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Chap. II. 

 * T7?e Trochilus. commonly called. Corrira, * JUroy, *Lib.i# 



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cap. 65. 



THis Bird hath long Legs, yea, the longeft of any whole-footed t Fowl ex- f Here he U 

 cept the Avofetta : Wherefore becaufe it runs very fwiftly they call it Corrira '^viammni 

 Q Courier] whence I conjecture it to be theTrochilus'^ which, as they write," hath longer, 

 runs along the (hores with that celerity many times, that its running is fwifter than its'* 

 flying. It is a particoloured Bird, hath a {freight yellow Bill, 'black at the tip: A .... . 

 wide flit of the mouthy black Eyes, compafled about with a white circle, which is 

 environed by another Ipa'diceous one. Underneath on the Belly it is white. Two 

 white feathers, which yet have black tips, cover 'the Tail. The; upper (Me, Head, 

 Neck, Back, and Wings are moftlyof a ferrugineous colour. It hath ( as I (aid ) long 

 Legs, {hort Thighs, Toes joyned together by membranes. Having not; feen this Bird 

 we have no more to add concerning it. Its figure fomewhat refembles a Larm. 

 Aldrovatfdm is miftaken in that he writes his Trochilus hath the longeft Legs of any 

 whole-ipd|edbird but the Avofetta. : For the Phosnicopter hath much longer Legs than 

 th.t dfoofetta it felf. But Aldrovandus'is 'hereunto beexcufed* for that he held the Ph<z- 

 mcopter to be a cloven-footed bird. ! f 





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C.HA.P. III. 



The Avofetta of the. Italians : Recurviroftra. 



IN bignefs it fomewhat exceeds a Lapwing, weighing teft ounces and an half 3 be^ 

 ing extended in length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Toes twenty 

 three inches and an half 5 to the end of the Tail but eighteen: In breadth, taken 

 between the tips of the Wings fpread, it is full thirty one inches. The Bill is three 

 inches and an half long, flender, black, flat or deprefled, reflected upwards^phicft 

 is peculiar to this Bird, 'ending-in a very thin, flender, weak point The^T®1?gue is 

 fhoxt^not cloven. The Head is of a mean fize, round, like a ball or bullet, black 

 above/ { favfe^hat _t]^Vf^re r^art of the Head is fometimes grey) which colour alfo 

 takes up the uppera^^i^^llli^eXt^dfng to r the middle of it. The colour of 

 the whole under fide of the body is a pure (now-white 3 of the upper fide partly 

 white, partly black, viz,, the outmoft quil-feathers of the Wings are above half way 

 black, the reft white, as are alfo the feathers of the fecond rowi The reft of the co- 

 vert-feathers almoft to the ridge of the Wing are black, which make a broad bed of 

 black, notdire&ly crofs the Wing, but a little oblique. On the Back again it hath 

 two Black ftrakes, beginning from the point of the Shoulder or letting on of the 

 Wing, and proceeding tranfverfly till in the middle of the Back they do almoft meet, 

 being thence produced (freight on to the Tail. The whole Tail is white, threednches 

 arid an half long, made up of twelve feathers. The Legs are very long, of-ailovely 

 blue colour, bare of .feathers for almoft three inches above the Knees.- The Claws 

 black and little. It Hath a back-toe, but a very tmall one. r The blind guts are flen- 

 der, almoft three inches long. The whole length of the Guts is three foot. It hath* 

 a Gail-bladder, emptyihg.it felf into the Gut by its own proper dud or channel, and 

 a Gall-pore befides. The Stomach is (mall, in which difle&ed we found nothing but 

 little {tones, fo that thence we could not learn on what it feeds. Indeed, the Bill be- 

 ing Xb (lender, weak,long, and of fo inconvenient a figure, turning upwards,one would 

 wonder how it could gather its food, be it what it will. 



Mr. Willughby defcribes the Wings thus. The interiour fcapular feathers are black, 

 which make a long black fpot in the middle of the Back, The covert-feathers of 

 the upper part of the Wing, from the fetting on thereof to the fiflt joynt, are white 5 

 from the firft to the fecond joynt the leffer covert-feathers are black , from the fecofld 

 joynt to the roots of the greater quil-feathers white again. The firft quill or piniort 

 feather is wholly black, the fucceeding have by degrees lefs and lels black, till in the 

 eight only the exteriour tip remains black. 



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