Book II. 01{&£1T HO LO qr. 



white : The next hathlefs white} of the third, only the outer part of the tip is white; 

 All the reft are wholly black. [ Inrefpect. of thefe colours there may poflibly be forne 

 variety in feveral birds. ] 



The Bill is (hort, ftrong; black : The Tongue broad, cloven, and divided into fila- 

 ments: The Eyes bigger than in other frriall birds, their hides hazel-coloured : Thd 

 edges of the eye-lids yellow : The Nofthrils covered with fmall feathers. The Feet 

 black, as are alfo the Claws, but deeper. The Claw of the back-toe biggeft of all, 

 as is ufiial in moft birds both great and fmall. With us it frequents gardens rather 

 than mountainous places. It builds like the Wren, or more artificially, makins an 

 arch over theNeft of the fame matter arid contexture with the reft of the Neft • fo 

 that the N eft refembles an Egg ere&ed upon one end, a fmall hole being left in the fide " 

 whereat the bird goes in and out. By this means both Eggs and Young are fecured 

 from all injuries of the Air, Wind, Rain, Cold,dv. And that they may lie foftfhe 

 lines the Neft within with ftore of feathers and down. Without fhe builds the fides 

 and roof of it of Mofs and Wool curioufly interwoven. 



Aldrovand'm the feventeenth Book, and fixteenth Chapter of his Ornithology doth 

 accurately defcribe the Neft of this bird, fuch as we have more than once feen, in 

 thefe words. It was of an oblong figure like a Pine-apple, of two Palms length, and 

 one broad, round, built of fundry materials, viz. both tree and earth-mofs, Cater- 

 pillars Webs, and other like woolly matter, and Hens feathers, with that order and 

 art-, that the chief and middle ftrength of the work, or texture of the Walls was of 

 that yellowifti green Mofs, the common hairy Mofs, that filk-like matter, and tough 

 threads refembling thofe filaments fufpended in the Air, and flying up and down like 

 Spiders Webs, which are accounted figns of fair weather, connected and interwoven,, 

 or rather entangled fo firmly together, that they can hardly be plucked afunder. Of 

 the interiour capacity all the fides, itfeemed, as well as the bottom, were covered 

 and lined with feathers, for. the morefoft and warm lying of the Young. The out- 

 moftfuperficies round about was fenced and ftrengthened with fragments of that lea- 

 vy Mofs.; which every where grows on trees, firmly bound together. In the forepart 

 refpecting the Sun-rife, and that^above ( where an arched roof of the fame uniform' 

 matter and texture with the fides and bottom covered the Neft ) was feen a little 

 hole, fcarce big enough one would think to admit the old one. We found in it nine 

 Young, &c. 



§. IX. 



TheWoodTitnioufe of Gejher. Parus Sylvaticus, Aldrov. *.2.p. 724. 



THis Titmoufe is alfo Very little, remarkable for a red fpot through the midft of its? 

 Crowns the parts on each fide being black} the Legs dusky 5 the Wings 

 black, and alfo the end of the Tail : The reft of the body green 5 the Belly paler. 

 Our people from the Woods, in which it lives, efpecially about Fir-trees and Junipers, 

 call it, Waldmeifzle and Thannenmeifzle, others from its note Zifoiherle, for it fing£ 

 Z«/, 2,7'/, zalp. ° 



Mx.Willughby was apt to think that the bird defcribed by Gefner is no other than the 

 Regulus crifiatus. 



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Chap. XXIII. §. L 

 * Tloe Brafilhn Tangara of Marggrave* 



IT is an elegant bird, of the bignefs of a Chaffinch. It hath a (freight, pretty thick, 

 black Bill : Black Eyes: Legs and Feet from cinereous inclining to dusky. On 

 the forehead above the rife of the Bill it hath a fpot of black feathers. The 

 whole Head and Neck are covered with feathers of a fhining Sea-green. A circle or 

 border of black feathers encompailes the beginning of the back like a Collar. But 



below the Wings to the rife of the Tail the Back is covered with yellow feathers. * The word is 

 The whole lower Belly is of a rare blue. The Wings are black, and their lateral ex-*M which is 

 tremitiesblue, fo that when clofed they appear wholly blue^ and their whole ends, ^^ * m 

 outfcdes, or borders £tota extremitas'jteem black. The beginning of the Wings dcr the wiogs, 



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