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~0?i&ClTtiOLOgr. Book III. 



* Ornlthol. 

 p. 227; 



inmoft are white with brown tips, Co that when the Wing is fpread they reprefent a 

 broad tranfverfe line of white. The Tail is very fhort, the middle feathers which are 

 the longeft being about two inches and a quarter in length, the outmoft fhorter • of 

 a brown Or dusky colour, the number of feathers fourteen. The Breaft below'the 

 ring down to the Merry-thought is red, which colour above alfo reaches to the mid- 

 dle of the Shoulders. The reft of the Breaft and the upper Belly is white, the lower 

 to the Vent dusky or dark grey. The feathers under the Tail are white ' thofe ion? 

 ones on the thighs red. The Legs and Feet black, efpecially the joynts and mem- 

 branes connecting the Toes. The back-toe hath a broad appendant membrane or fin 

 as in the reft of this kind. The Wind-pipe hath a labyrinth at the divarication and 

 belides above fwells out into a puff-like cavity. The ftomach is mufculous. fhefe 

 Birds vary fomething in the colour, efpecially of their Wings. 



A Bird of this kind weighed twenty one ounces 3 was in length from the tip of the 

 Bill to the end of the toes feventeen inches and an half 5 in breadth between the ex- 

 tremes of the Wings expanded twenty fix and three quarters : The length of the guts 

 forty two inches. 5 



The defcription of the Anas Fuligula altera of Gefiter in * Aldrovand agrees well to 

 this Bird : So doth alfo the defcription and figure of the Moril/ons or Glaudum ofBef- 

 lonim, efpecially in the colour of the Eyes. But becaufe there is fome difference we 

 will fubjoyn his defcription that the Reader himfeifmay judge. 



The Glaucium or Morillon of BeUonius. 



There is ( faith he ) alfo another Water-fowl, called in our common ipeech Mo- 

 rillon, very like to a Buck, and of the fame bignefs, having its Bill cut in the edge 

 like a Saw 5 its Legs and Feet red on the inflde, dusky on the out ; Its whole Head 

 to the middle of the Neck of a deep ferrugineous. Below the ferrugtheous a whitilh 

 circle encompaffeth the Neck. The Breaft is of an afh-colour, the Belly white : The 

 Back and Wings black. But in thele, if they be ftretcht out appear feven white fea- 

 thers, which render the Wings particoloured as 1 in a Pie. The reft of the Wings 

 \cmm <*«* as alfo theTail ( refembling that of a * Cormorant J are black. Getting its food for 

 the moft part out of the water, it lives upon little vermine and creeping things,which 

 it finds in the bottom of the water : Diving alfo, and continuing long underwater, 

 it catches fmall fifties, and water Millepedes or Lice, which the French call lesEfcrou- 

 elles. It feeds alfo upon the feeds of herbs which grow on River-banks, and upon 

 yoxmgCray-fiJh and Snails. It hath a Tongue fo flefhy, that near the root it fcems 

 double : A broad Breaft,Iike the reft of the Duck-kind : Short Legs,ftrctched out back- 

 wards, like the Diver s [_Mcrgi.~] In the inward parts this only is peculiar to it that 

 no Gall appears in it: The Liver is divided into two Lobes,one whereof is incumbent 

 on the ftomach, the other on the guts. 



This defcription in moft notes, the magnitude excepted, agrees to our Bird. For 

 though BeUonius in his defcription affirms,that the ring about the Neck is white,yet in 

 his figure he reprefents it black. 



§. XIII. 



iicm 



* That is, 

 four eyes. 



The Golden-eye : Anas platyrhynchos mas^Aldrov. p. 225. Clangula Gefheri, Aldrov. 

 p.224. * Quattro occhii Italk ; Weiffer Qritvogel of the Germans about Strasbnrgk. 



IT is thick and fhort-bodied 5 and hath a great head. Its Neck, as in the reft of this 

 kind, is fhort: Its Bill broad indeed, but fhort 5 more elevated, and not fo flat or 

 deprefled as in the reft of this kind, thicker at the head, lefTer and narrower toward 

 the tip 3 all black, from the tip to the angles of the mouth an inch and three quarters 

 long. The Head is of a very dark green, or of a changeable colour of black, pur- 

 ple, and green, as it is varioufly expofed to the light, fhining like filk. At the cor- 

 ner of the Mouth on each fide is a round white fpot, as big as a three pence, whence 

 it got its name Shiattr occhii in Italian. The hides of the Eyes are of a lovely yellow 

 or gold-colour.The whole Neck both above and underneath,the Shoulders,Breaft,and 

 whole Belly are white : The fpace between the Shoulders and all the lower part of the 

 Back are black. The Wings particoloured of black and white, viz. the middle fea- 

 thers,both quils and coverts,ar.e white} the outer and inner black.To ipeak more exact- 

 ly; The fourteen outmoft Quils are black 5 the (even next white 5 the four inmoft again 



black. 



