178 inj&QTHOLogr. ~lw~fii. 



from the Shoulders, and are variegated with whitifh ftrakes or lines tending down- 

 wards. The middle part of theBreaft, and lower part of the Rump, viz. that under- 

 neath the Tail inclines to yellow. Under the Shoulders is a great black fpot, from 

 which a black line is drawn to the Vent. 



The prime feathers of the Wings are about twenty feven in number, the laftof 

 which are afti-coloured, all the reft black, excepting the outer edges of the eleventh 

 and twelfth, which are fornewhat cinereous. The underfides of all of them is cine- 

 reous. The feathers of the baftard Wing are black. Under the baftard-wing is a 

 great white fpot. Alfo white feathers cover the root of the baftard wing above. 

 Then a white line is continued all along the balls or ridge of the Wing as far as itsfet- 

 ting on. Ten of the fecond row of Wing-feathers are black, then four or five have 

 their cxteriour borders white : All the reft are afti-coloured. The Tail alfo is afh-co- 

 loured, feven inches long, and made up of twelve feathers. 



Its Bill is great, ftrong, (height, from a thick bafe gently lefiening into a (harp 

 pointy from the tip to the angles of the Mouth five inches and an half long, of a yef 

 lowiih.green colour. The upper Mandible is a thought longer than the nether, and 

 therein a furrow or groove imprefled, reaching from the Nofthrils to the utmoft tip. 

 Its fides towards the point are fomething rough, and as it were ferrate, for the fafter* 

 holding of flippery fifties. The lower Mandible is more yellow : The fides of both 

 a re thinned into very (harp edges. The Mouth gapes wide. The Tongue is (harp, 

 long, butnot hard. The eye-lids, and that naked fpace between the Eyes and Bill' 

 are green. The Nofthrils are oblong narrow chinks. 



The Legs and Feet are green: The hind-part of the Legs and foals of the Feet 

 greener. The Toes very long. The outmoft foretoes are joyned to the middle by 

 a membrane below. The inner edge of the middle claw is ferrate, which is worthy 

 the notice taking. 



Its Stomach is large and flaggy, rather membranous than mufculous, as in carnivo* 



If T- l a -' r ° US birds ' m whicn diffe # ed we found * Ivy-leaved fiuckmeat. The Guts towards 



}E! Catn ~ tnc Vent > where the blind guts are fituate^ are larger than in other birds. It hath not 



two blind guts, one on each fide, like other birdj, but only one, like Quadrupeds, but 



that bigger and thicker than ordinary. The Gullet under .the Chin is dilated into a 



great widenefs. In the middle of the Merry- thought is an Appendix. It hath a long 



Gall-bladder. Gefner counts but eleven Vertebres in the Neck 5 I obfcrved Rheen 



* rn a "J ther . of which the fifth hath a contrary pofition, viz,, is * reflected upward. It feeds upon' 



%Hy purs k " Fifties, Frogs,e^c. Oftentimes alfo it ftrikes and wounds greater fifties than it can draw 



a^ong his out and carry away. Young Herons may be fatted with fifh guts and entrails,flefh,^v. 



thS'the five" II ^ ts fometimes with its Neck fo bent up, that its Head is drawn down to ftand be- 



upper verte- tween its (houlders. 



bresin the ThefeBirds build fometimes on the tops of great trees, and for the moft part many 

 ron^refie-" together. But whether they are wont to build in old Rooks Nefts, as Aldrovandus out 

 fted the con- of Polydore relates, I leave to further enquiry. 



wary way. ^y e ^ ave jj er0 nries in England fiich as they have in France^, however Bellonim de- 



nies it : In which Herons are fo well inftrucf. ed and accuftomed to breed, that the 

 owners make yearly a good profit of the young. 



§. II. 



Aldrovandus his third fort of aji h-colonred Heron. 



T 



v His Heron which I make congenerous to the common cinereous, from the tip 



of the Bill to the end of the Feet was thirty fix inches, or four foot long : Had 



* 1 fuppofe he a Bill an inch thick, of the length of a* Palm, near the Nofthrils of the. breadth of 



££Kw? onesnttle finger, channel'd within 5 beneath of a horn and rofe colour. The Imof 



ah hand the Eye yellow, the Pupil black. The Neck was a full fpan long. The feathers of 



breadth. the Head, Neck, Back, and upper fide of the Wings of a dusky afh-colour : All 



their ends marked with a red fpot : But the great Wing-feathers are variegated with 



white at their tips 5 and alfo thofe which make up the Tail, which is a Palm and half 



long. Thofe which cover the Breaft are lprinkled with longer marks of black, red, 



and white. The Belly is of a pale aih-colour, almoft white. The Hips or Thighs 



* The word 3re fornewhat red 3 and for the fpace of an inch above the * knees bare of feathers. 



wSmay be Fromthefe to the ends of the Claws remains the meafure of two Palms. The Legs 



Engiiffied are greenifh, and the Feet cloven into Toes, which yet at the beginning of the 



Kams " divarication 



