Passeres \ 3 5 



eks discovered. First of these three is Passer torquatus, 



ering from the common Passer not alone in its white 



ar, but also its note and mode of nesting. This kind is 



ntiful in Germany, but rare among the English. The 



ond Passer is called in the Supplement 1 the Great, and 



the most part it is wont to sir on the top boughs of trees. 



r several reasons I consider this to be the Bunting of 



; English and the Gersthammer of Germans. The third 



asser, unknown to Aristotle, is the Passer troglodytes, fully 



^cognised by Paulus yEgineta and Ae'tius, doctors of great 



,nown. And so what sort of bird it is will easily be seen by 



veryone from Paulus and Ae'tius, and their descriptions 



will forthwith add. 



PAULUS ./EGINETA- OF THE PASSER TROGLODYTES. 



There is a remedy most highly prized besides 

 these, namely Troglodytes : this is nothing but a little 

 Sparrow, the least of all birds, with the exception only 

 of that kind which is called Regulus. It is a little 

 bigger than that bird alone, and similar to it : in 

 colour between grey and green, and with a slender 

 bill. It lives chiefly in walls and hedges. 



AETIUS*. 



The Troglodytes is the very least of Sparrows, 

 seeking for its food near hedges and near walls. 

 This little animal moreover is the smallest of all little 

 birds, except that which is called Regulus, while it is 

 like the Regulus in many ways, save that it has not 

 golden-coloured feathers on the forehead. The Passer 

 troglodytes is a little larger arid blacker than the Re- 

 gulus ; it always has its tail cocked up, which is spotted 

 behind with white. Likewise it is more noisy than the 



1 It seems impossible to ascertain what this Auctuarium was. 



2 A medical writer of ^Egina, whose chief work was De Re Medico, 

 Libri Septetn. 



3 A Greek medical writer of Amida in Mesopotamia who wrote 



