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fancy,but fwallowed by the Bird 5 as though by this mark alfo Nature would manifeft, 

 that thefeFowl are of the Oft rich kind in that they fwallowany hard things, though 

 they do not digeft them. Thus Bontius. 



We liave feen this Bird dried, or its skin ftuft in Tradefeants Cabinet. 



Chap. IX. 

 Of the Poultry kind. 



THecharafteriftic notes of the Poultry kind are : 1. To have a (hort, ftrong, 

 and fomewhat crooked Bill, very fit to pick up grains of Corn, Pulfe, and 

 other Seeds, on which this kind chiefly feeds : 2. A thick and flefhy body : 

 3. Short, hollow Wings } whence this fort of birds flies not high, and makes but 

 (hort flights for the molt part : 4. A Stomach furnifhed with thick mufcles, whole 

 ufe is to grind the grains of Corn, and other hard meat fwallowed whole, which they 

 perform by the help of little ftones which the birds now and then fwallow , andfo 

 fupply the defect of Teeth; 5. Very long blind guts : 6. White flefh, efpecially that 

 of themulclesof the Bread, which colour after boy ling diicovers it felf more mani- 

 feftly. This note is peculiar to this kind, not agreeing to any other bird that I know. 

 This is a fign that their flefh is of all other moft wholfom, and affords belt nourifh- 

 ments : So that it is not undefervedly had in higheft efteem, and fold deareft of any 

 other. 7. To breed many young at a time. 8. To build their Nefts upon the ground 5 

 the reafon whereof is becaufe 9. The young ones newly hatched are not fed by their 

 Dams with meat put into their mouths, but are covered with a thick Down, forfake 

 their Nefts, and running up and down follow the old ones, and feed themfelves, pick- 

 ing up their meat with their Bills. 1 o. Becaufe they are ( as we faid ) corpulent, and 

 cannot fly long, they feek their food walking up and down upon the earth, and for 

 that reafon have broad Toes, that they may ftand firmer and furer, and are for the 

 moft part good runners. 1 1. The moft, if not all birds of this kind, duft themfelves. 

 12. The Poultry kind only, but not all the feveral Species of this kind, are armed 

 with Spurs. 



We fhall diftinguifh the birds of this kind into tame and wild : the wild we fhall 

 fubdivide into thofe that have the back-toe and thofe that want it : Thofe again that 

 have the back toe, into granivorous and phytivorous, or by a more evident raark,fuch 

 as have fcarlet red Eye-brows. 



f Tame and dome ft c , as the Peacock, Turkey, Dunghil 

 Cock,e^r. 

 -. , ., , _ , , . , f G>v*»iwr0«f,asthePheafant, 



Birds of the Poultry kind 1 p artrid ae, Quail,^. 



areeithcr 1 (Have the back! 



i ixr.f , , • , \ toe being *". Phytivorous, with red Eye- 



j Wild which ; & j browSj as Cock of the 



^ either ^ [ Wood,c^. 



C Want the back-toe, as the Buftard, &c. 



Chap. X. 



Of tame Poultry. 



}. I. 



The Dunghill Cock,, and Hen, Gallus gallinaceus 8c Gallina domeftica. 



f ■ '*His Bird called by the Grecians 'AAgjcrpuwy, and of old by a general name 



1 "Opvis, is and hath been fo well known in all Ages and places, that it would 



-*- be but loft labour to beftow many words on the defcribing of it. By its 



erect Tail having the component feathers fo fituateas to make an Angle or ridge 3 its 



flefhy, naked, ferrate Comb, and Gills or Wattles hanging down under its Chin, and 



laftly, 



