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Color Rojlri, 
Gefner {ays. Colore ruh.ro infiar (anguinis. 
Aldrovandus writes, Pars qua fpettat frontem ex alho ad 
Cajhne a colorem vergit, cater)) nigrum- 
Willoughby affirms, that the Tip of the Bill is black, 
or of a dark blue- » 
Figure. 
The whole Fowl is delineated by Gefner and Aldro- 
vandus ; and Dr. Grew has given us the Figure of the 
Head and Bill, as he found it amongft the Rariries in ' 
Grejham-College . N. B, The Figure of the Phcenicopter in 
Willoughby, is copyed from the fecond of Aldrovandus. 
Gefner fays the P hoenic opt crus whence his Figure was ta- 
ken, was fent to him by Rondeletius. Aldrovandus had 
the firft of his Figures from Sardinia ; and the fecond, 
which he calls Phcenicopterus alter roflro lato, was given 
him by that famous Botanifl Carolus- Clufius : He owns 
that he never faw the Bird himfelf- 
In de Rochfort, the Body and Neck of the Flammant 
is pretty well delineated ; but the Legs are not, neither 
is the Bill, nor the Claws. 
(*) j Du Flamel gives a very exa$ Account of this Bird 
in the following Words, with which I’ll clofe this tedious 
and prolix Defcription, collected from all the Authors 
that have made any mention of the Phoenicofter or Red- 
Wing. Cello fralongo } cruribus products, exili pede 
fed firmo donatur ; oculi it idem angufli funt & ruhei $ 
cyflis fellea e parte infer icre hepatts e(l pen fills. Fas ipfum 
e quo fufpenditur , quove bilem excipit , amplum efi, contra 
atque in Homine & in .Quadruped tbits cbfervatur; in his 
(*) Hifi. Acad, Royals Edit. Paris, p. zi 3. 
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