o8 O^RLlTHOLOq?. Book II. 



§. ii. 



'* The American Goat-fucker ', cdZfed Ibijau ty ffo Bra[tlians^o\t\bo by the 

 Portugues. Marggrav. 



THis is a fmall bird, of the bignefs of a Swallow : Hatha broad flat Head : Great, 

 lovely, black Eyes, with a black, mining Pupil, of an elliptical figure : Out- 

 wardly a circle or ring of yellowilh white compafles the Eyes. It hath a very little 

 fouriS? ? 511 > not exceedin g ^ thicknefs of the tooth of a * Shrew-moufc, and not fo 

 Aranm. long : yet hath it patent Nofthrils in the Bill : An exceeding wide Mouth, which 

 when (hut cannot be feen % but when fhe opens her Bill, appears flit up to the Eyes, 

 fo that it is almoft an inch wide. It hath a very little Tongue : White Legs, and 

 (mall for the bignefs of the body, fcarce half an inch long: Four Toes in the Feet, 

 three (landing forward, and one backward,armed with black, crooked Claws. Along 

 the Clavy of the middle Toe of each foot on the infide it hath as it were a fin, much 

 jagged or toothed, fo that the Claw feems feathered in a manner on the infide : But 

 there are no feathers on it but a certain skinny rough matter. It hath a handfom 

 Tail,two inches long, which it can fpread wide 5 to the end whereof the Wings reach. 

 In all the lower part of the body the feathers are mixt white and black, as in a Spar- 

 row-Hawk.: In the Head, Back, W 7 ings, and Taii they are black, white being inter- 

 fperfed with a grateful variety 5 andfomething alfo of yellow mingled with the white : 

 In a word, it is black, and fpeckled here and there with white. 



There is alfo found another Species of this, of the fame colour and make with 

 this, but as big as an Owl. The mouth opened will eaiily admit a mans fift. 



§. III. 



* Marggravius his BrafilianGmva. querea, approaching to the Goat- fucker, or Swift. 



T T is Of the bignefs of a Lar^ but becaufe it hath long Wings and a Tail much lon- 

 , 1 ger, it feems greater. It hath a broad, flat, and pretty great Head 5 great black 

 ' ^' Eyes: Afmall, triangular, compreiTed Bill, the upper Chap being hooked: A wide 

 Mouth, much wider than the Bill, and which being opened repreients a Triangle. 

 At each end of the upper Mandible on both fides,for the length of an inch in either, it 

 hath about ten or twelve thick briftles like Swines, ftretched forth both forward and 

 fideways. Its body is not long, but almoft round. Each foot hath four Toes ftand- 

 ing after the ufual manner, the middle whereof is longer than the reft 5 andfurniihed 

 with a Claw finely ferrate, or toothed like a Comb. All the Claws are black. It 

 hath long Wings, viz. half afoot : The Tail eight inches long, having in the out- 

 fides two feathers longer than the reft. The whole Bird is of a dusky aih-colour, 

 with dark yellow or whitiftifpots intermingled after the manner of a Sparrow-Hawk. 

 Round the Neck, behind the Head, it hath a ring of a flark golden colour. The 

 Legs are cinereous or dusky. The Toes connected by a little skin, not fo broad as in 

 Decks •■) for it is no water-fowl. 



This latter Bird doth more refemble a Swallow than a Goat-Jucker : The former 

 alfo is not unlike the Hirundo apus or Swift. Indeed the Goat-fucker and Swift agree 

 in many particulars, as thefmalnels of the Bill, the widenefsof the Mouth, the fhort- 

 nefs of the Legs, and fituation of the Toes. 



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