Gest HH O07 Pt Ou FE. 259 
from the refemblance its creft has to the plumes 
worn by the Chaous or Turkifh couriers. 
Ovid fays that Tereus was changed into this bird : 
Vertitur in volucrem, cui ftant in vertice crifte, 
Prominet immodicum pro longa cufpide roftrum : 
Nomen £fops volucri. Metam. lib. vi. 1. 672. 
Tereus, through grief, and hafte to be reveng’d, 
Shares the like fate and to a bird is chang’d. 
Fix’d on his head the crefted plumes appear, 
Long is his beak and fharpen’d as a {pear. Croxall 
Very 
