72 Of the Tir-Chaous. 



N^mS^Tf J^i^nah and D'J^^ Rinonem, the Names by which the Oftrich 

 ' e'rianK'?'^ ^^ kiiown ill the H. Scriptures, may very properly therefore 

 be deduced from (njy) onah and (P">) ro;//?;?. Words, which 

 the Lexicographi explain, by exclamare or clamare fort'iter. 

 For the Noife made by the OUrkh, being loud and fonorous 

 thefe Words may, with Propriety enough, be attributed to it • 

 efpecially as they do not feem to denote ' any certain or de- 

 termined Mode of Voice or Sound, peculiar to any one parti- 

 cular Species of Animals ; but fuch as may be applicable to 

 them all, to Birds as well as to other Creatures. 

 The Tiv The Tir Chaous or MeJJenger Bird , as this Author inter- 

 s' "' prets it, will probably be taken, (for Want of a more particular 

 Defcription,) for a new Species ; whereas it is the Hoopoe, Upupa, 

 'Evni^ or Kowv(p*, a Bird often concerned in the EgfpttanHiero- 

 gfyphicSj ( Trav. p. 396. ) and fometimes known in our own 

 Country \ Neither is it called Chaous y from the Office or Em- 

 ployment of this Order of Men, in the Titrkip Polity, as 

 feems to be fuppofed by this Gentleman : it is fo called from 

 the Plume of Feathers, that is wore by them, in their Tur- 

 bants, as a Badge of their Office ; which bears a near Re- 

 femblance to the Creft of the Hoopoe. I faw thefe Birds, in 

 great Numbers, at Soljman, ( I think they call it, ) a noted 

 Grove and Sanctuary ; where we had the firft Sight of the 

 TyramidSy in failing up the Kile : and, notwithftanding the 

 Nearnefs of the River, thefe Birds were fupplied, every Day, 

 with frelh Water, which was fufpended for them, in Gourds, 

 all over the Grove. What is further remarkable, the Keeper 

 of this Sanduary permitted us to fhoot at them ; as the Birds 

 themfelves are pretended to be invulnerable, from theSandtity 

 of the Place, and the Protedion of the Saint, {Shekh) who 

 lies there interred. 

 Th^^«^/j^^; The learned Bochart, {Hieroz. 1. 1. c. 31.) has a long DifTer- 

 upufa, and tation to provc the nson dukeefath, (which is not much dif- 



not the Laf- ^ -o a r- i -r-i ■ , ,• 



w«£. terent m Sound from the Egvpttan Ko!;;ty<p*, and is rendered. 

 Lei. 11. 19. Deut. 14. 18. the Lapwing,) to be the Upupa. 

 For it is very probable, that the Sacred Hiftorian, in prohi- 



I Vid. ^lian. Hift. Animal. 1. y. c. y i. & I. 6. c. 19. 

 ^ 2 Upupa. Crifta. in cap'tte pukherrima, duplici penmUrum ord'tne coijlans, a Rojiro ad extre- 



mum ufque occipitmm protenfa. In Northumbrta & in agro Simeiano interdum invcnitur. Raij 

 Synopf. Avium, p. 48. I have likewife feen it in Hampftnre. 



biting 



