Book II. O^S^tT HO LO QY. % 5 i 



The other, called Frigmt by the French, is lead of all, having a very fhort, thick, 

 black Bill 3 its Feet, Legs, Head, and Wings 3 like thofe of the Wall-Sparrow. It builds 

 in Trees. 



§. vm. 



* The tailed purple and blacky Indian Sparrow of Aldrov. Book. 15. Chap.iB. 



IT hath a Tail five inches long, made up of ten very black feathers. The quil-fea- 

 thers of the Wings are alfo cole-black. The Head, Neck, and Rump are of a 

 deep purple colour, yet the roots or bottoms of the feathers yellow. The Bill is 

 pretty thick, fomewhat hooked and iharp, fomething iefembling that of the Butcher- 

 bird, black above, beneath where it grows to the Head white. The colour of the 

 Legs I know not, for they were wanting in the cafe communicated to me, but it 

 is likely that it hath black ones. 



§. IX. 



* The Tijepiranga of Brafil or American Sparrow, Marggrave. 



IT is a little bigger than a Lark., and fings like our common Sparrow. Its whole 

 Body, Neck, and Head are of a delicate red or fanguine colour : But the Wings 

 and Tail of a (hining black, faving that in the beginning of the Wings there is fome- 

 thing of red mixt therewith. 7 he Legs are black, below the Knees bare of feathers, 

 above covered with black feathers. The Bill like a Sparrows, the upper Chap black, 

 the nether black alfo toward the point, but white toward the Head. The feathers 

 on the Head black, which (he is fometiraes wont to ruffle up after the manner of Spar- 

 rows. All the feathers of the whole body are black within, red without, yet fo com- 

 plicated, that outwardly they appear wholly red. The Tail is almoft three inches 

 long. Each foot hath four Toes, and fo difpofed as in moft other birds. 



There is found another fort of this bird, of the bignefs of a Sparrow, whofe whole 

 body is covered with bluifh aih-coloured feathers : But the Wings approach fome- 

 thing to a Sea-green. In the Belly and lower part of the Neck or Throat it is white, 

 or rather of a (hining (ilver colour. The Legs are aih-coloured, as is alfo the Billj 

 which is like a Chaffinches. Each foot divided into four Toes, and thofe fituate as is 

 ufual in birds. 



§. X. 



* The long' tail'd Indian Sparrow with a fcarlet Bill of Aldrovand. 



IT is of equal bignefs to our Houfe-Sp arrows, if you except the longer feathers of 

 the Tail. It hath a Ihort thick Bill of a fcarlet colour. Its Head is flat, elevated 

 near the Neck, blackilh, with a mixture of a greenifh colour inclining to blue j which 

 alfo is feen running downward through the Back and upper part of the Wings. The 

 Wings are of three colours chiefly 3 firft, that now mentioned 5 fecondly, a white, as 

 appears inthe figure 3 thirdly, a black: To which {iicceeds fourthly, ayellowiih co* 

 lour, next which are the quil-feathers again black, but cinereous within. The 

 Throat, lower fide of the Neck, theBreaft and Belly are white. The Tail is double, 

 as in the Peacoc^and alfo of two colours : The leffer which fuftains the greater, being 

 as it were its prop, is whiter the greater, confiding of four very narrow feathers of 

 nine inches long, is of a deep black. The Legs and Feet are (potted of black and 

 white 5 the Talons black, and as in birds of prey very fharp and hooked. 



§. XI. 



* Another Indian long-tail' d Sparrow of Aldrovand, Book^i$. Chap. 23. 



T His is an exceeding beautiful bird, even fairer than the former ; Of the fame 

 bignefs. Its Bill is blue: Its Head alio, as in that, flat 3 but more elevated in 

 the Neck ; all black 5 its Eyes alfo black, encompailed with a white circle, and having 

 a yellow Irk ; Its Neck and Breaft are of a fcarlet colour 5 its Belly and Thighs 



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