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Summing up the remonstrances and reproaches of his various friends, he declared that he held himself to deserve rather their envy than their commiseration, since amidst the many learned men in Italy he felt himself obscure and useless, counting himself indeed as passerunculus inter accipitres, pygmeolus inter gigantes.
Postremo afferuntur aquilae, struthiones, gryphandi, accipitres, et papingi, cum diuersis auibus et auiculis, nec non serpentes ac pisces, quorum portitores inclinant profunde, quoniam dicunt omnes terrenas creaturas debere adorationem Imperatori Grand Can filio Dei excelsi: et his perfectis, Musicae Camenae persoluunt debita plene.
The ignoble birds of prey, the Kites , keep close by the shore, and hover round the returning boats of the fishermen to feast on the fry rejected from their nets. Dr. Owls. Of the nocturnal accipitres the most remarkable is the brown owl, which, from its hideous yell, has acquired the name of the "Devil-Bird."
Gignuntur in ea insula accipitres ita nigri, vt coruorum similitudinem mirum in modum exprimant, perdices autem et aquilæ sunt nigri coloris. The same in English. This land he called Prima vista, that is to say, First seene, because as I suppose it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea.
These, and the profusion of perching birds, fly-catchers, finches, and thrushes, that appear in the open country, afford sufficient quarry for the raptorial and predatory species eagles, hawks, and falcons whose daring sweeps and effortless undulations are striking objects in the cloudless sky. I. ACCIPITRES. Eagles.
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