BRITISH BIRDS. 
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THE HOOPOE. 
(Upupa Epops , Lin . — Le Hupe ou Puput , Buff.) 
Its length is twelve inches, breadth nineteen : 
The bill is above two inches long, black, flender, 
and fomewhat curved ; the eyes hazel ; the tongue 
very lhort and triangular ; the head is ornamented 
with a creft, confifting of a double row of feathers 
of a pale orange colour, tipped with black, the high- 
eft about two inches in length ; the neck is of a 
pale reddilh brown ; bread: and belly white, which 
in young birds are marked with various dufky lines 
pointing downwards ; the back, fcapulars, and 
wings are crofted with broad bars of black and 
white ; the leffer coverts of the wings light brown ; 
the rump is white ; the tail confifts of ten feathers, 
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