Turner on birds : a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544 / edited with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix, by A.H. Evans.

  • William Turner
Date:
1903
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Credit: Turner on birds : a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544 / edited with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix, by A.H. Evans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Trochilus, eft auium omnium minima, cauda longa & femper ereTta, rojlro longiufculo, fed tenuijjimo, colore fere fuluo. nidum facit foris ex mufco, mtus ex plumis aut lana, atU floccis, fed plurimfi ex plumis. Old eredli & in altero fiw fine cofiflentis, forma nidus habet, in medio tiebiti latere hofiiolum efi, per quod ingreditur & egredititr. In pofticis cedibus & flabilis flramine tedlis, interdu nidu conftndt, fed fcepms in fyluis. aids eft etiam foliuaga, & gregatim nunquam uolat, imb quoties alium ftd generis offendit, mox illi bellum indicit, & confiiTtatur. Quare aues illcB, quce in Bauaria pennis auricoloribus, quas in capitibus ceu coronas aureas ferunt, in fylids ceflate degentes, & gre¬ gatim ad urbes hyeme aduolantes, reguli non funt fed tyranni Ariftotelis, ut pofiea docebo. [p. 127] DE RVBECVLA ET ruticilla. Rubecula rj epiOea, rubecula, Anglice a robin red- brefie, Germanice ei)U rotbruft/ ober ei)n rbtfelc^eu. Ruticilla. ^oLviKovp6<^, &, ut alter textus habet, (pocvc/covpyo^;, Plinio phoenicurus, Gazce ruticilla, Anglice a rede tale, Germanice ei)n rot Aristoteles^ Rubecula & ruticilla uermibus aluntur. Rubeculae, & quae ruticillae appellantur, inuicem tranfeunt, efbque rubecula hyberni temporis, ruticilla aeftiui, nec alio fere inter fe differunt, nifi pectoris colore & caudq l 1 Hist. An. Bk ix. 256. 2 The three words ‘pectoris & caude ’ are not in Aristotle.