Moreover, Such as have naturally discoursed hereon, have so diversly, contrarily, or contradictorily delivered themselves, that no affirmative from thence can reasonably be deduced. For most have positively denied it, and they which affirm and believe it, assign this name unto many, and mistake two or three in one. So hath that bird been taken for the Phœnix which liveth in _Arabia_, and buildeth its nest with Cinnamon; by _Herodotus_ called _Cinnamulgus_, and by _Aristotle_, _Cinnamomus_; and as a fabulous conceit is censured by _Scaliger_. Some have conceived that bird to be the Phœnix, which by a _Persian_ name with the _Greeks_ is called _Rhyntace_; but how they made this good we find occasion of doubt; whilest we read in the life of _Artaxerxes_, that this is a little bird brought often to their Tables, and wherewith _Parysatis_ cunningly poisoned the Queen. The _Manucodiata_ or Bird of Paradise, hath had the honour of this name, and their feathers brought from the _Molucca's_ do pass for those of the Phœnix. Which though promoted by rarity with us, the _Eastern_ Travellers will hardly admit; who know they are common in those parts, and the ordinary plume of _Janizaries_ among the _Turks_. And lastly, the Bird _Semenda_ hath found the same appellation, for so hath _Scaliger_ observed and refuted; nor will the solitude of the Phœnix allow this denomination; for many there are of that species, and whose trifistulary bill and crany we have beheld our selves. Nor are men only at variance in regard of the Phœnix it self, but very disagreeing in the accidents ascribed thereto: for some affirm it liveth three hundred, some five, others six, some a thousand, others no less then fifteen hundred years; some say it liveth in _Æthiopia_, others in _Arabia_, some in _Egypt_, others in _India_, and some in _Utopia_; for such a one must that be which is described by _Lactantius_; that is, which neither was singed in the combustion of _Phaeton_, or overwhelmed by the innundation of _Deucalion_.