iJM- O^^ClTHOLOgr. Book II. 



are black 5 is fo deep | perchance by the word intense he may mean bright ] a red, 

 that it exceeds all other rednefles. The Tail is long 5 the Feet and Legs black 3 The 

 Bill fhort, as in a Sparrow. The feathers are red to the very bottom. That which 

 Aldrovandm defcribes, perchance from a picture, was in fome things different from 

 Bellopim his bird. For, faith he, the Wings are not all over black, but all the upper 

 feathers by the fhoulders of a deep red. Next to them are fome black ones, then 

 red ones again 5 the fubfequent, viz. all the great feathers, being black, as is alfothe 

 Tail. The Bill alfo is not fo (hort as in Sparrows, yet thick, and remarkably crooked, 

 without of a dusky colour, within yellow, as I conjecture from the colour of the' 

 corners of the moutM>j#».f.] Moreover,the Feet are notblack,but of an auVcolour, 

 only a little dusky, being great for the proportion of the Legs : The Claws ifiort, but 

 crooked, of the fame colour. 



We have leen mTradefcants Cabinet a red Indian bird dried, of the bignefs almoft 

 of a Mavis, having a long Tail, which perchance is the fame with the bird in this Ar- 

 ticle defcribed. 



'% VI. 



* The Rofe or Carnation-coloured Ouzel of Aldrov. lib. 16. cap. 15. 



^His bird our Fowlers call, the Sea-Starling. It is feen fbmetimes in our fields, 

 and is much among dung-heaps. To me it feems rather to be a kind of Ouzel 

 [ Merula ] than Starling. For a Starling is fpotted^ which this is not. It is fomewhat 

 lefs than a Blackbird, hath its Back, Breaft, and Wings above of a Rofe or Carnati- 

 on colour, its Head tufted, its Wings and Tail black, the prime feathers being near 

 a Chefnut colour : The Bill next the Htead black, elfe of a flefh colour : The Feet 

 of a deep yellow or Saffron-colour. The Cock in this kind is of a more lively and 

 lovely colour. The head of the Hen is in colour like to the Cocks, but the Neck, 

 Wings, and Tail not fo black as his. They become very fat, and are accounted good 

 meat. 



We have not as yet feen this bird, neither do we remember to have elfewhere read 

 or heard any thing of it. 



, §• VII. *: 



The red-breafied Indian Blackbird, perchance the Jacapu of Marggrave. 



WE faw the Cafe of this bird in Trade fcants Cabinet. It was of the bignefs and 

 fhape of a Blackbird, as far as I could judge by the dried skin. The colour of 

 the whole upper fide was black 5 only the edges of the feathers about the Rump were 

 afh-coloured. The Breaft was of a fcarlet colour: The Bill like a Blackbirds: The 

 Tail alfo long, and like a Blackbirds. 



I take this to be the fame bird, which Marggrave defcribes under the title of Jacapu 

 of the Brazilians, though he attribute to it only the bignefs of a Lark; It hath ( faith 

 he ) a long Tail, fhorter Wings, (hort and black Legs, with (harp Claws on the four 

 toes : A Bill a little crooked and black, half an inch long. The whole body is cove- 

 red with fhining black feathers^ yet underthe Throat ipots of a Vermilion colour are 

 mingled with the black. This bird differs from ours in its fmalnefs, and the fhortnefs 

 of its Bill. 



§. VIII. 



The Ring-Ouzel, Merula torquata. 



T is like, and equal to, or fomewhat bigger than the common Blackbird : From Bill 

 t to Tail eleven inches long, to the end of the Feet ten and a quarter 5 the Wings 

 extended were by meafure feventeen inches. The Bill more than an inch long, of a 

 dark dusky or blackifh colour. The mouth yellow withinfide : The Tongue rough. 

 Thelridesof the Eyes areof a dark hazel colour: The Legsand Feet dusky. The 

 outer Toe is joyned to the middle as far as to the firft joynt. The colour of the up- 

 per fide of the body is a dark brown, or ruffet, inclining to black. The feathers co- 

 vering the Breaft and Belly are marked with a long whitifh fpot down the fhaft, 



having 



