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with a black.Pupil, yellow hides, and the * reft of the outfides of the Eyes black. * Rtiiqmy «. 

 The Neck is not longer than a Parrots. The body from the rife of the Neck to the trmlmes - 

 Tail is about live inches long. The Tail is broad like a Woodpeckers, and fix inches 

 long, or fomewhat more. The Legs and Feet are of a dark green or black, like to 

 thole of Parrots, having two fore-toes, whereof the one longer than the other, and 

 two back-toes likewueof unequal length. The Claws crooked, and dusky or black. 

 The length of the upper Legs is two inches, of the lower one and an half. The whole 

 Head and Neck as far as the beginning of the Breaft are covered with black feathers, 

 which where they end are terminated in a circle. The Breaft, and all the lower Belly 

 elegantly cloathed with yellow feathers mingled with pavonine. Crofs the Breaft 

 from the one fide to the other is a broad line drawn, of a (anguine colour. The whole 

 Back, Wings, Tail, and upper Legs are covered with dark green feathers, [ or black 

 with a glofs of green ] like the colour ufual in our Magpies. The end of the Back 

 above the beginning of the Tail is of a (anguine c olour to more than the Circumfe- 

 rence of a Crown piece. The Wings end at the rile of the Tail, and within fide are 

 of a dark afti-colour. , The Bill is black within. This Bird doth, as it were, pro- 

 nounce its own name, crying with a (harp voice, but not veryfhril, Aracari. 



This Bird is very like the Toucan or Brazilian Pie. The conformation of its Feet 

 argues it to belong to the Woodpecker-kind. We (aw the Bill of this Bird in the Re- 

 fofitory of the Royal Society, London, our (elves alfo have one of them: It is much lels 

 than the Toucans Bill, not fo comprefled fide-ways, but rounder. The upper Chap 

 wholly white, without any line of black in the to^p, ( wherein it differs from the Ara- 

 cari' s Bill defcribed by Marggrave) the lower black. 



§. XI. 



* The yellow blue-footed Per fan Woodpecker of Aldrovandus. 



THis Bird communicated to me by Tartaglinm the Venetian, ( who (hewed me 

 many exotic Animals painted ) at firft fight, from the conftitution of the Bill 

 and Feet I judged to be of the Woodpecker-kind. In bignefs it differs little or nothing 

 from the green Woodjpite 5 only it hath a thicker Head and Neck, and a longer Bill. 

 The feathers from the middle of the Crown to the end of the Tail have (bmethingof 

 ferrugineous : But the Bill is altogether ferrugineous. The Feet are of a pale blue. 

 The Claws are black : The reft of the body is yellow, fave that all the Wing-feathers 

 ends or tips incline fomewhat to ferrugineous; and that a (pot of the lame colour en- 

 compalTes the Eyes. He faid it was an exotic Bird, and bred in Perfta. 



£. XII. 



* The American Hang-neji, called by the Brafdidns Guira tangeima. Marggr- 



IT is a Bird fomewhat bigger than a Lark^, equal to the fpotted Woodpecker. Its 

 body is about three inches long. Its Neck an inch and half: The Head is fmall,< 

 the Bill ftreight, (harp-pointed, an inch long. Its Legs and Feet are like thofe of 

 other birds,its Tail ftreight,four inches long. The colour of its Bill is black, except the 

 lower part,where it is inferted, which hath fomething of dusky : The Head and Neck, 

 as low as the beginning of the Breaft, very black. The upper part of the Neck from 

 the Head almoft to the beginning of the Back is of a * Sky-colour. Through the begin- * drdnhi 

 ning of the Back it hatha tranfverfe black fpot, reaching as far as the Wings: But the col ° 115 ' 

 Wings themfelves areof a deep black, only in the middle they have awhiteipotfituate 

 longways the feathers, of an inch and half long. The Tail alfo is wholly black : The 

 reft of the body is of a Sky-colour. The Legs are bluiih : The Pupil of the Eyes 

 black,with a yellowilh white Iris. Thefo Birds build admirable Nefts of a Cylindrical 

 figure, and hang themin great numbers on the ends of the boughs and twigs of trees. 

 Thefe Nefts are made of the fmall Fibres of roots and twigs of trees and herbs, curi- 

 oufly platted and interwoven. 



§. XIII. 



