i 7 + O^^ClTHOLOgT, Book I I. 



The Bill is black and crooked 5 the upper Chap fomewhat prominent and gibbous. 



Under the Tongue is a kind of glandulous fubftance : In the Palate a Cavity impreffed 



equal to the Tongue. The Tongue is undivided, fbft, and fomewhat rough. The 



Eyebrows bare and red. The Ears great both in Male and Female. The Legs rough 



with feathers growing on their fore-part : The Toes naked, and connected by a 



membrane as far as the firft joynt. On each fide the Toes are the like borders of skin 



as in the precedent Fowl, ftanding out from the Toe, and pectinated. The Claw of 



the middle Toe is on the infide thinned into an edge. It hath no fpurs. 



* Underftand I ts Guts are * fifty one inches long : Its blind Guts ( which is ftrange ) twenty four, 



it of the bird ftriate with fix lines. The Craw large. They feed upon the tops of Heath, 



e cri e ' Acorns, &c. The Pouts do a long time accompany their Dams even after they be 



come to their full growth, as do young Partridges. They are infefted with Lice and 



Ticks. 



This kind is frequent in the fides of high Mountains 3 fometimes it defcends into 

 the plains, not rarely occurring in the lower Heath-grounds. The Male differs 10 

 ftrangely from the Female, that to one unacquainted with them they might well feem 

 to be of different kinds 5 yea, to Gefner himfelf they feemed fo, as we fhewed in the 

 foregoing Chapter. 



This is Turner s Morehetf, which he thinks to be Co named from the colour of the 

 Cock, which is black, as in Moors, though he is miftaken in that he writes, that it 

 hath on its Head a red flefhy Creft, and about the Cheeks two as it were red flefhy 

 Lobes, or Gills, for it hath no other red fleih about the Head but the Eye-brows, 

 which all the reft of this Genus have. See Aldrovand. lib. 14. cap. 1 5. Gefner calls 

 it Gallus Scoticus Sylvejiris, that is, The wild Scotch Cock. I fufpedt alfo that the 

 Gallus Paluflrk Scoticus of the fame Gefner is no other than this Bird. The Hiftories of 

 thefe Birds you hwem Aldrcvands Ornithology, lib. I4.cap. 15,16. 



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*? The Attagen of Aldrovandus, called by the Italians Francolino. 



N bignefs and the whole habit and fafhion of its body it approaches to a Pheafant. It 

 hath a fhort, black Bill, crooked at the end. The colour is various almoft the 

 whole body over. The Head efpecially hath a very beautiful afpeft, a yellowifh 

 Creft variegated with black and white fpots, being erected in the middle of its 

 Crown. The Pupil of the Eyes is black, the Iris yellow. It hath Eye-brows, like 

 the Heathcock, of naked fcarlet-coloured skin. Under the Bill and in the beginning 

 of the Throat hangs down as it were a beard of very fine feathers. Its Neck is of the 

 longeft, and in comparifon with the bulk and make of its body flender, of an afh- 

 colour, befprinkled with black and white fpots 5 which in this refpect differ, that here 

 the white, in the Head the black are the deeper. The fpots of the Breaft are of the 

 fame colour, wherewith are other ferrugineous ones mingled. The Belly,TaiI, Hips, 

 and Legs [which are covered with feathers] are of a lead colour, and alfo befprinkled 

 with black fpots. The fore-toes of the Feet are long, the back-toe fhort, all armed 

 with crooked Claws. 



■ They are by the Italians called Francolini as it were Franci, that is, Free Fowl, 

 becaufe the common people are forbidden to take them, and Princes grant them free- 

 dom of living. 



Ohna defcribes this Francolino a little otherwife. In the figure (faith he) and 

 proportion of its body it refembles a common Partridge, but in bignefs fomething 

 exceeds it. The Breaft and all the Belly are fpotted with black and white. The ends 

 of the Wings and Tail are black. The Head, Neck, and Rump are fulvous, inclining 

 to red,with a little and black intermixed. But neither his figure reprefents, 



nor defcription mentions any Creft. The Legs alfo in Olina's figure are naked. 



This Bird is either the fame with our other Lagopus, called the Red-game, or very 

 like it 5 but differs from it, in that it hath a Creft upon its Head. But the Attagen 

 of Bellonius ( as may be feen by its Picture ) is deftitute of a Creft. Indeed I fhould 

 think it to be the fame, did not the place forbid it. For our red Game lives upon the 

 tops of the higheft Mountains in Northern Countries, whereas the Attagen of Aldro- 

 vandus is found plentifully in the Mountains oC Sicily, which is a very hot Country. 

 Yet I make no queftion, but the Bird, which Bellonius and Scaliger unaerfrand by this 

 *name, that lives in the Pyrensan Mountains, and the Mountains of Aitvergne, and 



which 



