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0%$llTHOLOgr. Book II. 



The colour. 



The flag- fea- 

 thers of the 

 Wings. 



The Tail. 



The Legs and 

 Feet. 



Its Food. 

 Its Place. 



the hind part of the head is drawn a black ftroak. The Head, Back, and Rump are 

 afh-coloured : The Chin and Belly .white : The Breaft and' lower part of the Throat 

 varied w T ith dark tranfverfe lines. 



It hath in each Wing eighteen prime feathers 3 the tips of all which, excepting the 

 four outmoft, are white : Thefecond and third have alfo their exteriour edges white. 

 Moreover, thefirft or outmoft feather begins to be white at the bottom: In the reft" 

 in order as far as to the tenth the white part increafetb, fo that more than the lower 

 half of the tenth feather is white. _ From the tenth in the following feathers the white 

 diminifhes again, yet in their interiour edges it runs up to thetop: inthelaft, thatis 

 thofe next to the body, it fails quite : Elfe both the Beam-feathers and the firft row of 

 covert-feathers are black. 



The Tail is made up of twelve feathers, of which the middlemoft are thelongeft 

 by meafure four inches and a quarter 5 the reft in order fhorter to the outmoft, which 

 are but three inches and an half. The outmoft feathers are all over white, the two 

 middlemoft have only their tips white, the reft of the feather being black 5 in the 

 intermediate feathers the black part gradually diminifheth to the outmoft : Whence 

 ( faith Aldrovandus ) when it flies the white part of the Tail (hews like a Crefcent. [ In 

 the greater Lanim of Aldrovandm the four middle-feathers of the Tail are wholly 

 black, and not two only.] 



The Legs and Feet are black : The outmoft Toe at the bottom joyned to the mid- 

 dlemoft. 



The Tefticles are round and little, That we dillected had in the ftomach Caterpil- 

 lars, Beetles, and Graftioppers. 



In Germany between Heidelberg and $trasburgh, about a Village called Linkenom, 

 we killed this bird : It is alfo common elfewhere in Germany. Moreover, we are 

 told, that it is found in the mountainous parts of the North of England, as for in- 

 ftance in the Peal^o? Derby/hire, where, (as we laid ) it is called Wier angel. 



Gefner reports, that the Lanii of Switzerland do for themoft part haunt and abide 

 among thorny fhrubs, fitting upon the higheft twigs of dwarf-trees and bulhes, fetting 

 up their tails as they fit. In them alfo they build, making their Nefts of Mofs, Wool, 

 and certain downy herbs : But the bottoms thereof of Heath, upon which they lay 

 withinfide the loft and tender ftalks of hay, Doggs-tooth, and other like herbs. In 

 this Neftin fummer time are to be found fix Young, fo unlike to the old ones, that 

 they icarce refemble them in one mark, their Bills, Legs, and Feet only excepted 5 

 yea, rather on the contrary the bottoms of all their downy feathers, ( which are as 

 yet nothing elfe but certain rudiments of their future Plumage) incline fomewhatto 

 green. 



Although it doth moft commonly feed upon Infects, yet doth it often fet upon and 

 kill not only fmall birds, as Finches, Wrens, ckc. but ( which Turner affirms himfelf to 

 have feen) even T^r^ej- themfelves : Whence it is wont by our Falconers to be re- 

 claimed and made for to fly Imall birds, as we have before noted. 



Gefner, befides this we have defcribed, fets forth another fort of great Butcher-bird 

 like to this, but twice as big, fo that it is double the magnitude of a Blackbird. It is 

 of the fame nature, fhape of body, and colour, except that the Wings are red. 



§. 11. 



The lejfer Butcher-Bird, calledin Torhzfoire , Flujher, Lanius tertius Aldrov. 



itsmeafures, "|T is of the bignefs ofaLdr^, and hatha great head. The Cock weighed two 

 I ounces and an half: From the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail it was (even 

 Inches and an half long, to the end of the Claws but fix inches and an half: from tip 

 to tip of the Wings fpread twelve inches and an half broad. 

 Bin, The Bill was an inch long, black, and ftrong. The tip of the upper Chap hooked ; 



near the hooked part furnifhed with two angular Appendices, over-hanging the lower 

 Chap when the mouth is (hut, it having no dents or cavities to receive thefe Appen- 

 dices : Wherein the Bill of this bird differs from that of a Hobby or KeJlreL The 

 Mouth, Mouth within yellow : The cleft of the Palate rough. The Tongue divided into 

 Tongue, nian y Filaments : The Nofthrils round : About the Nofthrils and corners of the 

 BriiHes, mouth grew ftiff, black hairs or briftles. The middle of the Back, and lefi'er rows of 

 colour. feathers covering the upper fide of the Wing reddifli or ferrugineous [rufty] the Head 

 and Rump cinereous. From the corners of the Mouth through the Eyes a black 



ftroak 



The greatefi 

 Butcher-bird 

 of Gefner. 



