DIVERSARUM GALLINARUM  
& Gallorum descriptiones, & primo de alba
cristata & alia ferme in lapidem conversa.  
Cap. II.

CHAPTER II

DESCRIPTIONS OF DIFFERENT HENS AND ROOSTERS,

and first a white crested hen

and another hen almost turned into stone.

[307] Villaticarum nostrarum Gallinarum, utpote nulli non cognitarum duas tantum icones damus, quarum una tota candida est, et instar Alaudae cristata, altera intra duos parietes reperta fame extincta, atque eo modo, quo vides,

I give only two pictures of our courtyard hens very well known to everybody, one of them is completely white and crested like a lark - Alauda arvensis, the other was found between two walls, dead of hunger, and so, as you can see,

in lapideam ferme substantiam conversa, cauliculis suis absque pennis histricis instar horrida, intra arcis vetustissimae parietes reperta. Eam illustrissimus comes, ac senator nostrae urbis amplissimus D. Io. Pepulus olim mihi tanquam rem miram donavit. Huius iconem sequens pagina dabit. Gallinae cristatae appictum est Lolium.

almost petrified, with a wiry look as that of a porcupine because of the rachides of the feathers devoid of barbs, found between the walls of an ancient shelter. The illustrious count and very noble senator of our city Giovanni Pepolo one day gave it to me as present, as if it were an extraordinary thing. The following page will give the picture of this hen. Besides the crested hen is pictured the darnel - Lolium temulentum.