De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe DoggesCaius, John
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De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe Dogges
Caius, John
Dogs -- Early works to 1800
In Latine called _Venatici_.
The seconde Section of
_this discourse_.
Of gentle Dogges seruing the hauke, and first
of the Spaniell, called in Latine
_Hispaniolus_.
[Ex generosis aucupatoriis.] Qui aves, proximum locum habent. Eos
Aucupatorios dici ante proposuimus.
Svch Dogges as serue for fowling, I thinke conuenient and requisite
to place in this seconde Section of this treatise. These are also to
bee reckoned and accounted in the number of the dogges which come of
a gentle kind, and of those which serue for fowling.
Hi ex generosorum numero etiam sunt, & duûm generum. Alii enim per
sicca tantum venantur: Alii per aquas tantum aves persequuntur.
There be two sortes
{ The first findeth game on the land.
{ The other findeth game on the water.
Qui per sicca tantum, aut libero vestigio & latratu avem investigant
& excitant, aut tacito indicio eandem commonstrant.
Such as delight on the land, play their partes, eyther by swiftnesse
of foote, or by often questing, to search out and to spring the
byrde for further hope of aduauntage, or else by some secrete signe
and priuy token bewray the place where they fall.
Primum genus Accipitri servit; secundum reti.
The first kinde of such serue { The Hauke,
The seconde, { The net, or, traine,
[Hispaniolus.] Peculiaria nomina primum genus non habet, nisi ab ave
ad quam venandam natura est propensius. Qua de causa falconarii hos
phasianarios, hos perdiciarios, vocare solent.
The first kinde haue no peculier names assigned vnto them, saue
onely that they be denominated after the byrde which by naturall
appointment he is alotted to take, for the which consideration.
Some be called Dogges,
{ For the Falcon
{ The Phesant
{ The Partridge
and such like,
Vulgus tamen nostrum communi nomine Hispaniolos nominat, quasi ex
Hispania productum istud genus primo esset. Omnes maxima ex parte
candidi sunt: & si quas maculas habeant, rubræ sunt, raræ,
& majores. Sunt & ruffi atque nigri, sed perpauci.
The common sort of people call them by one generall word, namely
Spaniells. As though these kinde of Dogges came originally and first
of all out of Spaine, The most part of their skynnes are white, and
if they be marcked with any spottes, they are commonly red, and
somewhat great therewithall, the heares not growing in such
thicknesse but that the mixture of them maye easely bee perceaued.
Othersome of them be reddishe and blackishe, but of that sorte there
be but a very few.
Est & hodie novum genus ex Gallia advectum (ut novitatis omnes sumus
studiosi) sed ex toto in albo obfuscatum maculosè, quem Gallicanum
vocitamus.
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