Class II. HOOPOE. 259 



from the refemblance its creft has to the plumes 

 worn by the Chaous or "Turkijh couriers. 



Ovid fays that Tereus was changed into this bird : 



Vertltur in volucrem, cui ftant in vcrtice criftas, 

 Prominet immodicum pro longa cufpide roftrum : 

 Nomen E/>o/>s volucri, Metam. lib. vi. 1. 672. 



Tereus, through grief, and hade to be reveng'd. 

 Shares the like fate and to a bird is chang'd. 

 Fix'd on his head the crefled plumes appear, 

 I^ong; is his beak and fharpen'd as a fpear. Croxall 



Very 



