OfOXFO^D^SHII^E. ly-^ 
8. However, for her near refemblance of them in her head-, 
and fonie other farts^ we cannot but allow her to be a Bird of that 
geriM^^ though undefcribed ; and accordingly ad vife, Hie maybe 
placed amongft them by future Ornithologifis, to which purpofe 
let them take the following defcription. 
9. Her beak'is ftraight, only at its extremity, where it is turn- 
ed like the Vulturs^ in length 2 inches ^, and her Nares long and 
narrow, as in Tab. i o. Fig. 3. ThepufilU of her eyes are full and 
black, encompaffed with IrUes of a dark brown colour, bald 
and wrinkled to the top of the head, and fo round by the ears 
(which are of an irregular oval form) next which ftandthe pen- 
n<£ [etiformes as aforefaid ; her gorge not at all protuberantj but 
llender ; her wings complicated or folded to her body, reach al- 
moft to the end of her train^ and extended at full ftretch, have 
their extremities diftant about five foot, being fomwhat larger 
thanthofeof a Lanar., and containing in each of them ^^Remi- 
ges^ i.e. befide the five feathers., 29 at leaft or 30 fags: her 
thighs and pounces are m.uch like thofe of a common houfeHen, 
having the outermoft talon knit to the reft by a membran. In the 
whole, ftie is bigger than a Mofcovj Go/hawk.^ from the point of 
her beak, to the extremity of her train^ above two foot long, 
her for the moft part being of an Afli-colour, mixt with 
fome white feathers, and growing whiter upon mewing^ as thofe 
of Hawks do. 
10. Other Birds there zre here that are but rarely feen, yet 
breed in this Country, and are continually with us, and therefore 
to be numbred amongft thofe w^e call perennial. Such are the V- 
pupa the Hoopoe, or Hooping-bird; whereof I faw one alive on 
Otmoor^ and another was given me for the Repofitory of the Bod- 
leyan Library (killed fomwhere about Cafjenton') by one Mr. Pain- 
ter Alderman of Woodftock, A Bird it is to admiration beautiful^ 
being curioufly deck'd with feathers of divers colours, and with 
a large creft on its head, as it is exquifitely engraven both by Dr. 
Charleton * and Mr. Willughby ; but like the Diabohi6 marinus, ne- 
ver appearing or being heard (as the z/«/^^r will have it) till im-^ 
mediatiy before fome approaching calamity. 
11. As for Birds that have cafually flown hither, or come but 
at fome certain feafonsoC the year, by Natura lifts i^ikd Aves mi" 
* Onomafi. Zoicon- Titul- Aves, Clajfe Conor arum, 
2^ gratori<£. 
