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when Sext. Papellio Ister and L. Pcdanius were Consuls ; on 

 which Account, at the Nones of March, the City that Year 

 passed through a Lustration. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 Of the Bird Incendiaria. 



THE Bird Incendiaria is likewise inauspicious; and we 

 find in our Annals, that on account of it the City many a 

 Time hath been lustrated ; as when L. Cassias and C. Marius 

 were Consuls : in that very Year when, by Occasion of a Bubo 

 being seen, the Lustration also was performed. But what Bird 

 this is, neither do I know nor yet find in any Writer. Some 

 give this Interpretation of Incendiaria, that it is any Bird 

 which hath been seen carrying a Coal from any kind of 

 Altar. Others called this Bird Spinturnix ; but hitherto I 

 have not met with the Man who would say, that he knew 

 what Bird this should be. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Of the Clivina. 



LIKEWISE the Bird named in old Time Clivina, which 

 some call Clarnatoria, and Labeo by the Name of Prohi- 

 bitoria, I perceive is as little known as the other. Nigidius 

 also maketh mention of a Bird called Subis, which breaks 

 the Eggs of Eagles. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Of unknown Birds. 



IN the Tuscan Learning 1 there are many Birds drawn 

 which have not been seen for Ages. And it is surprising 



1 Augury appears to have particularly flourished among the Tuscans, 

 and it was that portion of ancient religious practice which mixed itself 

 most with the habits of ordinary life ; so that no important step in life 

 could be taken without its authority, and no strange circumstance, more 

 particularly regarding birds, be noted without the professors of this art 

 being called upon to supply an interpretation and provide a ceremony for 



