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Two of the fore-toes are joyned together by a fmall membrane, as in the reft. Its 

 Claws are long, very {harp, and hooked : That of the middle toe, longer than 

 the reft, is ferrate, as in the Bit tour. The Tail is not very ihort. 



Befides this Aldrovand figures another With a Ihort, thick, fharp Bill, ver^ long toes., 

 the fore ones dusky: The head inclining to Saffron-colour : The Bill and Legs yellow. 



Elfe the whole bird is white. 



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§. VII. 



* The red-leg d Heron, or Cirris of Virgil according to Scaliger. Atdrov.iom.3 .p.39^. 



THis is lefler than all other Herons, and hath alfo a very (hort Neck : The whole 

 bird almoft from Saffron inclining to a Chefnut colour^on the underfide deeper, 

 on the upper fide and Wings paler. The Tail is fo little that it feems altogether to want 

 one. The Pupil of the Eye is encompafled with a yellow circle, that with a * fcarlet * The word U 

 one, and this again with a black. Very beautiful feathers, partly yellow, and partly w Sjf**iS 

 black, arifing from the forehead hang down all over the upper part of the Head and thecoioSof 

 Neck. The Bill is ftrong, long, fharp, of two colours, where itjoynstothe head re <* lead, 

 green, or from green inclining to blue 5 and this colour reaches as far or farther than 

 the middle of the Bill, the remaining part being black. The Legs and Feet are of a 

 deep red colour as in many Pigeons ; The Talons black. The Toes very long, and 

 joyned with a fmall membrane, or fome rudiment of it. 



Befides, he fets forth the figure of another in all things like this, fave that the fame 

 colour in the body is moreremifs, the Feet yellowifh, the Neck on the fides befprink' 

 led with many black fpots 5 which are not in the other. 



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* The Heron which they call Sgmcco in the Valleys 0/Malalbergo. * Aldrov. * onhhol. 



IT hath tufts of feathers on the head almoft of the fame colour with the immediately- 

 precedent 5 to which alfo it is in bignefs almoft equal, or a little lefs. Its Bill is 

 fhorter than in that,but ftrong,of the fame colour with the whole Back,wzi.of a yellow 

 ferrugineous. The Irk of the Eye is of a golden colour, encompalTed with a black 

 circle. The whole Head and Neck are particoloured of yellow, white, and black. 

 Underneath on the belly it is white, as is alfo the Tail, and better part of the Wings. 

 The Thighs are yellow : The Legs and Toes are greenifh,as in fome Water-hens, They 

 fay it is a bold and couragious bird. 



§. IX. 



The Heron called Squaiotta at Malalbergo. Aldrovand* 



"I T hath a yellow Bill, black at point, a fhort Tail, green feet. The tuft oh the Head 

 I confifts of thirty feathers, the middlemoft of which are white, and the outermoft 

 black. There grow alfo on its Back of that fort of elegant feathers before mentioned, 

 of a red colour, and black at their roots. * Both perchance have their names from * sgiiaccoty 

 their cry. ■ squaiotta, u 



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* Another fmall Heron with a bow-bill, Aldrovand. 



THe Bill of this is more * arcuate than in any of the precedent. Oh the nether * Bending 

 fide the Neck and Breaft (which is fpirinkled with black fpots tending down- IlkeaBow ^ 

 wards ) are white. Elfe the whole bird is of an alh-colour, underneath paler, above 

 deeper. The Thighs in this Bird, contrary to what they are in others of this kind 3 are 

 covered with feathers. 



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