The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...

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Title: The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...
Author: Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn ...,; 1678.
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Subject terms: Birds -- Early works to 1800.; Fowling -- Early works to 1800.; Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
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The healing Wood-pecker, or Tleuquecholtototl.

THis Tleuquecholtototl or Bird with a Head like the Spoon-bill [Platea.] It is big∣ger than a Blackbird, hath a long black Bill, but the nether Chap much the shorter. The crown of the Head, and almost the whole Neck above is red, the lower parts being altogether cinereous. The Wings and Back are black, varied with transverse white lines. It lives in the fields of Pavatlan, in the Province of Totona∣capae. It is a kind of Wood-pecker, that perforates trees, the red feathers of whose Head being applied and glued to the Head are reported to cure the Head-ach: Whe∣ther they came to be of that opinion, because they grow on the birds Head, or found it to be so by some experiment.