. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . on the under fide, not being in any Part covered with Featherseither above or beneath: the Legs are ftrong, thick, but very fhort,broad, and flat; (at leaft in the Young ones) the Feet and Clawsblack, covered with a Skin, not divided into perfect Scales, but can-cellated. It hath four Toes in each foot all webbed together by a broadblack Membrane, like the ElKs. The Stomach is membranaceous, but its upper Part thick and glan-dulous 3 within were Bones of Fifiies which it had devo
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . on the under fide, not being in any Part covered with Featherseither above or beneath: the Legs are ftrong, thick, but very fhort,broad, and flat; (at leaft in the Young ones) the Feet and Clawsblack, covered with a Skin, not divided into perfect Scales, but can-cellated. It hath four Toes in each foot all webbed together by a broadblack Membrane, like the ElKs. The Stomach is membranaceous, but its upper Part thick and glan-dulous 3 within were Bones of Fifiies which it had devoured, and oneFifii entire, which was a fmall Codfifi:i; alfo many little long blackifeWorms of the Figure of Earth-Worms, Mr. Willoughby alfo found thelike Worms in the Stomach of a Young one, which he got at Sevenhuysin Hollafidj where many of this Kind build upon Trees: the Gutswere long having many Revolutions; the blind Guts very fmall, theLiver large divided into two Lobes, the right one the bigger. It isinfefled v/ith Lice of a pale red Colour having a great black Spot in themiddle of their Backs, The ^/. CiTJ^/U a^l/M/tC6LJ 1 Ac Cr77vnp?yi?,/~ I 6^2
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