Book II. 0%3\£1T HO LO §T. i^ 



bignefs of the bird, viz. two inches and an half, {harp-pointed -ftifF,of a dusky red,or 

 reddiih dun colour. 



The Feet are of a light brown: The Legs Ihort: The Feet have long Toes, all 

 armed with very long, (harp, white Claws, efpecially the back-toe, which hath it 

 extraordinarily long like a Lark: 



It is fufficiently characterized and diftinguiihed from all other birds by its littlenefs 

 and bow-bill. 



Aldrovandus attributes to his Certhia a Ihort Tail, wherein it differs from ours. 



It runs up the bodies and boughs of trees, having its Feet and Tail, fitly difpofed 

 and formed for fuch a purpofe. 



It is frequent in England 5 and as Aldrovandus, reports, builds inthe hollows of trees 

 after the manner of Woodpeckers 5 It lays a great number of Eggs, fometimes, they lay, 

 not fewer than twenty. 



J. VI. 



The Hoop or Hoopoe, Upupa Latinis, "Etto^ Gratis. 



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IT weighs three ounces. Its length from the point of the Bill to the end of the 

 Tail was twelve inches and an half: Its breadth, the Wings being ftretched out, 

 nineteen inches. 



Its Bill is two inches and an half long, black, (harp, and fomething bending. The 

 Tongue fmall, as Aldrovandus rightly hath it, deep withdrawn in the mouth, trian- 

 gular, being broad at bottom, and (harp at top, like a perfeft equilateral triangle. 

 The ihape of the body approacheth to that of a Plover. The Head is adorned with 

 a moft beautiful Creft, two inches high, confiding of a double row of feathers, 

 reaching from the Bill to the nape of the Neck,all along the top of the Head : Which it 

 can atpleafure let up, and let fall. It is- made up of twenty four or twenty fix fea- 

 thers, fome of which are longer than others 5 the tips of them are black 5 under the 

 black they are white, the remaining part under the white being of a Chefhut, 

 inclining to yellow. The Neck is of a pale red : The Breaft white, variegated with 

 black ftrokes tending downward. The older birds had no black ftspkes in their 

 Breafts, but only in their fides. The Tail is four inches and an half long : £ Aldrovan- 

 dus faith fix ] made up of ten feathers only, black, with a crofs mark or bed of white 

 of the figure of a Crefcent or Parabola, the middle being toward the Rump, the 

 hornstoward the ends of the feathers. The Tail is extended farther than the Wings 

 complicated. 



There are in each Wing eighteen quils or mafter-feathers, of which the ten fore- 

 moft are black, having a white crofs bar, which inthe fecond, third, fourth, fifth, 

 fixth, and feventh is more than half an inch broad. The (even following feathers 

 have four or five white crofs bars. The limbs or borders of the laft are fomething 

 red : The Rump is white. The long feathers fpringing out of the fhoulders and co- 

 vering the back are varied with white and black crofs lines or bars,after the fame man- 

 ner as the Wings. 



The hides of the Eyes are of a hazel colour : The lower Eye-lid bigger than the 

 .upper: The Legs fhort : The outmoft toe at bottom faftned to the middle, without 

 any intervening membrane. The Windpipe ( as Aldrovandus defcribes it ) at the be- 

 ginning of the divarication or divifion into two branches which go to the Lungs, hath 

 two little bones outwardly fupplying the ufe-of the * Larynx, between which is ^J 1 . ™ 1 * 

 fpread a very thin skin : The annulary Cartilages beyond the divarication in each in pipe " 

 branch in our obfervation were only femicircular, as in Herons. 



In the Stomach difTe&ed we found Beetles •-, Whence it is manifeft that it feeds upon 

 Infe&s, but whether alfb upon Grapes and other Berries, as fome of the Ancients have 

 delivered, we know not. I hear ( faith Aldrovandus } that among other things it feeds 

 upon Ants. It hath no blind Guts. 



In the number of Tail-feathers, want of the blind Guts, crofs lines of the Wings, 

 and partly alfb in its food it agreeth with Woodpeckers, to which therefore we have 

 fiibjoyned it. 



About Collen and elfewhere in High Germany it is very frequent, where they call it 

 Ifidehitppe. It fits for the moft part on the ground, fometimes on Willows. Turner faith; 

 that it is found no where in Britany : But he is deceived.} for we are'affured by cre- 

 dible perfons, that it is fometimes, though more rarely, feen in Northumberland, and . 

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