The Goal of the Wise

A dark swallow in flight with a deeply forked tail, positioned at the top left of the page.

Top right corner: A small green songbird perched, and another swallow in flight labeled "hirundo rustica" (barn swallow).

Ostrich

Illustration of an ostrich with long legs and a curved neck.

the feathered time and shortly after. They have, however, short and difficult legs, but others have long legs in the manner of a sickle, which cannot walk on the ground, and they cannot lift themselves from the ground to fly because they remain and adhere, especially on cliffs and in fissures, so that they might cast themselves from a height in order to fly. Some, however, eat ...and have a bad gait...? like all genera of hawks, and most non-predatory birds— ... ...?
... ...? generally ... ...? bad gait ... ...?
For these ... ...? the first, however, ... ...? they have a good gait and no flight, such as ostriches. Others have a good gait and poor flight, such as the aforementioned genera of quail and the manner of terrestrial rails, which are called the leaders of the quail—

Quail, partridge

Two small, rounded ground birds (quail and partridge).

and pheasants and those similar to these. Furthermore, of the terrestrial ones, others acquire their food by flying and capture it in the air. Others acquire their food by walking upon the ground—

Corncrake

A bird with a blue-grey back and patterned wings, possibly a corncrake.

and receive it from the ground. Truly, of those that capture food by flying, some eat it in the air, like the manner of swallows and starlings and similar birds which capture in the air and—

Pheasant

A pheasant with distinct plumage and a long tail.

Bee-eater, Argathylis swallow

Two small birds labeled as types of swallows.

eat many types of beetles, bees, and wasps, and flies moving in flight: unless when ... worms ...? which ... in transit ...? however, they descend when they move from the ground to the food of others; and even though water is not as harmful to them, yet when they have agreed ... ...?

A central illustration depicting a bird of prey in a stoop (diving) to catch another bird in flight, alongside a hawk perched on a leafless branch.

...? prey: they do not capture ...? they stand upon ...? trees to approach ...? and to prepare and to eat that which are not predatory birds, which are birds that capture other birds, they fall often in the air and to the ground or to the trees so that they may eat. Truly, of those that acquire their food by walking, some [do so] by picking with their beak on the surface of the ground and not by scratching with their feet—

Bustard

Two large, heavy-bodied birds with thick necks, labeled as bustards.

like bustards, lapwings, field ducks, and similar [birds] which graze always upon the ground on herbs and grain, worms, and moisture. Others, by scratching with their feet under the ground when they do not find food upon the ground, such as partridges, hens, pheasants, peacocks, quail, and those [similar] to these.

Bottom right: A grouping of terrestrial birds including a partridge ("perdix"), a long-tailed pheasant ("phasianus"), a rooster ("gallus"), and a peacock ("pavo").