Plinies NaturallHirtorie. . 5^1 



A fewofthcmhavccdpsorcrefted tiifts upon their heads, iinlefleitbcbirdsjandthoreare of di- 



verle formes & fafhions. The Phoenix is adorned with a round plume of feathers^out of the mids Crens. Tuff 

 of which there growcih another little pennache. Peacockes carle upon their heads a tuft (as it and ComHci. 

 wcrc)of little hairie trees: and the Stymphalidcsja locke of crifped and airled haircs.PhelantS 

 have feathers {landing up like homes. The pretie Titmoufc or Nonett is filletted or coifed upon 

 ihc head : and in lieu thereof^the Larkc hath a little peruke of feathers, and thereupon at firft k 

 was called Galeritajbut afterwards after the French word Alanda, and of it one of iheRamane 

 Legions tooke the name, becaufeof theirpointed morions^ Wee have written alrcadicof the 

 Ginnie or Turkic Cockes and Hens, upon whom Nature hath beftowed a foldingcrdl^ lying 

 from the very billjOver the middeft of thehead^untothenapc of theneckc. She hath givenlikc- 



B wife unto all the fort of SeamewcSjFen-duckeSjand Moore- hens^certain cops and crifped toffcs: 

 to the Woodpeck alfo and Baleare CrancBut above all others^the houfe dunghill Cocks carie 

 upon their heads the goodlicfl: ornamentof their comb^and the fame confilUngof a malTieand 

 flcfhiefubftancejcndentcdbefidcslikeafaw. And yet we may not properly fay it is either flsfh, 

 griiUejOt callofitie, but compofed of fome particular matter by itlelfe, which cannot well bee 

 named. As for the crefts of Dragons^ I could meet with no man hitherto that ever fa w th em. 



To come now to Horncsjthere be many fi(hcs(as well of the fea as frcfh waters) and alfo i^V' 0omcsi 

 pents^that have homes in divers and fundrie fbrts.But tolpeake a truth and properly^thcy be no 

 homes indeed/or thofe pertaine onely to four-footed beafls. As for A^do^ and Cipppi'S^oivibiom 

 wcreadinourLatinehiftorie^thattheyhadhorneSj Itakethemtobemeerefabiesjand no bet* 



Q ter.Certesjin nothing more hath Nature taken her pleafure than in this: as if fhee had meant 

 to fport and make her (clfe merrie in thefe armes and weapons of beafts. For in fomc ft-iee hath 

 made them knaggedand braunchcdjas in Deerc^both red and fallow -j in oth€i?s_,pIaine and uni- 

 formejwithout tmes^as in the Spittcrsja kind of Stag, which thereupon bee called Subulones in 

 Latincjfor that their homes be like a (homakcrs ^Nall blade.Tliere be againc which have broad subula. 

 hornesj and platcdlikc a mans hand, with fingers ffanding outof them, whereupon the bcaffs 

 that beare them be called Platycerotes,^. broad horned.] Roe Buckcs have by nature branched 

 heads, buttheyarefmail: and thefe doe not mew and caft them yearcly, as the Stag andBucke* 

 Ail the fort of Ranis be armed wirh crooked horncs,turningand winding with ccrtaine revoluti- 

 ons, as if they were gantlets orwhorlebats, given them by Nature to thumpe and jurrewithalL 



D Buls homes be ftreight and upright/cadie alwaies to doe a mifcheefe.Thefcmalcs of this kind, 

 to witjCoweSjare horned as well as Buls j wheras in many others, the males only be in that wife 

 armcd.Thc wild GoatscalledRoch- goats have their hornesturningbackward jwhercas in fallow 

 Dccrc they bend rather forward.There is a kind of Roe Bucke.called in Affricke Addace^ which 

 the Greekes have named Strepiiceros, and they have upright homes: but they are furrowed 

 and wreathedround about, as if they were nbbcd like the backeof a Lute- or rather chamfered 

 like the ridge of aland,and alwaies fharpe pointed with a tip. Ye fhall have droves and beards of 

 beafls,namciy,Kine md Oxen in Phrygia, which will flir and wag their homes like eares. And 

 thofcin the kingdome of theTroglodites, carie their homes pendant directly to the ground, 

 which is the caule, that as they eat, they are forced to beare their neckes awric, and looke atonc- 



E fide.Somc have but one horne apcecCjand that either in the mids of the toretead, as theOryx.; 

 or eilein the.nofc,and muffie^as the RhinoccroSjwherofwe have written beforeJnfumme,therc 

 be that have ftrong and hard homes to butt with : others to f^rike and gore withali :fome croo- 

 king forward,others bending backward. In fome,they are good onely to toife and flingjand that 

 indiverfemanncrs.Fortbaebe of them that give backe, others lurne oneagainftanother5and 

 fome even joinc and meet together: but all run up fliarpc pointed in theend. Akind of beaffs 

 there is,thai ufc their homes in ftead of hands,to fcratch theirbodies when it itcheth : & otiicrs 

 ferve their turneto found the way before them,as certain fhell-Siiailes and Winkles And thefe 

 horncs given for this purpofe,arc fome of them of a flefhic fubftance, as thofe of the Serpents 

 called Ceraflae :and otherwhilesonc alone without a fellow. As for thePerivwnckles and Snailcs 



F aforcfaid, they are never without twaine a pcecej and at this paffe they have them, to put out and 

 draw in asthcy lift, Iti Butfles horncs,thc barbarous peopleof the Nordi parts tife to drinkc : and 

 yeefbalihavetbc homes of one Buffieshead to hold full two meafurcs, called Vmas, which is 

 abouteight gallonsin fome countries men head their fpeares and javelines with home.With us 

 inltalie they be cut into thin pllfiJ^and ferve for lanternes;andfurcly they arcfo tranfparent and 



