i6> 0^3^1TH0L0gr. Book II. 



in old birds whitifh : It hath on both fides a flefliy and tuberous membrane, by which 

 it is above joyned to the Head, under which the Nofthrilsareasit were hid. The 

 hides of the Eyes are yellow. A red or Scarlet colour [according to Aldrovandus 

 powdered with black (pecks ] compaffes the Eye round for a good breadth. In the 

 forepart of the Head, at the &*£rof the upper Chap of the Bill, the feathers are 

 black with a kind of purple glofs.' The Crown of the Head and upper part of the 

 Neck are tindured with a dark green, (hining likefilk, which colour yet is more di- 

 lute on the Crown of the Head. [_Aldrovandu* writes, that the Crown commonly 

 is of a very elegant, Ihining afh-colour, at the fides and near the Bill being green, 

 and either in Sun or (hade very changeable: Which moft beautiful colour doth alfo 

 * ah the up- take up the * whole Neck above. Mr. Willughby makes the Crown of the Head to 

 Neck thC be of a ^ring Dlue 5 ' witn a certain mixture of red, and as well the Head as the upper 

 part of the Neck to appear fometimes blue, fometimes green. ] It hath moreover on 

 both fides the Head about the Ears feathers (ticking out, which Pliny calls horns. 

 There grow alfo to the Ears in their lower angle black feathers longer than the reft'. 

 The fides of the Neck and the Throat are of a (hining purple colour, Note, that as 

 well the green as the purple colour inheres only in the exteriour part or borders of the 

 feathers, the reft, i.e.- the middle and lower part, of the feather being on the top of 

 the Head dusky, on the Neck black. The feathers under the Chin, and at the angles 

 of the Mouth are black, with green edges or borders. , 



Below the green the reft of the Neck, the Breaft, Shoulders, middle of the Back, 

 and fides under the Wings are clothed with moft beautiful feathers, having their bot- 

 toms black, their edges tinded with a moft beautiful colour, which, as it is diverfly 

 objeded to the light, appears either black or purple : Next to the purple in each fea- 

 ther is a crofs line or bed of a moft fplendid gold colour : Below the gold a fulvous, 

 which reaches as low as the black bottom we mentioned. Howbeit the gold colour 

 is not immediately contiguous to the fulvous, but divided by an intermediate narrow 

 line of a ihining purplilh. On the underfide of the Neck the extremities [ tops ] of 

 the feathers are painted with a black fpot of the figure of a Parabola. The (hafts of 

 all are fulvous. The feathers themfelves about the ihaft in the lower part of the un- 

 der fide of the Neck are marked with an Oval white fpot in the black bottom we 

 fpoke of. The feathers on the fhoulders and middle of the Back are variegated with 

 thefe colours : Firft, their edges are fulvous, next fucceeds a narrow purplilh line, 

 then a pretty broad black line running parallel to the edges of the feathers, wherein 

 is included another broad white line : This Aldrovandut calls an Oval line. The (pace ' 

 comprehended within this line, and the reft of the feather, to the very bottom, are 

 black. Yet in the middle of the Back the fpace comprehended is various, of dusky 

 and black. The fhafts of the feathers are fulvous or yellow. The lower feathers of 

 the Back arealmoft wholly ferrugineous, inclining to a Fox colour, want that white 

 fpot, are longer than others, and end as it were in fmall filaments. Yet they have 

 this common with the fore- mentioned, that in the light, about their middles they 

 *caft forth feem to * have an appearance of that green colour,which elle is not feen in them 5 that 

 fcmefhew. their fhafts approach to a gold colour, and that their bottoms or lower parts are all 

 dusky. The Tail (if you meafure the middle feathers, which are much longer than 

 the reft) is full twenty fix inches long, almoft of the figure of an Organ, for as in 

 that the Pipes on each fide are gradually longer and longer, or bigger and bigger, the 

 biggeft being the middlemoft, 10 is it in this Tail : Thofe two middlemoft feathers 

 (which, as we (aid, are the longeft of all ) have on each fide them eight, all of diffe- 

 rent magnitude, the exteriour fhorter and lefler than the interiour in order to theout- 

 moft. They are of an alh-colour, on the fides ferrugineous, near the fhafts adorned 

 with black (pots, in the longeft feathers in both W 7 ebs, oppofite one to another, in 

 the lefler in one Web only, or if there be any mark in the interiour Web it is more , 

 obfcure, and icarce obfervable. The Wings clofed are nine inches long, (pread 

 * Here is * eighteen inches broad. The Wing-feathers that are next the body are variegated 

 forrhe^ 6 With the fame colours as thofe on the middle of the Back : The fubfequent are liker 

 breadth is tno ^ on tne lower part of the Back : Yet the ridges of the Wings referable thofe of 

 double of the common Partridge, whofe colour the prime feathers or quils of the Wings do 

 inches! 11 aJ moft exadly reprefent, viz. being of a dusky afl>colour, and all over fpotted with 

 whitifn fpots. The Breaft and Belly whereabout the Gizzard lies, and that part 

 thereof which the Wings cover giifter with the fame colours wherewith the Neck is 

 beautified, but moreobfcure, and the feathers here are much bigger. Near the vent 

 and on the Thighs it is of a dark ferrugineous. The Legs, Feet, Toes, and Claws 



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