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* Lib, 20. 

 cap. 56, 



§. 11. 



* The third Cinclus of * Aldrovand. 



T is of the fame colours with the precedent, favethat it hath a white Tail, adorned 

 with n-anfverfe black lines : It hath alfo the fame fhape and make of body. It 

 differs in the Bill 3 for that hath it of almoft an even bignefs, this thicker where it is 

 joyned to the Head, and by degrees flenderer to the tip. It f eems alfo to differ in the 

 Legs, they being fomewhat longer and thicker. In bignefs it agrees, and hath alfo a 

 common name with it, being called by our [ the Bolognefe ] Fowlers, Giaroncello. 



Chap. XIV. 



The Stone-Curlew : The Oedicnemus of <Bellonlu$ : Charadrius of Qefner, 

 *Lib.T3.c.i 5 . * Jldroy. called at Rome, Curlotte. 



ITs weight is eighteen ounces : Its length from Bill to Tail eighteen inches, to the 

 points of the Claws twenty : Its breadth from tip to tip of the Wings extended 

 thirty fix inches. The length of the Bill, meafuring from the tip to the angles 

 of the mouth, two inches. The Bill is not much unlike a Guffs, but ftreight, 

 (harp-pointed, black as far as the Nofthrils, then yellow. The Irides of the Eyes and 

 edges of the Eye-lids are yellow. Under the Eyes is a bare fpace of a yellowifh green 

 colour. The Legs are long and yellow. The Claws fmall and black. It hath only- 

 three fore-toes, wanting the back-toe. The outmoft Toe a little longer than the mid- 

 dlemofto All joyned together by a certain membrane, which on theinfide the middle 

 toe begins at the fecond joynt, on the outfide at the firft, and reaches almoft to the 

 Claws of the outer Toes. The Legs ( as Bellonim obferves ) are very thick below 

 the Knees, as if they were fwoln, by reafon of the bones, which are there great 5 

 wherefore that he might render the Bird more eafie to be known, he named it, Oedic- 

 nemus. The upper Legs are above halfway bare of feathers 3 which note alone, 

 were there no other, argues this Bird to be a Water-fowl. The Chin, Breaft, and 

 Thighs are white : The Throat, Neck, Back, and Head covered with feathers, ha- 

 ving their middle parts black, their lateral or borders of a reddifh afh-colour, like that 

 of a Curlew : Whence they of Norfolk^ call it, The Stone-Curlew. 



In each Wing are about twenty nine- quil-feathers 5 the firft and fecond of which 

 have a tranfverfe white fpot, eKe their exteriour furface black : The four next to thefe 

 black: The three following have their bottoms and tips white: Then fucceed thir- 

 teen black ones 3 thelaft or next to the body are of the fame colour with it. The 

 firft feathers of the fecond row are black : The reft have white tips, and under the 

 tips a crofs line or border of black. In the lefler rows of Wing-feathers is a tranfverfe 

 bed or bar of white. The coverts of the under-fide of the Wings, efpecially thofe 

 fpringing from the (houlders, are purely white. The outmoft feathers of the Tail for 

 the fpace of an inch are black, then white; Thenext to thefe, one on each fide, are 

 variegated, with one or two brown bars crofting the white part : The .reft, the white 

 by degrees fading and difappearing, become of the fame colour with the body. The 

 tips of the middlemoft are a little black. The Tail is five inches long, confifting of 

 twelve feathers. The guts great : The blind guts three inches long : The (ingle um- 

 bilical blind gut half an inch. We bought this bird in the Market at Rome, and there 

 defcribedit. 



It breeds very late in the year ( faith Bellonius ) for we found of the Young about 

 the end of O&obcr, which could not yet fly. Bellonius when he travelled firft in 

 England, obferved this Bird here 3 for the feathers and the Feet very like to a 

 Bujiard. 



The learned and famous Sir Thomas Brown Knight, Phyfician in Norwich, informed 

 us, that it is found about Thetford'm Norfolk, where they call it the Stone-Curlew, and 

 that Its cry is fomething like that of a green Plover. 



Another bird congenerous to this, wanting alfo the back-toe, ( which Aldrovandus 

 defcinbed from the intuition of a bare Pifture ) but different in that its Thighs are 

 feathered, and its Toes without any intermediate membrane, fee in his Ornithology, 



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