FOOTNOTES
[58] Gesneri Historiæ Animalium, liber tertius. Tiguri, 1555, fol. p. 234.
[59] Uccelliera, overo Discorso della natura di diversi Uccelli. Roma, 1622, 4to.
[60] Gesneri redivivi, aucti et emendati, tomus ii. Franc. 1669, fol. p. 62. More information respecting hybrids may be found in Brisson, Ornithologie, t. iii. p. 187; and Frisch, Vorstellung der Vögel in Teutschland, the twelfth plate of which contains several good figures.
[61] Coleri Œconomia ruralis et domestica. Franc. 1680, folio.
[62] Barrington’s paper in the Phil. Trans. vol. lxiii. p. 249.
[63] Phalaris Canariensis. The best figure and description of it are to be found in Schreber’s Beschreibung der Gräser, ii. p. 83, tab. x. 2.
[64] Lib. iii. c. 159, and lib. xxvii. c. 12.
[65] Dictionnaire de Commerce, t. v. 1765, fol. p. 1149.