? 0( 



oi{nciTHOLogr. Iwni. 



* Ga.lli.nula. 



erythropus 



major. 



The figure of the * greater red-leg d Water-hen in Gefner and Aldromnd doth not 

 agree well to this bird : For the Bill is drawn too fhort and thick at the Head. Gefners 

 defcription of hisTotanus doth fo well agree to it in almoft all particulars that I doubt 

 not but it is the fame bird. Only in the length of the Bill and Legs, and in the bignefs 

 of the body is fome diverfity. 



4. 11. 



*Lib.2o.c.2<5. TfoGarnbetta of*Aldrovand. 



THe Gambetta of Aldrovand is alfo near of kin to the Redfhanh^ which he thus 

 defcribes. Its Head, Neck, and Breaft are cinereous, all over fprinkled with 

 many * brown fpots, greater on the Back, leffer on the Neck and Breaft, leaft of all 

 on the Head. The matter-feathers of the Wings are black : The body cinereous, on 

 the Wings and Back inclining a little to red: The Belly white: The Bill black. The 

 hides o^ the Eyes of a yellowifti green, eneompafied with a black circle. The legs 

 and feet from yellow incline to red. 



This Bird we faw at Milan in Italy ^ and thus defcribed. It is fomething lefs than a 

 Lapwing. The upper furface of its body is grey, of fuch a kind of colour as is feen in 

 the Backs of Hen Ducks and Teal, or of the Curlew. Its Legs and Feet are long and 

 yellow,its Claws black.lt hath the back toe. Its Bill is (horterthan the Redjhanks O longer 

 than the Lapwing s 3 near the Head of a flefh-colour, near the tip black. The prime 

 feathers are, twenty five in each Wing. The Tail half a hand-breadth long, not reach* 

 ing fo far as the ends of the Wings clofed. It hath the Head and Neck of a Tringa. 



* Fufcky i. e. 

 dark or 

 dusky. 



Chap. VI. 



Of the Birds calkdTnngx. 



> I. 



V 3i 5 ' ^ he Trin g a */*^™*^- The Cinclus ofBellonius: The Callinula rhodopus or 

 ^AUrlv. or- phcenicopus, and alfo the Ochropus media of * Gefner. 



nithoi. tom.3. The Steingallel of Leonard Baltner. 



p. 461. 



* Or brown, 

 with a tin- 

 cture of green. 



N bignefs it equals or exceeds a Blackbird. The colour of the upper fide is of a 

 * dusky green, and fhininglike filk. The feathers growing on and between the 

 Shoulders, as alfo the quii-feathers next the body, and moft of the covert-feathers 

 of the Wings are fpotted on the edges with many white (pecks. Thofe on the top of 

 the Head and upper fide of the Neck want thefe fpots. [_N. B. That this Bird 

 was a Female, for in the Males there are many and thick fet fpots on the Head 

 fo that they make up certain lines or ftrakes. _| The Circumference of the Eyes 

 and the Chin are white. The Throat is white, and fpotted with brown. The fea- 

 thers on the middle of the Back are blackifh, with white edges: Thofe next the 

 Tail milk-white. The colour alfo of the Breaft and whole Belly is purely white. 



The quil-feathers, twenty four in each Wing, are all dusky, fave only the fore- 

 mentioned, three in number. The Tail is more than two inches long, confifting of 

 twelve feathers of feathers of almoft equal length. The outmoft of thefe are wholly 

 white ; the next near their tips marked with a white fpot. The third in order from 

 the outmoft have one broad tranfverfe white line not far from the point $ the fourth 

 two 5 the fifth two and an half 5 the middlemoft three or four. The covert-feathers 

 of theunderfideof the Wing are brown, with white edges. The interiour baftard 

 wing makes a lovely fhew. For its feathers being of a dark brown, or black colour, 

 are curioufly varied with many white lines, drawn not directly crofs each feather, but 

 obliquely, yet parallel one to another in each Web of the feather, and by pairs con- 

 curring at the (haft in an obtufe angle all along the length of the feather, yyy^y^, 



The Bill is an inch and half long, ftreight, flender, comprefTed at the fides, of a 

 dark green, black at the point ; The upper Mandible a little longer than the nether : 

 The Tongue (harp, not cloven. The Eyes of a greater fize, with hazel-coloured 

 hides. The Legs are long, lead-coloured, with a tincture of green : The Toes alfo 



long; 



