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outmoftoneach fide are three quarters white, and from them the white part is gra- 

 dually lefs and lefs in the fucceedingfeathers to the middlemoft,in which it doth wholly 

 difappcar : The reft of the Tail-feathers is of a (timing black. 



The Feet and Claws are black : The outmoft Toe, as in the reft of this kind,is joyned 

 to the middlemoft at the bottom. 



It hath a Gall 3 its Guts were eighteen inches long : The blind Guts half an inch .' 

 The Tefticles fmall. It feeds on Nuts, &c. It hath a note or voice fomething like a 

 Magpie. 



We found this Bird in the Mountainous part of Auftria, near the way leading from 

 Vimm to Venice, not far from a great Village called Schadwyen, where there is a very 

 fteep, difficult, and craggy afcent up the neighbouring Mountains whereupon there 

 ftand always ready there certain Yokes of Oxen, to draw the Coaches or Waggons of 

 fuch as travel that way up the craggy Cliffs and Rocks, which Horfes could not at 

 all, or with great difficulty climb and druggie through, drawing a Coach after 

 them. 



§. VII. 



* The Bohemian Chatterer. Garrulus Bohemicus, * Aldrov. eidem Ampelis. * UL12. eaf. 



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IT is almoft as big as a Blackbird, but bigger than the * Hawfinch. Its length from Bill- * coccothm- 

 point to Tail-end nine inches: Its breadth, viz. the Wings being fpread, fourM 

 Palms. Whence it is manifeft, that Gejhcr is miftaken, in that he writes that for fhapc, 

 and fize of body, and colours it approaches to the common Garrulus. Its Bill is of a 

 deep black, of the bignefs of a Houfie-Sp arrows. Gefners figure reprefentsit too long, 

 and too crooked. The Nofthrils are eneompaffed with hairs of the fame colour, which 

 make, as it were, a tranfverfe black fpot : In which are included the Eyes, that are 

 round,and of a moft beautiful colour, to wit,Vermilion ; refembling that of the Choice- 

 dorian Carbuncle, commonly called the Granate : Which perchance gaveoccafion to 

 fome to believe that they mine in the Night. Its Head is after a fort compreffed, be- 

 ing by Gefner reprefented too round 5 of a Chefnut or ferrugineous colour, adorned 

 with acreftortuft, bending backward, after the manner of the crejicd Lark. The 

 colour of the Creft toward the Bill is a delayed Chefnut, but backward cinereous 

 inclining to dusky, not unlike to the colour of * Umber. The Neck is fhort, black ^ t jJ^*| 

 in the fore and hind part, red on the fides, near the Bill white. The Breaft is of a Tm*umhri% 

 chefnut or ferrugineous colour, but dilute and inclining to rofie. The whole Belly is "fed by Paiu- 

 afh-coloured, except towards the vent, where are fome white feathers, whofe tcrs * 

 roots or lower parts, v. g. from the middle to the rlem, are black, and fofter than 

 their upper parts. The Back inclines to a cheffiut or bay, but toward the Rump 

 it is cinereous or dun. The outer feathers of the Wings are black, the inner 

 afh-coloured, but declining to black. The outer Wing-feathers are marked with 

 fpots very pleafant to behold : Some of thefe feathers, pip. the firft, feven in num- 

 ber, are white, their Appendices being red like to Cinnabar or Vermilion. Gefner 

 was told by a certain perlon, I know not who, but untruly, that thefe feathers were 

 horny [_ Iiuppofe he meant their fhafts ] Yet are they pretty hard and folid, long, and 

 after a fort Cartilagineous. To thefe fucceed other feathers adorned in like manner 

 with fpots, but of a pale yellow, refembling in fome meafure the figure of the Let- 

 ter L : Which are fo difpofed, that in fome feathers appear feven, in fome fix, and in 

 fome but five only. Again, the laft feathers have white fpots, which by how much 

 they are fituate nearer theoutfide, by fo much do they become lefs confpicuous; fo 

 that of the laft feathers of all fometimes three, fometimes two, and fometimes only 

 * one is fo fpotted. The covert feathers are alio tipt with white. Concerning the yel- 

 low fpots it is to be noted, that in the Females they are white, and that over againft 

 them are to be found other white fpots. I have learned by infpecfion, that the Tail 

 of theCockconfiftsof ten feathers only, the Tail of the Hen of twelve; which near 

 their roots are of a dark cinereous or Moufe dun, but above are black. The end of 

 the whole Tail is yellow, but more refplendent in the Male than in the Female. 

 Near the vent are fome other feathers of a Chefnut-colour, making as it were ano- 

 ther Tail, but far lefs. The colour of the Legs is dusky, inclining to blue. The fhape 

 and bignefs of the Feet anfwer tothofe of a * Hawfinch : The colour differs, being *cou*thrt* 

 black in the Garmlus^ flefh or rofe-coloured in the Hawfinch, It hath black and- ■"* 

 crooked Claws. 



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