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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