Z84 O^^ClTtiOLOgt. Book III. 



The lefier covert-feathers of the inner fide of the Leg are red. The Thighs are 

 white, dafhed with red. Near theBreaft on both fides is a broad red ftroke. The 

 middle of the Throat is particoloured, with black and pale red (pots. Down the 

 fides of the Neck is a black line in the middle of two red ones. The lower part of 

 the Neck under the long feathers was of a deep red. In other particulars it agreed 

 with the common Heron. It had but one fingle blind-gut : A huge Call-bladder. 

 The Ribs tend ftreight downwards from the vertebres of the back, like thofe of 

 Quadrupeds. The Guts are (mall and (lender. The remnant of the paflage convey- 

 ing the Yolk into the Guts is plainly to be feen in the form of a blind gut, about the 

 middle of the inteftines, the Pipe conveying Gall from the Gall-bladder to the gut, 



* The gall- and the *porus bilarius do not concur in one common paflage, but continue their 

 conveying " channels feveral and diftincr, and perforate the Gut in two places, but near one to the 



gall from the Other. 

 Liver. 



f XV. 



* The Braflian Soco ofMarggrave: 



IT is a Water-fowl, of which here [ in Brafil ~] many forts may be obferved. It is 

 of thebignefsoftheleflerHbwz.- Hath a ftreight, black, and (harp-pointed Bill, 

 two inches and an half thick where it is thickeft. Its Head is like a Herons, as is alfo 



* i fuppofe he its Neck, being a foot long : Its Eyes black with a * golden circle. The Wings and 

 Pupil black, Tail are equally extended, ending together. For the Tail is (hort, being not of above 

 and the iris five inches length. The Legs are (ufneiefitly long, above the knees four inches, and 

 golden, as many below. Each foot hath four Toes, three ftanding forwards, and one back- 

 wards. The Thighs above the Knees are above halfway bare of feathers, covered 

 with a dusky skin. The Head and Neck are cloathed with brown feathers, varie- 

 gated withfmall fpecks. Along the lower fide of the Neck down as low as theBreaft 

 is a line drawn of white feathers, mixt with black and brown ones. The Back and 

 Wings are indeed black, but variegated or powdred with very fmall yellow fpecks or 

 points. The Belly is of the fame colout with the Back. Under the Wings are black 

 feathers, (potted with white. 



$. XVI. 



* The Braflian Heron called Cocoi of Marggrave. 



IT is an elegant bird, of almoft the bignefs of zStorJ^: Hath a ftreight, (harp Bill, 

 about fix inches long, which is of a yellowifh green at its rife : Cryftal Eyes, with 

 a golden circle 3 the skin about the Eyes bare, and afti-coloured. The length of the 

 Neck is fifteen inches, of the Body ten, of the Tail five. The Tail and Wings 

 equally extended. The upper Legs are feathered half down, being eight inches 

 long 5 the lower are but fix and an half, covered with an afti-coloured skin. The 

 Feet have four Toes, difpofed in the ufiial manner $ the middle the longeft, the reft 

 (horter, all armed with crooked dusky Claws. The Throat and all the Neck are 

 white : The top of the Head and fides of a black colour, mixt with cinereous. It 

 carries £ on the Head ~] an elegant, erect creft of the fame colour, from which two 

 neat feathers hang down backwards, of a black colour, inclining to cinereous, each 

 five inches and an half long. The forefide of the Neck is (potted longways £ or 

 down its length ] with feathers mixt of black and cinereous. In the lower part of 

 the Neck before, it hath long, white, fine delicate feathers hanging down, which we 

 were wont to wear in our Caps. The whole Back, Wings, and Tail are of a pale 

 afti-colour, mingled with a little white. The upper half of the Legs upper is inve- 

 fted with white feathers. Along the length of the Back are extended fine elegant, 

 afti-coloured feathers, for their figure and ftructure like thofe on the Neck. It is good 

 meat. 



g. XVII. 



