Class II. 



HOOPOE 



%S1 



Slender incurvated BILL. 

 Very (hort TONGUE. 

 Ten feathers in the TAIL. 



X. 

 HOOPOE. 



La Huppe. Belon av. 293. 

 Upupa. Gefner au. 'j']6. 

 Aldf, a<v. l\. 3 i .}.. 

 Bubbola. OUnn^ 36. 

 The Hoop, or Hoopoe, JVil. 



orn. 145. 

 Rail fyn. a'V. ^%, 

 Tile Dung Bird. Charlton ex, 



98. tab. 99. 

 Plott's Oxf. i-jj. 

 EcH<:. 345. 

 PL enl 52. 

 La Hupe ou Puput. BriJJhn 



au. 111. 455. tab. 43. 



Upupa epops. Lin. fyjl. 183. 90. Hoopo] 

 HarfbgeJ, Fop. Faiui. S:cic. 



fp. 10,-. 

 Ter Chaous Pococke Trav. L 



209. 

 Her-fugl. Briat7iichy 43. 

 WidJiopf. Kram. 337. 

 Upupa; arquata flercoraria ; 



gall us lutofus. KUin Siem. 



a<v. 24. tab, 25. 

 Br. Zool. '^'i). plate L. 

 Smerda kaura. Scopoll, No. 



62, 



T^ HIS bird may be readily diftinguillied from 

 -*- all others that vifit thefe iflands by its beau- 

 tiful creft, which it can eredlor deprels at pleafure : 

 it weighs three ounces : its length is twelve inches : 

 its breadth nineteen : the bill is black, two inches 

 and a half long, (lender, and incurvated : the 

 tongue triangular, fmall, and placed low in the 

 mouth : the irides are hazel : the creil confifts of 

 a double row of feathers ; the highefl about two 

 inches long : the tips are black, their lower part of 

 a pale orange color : the neck is of a pale reddiih 

 brown: the breail and belly white j but in young 



birds 



Dcs, 



Ri?, 



