. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . cales; the Soles of the Feet were fpecklediikc Shagreen j the fore Toes long, the hind Toe fhort, the Talons black. This Bird is called Demoifelles by reafon of certain ways of adling thatit has, wherein it feems to imitate the Geftures of a Woman who affedisa Grace in her Walking, Obeifances, and Dancing. This Refemblancemuft be thought to have fome reafonable Ground, feeing that for abovetwo thoufand Years the Authors who have treated of this Bird have de-figned it by this Part
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . cales; the Soles of the Feet were fpecklediikc Shagreen j the fore Toes long, the hind Toe fhort, the Talons black. This Bird is called Demoifelles by reafon of certain ways of adling thatit has, wherein it feems to imitate the Geftures of a Woman who affedisa Grace in her Walking, Obeifances, and Dancing. This Refemblancemuft be thought to have fome reafonable Ground, feeing that for abovetwo thoufand Years the Authors who have treated of this Bird have de-figned it by this Particularity of the Imitation of the Geftures and Be-haviour of Men. Arijlotle gives to it the Name of Adtor or calls it Parafite and Dancer. Xe77opho7^ fays that the Methodwhich Fowlers make ufe of to take thefe Birds is by rubbing their Eyesin their Prefence, with Water put into Veflels which they carry away,leaving fuch Veflels filled with Glue wherewith thefe Birds glue theirFeet and Eyes, when they endeavour to imitate what they have feenothers do. I faw this Bird at Sir Henry Maynard\, The S2. ^/v/.4 /lufnv^^./i/li,_ C^e /lu//nu/ta/fz ^ryz//t&^ S^t^azayr^i^//^ift f^/^^W
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