, 

 uireoni & mollicipiti 2 , capitur potius hyberno 

 tempore. 



Auis, quam collurionem ejfe puto, turdum magni- 

 tudine cequat, fed caudam Jiabet longiorem, & magis 

 mobilem, & peclus maculofum. In <zftate apud nos ant 

 rarb aut nunquam uidetur : in hyeme nerb tanta copia 

 eft, ut nullius auis maior fit. baccis aquifolice arboris, 

 forbi minima, & Jimilium arborum uefcitur. gregatim 

 uolat, & inter uolandum objlrepera eft, 



DE COLVMBIS. 



Tlepta'Tepd, columba, Anglice a done, Germanice ctyli 

 taube. Saxonice ei)ii buue. 



ARISTOTELES 3 . 



Columbacei uero generis plures fpecies funt. 



Liuia. Eft enim liuia a liuore di6la, diuerfum certe a 



"- p< 49 -* columba genus, quippe minor quam columba 



fit, & minus patiens manfuefcere : liuet enim 



plumis, & pene nigricat, & pedibus rubris fca- 



brofis(j[j eft. Quas ob res, nullus id genus cel- 



lare alit. Maximo inter hec genera funt corpore 



Palumbes. palumbes. Secundum magnitudinis locum ui- 



Vinago. nago obtinet, paulo maior quam columbus 4 eft. 



Turtur. Minimum ex his turtur eft. pariunt columbae 



omnibus anni temporibus, pullos^ educant fi 



locum apricum habeat & cibum. Sin minus, 



1 Hist. An. Bk IX. 99. 



2 These five words are not represented in Aristotle. 

 Moreover the jrapdaXos is here omitted, and is placed later 

 (p. 107 of the original work), but there seems to be some doubt 

 as to the correct reading in the Greek. 



3 Hist. An. Bk v. 43. The readings vary in places, but the 

 rendering is decidedly free. 



4 Gaza and Turner make indiscriminate use of ' Columbus ' 

 and ' Columba' for the same kind of bird. 



