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The Hoop or Hoopoe. Upupa, 



Numb. XLII, XLIir. 



TS Weight was ten Ounces and ten Drams; its Length, from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Taff, 

 was tweh^e Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings were extended, eighteen Inches ; its Bill two Inches and a 

 quarter long, black, fharp, and fomething bending ; the Tongue fmall, deep, withdrawn in the Mouth trianr 

 gular, being broad at Bottom., and fharp at Top like a perfect equilateral Triangle. 



The Shape of the Body approacheth to that of a Plover; the Head is adorned with a moft beautifial 

 Creft two Inches high, confifting of a double Row of Feathers reaching from the Bill to the Nape of th^ 

 Neck all along the Top of the Head, which it can at Pleafure fet up and let fall ; it is made up of twenty 

 four Feathers, fome of which are longer than others ; the Tips of them are black, under the black they are 

 white, the remaining Part under the white being of a chefnut inclining to a yellow ; the Neck is of a pale 

 redifh yellow ; the Breaft white ; the Tail is four Inches and a half long, made up of ten Feathers only, black 

 with a crofs Mark or Bed of white of the Figure ofaCrefient or Parabola ; the Tail is extended further than 

 die Wings complicated. 



There are in each Wing eighteen Qiillls, or mailer Feathers, of which the ten foremoft are black having a 

 white crofs Bar, which in the fecond, third, fourth, fifth, iixth, and feventh is more than half an Inch broad; 

 the feven following Feathers have live or fix white crofs Bars ; the Limbs or Borders of the laft are fomething red i 

 the Rump is white. 



The Irides of the Eyes are of a hazel Colour : the lower Eye-lid bigger than the upper ; the Legs lliort; 

 the outmoft Toe at Bottom faftened to the middle without any intervening Membrane; the Windpipe at the 

 beginning of the Divarication or Divifion into two Branches which go to the Lungs, hath two little Bones 

 outwardly fupplying the Ufe of the Head of a Windpipe, between which is fpread a very thin Skin : tl:e annu-' 

 lary Cartilages beyond the Divarication in each Branch were only femicircular as in Herm^ 



In the Stomach were found Beetles and other Inledts. It hath no blind Guts. 



In the Number of Tail-feathers, want of blind Guts, crofs Lines of the Wings, and partly alfo in its Foodi 

 it agreeth with the JVoaApsciers. 



About Cologn and elfe where in High Germany it is very frequent, where theycall.it Widehuppe; it fits fos 

 the moft part on the ground, fometimes on Willows, (^c. 



The Hen of this Bird was fhot in- the Garden of Mr. Star key Mayos at Woodford on Epping Forejf^ where- 

 they had obferved it fome Time, and ufed all the Means to take it they could ; but it was fo fhy, that ir avoided^ 

 all their Traps which were laid for it, . which the Gentleman obferving, ordered it to be fhot : It was^ fent to xas- 

 to be preferved for him. 



The Cock of this Kind I drew from a Piflure done in Germany by a great Mailer there, now in the Pof- - 

 feffion of Mr. Nisbet, Gentleman, who had it drawn from the Bird then alive. 



There is fome Difference in the Colours of the Hen, and this Bird which was a Cock ; I was credibly in^- 

 form-ed by Robert Brijioiu, Efq; who faw both the Drawings of the Cock and Hen, and told me his Soji.fh.ofe- 

 ihe Cock,' which was like the .drawing, at Ms Seat at Mkhekr near TVincheJier in Hamp/hirt^. 



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