. Early annals of ornithology. Birds; Birds. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 193 is good for when it was done, though it would be easy to discover faults in its composition. Clusius, who is less known to fame as an ornithologist than as one of the early fathers of botany, gives figures of about fourteen other birds in this volume, including the Dodo and the Great Auk, but they are somewhat rudely done. The Great Auk is wrongly represented in the attitude of a Goose, but the Penguin from Magellan is correctly given an upright attitude, with the remark, " illas autem a pinguedine qui erant prseditse,.
. Early annals of ornithology. Birds; Birds. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 193 is good for when it was done, though it would be easy to discover faults in its composition. Clusius, who is less known to fame as an ornithologist than as one of the early fathers of botany, gives figures of about fourteen other birds in this volume, including the Dodo and the Great Auk, but they are somewhat rudely done. The Great Auk is wrongly represented in the attitude of a Goose, but the Penguin from Magellan is correctly given an upright attitude, with the remark, " illas autem a pinguedine qui erant prseditse,. SOLAN GOOSE (AFTER CLTJSIUs). Pinguins appelarunt. . .' however, is questionable.* This derivation of its name, 1613. Michael Drayton. The famous " Poly-Olbion" of Drayton professes to include the animal products of the various counties which it versifies, yet Norfolk and Suffolk are dismissed in scanty fashion, but to the birds of Lincolnshire the poet devotes eighty-eight lines naming thirty-seven species of birds, with which however, he had evidently had no personal acquaintance. With these we have not here to do, but in the first edition of * See Newton's " Dictionary of Birds," p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gurney, John Henry, 1848-. London, H. F. & G. Witherby
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