at Prsenefte. 89 



This Pavement does not exhibit to us a sfeat Variety of Thecoar^ 

 Birds. Anions thofe that appear to be of the web-footed Kind, /«^' ^^^ p^/it 

 we may take the fmaller Species of them (Q.) to be the Goofe, 

 one of their Sacred Animals ; as the larger may reprefent the 

 Onocrotalm{K), another noted Bird of the AZz'/i?, which is like- 

 wife called the Telicane. The remarkable large Pouch or Bag, 

 that is fufpended from the Bill of this Bird, ferves not only as 

 aRepofitory for it's Food, but as a Net likewife, wherewithal 

 to catch it. And, it may be further obferved, that in feeding 

 it's young-ones, (whether this Bag is loaded with Water or 

 Filli,) the Onocrotalm fqueezes the Contents of it, into their 

 Mouths, by ftrongly compreffing it, with the Bill, upon it's 

 Breaft. An A6tion, which might well give occafion to the re- 

 ceived Tradition and Report, that the Telicane, in feeding her 

 Young, pierced her own Breaft, and nourifhed them with her 

 Blood. 



As, in the whole Courfe of thefe Figures, a particular Re- The Le^i- 

 gard feems to have been had to the facred Animals of Egypt, '^'^' 

 the Fifli (a) that is exhibited below one of thefe Telicanes, may 

 be received for the Lepidott^s \ 



Among the Birds of the Crane Kind (S), we may pronounce The r^v, 

 one or another of them to be the Ibis, from the Curvature oiswk. 

 it's Bill. Among the others, we are to look for the Vamoifelle, 

 the dancing Bird, or Otis of the Ancients ; which, together 

 with the Stork, is every where to be met with, though the 

 latter is infinitely more numerous. Trav. p. 43 8. 



The Eagle (T) was of too great Confequence to be omitted ; The vhamx 

 and is therefore difplayed, in a flying Pofture, over one of the^Tar!dife. 

 Gates of Memphis. Neither fhould we pafs over a beautiful 

 Bird (u), which hath a blewifli Plumage mixed with red. This 

 fits perching upon the fame Tree with the khihen : and pro- 

 vided the Artift, in the Courfe of thefe Drawings, had been 

 ever known to have indulged his own private Invention, we 

 might have imagined that this Bird was intended for the 

 Th(Enix^. Herodotus (Eut. p. 131.) acquaints us, that he faw 



1 NofJ^tJrt Si ^-mt ]-^m riv i^>.it^<t]i hiTuSiiniy, /foc iivtu, i^ nv 'ty^^hvy. Herod. Eut. p. 131. 



2 Es7 eHi )^ oM^is 'limits Ipof, ttJ \ivafM. 9oivi^. 'E-^ci y^ (juf in iijhy, ti /am 'ifftv JJtff?" «57 /fe' If th X*?? 



ii la {MAisa aina i^iiytifiv i^m-mQr, 19 •" ("6j«3@'. Herod. Eut. p. 1 31. 



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