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[3] Meleagride caerulea. Sed ex his tribus generibus cohortales feminae proprie appellantur gallinae, mares autem galli, semimares capi, qui hoc nomine 1 2 3 4 [p. 324] vocantur, cum sunt castrati libidinis abolendae causa. Nec tamen id patiuntur amissis genitalibus, sed ferro candente calcaribus inustis, quae cum ignea vi consumpta sunt, facta ulcera dum consanescant, figulari creta linuntur.
1 post pascuntur add. quod sint genera gallinarum ac.
2 ambigatur c: ambigantur SAa.
3 cohortalium A; chortalium S.
4 capite om. S. a Variously identified as hazel-hen, heath-hen, field-hen and red-legged partridge. b This island is still called by this name and lies off Albengo, three miles E. of Alassio on the Italian Riviera. c Probably the guinea-fowl.
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