The former Pygargus of BeUonim feems to be nothing elfe but the male of the 

 Ringtail called in Englifh the Henharrier. 



* V. 

 * 0/ ffo JS^/e <r<?M Morphnos or Clanga and Anataria. y& *&<& fci^fct- \ 



THat Bird which by Gefner, and out of him by Aldrovandm is figured and defcri- 

 bed under this title,being again nothing elfe but our Bald Buzzarct( as Turner 

 himfelf acknowledges, who fent the defcription to Gefner underlie title of Morph-' 

 xof ) I (hall omit it here, referring it to its proper place- among the wild Hawks 5 

 it being ( as I laid before ) of a teller fize than to deferve to be ranked with 

 Eagles. . .^J 



In (lead of the true Morphnos, which Aldrovandm profefTes himfelf not to know, 

 I (hall here give you the defcription of that Bird which he calls Morphno Con- 

 gener. ' ^ 



It is (faith he) of about the height and bignefs of a Xzxge'Dunghil-CockVfmm its Bignefs 

 the tip of the Beak to the end of the Train three fpans and an . half long. The Beak J^jSSg*' 

 was pretty long, hooked, and tending almoft dire&ly downward, joyned to the 

 head by a yellow Membrane [ I fuppofe he means the Sear."] ThecolourW almoft Colour, 

 the whole Plumage was ferrugineous, faving that at the ends of the Wings towards * 

 the belly it was beautified with many oval fpots, fcattered up and down, and more- 

 over, that the utmoft tips of the beam-feathers were white, as alfo the beginning of 

 the Tail, and the extremities of all ita feathers, and theUower part of the Hump. 

 The Legs were all over feathered down to the beginning of the toes, and befprinkled The Legs. 

 alfo with whitilh Afh-coloured fpots. The Feet were yellow 5 the Toes above to- Feet, 

 ward the Leg covered with Scales, toward the Talons with annulary Tables. The Toes ' 

 bottoms of all the feathers white, The Pupil of the Eye black, encompafled with a 

 cinereous circle : It would very greedily devour flaid Mice. Its Food; 



Bellonim for the Morphnos of the Ancients gives us the Jer-falcon 3 whofe opinion 

 Aldrovandm difallows. 



This Bird took the name Morphnos from the fpots of the feathers whence alio it The Etymo- 

 may in Latine not unfitly be called N<£via. Others will have this name to be derived j£ e ° f the 

 from iM/uyfXpct, the Preterperfed Tenfe of g^p^fw,^ being changed into (hort and the 

 letter v interpoled, and fo to fignifie rapacious. It is called Clanga both iby the Greeks 

 and Latines from the found of its voice. 



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§. VI. 



* The created Eagle of Brafil : Urutaurana, Brafilienfmm, MarggraV. A 



T His Bird is of the bignefs of an Eagle : It hath a black Bill (the upper Chap its Bill, 

 whereof is hooked ) yellow near its rife or Bafe : The Eyes of a lovely Gold- Eyes, 

 colour,with black Pupils, which it can cover with an afh-coloured skin [ PeriophthaU 

 mium~\ though it (hut not the Eye-lids, It hath an Eagle-like head, but compreffed or Thehea <*' 

 plain above [ flat-crowned ] in the top whereof it hath two black feathers about two Creft. 

 inches long, with two fmall ones on each fide : Thefe it can when it lifts fetup an end, « 

 and again letdown flat. The Wings reach but little beyqjid the bottom or rife ofThewings, 

 the Tail. It hath a broad Tail like an Eagle. The Head above is covered with duf- Tail, 

 ky feathers having yellowim edges : The upper part and fides of the neck with Colour ° 

 brown ones £ rather cinereous or terreous^] like a ^Partridges. The whole throat 

 and lower part of the neck is white, yet fothat the' white is variegated at °the fides "* 

 with black feathers.. The whole breaft and lower be!]/, the upper and lower legs 

 down to the very feet are covered with white feathers, wherewith black ones are 

 mingled fcalewife. The Wings and Tail are of a dusky colour, fhaded, having the 

 utmoft borders or edges white, The feet have four Toes,yellow of colour,with dusky The Feet, 

 crookedTalons. Itscry is Geb.Geb, liketo that of a Chicken which hath loft its Dam, its Voice* 

 [ we exprefs that voice by Telp, yelp ] If you caft a bird to it, whether alive or dead. Foodf 

 it catches it in its Talons, and with its Bill hand fomly plumes it>andthen tearing it 

 in pieces fwallows down both flefh and bones. I kept one of thefe alive a long time 

 in the Fort Manrit^m by the River of St. Frances 



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