i84- O^^ClTHOLOgr. BooiTIl. 



the Neck was adorned with afpot of beautiful feathers, of ablack colour,with white 

 tips. The exteriour quil-feathers of the Wings were dusky, the middle cinereous 5 

 the interiour had their edges red. The fecond row of Wing-feathers was afh-colou- 

 red, thelefler rows black. The Tail was compofed of twelve feathers, of which 

 the outmoft had both their tips and exteriour Webs white. In the fucceeding the 

 white part by degrees grew lefs and lefs, fo that the middlemoft had no white at all. 

 The length of the Tail was four inches and an half 



Its Tefticles were great, an inch long: Its Guts by meafure twenty fix inches: Its 

 blind Guts very ftiort. Its Crop great, in which we found Hemp-feed : Its Stomach 

 or Gizzard flefhy. Above the ftomach the Gullet is dilated into a kind of bag, fet 

 with papillary Glandules. 



§. V. 



* The Indian Turtle of Aldrov. lib. 15. cap.9. 



T He Hen, excepting the Feet, which are red, and the Bill, which is black, as in 

 the Cock, is all over white. But the Cock hath his Head, Neck, Breaft, 

 Wings as far as the quili-feathers, and Back down to the Rump reddifh, but of a 

 much fainter colour than ill our common Turtle, and not at allfpotted. Itsbignefsis 

 almoft the fame, its note the fame: Its Bill alio like, but black. In its Eye is a moil: 

 manifeft difference : For in this the Iris is of a moft lovely fhining Saffron, or rather 

 fcarlet colour, which in the common Turtle is only yellow. [ In that we defcribed, 

 the hides of the Eyes were between red and yellow. ] 



The ring alfb is of a different colour, for in the Indian Turtles it is flender, and 



black, and compaffes the Neck round, whereas in the common ones it is more than an 



inch broad, parti-coloured, and compaffes not the Neck. The longer feathers of the 



Wings, the Rump, and whole Tail are of a dusky colour, having their (hafts black, 



and edges white. The Belly, efpecially near the vent, is yellow. The Feet red, 



* 1 fuppofe he adorned with whitifh * tables. The Claws are dusky, inclining to yellow. They feed 



dfures divi m " u P on Mritet- Thus far Aldrovandus. Of this fort of Bird we have feen many kept by 



ding the fcaies the curious in Aviaries and Cages. 



§. VI. 



* The Indi&nTurtle or Cocotzin of Nieremberg, the Picuipinima of Marggrave: 

 Our leaji Barbados Turtle. 



IT is a little bigger than a Lar^ Nieremberg faith, than a Sparrow 3 hath a fmall 

 dusky [black ]Bill, like a Pigeons $ black Eyes,with a golden Circle. The whole 

 Head, the upper part of the Neck, the Sides, Back, and Wings are covered with dark 

 afh-coloured, or black and blue feathers, having black, femilunar borders. But the 

 long feathers of its Wings, which are feen as it flies, are of a red colour, and black on 

 one fide, and in their tips. The Tail is of a good length, confifting of dusky afh- 

 coloured feathers, yet fome of them are black, and have their exteriour half white. 

 The feathers of the Belly are white, having their ^rorders black, of the figure of a 

 Crefcent. The Legs and Feet like thofe of other ^tfoves, but whitilh. Thefe Pi- 

 geons are good meat, and grow very fat. Nieremberg adds, that the Head is little, the 

 Bill little and black, the Neck fhort, the Legs red [wherein it differs from Marg- 

 graves bird, ~] the Claws dusky and little. The Mexicans gave it its name from the 

 colour of its Wings, and thenoife it makes in flying, the Spaniards ( who call it a 

 Turtle) from its murmuring voice, and thetafte and qifality of its flefh, although it be 

 much lefs than our common Turtle. It cries hu hu, affords good nouriihment, though 

 fomewhat hard of conco&ion. It is found in Mountainous places, and alfo near 

 Towns. It is native of the Country of Mexico, and very common there. They 

 fay, that it will cure a woman of jealoufie, if you give it her boil'd to eat, fb that fhe 

 knows not what fhe eats. There is alfo another fort of this Bird, every way like it, 

 fave only that the body is fulvous and black, and the Head afh-coloured : Whence 

 fome call it Tlapalcocotli. 



This Bird is either the fame with,or very like to our leafi Barbados Turtle, which is of 

 the bignefs of a Lark-> being exactly equal to the figure we give of it, taken from the 

 live bird. 



k. VI. 



