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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[313] Sunt quoque in hoc avium genere pedibus quandoque hirsutis, quales sunt, quos nunc damus, Gallus, et Gallina, Gallus collo, et dorso erat castanei coloris. Alae primum nigrae albicantibus maculis decoratae, dein nigrae erant, remigae candidae extra, intus nigrae. Mentum, pectus, venter coxae, tibiae nigra, albicantibus

Also in this genus of birds there are subjects which sometimes have bristly legs, such as those I am showing now, a rooster and a hen; the rooster had the neck and the back of chestnut color. The wings in the forefront were black adorned by whitish spots, then were black, the remiges were white outside, black inside. The throat, breast, belly, thighs and legs were black, decorated with whitish spots.

 

maculis insignita. Pedes lutei, crista duplex non admodum magna rostrum luteum: paleae magnae; cauda partim albis, partim nigris pennis constabat. Gallina tota flavescebat, {feri} <fere> atris ubique, si solum collum demas, maculis, modo parvis, modo magnis, at ubique oblongis conspersa; cristam habebat omnium minimam et paleas admodum breves, rostrum, et pedes luteos.[1]

The feet were yellow - and five toed, the comb was double not too much big, the beak was yellow: the wattles were large, the tail was made up by partly white and partly black feathers. The hen was entirely buff, sprinkled everywhere, except only the neck, by almost black spots, now small, now large, but anywhere they were appearing oblong, she had the smallest of combs and very short wattles, the beak and feet yellow - five toed.


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[1] Aldrovandi scotomizza l’evidente pentadattilia.