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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    Quod inter verticem & carnem eft a dextra & finiftra parte, album deplume eft, leui coeruleo mixtum. Color verticis atque apicis, idem prorfus eft cu colore cladlyli. Tibiae nigrae funt, & in anteriori parte, fqua- mofa incifura duplici notatae: in pofteriori nulla, fed leues, & veluti pundlis quibufdam fui coloris refperfae. Color illi fub faucibus exquifite eft purpureus: in collo obfcure purpureus : in cqtero corpore per fumma contuenti, qualis confurgit fi album & nigrum polli- nem vtcunque tenuiter tritum, colori fufco rarius afpergas, nec tamen commifceas. Tali colori maculae albae ouales aut rotundae per totum corpus ineffe vifuntur, per fumma minores, per ima maiores, com- prehenfae interuallis linearum (vt apparet in plu¬ marum compofitione naturali) quae fe mutuo inter- fecant obliquo hinc inde du6lu, per fumma tantum corporis, non item per ima. Id non ex toto corpore folum deprehendes, fed ex fingulis auulfis plumis. Superiores enim, obliquis lineis fe mutuo interfecan- tibus, aut, fi mauis, orbiculis quibufdam ex albo & nigro (vt dixi) polline confedlis, & per extremitates coniundlis, vt in fauis aut rhetibus, maculas ouales aut [f. 21] rotundas albas in fpacijs fufcis comprehendunt: in¬ feriores non item. Vtreq, tamen fimili lege pofitae funt. Nam in alijs plumis, ordine ita iunclae funt, vt fere triangulos acutos faciant: in alijs, vt oualem figura reprqfentent. Huius generis ordines tres aut quatuor in fingulis fuis plumis funt, ita vt minores in maioru complexu reponantur. In extremis alis & in cauda, redlis lineis ^quidiftantibus procedunt per longitudinem maculae. Inter gallum & gallinam vix difcernes, tanta eft fimilitudo, nifi quod gallina caput totum nigrum eft. Vox illi eft diuifus fibilus, non fonorior, non maior voce coturnicis, fed fimilior voci perdicis, nifi quod fubmifsior ea eft, nec ita clara. Curfu velox eft. De Morinello. Morinellus, auis nobis cum Morinis communis, ftulta admodum eft, fed in cibis delicata, eoque apud