Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ornithologiae tomus alter - 1600

Liber Decimusquartus
qui est 
de Pulveratricibus Domesticis

Book 14th
concerning
domestic dust bathing fowls

transcribed by Fernando Civardi - translated by Elio Corti

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DE GALLINIS

Patavinis. Cap. IV.

CHAPTER IV

PADUAN HENS

[310] Nostratibus Gallinaceis plerunque maiores existunt, quos vulgus Patavinos appellat, quemadmodum etiam tales Gallinae nostratibus Gallinis. Maris faeminaeque iconem exhibemus. Mas erat aspectu pulcherrimus, quinque tamen

There are subjects often larger than our local cocks that people call Paduans, as are the hens in comparison with our local hens. Let us observe the picture of male and female. The male was of very good-looking,

 


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