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. |
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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. |