De mutatione qua habitus animantiu, externus femineus indolem induit masculam : dissertatio inauguralis ... / auctor Nicolaus Joseph. Schiffgens.

  • Schiffgens, Nicolaus Joseph.
Date:
1833
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    \ Goetzius (6) de tribus ejusdem speciei gallinis mu- ationem similem commemorans, quas in horto priri- iripali Hanoviensi observavit, nonnulla certe memo- ratu haud indigna de instinctu harum avium refert. Quae si inter Gallos versabantur gallinae ab iis pu- tabantur et vehementi ardore sexuali appetebantur; i in autem inter plures gallinas erant, gallus occur- rens eas gallos existimabat et tanquam aemulos of- tendebat et fugabat. Plura gallinarum domesticarum xempla tradit J. Butter (7), qui de hoc avium haenomeno peculiarem commentationem conscri- sit. Una gallina, quae pullos ad pugnam gallina- .aceam aptissimos procreabat, et eam ob causam i er quindecim annos diligenter fovebatur, primo pen- das caudae in masculas mutare incipiebat, tum vero aagis magisque mari similis reddebatur, ut calcaria uoque, crista, et membranulae ad gulam nasceren- ir. Etiam galli juvenis more canebat. Quamvis iero gignendi facultate privaretur, tamen post mor- em tria ova perlecte exculta in ea inventa sunt. Bechsteinius (8) insuper, quamquam gallina- (6) ISaturgeschichte des Goldfasans von Gotz: derNa- irforscher. Halle 1700. Stiick 14. pag. 207. (7) An account of ihe change of Pluniagc exhibited ly many species offemale Birds, at an advanced period. I 1 lifeJ in : Meinoirs af tlie VVernerian Natural Ilistory )ciefy. Vol, III. Edinb. 1821. pag. 108—200. (8) J. M. 13 e c h s t e i n, Naturgeschiclxte Deutschlands. eipzig 1783. 3. B. Seile 339.