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Of ffo Snow-bird or Ceoan. 



Tis a little bigger than a Thn/Jb: Efteemed of for imitation of humane fpeech: 

 L About the Breaft, Belly, and fettingon of the Wings fulvous 3 near the Tail are 

 ;rey feathers mingled with the fulvous. The ends of the Wings and the Tail it felf un- 

 derneath are cinereous :. But above, all the body is of a dark brown. The Bill 

 ( which is fmall and (lender) and the Legs are fulvous : The Chin is white, yet having 

 fome black feathers intermixt. It imitates humane fpeech, mocking, and as it were 

 deriding thofe that pafs by : Whom yet if it may it will follow. 



O/^eCenotzqui or Snow-calling bird. 



IT deferves its name, becaufe before it fnowsit cries, afterwards is filent. It is re- 

 markable for variety of colours : Having a fulvous Breaft, pale Legs, black Claws 

 a Belly fpotted with black and white. Under the Wings it is white and afti-coloured 5 

 above fulvous, black, and then cinereous fpotted with black, and near the ends or 

 tips fpeckled with white. Its Tail underneath is black and while, above fulvous 

 fpotted with black?" Its Head is black, encircled with a wreath of grey : Its Bill fmall' 

 grey both above and beneath, but above near its rife encompafled with a yellow line! 

 Its Eyes are black, and Eye-lids pale. It endures any kind of air or weather, but 

 abides in mountainous places, and in the Spring-time breeds and brings up its Young. 

 It fb turns its Head up and down, winding its Neck every way, that abiding immova- 

 ble in the fame fite it can look roundabout it. 



There is alfo another fort of this Bird differing in fbme varieties of colour, having 

 its Head fulvous and grey, its Neck partly black, and partly white, which fome call 

 Loceto. 



Of the Bird called Pauxi. 



I Take this to be the lame with the Mitu of Marggravim, and with the Mountain 

 Bird or Tepetototl above defcribed. The whole difference is in the Creft, inftead 

 whereof this Bird hath a certain tumour at the root of its Beak, of the figure of a 

 Pear, and the hardnefs of a ftone, of a blue colour like that of the Turcok ftone. In 

 another place he faith, that this tumour called a ftone, though it be not over-hard,is like 

 an Egg or bigger, of a rufty colour. 



Of Picicitli. 



T He fmall Bird called Picicitli appears after fhowers : It is noted for theobfeurity 

 of its original. The Tetzcoqttenfes do not yet know where it breeds. It is a 

 mute Bird, brought up in the houfe it foon dies and decays. It gratifies both the Pa- 

 late and Stomach. It is all over afti-coloured, except the Head and Neck, which are 

 both black: Only a white fpot encompafles its black Eyes. 



* of many Of the *Polyglott Bird. 



I Saw, heard, and admired a fmall Bird brought to Madrid, the Queen of all finging 

 Birds, that could command any voice or tune. The Indians from its multiplicity 

 of notes call itCencontlatolIi or four hundred tongues. It is not bigger than a Star- 

 ling, white underneath, brown above, with fome black and white feathers inter- 

 mixt 3 especially next the Tail, and about the Head which is encircled with the like- 

 nefs of a filver crown. It is kept in Cages to delight thenar, and for a natural rarity 

 or rather Wonder. Itexcells all Birds in fweetnefs and variety of Song, andperfedf. 

 command of its voice 3 imitating the note of any fort of Bird whatfbever, and ex- 

 celling its exemplar. It goes far beyond the Nightingale. I my felf kep^it a long time, 

 It is content with any meat 3 it loves hot Countries, but can abide temperate. 



Tzaupan is like to this. Some fufpecf that it is only the Hen of the fame fort, they 

 being equal in bignefs, finging alike, and agreeing in fhape, faving that the feathers 

 underneath are white, cinereous, and black, thofe above fad-coloured, black and 

 white. 



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