ccpteros aves Mandtbulam movers Juptrhrem ; but fubjoins, 
fed non adeo manife/fa caufa e(l in Ave ut in Crocodilo. 
Wormius is of the fame Opinion j but with Cardan , he 
thinks the Caufe is not fo manifeft as in the Crocodile. 
Dr. Charleton fays, that it was Cardanus that firft made* 
that Obfervation. 
Dr. Grew argues for this Movement from the peculiar 
Strudure of th sRoftrumi alledging, however; that there 
can be no Determination of thefe Matters, without In- 
fpedion into the Mufdes, and the Articulation of the 
Bones. As for the Phcenicoptcr , fays he, it mull needs be 
faid, that the Shape and Bignefs of the upper Beak (which 
here, contrary to what it is in all other Birds that I have 
feen, is thinner and far lefs than the neither.) fpeaks it 
to be the more fit for Motion, or to make the Appulfe, 
and the neither to receive it. 
Crura & Pedes . 
Bellonius remarks, that the Legs of this Volatile are 
very long. And on the contrary, 
* Scaliger writes. Crura pedefque funt adeo breves, ut cum 
in Homine Galenus agnoverit longiffimos, huic omnium, qux 
not a funt nobis, animalium brevijftmos attribuere potuerit; 
For this he is feverely taxed by Dr. Charlton , hie nobis 
candidc notandus occurrit error quidam Scaligeri egregius : 
Is nimirum in Exercit. in Arift. Hift. Animal. ( this is 
wrong quoted, the Place being in Arifl. Lib , de Gene- 
rat . Anim.) peculiares Phcenicopteri not as fatis prolixe 
defer ibent, crura ei breviffima curtofque pedes attribuit, 
(' verbis fupra citatis) atque Avem banc dr crurtbus & 
fur is gradiri longifftmis, omnium quotquot feu vivam 
Jeu mortuam contemplatt funt oculi confirmant. Et quis 
precor, ullam aliam , ex Aquaticarum fifjipedum & pifeivora- 
rum claffe, volucrem unquam confpexit brevibus pedibus in - 
* Scalig; Exercit , 233. § 2. deSubtilitate, ad Cardanunu 
ftruclam ? 
