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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[326] Hic vero Gallus quinquepedes anno mundi 3838. Ante nativitatem Christi 125. {Cerae} <Caere> natus memoratur.[1]

In truth this five-footed rooster, of the year of the world 3828, 125 BC, is recorded as born at Cerveteri.

 

{Pullis} <Pullus> capite gemino cum Lolio rubro.

Chick with twin heads and red lolium.

 

Pullus iste capite gemino, alis, pedibusque bini duntaxat, dorso erat coloris fusci, temporibus, et collo lutescentibus, pectore, et ventre albis, pedibus, et tibiis castaneis.

This chick with twin heads, with only two wings and feet, was dark on the back; yellowish at temples and neck, white on breast and belly, chestnut on feet and legs.


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[1] Le date e l'immagine sono tratte da Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon (1557) di Licostene.