O O P O E. 



Upnpa epops, Lin. Syff. i. p. 183. N 6 l.—Scofi. ann. i. p. cj. N° 6z„— t. 



K*,p., 3 ..o,. . ggggg 



La Hupe, ou Puput, ifo/I er». 11. p. 455. N° 1. pi. 43. f. i.—Buf. bif. 



vi. p. 439. — PI. enl. 52, 

 TJpupa, Rati Syn. p. 48. A.6.— Kramer elen. p. 337. 

 Bubbola, Olin. uccel. p. 36. — Wied-hopf, Fri/ch. t. 43. 

 Ter-chaous, or Meflenger-bird, Pococke's Trav. i. p. 209. 

 Hoop, or Hoopoe, Will. orn. p. 145. — Albin. ii. pi. 42, 43, — iVw. vfi* 



pi. 345.— Br. Zool, N° 90. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CANNOT give a better defcription of this lingular and beau- DB-scawrieN. 



tiful bird, than in copying that of the Britijh Zoology. " It 



weighs three ounces : its length is twelve inches : its breadth 



nineteen. The bill is black, two inches and a half long, {lender, 



and incurvated : the tongue triangular, fmall, and placed low in 



the mouth : the irides are hazel : the creft: confifts of a double 



row of feathers *, the higheft about two inches long; the tips- 



are black; their lower pait of a pale orange-colour : the neck is 



of a pale reddifh brown : the breaft and belly white; but ip 



young birds marked with narrow dufky lines, pointing down : the 



lefTer coverts of the wings are of a light brown : the back, fcapu- 



Ears, and wings 3 croffed with broad bars of white and black : the 



rump is white : the tail confifts- of only ten feathers, white marked 



with black, in form of a crefcent, the horns pointing towards the 



end of the feathers : the legs are fhort, and black : the exterior 



toe is clofely united at the bottom to the middle toe." 



This bird inhabits not only Europe, but Afia and Africa like- Places -ait* 



Manners. 

 * Willughiy fays, they are twenty-four, or twenty-fix, in number. Orm 



8> HS> 



wife,. 



