The Hiflory ^ANIMALS, ,319 
The term Papillofa exprefes a furface naked, or not covered with feathers, but on 
which there are a number of fmailer or larger papillce. 
The term Artus is zifed to exprefs the legs, the wings, and the tail. 
The feet of birds, when the toes are otherwife than naked, are exprefid by the two 
terms Palmati and Lobati. The former of thefe Palmati fignifies, that the feveral toes 
are connected by membranes one to another. The term Lobati exprefes the toes having a 
membrane on each fide to increafe their breadth, but this not connecting them one to 
another. 
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The other terms ufed, in regard to the feet , are exprefive only of the number of toes on 
each ; thefe are tridaCiyli for thofe which have three toes ; tetradaClyli for thofe which 
have four, and fo of the other numbers. 
The feathers which dijlinguifh the feveral fpecies are to be carefully attended to, and 
nothing could be more neceffary than the difinguifhmg the feveralferies of them by deter¬ 
minate names. 
The term Rectrices exprefes thofe large feathers which confitute the tail of the bird. 
The term Remiges exprefes the large feathers of the wing, by means of which the 
bird flies j thefe are feparated under two diftinCi terms of primary and fecondary. 
The primary remiges are thofe placed from the flexure of the wing to ifs extremity: 
the fecondary Remiges are thofe which are fituated between the body and the flexure of the 
wing: the feathers, which ferve as a covering to the wings, as the others do to the 
body, are diflinguified by the name of TeCtrices. 
So few terms as thefe are all that are necefary to be underflood, in order to the being 
familiar with the names given to the feveral fpecies. The reft will be eafy from the 
defcriptions. 
BIRDS , 
Clafs the Fir ft. 
ACCIPITRES 
Birds which have the beak of an uncinated or hooked figure. 
S T R I X, 
T H E feet of the Strix have each of them four toes: three of thefe Hand for¬ 
ward, and one backward 5 but the exterior one of the three anterior is capable 
of turning backwards. 
Strix capite auritOy cor pore rufo. ¥ 
Tfhe Strix , with an aurited heady and a %A)t QXtUt 
reddijh-brown body. 
This is an extreamly fingular and beautiful bird, and is very worthy to appear firft 
in the enumeration of the fpecies: it is of the bignefs of a goofe; the wings are very 
large, and the principal feathers extreamly long and ftrong: the head is fhort, round, 
and large; it is of the fize, and much of the figure, of that of a cat, and at the auricles 
there ftand two remarkable feries of black feathers; thefe rife to the height of three 
fingers breadth above the furface of the head, and very perfedly referable ears: 
the eyes are very large and look remarkably fierce ; the feathers on the rump are long, 
extreamly clofe fet, and foft: the beak is fhort and hooked, and is black; the apertures 
of the ears, when the feathers are put away, are found to be very large and patent: 
on each fide of the face, about the place of the noftrils, there are a great number of a 
kind of whiikers refembling hairs. 
The feathers covering the whole body are- much alike in the feveral parts; the 
belly is paler than the back, but thofe elfewhere are variegated in a tolerably uniform 
manner, with black and white in fpots and clouds, upon a reddifh-brown ground; 
they are large and elegant, and lie in a remarkably regular and beautiful manner on 
the body. 
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