Book II. 0^A£1TH OLOCfT. 5J~ 



upper feathers, in oblique lines interfering one another, or if youpleafe, certain 

 circumferences, made (as I laid ) of black and white powder, and having their ex- 

 tremities joyned together as in Honey-combs or Nets, do comprehend oval or round 

 fpots in dusky (paces «, but fo do not the lower. *' Yet both are placed in a like manner. * o r the ppfi. 

 For in fome feathers they are fo joyned together in order, that they do almoft make X^* 

 acute triangles, in others foas to reprefent an oval figure. Of this kind there are likeruie. 

 three or four rows in each (ingle feather, fo that the lefler are contained within the 

 greater. In the end of the Wings and in the Tail the fpots ftand in equidiftant right 

 lines, long ways of the feather. Between the Cock and Hen you can fcarce difcero, 

 the fimilitudeisfo great} fave that the Head of the Hen is all black. Its voice is a di- 

 vided or interrupted whittle, not louder, nor greater than that of a g£uail> butliker 

 to that of a Partridge, except that it is * higher, and not fo clear. This defcription * SKbUmiri 

 was fent to Gefner by our Dr. Key [Cajus."] 



Marggravim faw others brought out of Sierra Lyona, like to the above defcribed^ 

 whole Neck was bound or lapped about with,as it were,a membranous cloth of a blue 

 alh-colour. A round many-double tuft or creft confifting of elegant black feathers 

 covers the Head. The white points or fpots round the whole body are variegated as 

 it were with a (hade. 



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Macucagua of the Brafilians, a bird of the Hen-J^nd. Marggrave. 



IT is of thebignefsof our Country Hen, or bigger 3 hatha black Bill, more than an 

 inch and half long, forward a little crooked, like a Partridges: In the middle of 

 the Bill are two large holes for Nofthrils. The Eyes are black 3 and behind them at 

 a little diftance are the Ears, as in Hens : The body thick and great, wherewith the 

 Wings end, for it hath no Tail. The lower Legs are bare,two inches and an half long. 

 It hath in its Feet three Toes Handing forward, thick, with ftiort and blunt Claws 5 

 a round heel like an Ofirich, and a little above that a ftiort; Toe toward the inlide of 

 the Leg, with a blunt Talon. The whole Head and Neck is fpeckled with a dark 

 yellow and black : Under the Throat it is white. The Breaft, Belly, and Back are 

 of a dark afh-colour. The Wings are all over of an Umber-colour waved with 

 black, except the prime feathers, which are wholly black. The upper Legs are clo- 

 thed with feathers of the fame colour with the Belly 3 the lower, together with the 

 Feet, are blue: The Claws grey. It is a very flelhy bird, and hath 10 much fleftias 

 fcarcetwo ordinary Hens have, and that alfo well tailed. Under the outer skin, which 

 is thick and fat, it hath another membrane wherewith the flelh is covered. It lives 

 upon divers fruits that fall from wild trees. I found in its llomach wild Beans, the 

 Seeds of Araticu, 8cc. It runs upon the ground \ for its Feet are unfit to climb trees. 

 It lays Eggs a little bigger than Hens Eggs, of a bluifh green colour. This might 

 have been put in the next Chapter among the wild birds. 



Chap. XL 

 Wild Birds of the Poultry-kind, and firft of all, the Granivorom. 



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The Pheafext. Phafianus. 



THis Bird isfuppofed to be fo called from Phafis a River in Colchis, from whence 

 it was firft brought ito Europe. Aldrovandm^ not improbably, takes this word 

 to be rather derived from the Hebrew jvOS> of the fame fOund,and (as hefup- 

 pofes ) fignification. They differ much in weight, according as they are fatter or 

 leaner. One Cock We made trial in weighed fifty ounces, another but forty five 5 

 a Hen thirty three. Its length from the point of the Bill to the end of the Tail was 

 thirty fix inches, to the end of the Claws twenty four. The diftance between the 

 tips of the Wings extended thirty three inches. The Bill like to that of other gra* 

 nivorous birds 9 from the tip to the angles of the mouth an inch three quarters long 9 



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