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ber/and-facet, in Neivcafth upon Tyne, in whofe poffeflion it now 

 is, the cafe well preferved. 



35. The Crofs-Bitt (n)^ an uncommon extraneous bird, was 

 fhot a few years ago by Thomas Middkton> of River-green, Efq; 

 captain of Clifford's fort, near Tymmouth, and younger brother to Sir 

 John Lambert Middleton, of Belfay, Bart. It -chiefly frequents fir- 

 groves for the fake of the cones, on the feeds of which it feeds. 

 For the breaking of them, its bill feems wonderfully adapted by 

 nature in its form and ftrength. It breaks off the cone, holds it 

 up with its foot, and with its bill pares off the fcales, explores 

 the feed, and picks them carefully out. It feeds alfo upon 

 hemp-feed, and juniper-berries. 



36. The Hoopoe (o), a curious and uncommon bird, comes to 

 us in the fpring, and leaves us in September. It weighs about 

 three ounces. The beak is two inches and a half long, black, 

 ilender, fomewhat curvated, and fharp at the point ; the tongue 

 fhort, triangular, and tapering from a broad bafe to the tip. 

 The head is adorned with a beautiful creft,compofedof a double 

 ferics of feathers, two inches long, extending from the beak to 

 the anterior part of the head, raifed and let fall at pleafure. 

 They are tipped with black, partly white underneath, the reft 

 of a yellowifh-red, as is the neck. On the breaft are black linear 

 fpots on a white ground, the black vaniming by age, except on 

 the fides. The back and wing-feathers are variegated with 



(n) Lcxia f. Curviroftra ; THE CROSS-BEAK., or SHELL-APPLE. CbarL-t. Av. p. 76. 

 n. 7. cum optima Icone, p. 77. IVilL Orn. p. 181. t. 44. Raj. Av. p. 86. Coni-rofor. 

 Rudbeck. Lapp. p. 75. Loxia roftro forficato. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 66. n. ijj. 



(o) Upupa. Pel'cn. Av. Icon. 72. a. bene. Charlct. Av. p. 97. cum optima Icone. 

 Drn. p. 100. t. 24. Raj. Av. p. 48. n. 6. Linn. Faun. Suec. p 30. n. 85. 



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