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to me, fays he, is unknown. N. B. This Paflage is not 
in the Latin Edition of his Works, but added to the 
Englilh which was publiihed two Years after the firfl. 
However, he (ays pofitively, that they don’t come from 
Flanders, where they are fo far from being common, as 
fome alledge, that there never was one feen in that 
Country. 
(») Dr .Charleton informs his Reader that he was prefenr- 
ed with the Skin of one of thefe Birds, well (luffed and 
dried, by a Gentleman at his Return from the Univer- 
Hry of Montpelier , near which Place it had been taken. 
Hu)m exuvias rite conditas infertafque mihi dono dedit pra- 
nobilis Juvenis D. Thomas Crew, Eq, Aurat. 
( o ) Dr Lijler (ays, Frequens e(l P hoenicopterus in paludibus 
maritimis ad mare Mcditerraneum Provincix & Languedocix. 
Whether this Bird were known to Ari/lotle is a Que- 
ftion ; for all our Writers of Natural Hiflory agree, that 
the Phcenicopterus is no where mentioned by Name by 
the Philofopher ; yet they can hardly believe that he 
was ignorant of a Bird fo clearly defer ibed by his Con- 
temporary Ariftophanes. Mirum eft, fays Gefner, hujus 
tam pulchrx & eximix Avis nomen ab Ariftotele taceri, cum 
Arijlophanes , qui vixit eadem xtate , meminerit. Sed Gra- 
tis etiam raram effe hanc avem puto. 
Bellonius thinks that Ariftotle deferibed this Bird under 
the Name of Glottis or Lingulaca, zsTheodorusGaza tranf- 
lates it. Aldrovandus is of the fame Opinion, but Gef- 
ner and Scaliger are not ; for the firft fays, Ego verb iis 
quas Gallinulas aquaticas noflri vocant avibus Glottidem ad- 
numtro, qua omnes fiffipedes funt : And the latter in his 
Commentary upon this Paffage fays. Glottis au'em qua 
Jit nondum mihi conftat. Ridiculum quod quidam de Phoe- 
nicoptero aufus eft promntiare. 
(») Charlton de Differentiis N om. Animalium. ( o ) Lifter Annot » 
in Apicium Ccelium, Lib. VI. cap. 7. 
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