UPUPA EPOPS. 



HOOPOE. 



Generic Character. 



Bill (lender, long, curving downwards at the tip. 



Noftrils (mall. 



Tongue fhort, triangular. 



Toes three before, the middle one connected at the 

 bafe to the outer one, hind toe placed nearly on si 

 line with the infide front one. 



Synonyms. 



Upupa Epops. Lin. Syft. up. 183. 1. 



Hoopoe. Br. Zool. 1. 90. 39. Lath. Syn. 2. p. 687. 



1. Bewick's Br. Birds t Pi up. 146. Mont. 



Orn. Difi. 



rip 



JL H I S beautiful fpecies, the only one of the genus found 

 in Europe, is in length twelve inches, in breadth eighteen, 

 and weighs about four ounces ; bill two inches long, curved, 

 the infide of the lower mandible has a plain furfacc, from the 

 tip about one-fourth of its length ; tongue very fhort, trian- 

 gular, and (lightly barbed at the edges ; the crown is orna- 

 mented with a creft, confiding of a double row of feathers, 

 which gradually lengthen from the bafe of the bill to the top 

 of the crown, and then decreafe to the nape of the neck ; the 

 longeft feathers are two inches and a half in length ; it moftly 

 lies flat on the head, but can be raifed or deprefTcd at pleafure ; 



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