$6 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



The weather was very changeable during 

 our flay in Spain : fometimes it was dry almoft 

 a whole week, fometimes foggy, often for 

 three or four days together rainy, then we had 

 thunder, and it was almoft always ftormy. 



March the 23d, 33 15' N. L. 



We little expected to meet with our Hoopoe 

 (Upupa epops Linn.) fo far from Sweden. This 

 bird approached our ftiip to-day, and went 

 along with us a good way. I have before feen 

 it in Spain ; and in order to ihewwhat altera- 

 tion the feafon or the climate might caufe, I 

 drew up the following description : the beak is 

 sngulated, comprefled, arcuated, long, fharp : 

 both the jaws (mandibula) are. equally long, 

 and triangular : the nojlrils are oblong : the 

 headh adorned with a crefl of yellowifn brown 

 feathers with black tops, of the length of the 

 beak ; though the middlemolt feathers (of 

 which there are twenty-four) are fomewhat 

 the longed : the neck, the bread, the belly, 

 and the foremoft part of the back, are of a 

 yellowifti brown : the vent feathers are lf&itg, 

 and the back black, with white ftripes ; but the 



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