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from Flanders. For he believes there was fcarce ever feen 
in Flanders a Bird of that kind ; fo far are they from 
being comjnon there, and flying from thence into other 
Countries, (k) Dr Grew believes it named in Greek from 
the Scarlet Colour of its Wings ; and FUmment in 
French for the fame Reafon. Du Hamel explains its 
Name Becharu by Aratri-roflrum , (quafi Bec-Charriie) 
quoniam rojlrum ejus aratri injlar infleclitnr. 
Genus. 
All Authors, from Ariftophanes down to Aldrovandus, 
have accounted the Phcenzcopterus a Bird of the Palmipede 
or web-footed kind ; and tho’ this laft named Author 
will not allow it to be fo, yet he is forced to own that 
it is not a true Fijfipede or digitated Fowl ; nam & mem - 
bran<£ digit os Jepientis quoddam habet rudimentum.ace his own 
Words. Dr. Charlton only, among all the later Natural 
Hiflorians, has approved of his Diviflon, and according- 
ly ranked the Pheenicopter in the Clafs of Aquatzck FiJJi- 
pedes. But that it is a Water-Fowl all agree ; Ariftopha- 
nes calls it A/juial©-, i. e. paluftris 5 and Aldrovandus fays 
of it. Avis eft aquas amans • not to mention others. 
Differentia. 
I find Authors are filent as to the different Sorts of 
this Bird, only Aldrovandus gives us two Figures thereof 
that are not alike. 
Locus Natalis. 
This Bird is found in three of the PrincipalParts of the 
World, that is, in Africa, America and Europe . Hdio- 
dor as (*£thiop. Lib. 6.) calls it N&Xooov (potviyci'uAeQpv, 
a Bird of the Nile ; and the old Scholia (l upon Ju- 
venal (Sat. xi. ver. 139.,) affirms, that abundans eft in 
Africa ; and Du Hamel's Words are, Inter animantes 
(k) Mufaum Reg, Soc, p. 67 . 
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