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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[316] pedibus subcaeruleis: paleis, si maris paleis compares, longe minoribus, eadem istaec videretur, nisi cervix lutesceret, et apicem in vertice gereret, et pedes omnino haberet caeruleos, et caudam immaculatam.

with bluish legs: the wattles, if compared to the wattles of the male, are by far smaller, and her look would be identical to that of the hen represented here below but for the yellowish neck, for having on the head a pointed formation and for quite blue legs, and a tail without stains.

Aliam in hoc genere observavi, cui pedes prorsus erant caerulei, eodem modo, ut praedicta, ex albo et nigro maculata, sed post carneam cristam, aliam habet ex pennis albis instar Alaudae, et cervicem ex cinereo lutescentem quae in praecedenti nigra est. Iconem {sequenti pagina dabimus} <hac pagina damus>.

Among this breed I observed another hen that had quite blue legs, as the previous mottled of white and black, but at the back the comb she has another crest made up by white feathers shaped like the crest of a lark - Alauda arvensis, and a yellow grayish nape which in the previous hen was black. I give its picture in this page.

Gallina Turcica pedibus caeruleis cum ustilagine avenae.

Blue legged Turkish hen with black blight of oats.

 


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