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* The Brazilian No&ua called Cabure by MarggraV. 



T's about thebignefs of a Throftle: hatha round Head, a Abort, hooked, yellowifh 

 1 Bill * two Nofthrils^ fair, great, round, yellow Eyes, with a black Pupil. Un- 

 der the Eyes, and on each fide the Bill it hath many long, dusky hairs. The Legs are 

 fhort, wholly cloathed with feathers, yellow, as are alfo the Feet, which are cloven 

 into four Toes, (landing after the ufual manner, armed with feraicircular, crooked, 

 (harp Talons : The Tail broad, nigh the rife whereof the Wings end In the Head, 

 Back, Wings, and Tail it is of a dilute Vmber colour, and variegated in the Head 

 and Neck with very fmall, in the Wings with greater white fpots. The Tail is wa- 

 ved with white. The Breaft and lower Belly are white, and variegated with fpots 

 of a dilute Vmber colour. It is eafily made tame. It can fo turn about its Neck, 

 that the tip of the Beak (hall exaftly point at the middle of the Back. It plays 

 with men like an Ape, making many mowes and antic mimical faces, and fnapping 

 with its Bill. Befides,it can fet up feathers on the fides of its head, that reprefent 

 Horns or Ears. It lives upon raw flelh. 



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Chap. III. §. I. 

 The Fern-Owl, or Churn-O^l, or Goatsucker, Caprimulgus. 



ITs length from the Bill to the end of the Tail was between ten and eleven inches : ta Length, 

 Its Head great, but much lefier than in the Owl-kind : Its Bill in proportion to £«<*• 

 its body the leaft of all birds, and a little crooked. It hath a huge wide mouth Mo u th# 

 and fwallow. In palato appendices nulla, fed primum longa fijfura, fundo temti ojjicnlo 

 feufepto per medium divifi : infia eamfijptram alia latior & brevior, & ad hnjus fundjtm 

 linea appendicum tranfverfa. Thefe words I do not well underftand, and therefore 

 have not put them into Englijh. On the fides of the upper Chap of the Bill, as alfo 

 un der the Chin it had ftifi black hairs like briftles. 



The under fide of the body was painted with black and pale-red lines, tranfverfe, The colour, 

 but not continued : The hinder part of the Head of an afti-colour* the middle of each 

 feather being black $ which colours alfo reach lower down the Back. 



The Wings are particoloured of black and red : The covert-feathers of the Wings the wings, 

 are fome of them powdred with cinereous. The Tail near five inches long, made up tail, 

 of ten feathers, theoutmoft whereof are fomething fhorter than the reft 5 themiddle- 

 moft afti-coloured, with very narrow, tranfverfe, black bars 3 in the reft the crofs 

 bars are broader, and the intermediate fpaces of an afti-colour,powdered with blacky 

 and a little tinctured with red. 



The Legs were very fmall in proportion, feathered on the fore-fide halfway, but Legs, Feet, 

 the feathers hung down almoft to the Toes. The Toes were blackifti, and the Claws and CIaws * 

 black and little | the middlemoft Toe the longeft, the inner and outer ftiorter, but 

 equal to one another, and joyned to the middlemoft by a Membrane from the diva- 

 rication to the firft joynt. The interiour edge of the middle Claw is ferrate, as in He- 

 rons. The back-Toe ( if it may be fo called, ftanding like one of the fore-toes) is 

 lcarce a quarter of an inch long. 



In the ftomach it had fome Seeds and Beetles. The Eggs were long, and white, but i rs food and 

 a little clouded and fpotted with black. E 8§ s - 



It is a very beautiful bird for colour, more like to a Cuckgw than an Owl; and it is 

 eafily diftinguifhed from all other birds by the ftructure of its Bill and Feet. 



In another bird of this kind, perchance differing only in Age or Sex, the three firft 



' or outmoft great Wing-feathers had a large white fpot in their interiour Vanes, which 



in the third feather reached alfo to the exteriour : The tips alfo of the two outmofl 



feathers of the Tail were fpotted with white. There was fome (hew of thefe fpots of 



a pale yellowifh colour in the firft defcribed. 



It is found in the Mountainous Woods, efpecially in many places of England, as in 

 JorkcJhire^Derbj-JIdire^Shrop-fiire^c. 



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