jro O^^ClTHOLOgj. Book III. 



* caivities. feathers, foft, fmooth, round, which they call the * baldnefs. The feathers about the 

 Head and Neck are low, foft, and thick The colour all over the body black, deeper 

 about the Head. The Breaft and Belly are of a lead-colour. The Thighs cove- 

 red with feathers almoft down to the knees : Juft beneath the feathers is a ring of yel- 

 low about the Leg. The firft ten quil-feathers are of a dark, dusky, or black colour 

 the eight next lighter ,with white tips 5 the laft or next the body are of a deeper black! 

 The Tail confifts of twelve feathers, and is two inches long. 



The Liver is great, divided into two Lobes, having alfo a large Gall. The blind 

 guts are nine inches long, their ends for an inches fpace being reflected or doubled 

 backwards. It builds its Neft of grafs, broken reeds, &c. floating on the top of the 

 water, fo that it rifes and falls together with the Water. The Reed, among which 

 it is built: flop it that it be not carried down ftreams. This Bird in the figure and 

 make of its body refembles a Water-hen, to which genus it ought without all doubt to 

 be referred. Itfeldom fits upon trees. The flelh of it with us is accounted no good 

 meat : In Italy it is more efteemed. 



§. n. 



* Bellonius his greater Coot, called by the French Macroule, or Diable dje mer. 



IT always dives in frefli waters, andis oft..a 1 colour fo exquifitely black, as if it were 

 laid on with a Pencil. The white "bafc'fpot on the Head is broader than in the 

 common Coot: And it is fomewhat bigger-bodied. It draws up its Legs, and hath 

 broad Toes, divided from each other, like the common Coot. 



SECTION II. 



Whole-footed longAegd Thirds \ 



Chap. I. 

 * The Flammant or (phomkopte? : Phoenicopterus. 



IT hath extraordinary long Neck and Legs. The Bill is broad, of fingular,ftrange, 

 unufual figure. For the upper Mandible is flat and broad,crooked,and toothed; 

 The lower thicker than it: The tip of the Bill black, elfe- it is of a dark 

 blue. 



The Neck and body are white : The quil-feathers of the Wings black :The covert- 

 feathersare wholly died with a molt beautiful bright purple or flame-colour, whence 

 it took the names PhcenicoptermA Flammant. 



It is whole-footed ( as Gejher rightly hath it ) from whom Aldrovandus, deceived 

 ( I guels ) by the Picture of it diflenting, affirms the contrary, viz. that it is cloven- 

 footed. 



In Winter-time in hard weather it comes over to the Coaft of Provence and Lan~ 

 guedpc in France, and is often taken about Martiguez in Provence, and Montpel/ier in 

 Languedoc. We law feveral cafes of it dried at Montpellier. 



The French call it Flambant ox Flammant, rather from the flammeous colour of its 

 Wings and Feet, than becaufe it comes from Flanders in the Winter-time to the Coafts 

 of Languedoc. For I believe there was fcarce ever feen about Flanders a bird of this 

 kind, fo far are they from being common there, and flying from thence into other 

 Countries. Howbeit, the Provencals might perchance through miftake think fo. 

 Whence it comes, or where it breeds, is to me unknown. 



It feeds upon Periwinkles and fifties. The Ancients reckon the Phmiicopters Tongue 

 among the choiceft dainties. Apitius, the molt profound gulphof gluttony and riot, 

 (as Pliny relates) wrote, that a Phwnicopters Tongue is of an excellent tafte and 

 rellifli. 



Chap. 



