sg6 HOOPOE, Clafs 11. 



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 mid- 

 dle toe. 



According to Linnaeus it takes its name from its 

 note *, which has a found fimilar to the word ; or it 

 may be derived from the French huppe, or crefted : it 

 breeds in hollow trees, and lays two afh-colored eggs: 

 it feeds on infefts ; the antients believed that it made 

 its nefl of human excrement : the country people 

 in Sweden look on the appearance of this bird as 

 a prefage of war j 



■ Facies armata videtur-}-. 



And formerly the vulgar in our country efteemed it a 

 forerunner of fome calamity : it vifits thefe iflands 

 frequently •, but not at Hated feafons, neither does 

 it breed with us. 



• Faun. Suec. 2deJif. 37. 



+ OviJ fays, Tereus was changed into this bird : 



Vertitur in volucrem, cui ftant in vertice criftae, 

 Prominet immodicum pro longa cufpide roftrum : 

 Nomen i'/s/i; volucri. Metam. lib. vi, I. 672. 



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