4io The Hiftory ©/’ANIMALS. 
This is a fpecies rarely fent over to us; Sir Hans Sloane has one in fine perfection* 
Ray and Willughby have mentioned it, under the name of Paradifea avis majoris 
generis. 
Paradif&a rubens cauda et alis ferrugineis. 
The red Paradifcea y with a brown tail and wings , 
This is a fpecies fometimes alfo honoured with the name of Rex avium Paradifse- 
orum. Authors had heard the Dutch merchants, who were the firffc that brought the 
knowledge of thefe birds into Europe, talk of one fpecies more beautiful than the 
reft, which was called the King of the birds of Paradife, and they have occafionally 
honoured different fpecies with that appellation. 
This is about the bignefs of a nightingale, but it's wings are extreamly large and 
long : the head is fmaller than in many other fpecies, and flatted on the crown $ the 
eyes are fmall, and their iris is of an orange colour: the beak is more than an inch long ; 
it is {lender, weak, and fomewhat hooked at the end : it is white throughout, only 
the noftrils, which are large, depreffed, and oval, have fome tinge of brown. 
The upper part of the head is of an extreamly bright and fine fcarlet: the back, 
the rump, and fides are of the fame bright fcarlet, but the fides of the head, and the 
whole under-part of the body, are a little paler : the wings have the covering fea¬ 
thers fcarlet alfo, but the long ones have a tinge of brownifh, and the long feathers 
of the tail have alfo the fame brown colour: the long and {lender feathers however, 
which grow from the fides of the bird and fall over the tail, and the two long fea¬ 
thers of all, are fcarlet, only there is a little tinge of brownifh toward the bafes of the 
latter. 
The legs are robuft but fhort; they are white, and the toes are long, and armed 
with fharp but {lender whitifh claws. 
This fpecies is brought over with the reft into Europe. Ray and Willughby have 
defcribed it, under the name of Rex avium Paradikeorum majoris generis; and many 
of the other writers feem to have mentioned it, under the general name of Rex avi¬ 
um Paradifi. 
U P U P A. 
T H E beak of the Upupa is arcuated, convex, compreffed, and equal; and it has 
a furrow running along each fide of it: there is a creft on the head, which is 
capable of folding back. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Upupa. 
This is an extreamly lingular bird ; it’s weight is about three ounces, but it is fo thick 
covered with feathers, that it appears large, in proportion to that weight: the head is 
large, and is ornamented with an elegant creft : the eyes are fmall, but very bright and 
piercing: the beak is of a very lingular figure ; it is an inch and a half long, fome¬ 
what bent into the form of a bow, pointed at the end, very {lender, and all over of a 
black colour: the noftrils are large and oval, and ftand toward the bafe, and there runs 
on each fide, all the way down, a longitudinal furrow : the tongue is fhort, and lies 
deep in the mouth; it is broad at the bafe, and pointed at the extremity, and is, up¬ 
on the whole, of a figure approaching to triangular: the figure of the whole bird ap¬ 
proaches to that of the plover. 
The creft on the top of the head is extreamly elegant; it is compofed of a double 
feries of feathers, two fingers breadth high, and continued from the bafe of the beak 
to 
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