PJinics Naturall Hiftorie. 



A and yet no deadly accident followed thereupon Jle never flieth diredly at eafe^as he would him- 

 felfe, but evermore fidelong and byasjas if he were carried away with the wind or fomewhat elfc. 

 There fortuned one of them to enter the very fecretfanduarie within the CapitollatRoniej in 

 thatyeere when ^sSext,PapeiholfiersLndL,Peciamusmic ConMs:v!ihcTLCupon at the Nones 

 of March^the citieof Rome thatyeere made gcnerall proceffions to appeafe the wrath of the 

 godsj and was folemnly purged by facrifices. 



Chap, xiii, 

 ?^ Of the bird Incertdkria, 



g >TpHis fire-bird Inccndiaria is likcwile unluckie^ and as our Chronicles and Annales do wit- 

 neflc, in regard of her the citie of Rome many a time hath made folemne fuppHcations 

 I to pacifie the gods, and to avert their difpleafure^by her portended ; as for example^wheti 



r L.Cafim and C^anm were Confuls : in that very yeere when by occafion of a Scrith-owle 

 f. feene;,thc citie likewife was purged by facrificCjas is abovefaid^ and the people fell to their pray- 

 ers and devotions . But what bird this fhould be, neither doe I know, nor yet find in any writer. 

 Some give this interpretation of Incendiaria^to be any bird whatfoever, which hath been fcene 

 carrying fire either from altar or chappell of the gods. Others call this bird Spinturnix. But hi- 

 therto 1 have not met with the man who would fay directly unto me^That he knew what bird this 

 {houldbe. 



Chap. xini. 

 ^ of the bird Clivina^erCluimi 



Likewife the bird named in old time ClivinajOrCluina, which fome call Clamatoria, and 

 which Labeo defcribeth by the name of Prohibitoria, I fee is as little knowne as the other, 

 Ntgtdim alfo makcth mention of a bird called Subis, which ufeth to fquafli iEgles eggcs* 



Chap. XV. 

 ?§j of other unhorvue birds, 



J) r N the Augures bookcs which the Tufcanes have compofed, there be many birds defcribed 

 J[and fet out in their colours, which have not been feene fome hundreds of yeeres paft. And I 

 mufe and marvaile much,thac they fhould be now extind and the race of them cleane gone, 

 confidering that the kind of thofe foules is not loft, but continuethftiil in great abundance, 

 which men eat daily at their tables, and confume fo ordinarily. 



Chap. xvr. 

 Of night fifwg birds', 



OF ftraungcrs and forrcin writers, U)ks is thought to have written beft and mofl learnedly 

 as touching Auguries and the nature of Birds.PIe reporteth in his booke,ihat the How- 

 kt,Scritch-owle,the Spight that pecketh holes in trecs,the Tro^one,and the Choup.h or 

 Crow, when they be hatched come forth of their fliclls with their talk's firft : and that by reafon 

 of their heads foheavie,theegges are turned with the wrong end downward, and fothe hinder 

 part of thebodie licth next under the hen or the dam, to fit upon and cheriili with the heat of 

 herbodie. ^ 



•Chap. xvh. 



"^OfOwUs^orHowlets, 



I Tisapretie fight to fee the wit and dextcritic of thefeHowIets, when they fight with other 

 birds ; for when they are overlaid and befet with a multitude of them^they lie upon their backs 

 and with their feet makefhift to refill them: for gathering themfelves into a narrow com- 

 paflc, there is nothing in a manner to be feene of them,fave only their bill and talons, and thofe 

 cover the whole bodie. The Faulcon(by a fecret inf]:ina and focietie of nature)feeing the pooc 

 Howlec thus diftreffed,commeth to fuccour and caketh equall part with him^aad fo endeth the 



B b fray. 



