Book II. 0%3\£IT HO LO qY. %o 9 



This differs frtym the common Lark., 1. In bignefs : 2. In the Creft : 3. In the co- 

 lour of the Back^ which is lefs fpotted, and not fo beautiful : 4. In the meafure of the 

 Tail, which in this Bird is fhorter : 5. In that it (bars not fo much in the air, and when 

 it mounts up ftay s not fo long there : 6. That it flies not in flocks, as they do. Laft- 

 ly, (as Aldrovandus obferves) it is frequently feen about the banks of Lakes and 

 Rivers. 



Diofcorides prefcribes this bird to be eaten roafted, Galen in fome places of his 

 works roafted, in fome places boiled, to aflwage Colic pains. Marcel/us Virgilim pre- 

 fers the powder of it, put in an earthen pot, and dried or burnt in an Oven, taken in 

 water to the quantity of two or three fpoonfuls, before all other medkines for the 

 Colic. 



§. VIII. 



The lejjer crejled Lark. 



THis (as * Aldrovandus defcribes it ) is like the greater erefted Larkf, but much * ub.it, 

 lefs, and hath a conliderable long tuft on its Head for the fmalnefs of its bo- " f * 14 ' 

 dy : Red Feet. The colour of its whole body feems to incline more to brown 

 than that of the greater kind. I have obferved them running in flocks abroad in the 

 fields. 



This Bird Mr. Johnfon of Brignalhaxh obferved in the North of England. 



§. IX. 



The Giarola of * Aldrovandus, havinv a lorn heel. * Omithoi. 



J * * Book 17. 



chap. 20. 



IT was of the bignefs of a Lark: Its length from the tip of its Bill to the points of 

 its Claws was two Palms : Its Bill brittle, red, withinfide and about the corners 

 of the Mouth yellow: It gapes wide. The colour of its Crown, Neck, Back, and 

 Wings is various - y fo that therein it exactly refembles a ghtail and is alfo very like to 

 a Woodcock: For all the feathers are of a dusky Cheinut-colour, only their edges 

 are encompafTed with a more dilute or whitilh, or moderately reddiih colour. The 

 bottom of the Head, or beginning of the Neck is encircled with a border of whitilh 

 feathers, as it were a Wreath or Crown. The Tongue is cloven, the Belly white, 

 the roots of thefeathers cinereous. The Tail (b ihort that fcarce any thing of it ap- 

 pears, yet is it forked and particoloure4 5 for the laft or outmoft feather on each fide 

 is all over white, the laft lave one partly white, partly chefnut. The whole Tail is 

 fcarce an inch long, and narrow, being made up of very narrow feathers. Its Legs 

 and Feet are fufficiently large, and of a flefh colour or reddifti white. In the Feet 

 this is worthy the obfervation, that the back-toe is very long, and hath a Claw of 

 equal length, fo that both together make up an inch. This Claw is not, as in other 

 birds for the moft part, crooked from its rile, but firft ftreight for a good way, and 

 toward the tip moderately hooked. The Claws alfo are whitilh. 



§. X. 



The Bird called Spipolettad* Florence^Toxdmo at Venice: Perchance the * Stopparola, *ft».i.?.73 a * 

 or t Grilbla, or Spipola fecunda of Aldrovand. t^-73^751. 



IT is lefs than a Lar^ about the bignefs of a Beccafgo : From Bill point to Tail 

 end 7 * t inches long : Between the tips of the Wings extended eleven three quar- 

 ters broad. Its Bill is (mail, flender, about Jialf an inch long, ftreight, (harp, and 

 cole-black : Its Spur or back-claw very long, Ike z Larks. 



Its colour on the top of the Head, Neck, Shoulders, and Back cinereous, with a 

 dalh of green. [ Mx.WiUughby makes the Back to be of an obfcure or dusky yellow, 

 the Head more cinereous. ~] The Breaft and Belly are white : The Throat fpotted. 

 The Belly of the Hen-bird is yellowifh. [The Throat, Breaft, and Belly in fome are 

 white, in others of a lovely yellow : But in all generally the Breaft is darker than the 

 Throat or Belly, and fpotted. 3 . It hath in each Wing eighteen prime feathers, (I 

 found not in this kind that lmall, fhort, outmoft feather, which we have obferved in 

 the Wings of many fmall birds,) of a dark or dusky colour 5 excepting the outer 



E e edges, 



