[318] Quem vero Persicum Gallum appellant, et quem
hic depinximus, a nostratibus in eo potissimum differt, quod cauda
careat, caetera simillimus existit. Crista<m> tamen veluti
caudam obtinet. Erat autem totus niger lineis luteis conspersus:
Alarum remiges principio albae erant, caetera atrae: pedes cinerei:
Gallina quoad formam habitumve nostratibus erat similis: colore a mare
diversissimo, unde tam in his, quam in illis coloris diversitatem
vilipendendam arbitror. Erat autem tota coloris ferruginei, tribus pennis remigum exceptis, quae
nigrae erant. Crista, si cristae maris compares longe erat quam
in illo minor. Gallo appinximus phalaridem, Gallinae {calamogrostim}
<calamagrostim>.
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In
truth that which they call Persian rooster, and I represented here,
differs from our roosters above all in lacking tail, otherwise he is
quite matching. However he has a comb like a tail. He was entirely
black sprinkled of yellow strips. The remiges of the wings were white
at their tips, otherwise black: the legs were ash colored: the hen, as
far as her shape and look is concerned, was similar to our hens: the
color was quite different from that of the male, therefore I think
that both in Persian and in our hens the difference of the coloration
has to be scarcely regarded. She was entirely rust brown with
exception of three remiges which were black. The comb, if compared to
that of the male, was by far smaller than in him. Besides the rooster
I pictured the canary grass,
Phalaris canariensis, besides the hen the Calamagrostis
epigeios.
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