Description | Charlton describes the appearance of a rare bird with black, grey, green and white colouring, a pink beak and two rows of teeth. He also describes the flavour of the bird, and suggests that a similar bird is described in Wormius's [Ole Worm] 'Museum Wormianum'.
Subject: Zoology / Ornithology
Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1664 |