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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[321] Tres quoque pedes; sed tertium prope anum enascentem habebat haec Gallina toto fere corpore flava. Alae eius, et dorsum fuscis ubique maculis conspergebantur. Fuscae etiam a collo quaedam pennae dependebant super alarum principia. Cauda denique tota fusca. Caetera lutea.

This hen who was buff in almost the whole body was likewise three-clawed, but the third claw was growing out near the anus. Her wings and back were everywhere sprinkled with dark spots. Also from her neck some dark feathers were hanging down above the junction of the wings. Finally the tail was entirely dark. The remaining parts were yellow.

Gallina tripes cum hordeo.

Three-clawed hen with barley.

 


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