Book III. O^S^lT HO LO (jr. 307 



Book 13. Chap. 1 5. I fufpeft it to be the fame with the Oedicnemus> and thofe diffe- 

 rent notes to be but miftakes of the Painter. 



The Charadrios of Gefaer, which Aldrovand judges to be the lame with our Oedic- The charade 

 nemm, is a foolifh and ftupid bird. Being (hut up in any room, it walks up and wofG ^' m 

 down, (oraetimesin a round about a Pillar or any other thing for a long time^ and if 

 any block or impediment be in its way it will rather leap over it, than decline from 

 the right way. * It ihuts not its Eyes though you put your finger to them. It is ea- * it winks 

 lily made tame, for when it is at liberty in the fields it is not much afraid of a man. not « 

 It is a Water-fowl, and lives in fenny Meadows, or about Marfhes. In houfes alfo 

 it catches Mice in the night time. I hear that it abounds in the Love Countries, that it 

 Wanders up and down in the night s and makes a noife like a Whittle, or Pipe. 



SECTION VI. 



Cloven footed Wat er-fmlmth fbort 'Bills, that feed upon InfeBs* 



Chap. I. 

 Tl)C Lapwing or Baftard fhyer : Capclla five Vannellus. 



THis Bird is in all Countries very well known $ and every where to be met 

 with. In the North of England they call it the Tkwit, from its cry. It is 

 of the bignefs of a common Pigeon, of eight ounces weight $ thirteen 

 inches and an half length, meafuring from Bill to Claws, and not much 

 lefs from Bill to Tail: Its-breadth, taken between the tips of the Wings fpread out, is 

 twenty one inches. 



The top of the Head above the Creft is of a fhining black. The Creft fprings 

 from the hind part of the Head, and confifts of about twenty feathers, of Which the 

 three or four foremoft are longer than the reft, in fome birds of near four inches 

 length. The Cheeks are white 5 only a black line drawn under the Eyes through the 

 Ears. The whole Throat or under fide of the Neck, from the Bill to the Breaft is 

 black, which black part fbmewhat refembles a Crefcent, ending in horns on each fide 

 the Neck. The Breaft and Belly are white : As are alfo the covert feathers of the 

 underfide of the Wings. The feathers under the Tail are of a lovely * bright bay : * B n ut i m 

 Thofe above the Tail are of a deeper bay : The feathers next them are dusky, with a <&«• 

 certain fplendour. The middle of the Back and the fcapular feathers are of a deli- 

 cate Alining green, adorned with a purple fpot on each fide next the Wings. The 

 utmoft edges of the tips of the middlemoft of the long fcapular feathers are whitiih. 

 The Neck alfo is of an afh-colour, with a mixture of red and fome black lines near 

 the Creft. 



Of the mafter-feathers of the Wing the three or four outmoft are black, with 

 white tips: The following to the eleventh are black. From the eleventh they are 

 white at bottom, the hindmoft more and more in order than the foremoft. Yet this 

 white doth not appear in the upper fide of the Wing, but is hid by the covert-fea- 

 thers. Thofe next the body from the twenty firft are green. The letter covert-fea- 

 thers are beautified with purple, blue, and green colours, varioufly commixt. The 

 outmoft feather of the Tail on each fide is white, faVing a black fpot in the exteriour 

 Web. The tips of all the reft are white, and beneath the tips the Upper half black, 

 and the lower white. The Bill is black, hard, roundifti, of an inch length. The 

 upper Mandible a little more produced : The Tongue not cloven 5 but its fides re- 

 flected upwards make a channel in the middle. The Nofthrils oblong, and furnifhed 

 with a flexile bone. The Ears feem to be fituate lower in this than other Birds : The 

 Eyes are hazel-coloured. 



The Feet are long, reddifh [ in fome Birds brown. ] The back-toe fmall. The out- 

 moft of the fore-toes joyned to the middle one at the bottom. 



The liver is large, divided into two Lobes, with a Gall, annexed. The Gizzard not 

 fo thick and fleftiy as iri granivorous birds, therein we found Beetles like to Meal- 

 worms. It is infefted with Lice like theTetrao* 



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