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Beneath next the Bill it hath like feathers of a black colour. The Neck above is of a 

 yellow or gold colour 5 beneath of a green, with a gold-colour as it were fhining 

 through it. TheBreaftisof a deep brown. Under the Wings, in the fides between 

 the Wings and the Legs grow many feathers, a foot long more or lefs, of a curious 

 ftrudfure, which run forth a great way upon the Tail : Towards their rife they are of 

 a deep yellow or gold colour, elfe of a whitifh yellow, fhadowed or dafhed with 

 brown. Among thefe feathers are extended two as it were threads or firings, each 

 more than two feet long, near their rife of a yellow or gold colour, crooked towards 

 their ends, and of a dark brown. Their Legs are dusky, their Talons being whiter. 

 The Bill is of a colour mixt of green and blue, yet whitifh toward the point. 



$ VII. 



* Marggravius his other Bird ofParadife. 



INbignefs it exceeded a Swallow. It hath a fmall Head, a little comprefled or flat 

 above, two thirds of an inch long, in thicknefs orcompafs two inches: very n*t- 

 Eyes, about the bignefi of a grain ot Millet or Mufiard Seed. The Bill ftrong,above 

 an inch long, ftreight, (yet upwards towards its Bafe fomewhat riling) fharp, of a 

 colour mingled of blue and green, with an oblong white fpot in the upper Chap to- 

 ward the point : wide, open Nofthrils. The Neck a little more than two thirds of an 

 inch long, ftreight, and of equal thicknels with the head. The body from the 

 end of the Neck to the beginning of the Tail was fcarce four inches long, the thick- 

 nefs almoft three} but it was covered with many feathers, which I do not here con- 

 fider. The length of the Wings was five inches. Above on the head, at the rife of 

 the Bill, it was adorned with very black, fmall, downy feathers, exa&ly refembling 

 Velvet 3 and in like manner near the rife of the lower Bill, the black here being 

 broader than above. In the whole throat or lower fide of the Neck, and as far as 

 the Cheeks and alfo to the Eyes, it was covered with filken feathers, a little harder to 

 the touch than thofe black ones, of a moft elegant golden green, fuch as is wont to 

 befecn in the necks of Peacocks and Mallards. The whole upper part of the Head 

 as far as that filken clothing, was alfo covered with filken feathers, but hard to the 

 touch, of a dark yellow colour. The whole Neck encompafTed with fhort feathers 

 refembling Plufb, of a fhining yellow colour like Gold. The back was all covered 

 with feathers of the likeihining golden yellow, to the touch refembling hairs, lying 

 many one upon another, which below were of a pale brown colour. The Wing- 

 feathers are all one longer than another. The Tail confifts of a few the like brown 

 feathers, extended a little beyond the ends of the Wings, and is above three inches 

 and an half long. At the very rife of the Wings, and without the Wings in each 

 fide grow many very elegant feathers, fupported by fmall white ones: Some of thefe 

 are fix inches long, fome a foot 3 but the middlemoft and longeft are a foot and half 

 long, and white. All thefe feathers are moft elegant, of a fine, thin, rare, or fiibtile 

 texture. The number of feathers fpringing out of both fides amounts to about fifty 

 in each 3 among which there are forty, a foot and half long apiece. Clufius and 

 others, who take thefe long feathers to belong to the Wings, are mifah§n 3 for they -are not 

 the Wing-feathers, but, as Marggravius truly hath delivered, firing out of each fide under 

 the Wings. . 



Thefe two defer iptions feem to he either of one and the fame fort of bird, or of two very 

 like 3 and agree in moft things with the firji Species of Aldrovandus. 



§. VIII. 



* Of Birds of Paradife out of Clufius. 



I See that he £ Aldrovandus he means ] and all the reft who have treated of thisr 

 bird,agree in this, that they judge it to want feet, becaufe they had feen none but 

 fiich as were bereaved of their feet. Hereupon they did not ftick to charge Antonius 

 Pigafeta ( who accompanying Magellane in the Ship Vi&oria, firft failed round the 

 World ) with falfhood and lying, becaufe after his return from that long Voyage, 

 giving the firft notice of this Bird to the Eurof£ans in the Diary of his travel, he at- 

 tributes to it flender Legs a * Palm long. For my part, though hitherto, I confefs, 

 I have been in the fame erroneous opinion with them, in thinking thefe birds to be 



footlefs 



* An hand- 

 breadth, 



