24+ O^^ClTHOLOgr. Book II. 



* on the out- alfo* externally (nines with Sea-green feathers, and in the ridge or upper lateral 



fid " extremity of each Wing are yellow feathers intermixt. It hath a Tail about an inch 



and half long, of black feathers, but whofe lateral extremities or borders are blue : 



The end of the Tail is black. It is kept (hut up in Cages, and cries, Zip, zip, like the 



Rubric a, called by the Germans Gympel. It is fed with meal and bread. 



This description is conceived in fuch obfcure words, that I do not well underfiandthe 

 meaning of the Author 5 and therefore the learned Reader would do well to conjult the 

 Latine. 



§. n. 



The fecond kind of Tangara. 



*of a dusky *|*T is of theftiape and bignefs of our common Sparrow: Hath a Bill from * yellow 



yellow. £ inclining to dusky, fomewhat broad, lharp-pointed, the nether Chap much (hor- 



ter than the upper : Black Eyes : The whole Head is covered with feathers of a rare 



Utm^Kich t fcarlet colour : A11 thc reft of the bod y 5 with thc Win gs and Tail,of a thining black. 



figni^es red The Thighs are covered with white feathers, and in their exteriour fides have an ob- 



lead. long (carlet Ipot, as if they were ftained with bloud. The Legs and Feet are afh- 



coloured 5 and have four Toes difpofed after theufual manner. The Tail is ihort, of 



an inch length, and the Wings end near its rife 3 i.e. when withdrawn or clofed reach 



no further than the rile of the Tail. 



Book II. Part II. Sect. II. Memb. II. 



Small 'Birds with thich^ fhort jlrong Bills, commonly called 

 HardMlta Birds. 



Chap. I. 

 Of the Grosrbeak or Haw-finch, called by Gefncr, Coccothrauftes. 



§. I. 

 The common Gros-beak.: Coccothrauftes vulgaris. 



THis Bird for the bignefs of its body, but especially of its Bill, in which it 

 exceeds all others of this kind, doth juftly challenge the firft and chief 

 place among thick-billed birds. The French from the bignefs of its Bill 

 do fitly call it Grosbec 5 the Italians, Frifone or Frofone. Hefychius and 

 Varinuso£ the word RoKKeSrepiusris write only, that it is the name of a bird, but what 

 manner of bird they dp not explain. Gefner obferving that name exa&ly to fit this 

 bird, impofed it upon it. 



It is bigge'r than zChaffinch by about one third part, fhort-bodied ; Its Head bigger 

 than for the proportion of the body. Its Bill very great, hard, from a broad bafe 

 ending in a (harp point, of the figure of a Cone or Funnel, half an inch long;, having 

 a large cavity within, of a whitiih fleih-colour, almoft like that of the interiour fur- 

 face of the mother of Pearl (hell, only the tip blackiih. The Eyes are grey or afti- 

 co loured, as in Jackdaws. The Tongue feems as it were cut off, as in the Chaffinch. 

 The Feet are of a pale red : The Claws great, elpecially thole of the middle and 

 back-toes. The middle Toe is thelongeft 5 the outer fore-toe and the back-toe are 

 equal one to the other. 



At the bafe of the Bill grow Orange-coloured feathers, between the Bill and the 

 lEyes black. The lower Chap in the Males is compafled with a border of black fea- 

 thers. The head is of a yellowifhred, or rufty colour .• The Neck cinereous. The 

 Back red, the middle parts of the feathers being whitiih. The Rump from yellow 



inclines 



