i4* o^^iTHOLogr, BookIT. 



§. XIII. 



The Brazilian Jupujuba or Japu of Marggrave. 



THis is of the fame figure with the precedent, and builds after the fame manner, 

 in the fame tree [one of thefe is a Male, the other a Female] but hath fome- 

 what a fhorter Tail. The whole body is invefted with very black feathers. In the 

 middle of each Wing it hath a yellow (pot, an inch long : In the end of the Back, and 

 near the vent it is all yellow. [ I have feen alfo that were wholly black, with 

 their Backs of a fanguine colour.] The Tail below from its rife half way is 

 yellow, the other half being black 5 above it is wholly black, only it hath on both 

 fides a feather half yellow. The Legs and Feet are black : The Bill of a Brimftone- 

 colour. The Eyes of a Sapphire colour, with a black Pupil. It hath a blue Tongue, 

 cleft or doubled at the top. Near the houfe of the Owner of the Engine Tapucnrai 

 is planted the treeUtf, in which hang morethau four hundred Nefts of thefe Birds ; 

 of which there are there a very great number, which hatch and bring up three broods 

 of young in a year. Each N eft is made of dry grafs and horfe-hair, or hogs briftles 

 mingled, of a dusky colour, of the figure of a narrow Cucurbite with its Alembick 

 long, in the whole about a foot and half, and from the bottom for one foot upwards 

 hollow like a Purfe, the remaining or upper part of it for half a foot being folid, and 

 hanging by its tip on the tip of a little branch of the tree. All thefe Nefts hang down 

 on this falhion from the tips of the twigs of trees. 



We have often feen the Neft of this Bird artificially built kept among other rarities 

 in the Cabinets of the curious. I perfuade my felf that this was the very Bird,which 

 the Ancients underftood by the name of Picus nidtim fufyendens, i.e. the Hang-neft- 

 Woodpecker. I am lure there is a great deal more reafon why this fhould be fo 

 called, than the Oriolus, which Aldrovandus takes to be the Picus nidum fufyendens . 

 Antonius Pigafeta writes, that Parrots do on this falhion hang their Nefts on the ex- 

 tremities of the branches of trees $ falfly imagining that the Nefts which he faw 

 hanging on the twigs of trees were Parrots Nejis. 



Chap. VI. 

 Of Woodpeckers lefs properly fo called. 



}. 1. 



The Nuthatch or NHtjobberfihta. feu Picus cinereus. 



IT is fomewhat lefs than a Chaffinch. The Cock weighed almoft an ounce. Its 

 length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail was five inches three quar- 

 ters, to the end of the Toes fix inches. 



The Bill was ftreight, triangular, black above, underneath toward the Throat 

 white, almoft an inch long, meafuring from the tip to the Angles of the flit of the 

 mouth. The Tongue broad, not longer than the mouth, horny at the end and jag- 

 ged : The Nofthrils round, and covered with fmall brmles. The Head, Neck, and 

 Back of an a(h- colour : The fides under the Wings red : The Throat and Breaft of a 

 pale yellow Qor rather Chefnut-red. ~] The lower Belly under the Tail hath fomered 

 feathers with white tips. From the Bill through the Eyes to the Neck is extended a 

 long black ftroak: The Chin is white. 



The number of flag-feathers is nineteen, of the which the firft is very (hort and 

 little. Theinteriour, or thofe next the body, have their Webs cinereous; the ex- 

 teriour dusky ; The fhafts of all are black. The Wings underneath are marked with 

 a double fpot, the one white at the roots of the exteriour quils, theother black and 

 larger, beginning at the infertion of the baftard-wing. 



The Tail is fhort, fcarce two inches, made up of twelve feathers, all of equal 

 length, unlefs the outmoft be fomewhat the fhorter, not fharp-pointed, nor ftiff as in 

 Woodpeckers, but flexile and limber : The two middlemoft cinereous 5 the two next to 

 them black with cinereous tips 5 the twofucceeding have the infide of their tips white, 



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