( 5*4 ) 
£o mention no more, (g) Du Hamel fays 5 cis commonly 
call’d Be char u in Trance • 
Etymologic. 
All thefe differing Names may be eafily accounted for, 
from the Colour mod priedominancin its Wings. Thus 
•Martial ( Epigram 58 . Lib. 114.) (ays of this Bird.* 
Nomcnque debet qua rubentibus pennis. 
And again (Epigr. 7 . 1 . Lib. XIII . ) he makes it give the 
true Derivation of its own Name; 
Dat mi hi penna rubens nomen. 
The Greek Name is compounded of two, viz, <pot m 
vIk*®., puniceus, ruber, and 7 rJe&v, Ala, a Wing, quod Jit 
rubentibus Alis ; which thing in different Words is ex- 
preft as follows, by the feveral Authors I have confut- 
ed. Bellonius fays ’tis called in French Flambant, not 
only from the Date-Colour of its Wings, a Daffylorum 
colore , i e. a Scarlet or light red, like the Fruit of the 
Palm or Date-Tree called in Greek (po7vi%; but alfo from 
the Ludre of the Colour refembling Flame.* or as *ldro- 
vandus has it, quod vtlut ignis inflar ejtts rubedo emicet . 
The Words of Gefner are. Ego G alii cum nomen a rubro ^ 
flammeo rojtri , crurum , pennarumque in aliquibus part thus 
colors indi'um .ffe con jecerim : aut forte quoniam ex Flan dr i a, 
hjf.me ad Narborrenfis Provincial maritima vblat j nam Flan- 
drum Galli Fiammant appellant : vel a corporis prcceritate, 
quales joknt effeFlandri, Mr Willoughby (h) fays the French 
name it thus rather from the flammeous Colour of the 
Wings and Feet, than that it comes in the Winter Time 
Hl[i. de l[ ' Acad, fyyale, p, 2,1 3« (fy Ornithofogia, Lib. III. SA, 2 . 
-G«p 1 , 
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