13 U S K Y T G D Y : HOOPOE./ ^Ij 



Xm. TODY. Gen. Birds, XXV. 



TodiSp. quarta, Pallas Spicil. vi. 17. — Latham, Ii.66i, N* 9. — 'Br. Mws. jyj, D^SKy. 



T,With a bill half an inch long, broad at the bafe, flightly 

 • indented above the noftrils, and a little bent near the point ; 

 ?bafe befet with briftles ; upper mandible brown, lower white : co- 

 lore above dufky ; below yellowifli white -. primaries and tail of the 

 fame color with the back, edged with dirty white : legs dark. Size 

 of a Hedge Sparrow. 



Inhabits Rhode IJland. Has the aftions of a Flycatcher. Frequents fukct^ - 



decayed trees, and feeds on infefts. Has a brief agreeable note, 

 wLich it repeats twice or thrice. — Br. Mu5, 



HOOPOE. Gm. Birds, XXVIL 



A. Hoopoe, Br. Zool. i. N" 90. — Latham, i. 687. — Bs Buffon, vi. 439, 

 ^pupa Epops, Harfogel, Popp, Faun. Suet, N° ro5. — Lev. Muj. 



TJ With a high creft, of pale orange tipt with black : back'and 



wings barred with black and white i neck reddifli brown j 



'breaft and belly white : only ten feathers in the tail ; black, with a 



O o 2 white 



