Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts / [Nehemiah Grew].

  • Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712
Date:
1686
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    Trees ferve quietly to fufpend him. Whereas, as Mr. Wray hath aKo rishtly obferved, {a) not being Mufcular, it is im- (a) Wii- poflible they Ihould be of any fuch ufe. His hooked Claws o* ftiew him to be a Bird of Prey ; and he ordinarily flys at and other little Birds, and feeds on them. (^) The Tarnacenfes Ihoot them down with Darts, (c) ■ (c) ibid. Two more MANUCODIaT A’S of the fame Species The GREAT R£D and BLEW PARROT. Pfittacus Erytbrocyaneus. All the great kind called alfo M A C C A W and Cockatoone, It was fent hither from Java. See his Defcription in Willoughby’s Ornithologia. There are of thefe greater, the middlemoft called Eopra- jayes, and the lelfer called Perroqueets, in all aboye twenty forts. Their more remarkable Parts,are their hooked Bills, whereby they catch hold of Boughs, and help to raife themfelyes up in the climbing of Trees. Their broad, thick, and mufcular Tongues, for which they are called «*9p»7r^yA<*T]oi, and by which they are the better enabled to fpeak, and to rowl their meat from fide to fide under the edges of their Bills: and their Feet, which, like thofe of the Woodpecker, haye two Toes before and two behind, with which they bring their meat to their mouths 5 and that after an odd way, /c. by turning their foot out^ ward, (d) _ Theonly, faith Scatiger, (e) with the Crocodile, moyes the upper Jaw : Yet the lame is affirmed of the (e) ExciciC' Hippopotamus, by Columna-, of the Liyard, byWormius and of the Phccnicopter, by Cardan, Which confirms what I haye laid under the Defcription of the Skeleton of a Crocodile, and in what fenfe it is abfurdly faid of theni all. In their Ch^ks, faith Pifo, (/) in each Noftnl, and ^ J on the top of their Heads, in a certain Tumor, there lies, about Augujl, a thick Worm 5- all which, in a little timCj fall out of their own accord, without any fign left of their cyer being there. They are a gregarious fort of Birds. They breed very numeroufly in both the/«r//es. ' InBar^ bados, fly in flocks like Clouds. In Calechut they are forced to fet people to watch their RiceTields, leaft they ihould (-/,) fpoil them, {b) The fleih of their Chickens eats juft like a ofUiavt Pigeon. (/) t