( Ufo ) 
Colour of his Feathers is fo curioufly mlxt with that variety 
that no Painter can imitate them, and entertains the Eye 
with a great deal of pleafure : His Bill and Head in (hape 
are more like the Eagle than the Vulture, tho I take it to 
be of the kind of the latter, but of the icfler fort. 
This Bird came from Carthagcna. m America, and maybe 
^efcrib'd thus : Vdtur Americanus minor Carthagen£ Corpore 
B-legdnti plumk ddmodnm Concinm variegatk. I prefurae 
this Bird can hardly be of the fame kind with thofe VuK 
turs Monardes tells us of in the Iflands near Lima in Per//, 
that prey'd dn their living Cattel in the Fields, if not care- 
fully watch'd by their Keepers. 
did not fee the Cherry- ftone in the King of Denmar{(s 
Cabinet, which I was told had feme hundreds of Heads 
engraved on the outfide of it ^ but I remember an EngUJh 
Gentleman fhew'd me once in Holland^ in the year 87, a 
Cherry-ftone of this kind with a hundred and twenty tour 
Heads on the outfide of it, fo that you might diftinguifti 
with the naked Eye, Popes, E^nperors, Kings and Cardinals, 
by their Crowns and Mitres. Twas bought in Prujfia^ 
where it was made for three hundred pounds Ef^gli(h, and 
is now in London^ there having been a Law-fuic not long 
fince commenc'd about it in Chancery* Whither this or any 
Artificial Curiofities before-mention'd of Ivory, &c, may 
compare with Eomer in a Nutfliell > or the Ivory Anis id 
other fmall Creatures faid to be made by CalUcrates^ w r? ;ie 
parts were fo very fmall, that no body cou*d fee them, fo as 
to diftinguilh one from another, but he that made them > 
or the Ivory Chariot made by Mermecides^ v/hich a Fly 
cover d with his Wing, and a Ship of the fame hid under 
the Wing of a Bee ? And if thofe things be true, as Vliny 
and Solinus tells us, whether the Ancients have not out- 
done us in fuch kind of Impertinencies, I fubmit to your 
Judgment. 
Gazo- 
