5 6 Of Birds. Part I. 
The HEAD of the SEA-EAGLE or OSPREY. 
Caput Haljaeti. 
The CLAWS of the fame ^ BIRD. See the full 
Defcription of the Bird in Willughbys Ornithologia. 
The Eagle breeds abundantly on the Mountains Taurus 
(a)Wi\- and Caucasus. Not only comes into England, {a) but is 
thoi.' ° rm ~ faid to build yearly on the Rocks of Snow Jon in North- 
jih)'m. Wales. In (b) the Year 166$. on the Peke in Darby/hire, 
was found an Eagles Neft, flat or level, and about two Ells 
fquare - y together with a young one in it. 
The BIRD of PARADISE. By the Natives of the 
Molucca Iflands ( where they breed, and by whom they are 
wqrihipped, ) called MANUCODIATA, i.e. The 
Bird of God. Becaufe they know not from whence they 
come 3 and for their beauty. From his fwift flight 
to and again, the Indians, in their Language, call him a 
Swallow. Marggravius reckons up feveral forts of them, 
and defcribes them all. The leaft kind, Clufius calls 
the Xing. Becaufe (as he faith, from the report of the 
Dutch Mariners) as they fly together, about 30 or 40 in a 
flock, he always keeps higher than the reft.) Befides the 
fmallnefs of his Body, in refpect to what his copious Plumes 
fhew him $ the long Feathers which grow upon his fides 
under his Wings, and are extended thence a great way 
beyond his Tail 5 and the two long Strings or Quills 
which grow upon his Rump, do moft remarkably diftin- 
guifh him from all other Birds. He is elegantly figur d in 
Calceolariuss Muf<*um,with the Title of Chameleon aereus. 
Antonius Pigafeta was the firft that brought this Bird, or 
(c) Clufius. an 7 certain knowledge of him into Europe, (c) Before 
which, he was believed, not only by the Vulgar,but by Na- 
£^g Ex " turalifts, (amongft whom Scaliger (d) was one) that they 
s.2. ' had no Legs, but always flew up and down fufpended in 
the Air, by the help of their Wings and Tail fpread all 
abroad. According to which filly fancy, he is alfo picl;ur d 
in Gefner. 
Agreeable to this conceit , it is likewife commonly 
thought, and by Georgius de fepibus, who defcribes the 
Mufdeum Romanum, is affirmed, that thofe two long Quills 
that grow upon the top of this Birds Rump, being at his 
pleafure twined or wrapped round about the boughs of 
Trees, 
