The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 928
k fpots jthe fhoulders alfo are white and downy; the body and back yel-low, and joynted, having eight little black fpots ; the eyes bigand ftandingout of the head, between which fprout out two blackand hairy cornicles. In the night time fhe flies about the mea-„ dowes and paftures. ^ The twelfth… … The thirteenth (except its black eyes) is of a Crane-colour,fomewhat blackifh ; the cornicles more than ordinary long, thebody rough and hairy, the wings of the fame colour with the bo-dy, but about the edges gliftering with a greenifh, gl-aflie varnifh. The fourteenth is a very rare one, though…
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