zi8 OQi^ClTHOLOgr. Book II. 



* The Brafilian Tijeguacu of Marrgrave. 



For the figure of its Bill alike depreiled and triangular we have fubjoyned this 

 bird to theprecedent, though otherwife not much referabling it. It is ( faith Mare- 

 grave) of thebignefsof a Sparrow, or a little bigger , hatha ftiort, triangular, and 

 fomewhat broad, black Bill: Its Eyes of a Sapphire colour 5 its Legs and Feet of a 

 waxen, with duskifli Claws. Its Toes are diipofed after the ordinary manner. The 

 whole bird is as black as a Raven : But on the top of the Head it hath a fhining fan- 

 guinefpotof the figure of a buckler. The feathers covering the whole back almoft, 

 and part of each Wing above, from black incline to blue. The Tail is fhort and 

 black. 



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Chap. VII. 

 The ${edftart, Ruticilla, $wUv&e. 



He Breaft, Rump, and fides under the Wings are red : The lower Belly white : 

 The Head, Neck, and Back of a lead-colour. The forehead marked with a 

 white fpot, feparated from the Eyes and Bill by a black line, although it 

 feems to be produced beyond the Eyes to the hinder part of the Head, and to en- 

 compafs the crown of the head ( which is, as we faid,of a lead colour. ) The Throat 

 and Cheeks under the Eyes black, with a mixture of grey in the ends of the feathers . 

 In the Female the Back is;6f a dusky afh-colour: The Throat of a paler cinereous : 

 The Breaft red 5 the Bt\\j white. 



The quill-feathers in each Wing eighteen, as in other fmall birds, all dusky : The 

 upper covert-feathers black, the nether red. The Tail is made up of the ufual num- 

 ber of twelve feathers, of which the five outmoft on each fide are red, the twomid- 

 dlemoft dusky, two inches and an half long. 



The Bill is black : The Legs alfo are black in the Cock 3 in the Hen both Bill and 

 feet are paler. Theloweft bone of the outer Toe is joyned to that of the middle Toe. 

 The Tongue is cloven : The mouth within yellow : The Irides of the Eyes of a hazel 

 colour. The Eyes are turmfhed with nictating membranes. 



It feeds upon Beetles, and other Infects, and comes to us in Summer-time. 

 It weighs half an ounce, is five inches long, and nine broad. 

 This bird, faith a late Englijh Writer, is of a very dogged fullen temper : For if 

 taken old, and ordered as formerly directed in the Nightingale, he will be fometimes 

 fo dogged as in ten days time never to look toward the meat, and when he feeds him- 

 felf to continue a whole month without fingmg. This is alfo the fhieft of all birds, 

 for if (he perceive you to mind her when (he is building, (he will forfake what (he 

 hath begun, and if you touch an Egg fhe never comes to her Neft more : And if you 

 touch her young ones, fhe will either ftarve them, or throw them out of the Neft and 

 break their necks, as I found by experience more than once. The Young are to be 

 taken at ten days old, and to be fed and ordered as the Nightingales. Keep them 

 warm in Winter, and they will fing as well in the night as the day, and will learn to 

 whiftle and imitate other birds. Taken young, and brought up, they become gentle 

 and very tame. • 



Befides this common Redftart, Gefner and Aldrovand defcribe feveral other kinds, 

 Sf £ ltI Sni?f- as Im ^ at which Aldrovandm makes his third, which Gefner deicribes thus: Its fore- 

 printed, or head is marked with a white fpot : The feathers under the Bill are black. The Head 

 crfntr fare an d j> ac k are f a c j ne reous or dusky colour. The Wing-feathers are dusky, mo- 

 Jhe number derately inclining to red. The Breaft, Belly, and Tail are red 3 but the lower Belly 

 of feathers: whitifh. The Tail confifts of * eight feathers. For bignefs this bird is inferiour to 

 r^flffmali the 8 rcat Titmou fi or Ox-eye, equal to the Robin-red-breafi. Its Bill is black, (lender, 

 birds i ever long and ftreight. 



f f I ° r hear i d T ^ e ^ ourt h of Aldrevand is in all points like this, fave that the white fpot on the 

 LthersTa VC forehead is changed into a long line : The Breaft alfo feems to be more cinereous, and 

 their Tails, the lower belly not white. 



SJSSSh" 3 ' 7te$otfcbwentzelofGefter, fo called from the rednefsofthe Tail, the delcripti- 

 roni.g,p 74 8! on whereof he took from a Picture lent him from Strasburgh; Therefore we {hall 



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