Book III. O^&CIT HO LOqY. z 9i 



The Gallinula Phasopus of Gefner, which I fufyeB to be the fame with the precedent. 



This Bird about Strasburgh is called Brachvogel : It hath a black body, fprinkled 

 with a few red and yellowifh fpots; a (lender, long, black Bill, moderately bending $ 

 a whitifh Neck, its underfide about the middle and below tending to yellow or 

 *red: A white Belly 5 dusky or a(h-coloured Legs, as the Pi&ure represents,. . This * The word U 

 defcription was taken from aPi&ure, and therefore the lefsto be credited. be rendred* 



ruftec, 

 The <tf£erPhasopUs or lejjer Curlew of Qefner 3 the fame with our Whimbrel. 



This Bird fome call (as they do the greater Curlew ) Regenvogel, that is, Rain^fowl-, 

 and in Italy, Tarangolo. It is almoft like the laft deicribed, hath afh-coloured Leg? 

 like that, and a white Belly and Chin: A like Bill alfo, fave that it Teems a little 

 longer. The Wings are (potted with white,el(e of a dusky red 3 but their long feathers 

 and the upper fide of the Back are blackifh. The Throat and Bread: have fomethingof 

 anobfeureand very faint red, and are fpeckled with many black fpots. 



I fee no reafon to doubt but this is^our Whimbrelfith the * names agree, and the de- * Envwfofc u 

 ■ fcriptions differ not in any considerable note. . ° SraSET^ 



Chap. II. 

 * The Falcinellus of Gefner and Mrovand, which > we may .Englif?, TlxSitbe- 



mi. 



WE have thought fit ( faith Aldrcvand ) to place this next after the Herons^ 

 becaufe that both in magnitude and the whole feape ;of its body it refem- 

 _ bles a Heron, the Bill only excepted. —This GeJkrJometime faw alive at 

 Ferraria in Italy. Its body was bigger that a Pigeons, of .an elegant colour, almoft 

 green, with fomething of purple here and there mixt, as in the Back of the Lapwing, 

 the colour varying, as it is varioufly expofed to the light; The Head and Neck 

 brown: But the upper part whitifh, fpotted with black. Its Bill was (lender, long, 

 aud bending downwards like that of the Curlew or Corvus Sylvaticus -■: Its Legs long, 

 and Feet cloven. Some call it, * The blacky Heron. But this that I faw was not grown * Aim nigt\ 

 up : They fay it comes to be bigger, and perchance alfo may change fomething in co- in Iuhan ' 

 lour by age. m Among all the Birds that I have hapned to fee, none feems to me to ' 



come nearer the Ibis. Thus far Gefner. Now ( proceeds Aldrovandus ) whether this 

 be that Bird which our Country-men call Falcinellus, I do not well know. For it 

 differs not a little from Gefners defcription. But it may happen ( as he well notes) 

 that this kind of bird may vary, according to the difference of age, both in bignefs 

 and alfo in colour. Our Falcinellus comes well up to the bignefs of the Herons, and 

 refembles them in the whole fafliion and fhape of the body, excepting the Bill. Its 

 Head, Neck, Back, Bread, Belly, Thighs, Rump are of a fpadiceous colour, tend- 

 ing to dusky : But the Neck and Breaft are fprinkled with certain oblong dusky fpots. 

 In the middle of theBack is a kind of fpot, of a dark green colour : Which fame co- 

 lour is alfo feen in the Wings and Tail. The Bill is blackilh, Very long, and falcate. 

 The Thighs as far as they are naked, the Legs and Feet are of the fame colour with 

 the Bill. The Legs and Toes are extended to a eonfpicuous length. 



Chap. III. 

 * Curicaca of the %> afilians, called by the Tortughefe Mafarina 



IT is a Bird,in the judgment oiClufm like to the Curlew : Of the bignefs of a hand- 

 lorn Goof ; But its Head about as big as a Ducks. Its Neck fix inches long, three 

 thick, or a little more : Its Bill fix inches long, crooked like an Hungarian Sword^ 

 of a dusky fire colour. The length of its body from Neck to Vent eleven inches, 

 the thicknefs one foot. The length of the Wings fixteen inches, of the Tail 

 C which ends with the Wings ) nine: Its Legs are eight inches long : Its Feet 



two 



