[332] DE GALLO

Alio Indico.

Cap. X.

CHAPTER X

THE SECOND INDIAN ROOSTER

Quem modo depingimus, simpliciter Gallum Indicum dicunt. Eum magno Hetruriae Duci Ferdinando acceptum refero, qui prae eximia sua liberalitate, ut est virorum doctorum studiosissimus, depictum mihi aliquando dono transmisit. Avis toto corpore coloris erat aterrimi, calcaribus, et cauda carebat, uti etiam crista, cuius loco cirros gerebat. Rostrum erat bicolor, partim enim luteum, nempe caput versus, caetera atrum. Superius rostrum aduncum. Quo loco in aliis Gallis narium foramina sunt, ibi haec avis rotundum quid magnitudine cerasi luteum habebat. Tibiae, pedesque tabellis albicantibus praediti. Pennae etiam quaedam prope anum exiguae albescebant.

That I am now representing they simply call it Indian rooster. I report it as due to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando I, who because of his exceptional generosity, as typical of a big promoter of scientists, one day sent it me reproduced as gift. The bird was very black in the whole body, was lacking spurs and tail, as well as comb, in place of which had curls. The beak was of two colors, for it was partly yellow, and precisely the part toward the head, for the rest it was deep black. The upper beak was hooked. Where in the other roosters there are the openings of nostrils, here this bird showed something round and yellow of the size of a cherry. The legs and the feet were furnished with whitish bits. Also some small perianal feathers were whitish.

Gallus Indicus alius cum frumento Turcico.

The second Indian rooster with maize.

Male of Mexican Curassow - Crax rubra