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BdoKii. o^j^iTHOLogr, 



venient skin, as in fome other birds. It hath a Tail a foot long, like a Turkeys, which 

 it always moves in breadth 3 crying Kit Kit like them : A well-lhaped Head like a 

 Qoofes 5- a Neck about fix inches long, as was before faid : Brave, great black Eyes 3 

 and behind the Ears a white naked fpot like a Hen. It is eafily made tame 3 it roofts 

 willingly on high upon trees like Turkeys. Finally, it hath very good and favoury 

 fleft. 



TkPauxi of Nieremberg, fMndian Hen of Aldrovandm, lib.4. cap.12. 

 a variety of the Mitu. 



It was ( faith J^ieremberg out of Fr. Hemandm ) of the bignefs of a Dunghil-Cock. 

 orfomething bigger : Its feathers were of a black colour, butftiining, and almoftlike 

 a Peacocks: Its Bill red, crooked, and like a Parrots, &c. What was moll: remarka- 

 ble in, and peculiar to this Bird was a certain tumour fattened to the root of its Bill, 

 where it was more (lender, of the fhapeof a Pear, of the hardnefs of a ftone, and of 

 a blue colour, like that of the (tone called Cyanem or the Turcot. 



Aldrovandus defcribes his * Indian Hen, from a Picture, as I fuppofe, in this Wife. *°™«Yb/. 

 From the Bill to the end of the Tail ( which was white, and ftriped with black lines) llb - I4,cap " 1Zi 

 it was black, which blacknefs yet did every where inclineto blue. The vent and be- 

 ginning of the Tail underneath were white. Its Bill was ftrong, crooked, and red. 

 Its Legs were almoft of the fame colour, but much paler, and in their hind part in- 

 clining to blue. The Claws were black. It carried on its forehead a great protube- 

 rance, of the ihape of a Fig, and of a bluifh colour. The Tail was long, not eredf, 

 as in our common Cocks and Hens, but extended in length, as in a Pie. 



Thefe birds differ not from the Mitu in any thing almoft but that protube- 

 rance or excrefcence at the beginning of the Bill. Nierembergius alfo makes mention 

 of this variety in his tenth Book, Chap.j<$. The Pailxi, faith he, ( for fo he there calls 

 this Bird ) hath a great head, which in fome is plain or fmooth, in others crefted 3 in 

 others inftead of a creft of feathers arifes a ftone or globular body f a ftone they call 

 it though it be not over-hard ) like an Egg, or bigger, of the colour of Soder. I 

 wonder that Marggrave fhould make no mention of this bunch ; Surely it was want- 

 ing in all the birds he few. Whether this Bird be a Species diftinft from the Mftit, or 

 only accidentally different, we refer to further inquifition. 



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The other Indian Cock, of AldrovandusJ&txipoYangaofMarggraviuf, 

 Tepetototl of Nierembergius. 



THere is alfo found (faith Marggrave ) another kind of * this Bird, which the * The Mit!i - 

 Brafdians call Mituporanga, differing only in the Bill and feathers of the Head. 

 This kind hath no long Bill, but an indifferently thick one, yet not fo * high as the * 0r Pf " 

 Mitu, nor fo crooked : 1 he tip of both Chaps is black, all the reft of the Bill covered £?dw 

 with a Saffron-coloured skin 3 the like whereto it hath alfo about the Eyes. It hath vvordis - 

 goodly, black Eyes. The Head and Neck covered with feathers of a deep black, 

 like Velvet. On the top of the Head it hath curled feathers, twifted or turning up 

 fpirally, as far as the beginning of the Neck 3 which it can erecT: in the manner of a 

 curled or frilled creft. All the reft of the Bird is black, wherewith is here and there 

 mingled a glofsof green. About the vent it hath white feathers. The Legs are ci- 

 nereous, and of the figure of the Mitus. The Tail black, but the extremities of its 

 feathers white. This Bird alfo eafily becomes very tame and familiar. 



Of this Bird Nierembergim * writes thus. The fawning and familiarity of* *#•'<»• 

 Dogs doth not exceed the officioufnefs of the Tepetototl or Mountain Bird, which cap ' 62 ' 

 others call, Tecuecholi, and the Spaniards Natives of America a Pheafant, which is very 

 tame and domeftic : It is a bird of the bignefs of a Goofe, of a black fhining co- 

 lour 3 yet having fome feathers white underneath, about the Tail, at the ends of the 

 Wings 3 afti-coloured Legs and Feet 3 a crooked Bill, partly cinereous, and partly 

 yellow, and about its root as it were {welling out 3 a folded or curled creft 3 black 

 Eyes, but a pale iw. It is fed with Corn, made up into a mafs or loaves, and baked, 

 and with fuch like meat. Its flefh is fat, and good to eat, and not unlike that of well- 

 fed [Turkeys. It is a very gentle Creature, and loving to man, and begs its food, when 

 an hungry, by catching hold of the cloths of thofe that it lives in the houfe with : 



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