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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[323] Gallus hic quadrupes prone erat ad ventrem usque castanei coloris, supine ad uropygium usque lutei intercurrentibus pennis castaneis. Alae albae, remigibus viridibus, a tergore prope caudam pennae dependebant longae admodum, castaneae; cauda viridis et nigra, crista duplex, minime crenata: pedes quatuor, quorum anteriores perfecti erant et lutei, {anteriores} <posteriores> imperfecti et pallidi.

This four-footed rooster with his face downwards was chestnut colored down to the belly, with his face upwards was yellow with interposed chestnut feathers. The wings were white with the remiges green, very long chestnut feathers were hanging down from the back near the tail; the tail was green and black, the comb was double only just serrated: the feet were four, those on the front were perfect and yellow, those behind imperfect and pale.

Gallus monstrificus quadrupes cum {Aegylope} <Aegilope>.

Four-clawed monstrous rooster with aegilops.

 


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