Certhia. birds. PASSERES. 89 
Length 5, breadth 74 inches ; weight 2 drams. Bill with the upper man- 
dible dusky, the lower yellowish-white. The tongue with a hard point. Iri- 
des hazel. Above the eyes a white streak. Belly white. Quills 18, the 
first 4 dusky, the rest having a broad reddish-white band in the middle, the 
tips white. Tail of 12 feathers, stiff and acuminated. Female smaller Nest 
in the holes of trees, of grass, lined with feathers. Eggs 7 or 9, white, 
speckled with reddish-brown — Food consists of small insects, which it finds 
in the crevices of the bark of trees, on the stems of which it runs in every 
direction readily. 
Gen. LII. PYRRHOCORAX. ('Fregilus of Cuvier.) 
Chough.— Bill slender, arched, subulated, and pointed. 
Tail-feathers 12. 
118. P. Graculus. Cornish Chough. — Bill, legs, and toes 
orange ; claws black. 
Coracias, seu Pyrr. Will. Om. 86. Sihh. Scot. 15. — Corvus gr. Linn. 
Syst. i. 158. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. 228. Temm. Orn. i. 122. — E., Cor- 
nish Daw, Killegrew ; IF, Bran big goch — Inhabits the western side 
of the island. 
Ijength 17, breadth 334 inches ; weight 12| ounces. Irides yellowish- 
brown. Plumage black, glossed with purple. Wings as long as the tail. 
Female less Nest on sea cliffs or old towers near the coast, of sticks, lined 
with wool. Eggs 5, white, spotted with brown. 
In this, and the Garrulus Pica, and Corvus, the quill-feathers are 20, and 
the tail-feathers are 12 in number. 
Gen. LIII. — UPUPA. Hoopoe. — Head with a crest. Bill 
slender, curved. Nostrils exposed. Tail of 10 feathers. 
119. U. E-pops. Common Hoopoe. — Head, neck and breast 
of a purplish-red colour ; the wings black with fine white 
bands. 
Upupa, Will. Orn. 100. Sibb. Scot. 16. Linn. Syst. i. 184. Penn. Brit. 
Zoo\. 1. 257 . Temm. Orn. i 415. — IF, Y Goppog. — A rare summer 
visitant. 
Length 12b fireadth 19 inches ; weight 3 ounces. Bill black, reddish to- 
wards the base ; the tongue small, triangular and acute. Irides umber- 
brown. Back pale brocoli-brown, tinged with grey, and with black and white 
bands at the lower part. Tail black, with a V-shaped mark of white. Be- 
neath white. Crest, 2 inches long, of two rows of produced feathers, above 
20 in number, orange -brown, tipped with black, and of unequal length, which 
it erects upon being alarmed. Female with a smaller crest — Nest in the 
holes of decayed trees or walls, of ^ass lined with feathers. Eggs fine grey- 
ish-white, spotted with brown. — This species has been found occasionally from 
Orkney (Wallace’s Ork. 48.) to Devonshire (Mont. Orn. Diet.), and has even 
attempted to breed. It is frequent in France and Germany, as a summer vi- 
sitant. 
Gen. LIV. ALCEDO. King’s-fisher. — Bill straight, an- 
gular, pointed. Tarsus short. 
