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8. However, for her near refemblance of them in her bead-, 

 and fome other parts, we cannot but allow her to be a Bird of that 

 genus, though undefcribed ; and accordingly advife, (lie may be 

 placed amongft them by future Ornithologies, to which purpofe 

 let them take the following defcription. 



9. Her beak'is ftraight, only at its extremity, where it is turn- 

 ed like the Vulturs, in length 2 inches J, and her Nares long and 

 narrow, as in Tab. 1 o. Fig. 3. ThepupilU of her eyes are full and 

 black, encompaffed with hides of a dark brown colour, bald 

 and wrinkled to the top of the head, and fo round by the ears 

 (which are of an irregular oval form) next which ftand the pen- 

 rue fetiformes as aforefaid ; her gorge not at all protuberant, but 

 flender ; her wings complicated or folded to her body, reach al- 

 moft to the end of her train, and exten<ied at full ftretch, have 

 their extremities diftant about five foot, being fomwhat larger 

 thanthofe of a Lanar, and containing in each of them ^^Remi- 

 ges, i.e. befide the five feathers, 29 at leaft or 30 flags : her 

 thighs and pounces are much likethofeof a common houfeHen, 

 having the outermoft talon knit to the reft by a memhran. In the 

 whole, (lie is bigger than a Mofcovy Gofiawk,, from the point of 

 her beak, to the extremity of her train, above two foot long, 

 her plume for the moil: part being of an A(h-colour, mixt with 

 fome white feathers, and growing whiter upon mewing, as thofe 

 of Hawks do. 



10. Other Birds there are here that are but rarely feen, yet 

 breed in this Country, and are continually with us, and therefore 

 to be numbred amongft thofe we call perennial. Such are the V- 

 pupa the Hoopoe, or Hooping-bird; whereof I faw one alive on 

 Otmoor, and another was given me for the Repofitory of the Bod- 

 leyan Library (killed fomwhere about Caffenton*) by one Mr. Pain- 

 ter Alderman of Woodfiock. A Bird it is to admiration beautiful, 

 being curioufly deck'd with feathers of divers colours, and with 

 a large creft on its head, as it is exquifitely engraven both by Dr. 

 Charleton * and Mr. Willughby ; but like the Viabolu* marinm, ne- 

 ver appearing or being heard (as the vulgar will have it) till im- 

 mediatly before fome approaching calamity. 



11. As for Birds that have cafually flown hither, or come but 

 at fome certain feafons of the year, by Naturalists ftiled Aves mi- 



* OTiomafi.Zotcon- Titul Avts } ClaJfeConorarum. 



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