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sickly animals. We have seen it make repeated attacks upon the eyes 
of weakly sheep, and it generally succeeds if the animal is incapable of 
rising. Mr. Pennant informs us this is the only species of genuine 
crow in all the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands; the carrion crow 
and the rook being unknown there. It is not uncommon in Germany, 
and is also found in Russia and Siberia, 
HOODED GULL {Larus atricillaj Linn^us.) 
*Larus atricilla, Grnel. 1. 600. — Lath. Ind.2. 813. — Larus ridibundus, TPi7s. Amer. 
Orn. 9. 74. 4 . — Laughing Gull, Caiesbi/, Carolina, 1. 89 Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. 
454 — Lath. Syn. 6. 383 — Mont. Diet. — Flem. p. l42. — Baltner’s Sea Mew, 
Will. p. 346. — Temm. 2. p. 779. 
The bill and feet are deep lake red ; hood of dark bluish ash-colour ; 
quill-feathers all black, and two inches longer than the* tail ; length of 
the shank one inch and three-fourths. — (Temminck.) In the month 
of August, 1774, we saw five of them together feeding in a pool upon 
the Shingley flats near Winchelsea ; two only were black on the head ; 
the others were mottled all over with brown. We also saw two others 
near Hastings, in Sussex. It is found in Russia and America, and, 
according to Natterer, on the coasts of the Mediterranean and the 
Adriatic.* 
HOOK-BILLED DUCK. — A variety of the common Duck, with 
the bill lengthened and bent downwards. 
HOOPER. — A name for the Wild Swan. 
HOOPOE ( Upupa epops, Linn^us.) 
*Upupa epops, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 183. — Gmel. Syst. l.p. 466. — Lath. Tnd. Orn. 1. 
p. 277. — Rail, Syn. p. 48. A. 6. — Will. p. 100. t. 24. — Briss. 2. p. 455. t. 43. f. 
1. — La Huppe, Buff. Ois. 6. p. 439. t. 21. — Ib. pi. Enl. 52. — Temm. Man. 
d’Orn. 1. p. 415.— Lrt Vaill. Ois. de Farad, et Prom. 3. pi. 22. — Gel)auduter 
Werdehope, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 114. — Frisch, (Vbg.) t. 43. — Hoopoe, 
Br. Zool. 1. No. 90. t. 39. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 283. A. — Wilt. (Angl.) p. 145 
Albin, 2. t. 42, 43. — Edw. t. 345. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, t. 54. — Lath. Syn. 2. p. 
687. 1. — Ib. Supp. p 122. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. 123.- — 
Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 7. — ¥/alc. Syn. 1. t. 53. — Don. Br. Birds, 1. 1. 9. — Shaw’s 
Zool. 8. p. 135.— Flem. 89. — Selby, pi. 40. f. 2. p. 118.* 
The weight of this beautiful bird is about three ounces ; length 
twelve inches ; the bill is black, two inches and a half long, slender, and 
curved ; hides hazel ; the crown of the head is furnished with a crest 
composed of a double row of dull orange-coloured feathers, tipped with 
black, lengthening from the forehead backwards, the longest of which 
is above two inches ; the sides of the head, neck, and breast, dull 
orange-colour, dashed with brown ; upper part of the back browner ; 
belly whitish ; the greater quill-feathers are black, with a broad bar of 
white near the tips ; on the secondaries the white decreases ; those 
next the body are marked with several black and white bars ; the 
coverts are barred in the same manner ; those on the upper ridge of the 
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