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Dampier. The Flefh of both young and old is lean 
and black, yet very good Meat, tailing neither fiihy 
nor unfavory: A Di(h of Flamingos Tongues being fit 
for a Prince’s Table. They are large, having a large 
Knob of Fat at the Root, which is an excellent Bit. 
Du Tertre. La chair en eft excellente , quo] quelle fent 
un peu la marine : mats fur tout la langue paffe pour le plus 
friand moreeau qui puijfe et re mange. 
Vefcriptio <Partium. 
Magnitude. 
According to Bellonius this Bird is of the Bignefs of 
the Fowl he calls Eloriiu r, which is our Curliew. 
Scaliger compares it to the Heron , magnitudo ei Ardea . 
Gefner fays it is as big as a Ciconia or Stork, or rather 
bigger. 
Aldrovandus writes, de magnitudine ejus ego nihil certi 
ajfero, quia Avem nunquam midi. 
Dumpier . The Flamingo is a fort of large Fowl much 
like the Heron in Shape, but bigger and of a reddiih 
Colour. 
Du Tertre. Le Flamandeft unoifeau gros comme une Oye 
fauvage . 
Collum. 
It hath an extraordinary long Neck according to Mr. 
Willoughby. 
Du Tertre. II a le cou rouge, fort menu pour la grandeur 
de l' oyfeau, & long I une demy Toife. 
Cauda. 
Scaliger. Caudam habet brevifftmam ac veluti pracifam. 
Roftrum & Caput. 
Scaliger writes, that the Bill of this Fowl is neither 
(height nor 'altogether crooked : Roftrum neque retlum 
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