It could ruffle up the feathers of its Head, fo as to make them appear like a Creft, 

 as doth the Jay. The Plumage is fo elegantly and curioufly coloured, that it is very 

 difficult in words to defcribe it ; the upper part of the body being variegated with- 

 white, black, reddifri, dusky, and grey oraih-colour. From the crown of the Head 

 all along the' middle of the Back runs a lift of black. The Head is cinereous, with 

 tranfverfe white, black, and red lines: The Throat and lower Belly yellow with 

 tranfverfe black lines; the middle of the.Breaft is whiter, with fewer lines. The 

 feathers covering the bottom of the prime Wing-feathers are yellow^ with tranfverfe 

 black lines. The Rump is more afh-coloured than the Head, with white fpots, and . 

 tranfverfe black lines. 'uih . ni . 1 



The prime Wing-feathers are in number nineteen, the hrlt or outmoft being iome- 

 thing friorter than the fecond, black, but fpotted with great red fpots 3 which (pots, 

 efpecially in the feathers next the body, are. powdered with (mall, black fpecks. The 

 tips of the fecond row of Wing-feathers are white. The Tail-feathers are ten, not 

 (harp-pointed, nor (lift; nor bending inwards, as in the above defcribed Woodpeckers ; 

 two inches and an half long, of a cinereous colour,, eroded at large intervals with 

 bars of black: To fpeak exactly, the part next the crbfs bars is of a dark afti-colour, 

 the reft of the intermediate fpaces of a paler cinereous, fprinkled, and as it Were be- 

 dewed with black fpecks. -. • 



The Toes are fo difpofed as in the reft of this kind, two forward, two backward : 

 The outmoft Toes in each Foot are equal, and twice folong as the inmoft. 



It wants the blind Guts like the reft of this kind. The length of the Guts was nine 

 inches. 



It ftrangely and ridiculoully turns its head back to its (boulders, whence it is by 

 Gaza called Torquilla. It feeds upon 'Ants, which darting out it's Tongue it ftabs 

 through with great celerity, with the thorny point we mentioned ( as Children are 

 wont to catch Frogs with an Iron Dart, (hot out of a Bow, and drawn *back again ) 

 and i'o (wallows them, never touching them with its Bill, as other birds are wont to 

 do their meat : Witnefs Gefner, who tells us, that himfelf kept one five days in a 

 Gage, and affirms upon his own experience that it feeds upon no other food but 



JfftS. 



The Hen is paler and more cinereous than the Cock. Aldrovandm obferved a long 

 black fpot behind the Eyes in the Cock. 



Annot.~\ I defcribed" this Bird thus. The Quils or prime feathers in each Wing 

 were eighteen, of a dusky colour, marked in their exteriour Webs with red fpots, in 

 their interiour with pale ones: fo (ituate as in the yicdWoodpecker. ■ The Throat and 

 upper part of the Breaft were yellow, and the Belly white, from Bill to Tail varie- 

 gated with thick-fet, crofs black lines. At each corner of the mouth grew white fea- 

 thers, varied with the like tranfverfe lines. 



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* The Brafilian Jacamaciri of Marggrave. 



FOr the conformity of its Feet we have fubjoyned it to the Woodpeckers. It is of 

 the bignefs of a Lark. ' It hath a ftreight, (harp-pointed, black Bill, almoft two 

 inches long: A (hort Tongue, [wherein it differs from Woodpeckers ] blue Eyes ; 

 (hort Wings; which end a little beneath the rife of the Tail. The Tail is almoft three 

 inches and an half long, ftreight, compofed of feven or eight feathers. The upper 

 Legs are feathered, the lower bare, the skin being of a colour mingled of yellow 

 and green 5 of which colour are alfo the Feet. In each foot it hath four Toes, two 

 (landing forwards, and two backwards; both the inner Toes in each Foot, as well 

 the fore as the back one, are but half fo long as the outer. The Claws are black. 

 The whole Head, upper part of the Neck, Back, Wings, and Tail above are of a 

 green colour mingled with golden or igneous, fo that they (nine wonderfully. A 

 ring of the fame colour doth alfo encompafs the Neck. Under the Throat, on the 

 Breaft, the lower Belly, and under the Tailitisof a dark yellow colour, like yellow 



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