The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.) 20 Columbus, an major Aldr. Will. 339. T. 59. A[ ] neque Descriptio nec fig. huic nostræ per omnia convenit. An potius Columbus C. Podicipes cinereus Dni Johnson apud Willough. p. 340. T. 16.? A or Arsfoot. Grebe or Arsefoot. Perhaps the great crested grebe of Aldrovandi. Willughby 1678, p. 339, tab. 59. The description does not agree in all respects with this specimen of ours. Possibly the Colymbus podicipes cinereus of Mr Jonston, quoted in Willughby 1678, p. 340, tab. [61].