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 929
ftrong,black, and crooked like the oxe, the eyes great and black, the headfhort, the neck thick ; the outermoft wings adorned with certainblack ftuds ; the ridge of the back is dreft up as it were with fiveblack heads of Gilliflowers, three forked. The fifteenth hath its wings of a pale afh-colour… … The fixteench feemeth to be of the fame colour, but that kis ftreaked with black athwart the outermotl wings: but this isevery where of one colour (except the eyes which are black). Ithath a long body, joynted, four long narrow wings, fix feet, thofebehindc are twice as long as thofe before, it…
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