Ornamental and domestic poultry: their history and management / [Edmund Saul Dixon].

  • Dixon, Edmund Saul, 1809-1893
Date:
1848
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Credit: Ornamental and domestic poultry: their history and management / [Edmund Saul Dixon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eriguntur ; quorsum etiam tota cauda attolli conspicitur.’ Heecille. Que tamen de hoc Gallo commemorat, nec ejus imago ad me missa, nec nostra icon satis exprimunt: quod pictoris imperitia factum fuisse ejus verba ostendunt.” “ Pompilius Tagliaferrus, of Parma, not the lowest amongst distinguished physicians, wrote to me respecting this Cock, in these words : ‘I send thee the effigy of a monstrous Cock, although the painter has not satisfied me in its delineation. But I wish you to know that two things particularly worthy of admiration are to be found in this Cock, which are scarcely ever seen in our own Cocks and Hens. The first and principal is, that the feathers of the wings are situated in a contrary manner to what they are in others, for the flat part of them, which by the prescript of nature in others bends inwards, in this is seen outward, so that the whole wing appears entirely reversed. I think another thing worthy of notice, namely, that the small feathers of the neck are erected towards the head, like curls, whither also the whole tail appears to be bent.’ So far he. But what he records of this Cock, neither its portrait sent to me, nor our figure sufficiently express; which his words show to have happened through the unskilfulness of the painter.” Aldrovandi seems to doubt the fact. His bird is drawn with a large, deep-cleft comb. THE END.