Clafs II- ] B I 
feven and a half: the bill is hooked like a fickle s 
the irides hazel: the legs {lender : the toes and 
claws very long, to enable it to creep up and down 
the bodies of trees in fearch of infers, which are 
its food: it breeds in hollow trees $ and lays 
fometimes twenty eggs : the head and upper part 
of the neck are brown, ftreaked with black : the 
rump is tawny : the coverts of the wings are va- 
R D S. 83 
negated with brown and black : the quil-feathers 
dufky, tipt with white, and edged and barred with 
tawny marks : the breaft and belly are of a filvery 
white : the tail is very long, and confifts of twelve 
ftiff feathers; notwithftanding Mr. Willoughby , 
and other ornithologifts give it but ten : they are 
of a tawny hue, and the interior ends of each flops 
off to a point. 
GENUS XL The H O O P O E. 
SPECIES I. The Hoopoe. Plate L. 
The Hoop,or hoopoe. Wil. orn. 145. 
Rail fyn. av. 48. 
The dung bird. Charlton ex. 98. 
Tab. 99. 
Plott. oxf. 177. 
Edzv. 345. 
I H I S bird may be readily diftinguifhed 
* from all others that vifit thefe iflands by 
its beautiful creft, which it can eredt or 
deprefs at pleafiire : it weighs three ounces : its 
length is twelve inches : its breadth nineteen : 
the bill is two inches and a half long, {lender, 
and incurvated : the tongue triangular, fmall, and 
placed low in the mouth: the irides are hazel : 
* « 
the tail confifts of only ten feathers. 
\ 
According to Linnaeus it may take its name 
Briffon av. II. 455. Tab. 43. 
Upupa epops. Lin. fyfi. 117. 
Upupa ; arquata ftercoraria; gallus 
lutofus. Klein Stem. av. 24. Tab. 
2 5 * 
Upupa. Gefner av. 776. 
from its note*, which has a found fimilar to the 
word ; or it may be derived from the French hup - 
p e j ° r crefted : it breeds in hollow trees, and lays 
two afh colored eggs : it feeds on infedfs j the 
antients believed that it made its neft of human 
excrement : the country people in Sweden look 
on the appearance of this bird as a prefage of war j 
and formerly the vulgar in our country efteemed 
it a forerunner of fome calamity : it vifits thefe 
iflands frequently ; but not at Rated feafons, nei¬ 
ther does it breed with us. 
* Faun.fuec. 2d ed. 37 . 
GENUS XII. The CHOUGH. 
SPECIES I. The Cornifh chough. Plate L*. 
Wil. orn. 126. 
Raii fyn. av. 40. 
The Killegrew. Charlton ex. 75 - 
Cornwall Kae. Sib. fcot. 15. 
Borlafe Cormv. 249.' Tab. 24. 
Camden vol. I. 14. 
HIS fpecies is but thinly fcattered over 
the northern world : no mention is 
made of it by any of the Faunifts ; 
Coracia. Briffon av. II. 4. Tab. 1. 
Upupa pyrrhocorax. Lin-fyft. 118. 
Monedula pyrrhocorax. Hajfelquift 
it in. 238. 
Pyrrhocorax graculus faxatilis. Gef¬ 
ner av. 522, 527. 
nor do we find it in other parts of Europe , ex¬ 
cept England^ and the Alpsf. In Afa , the ifland 
of Candia produces itj. In Africa , JEgypt: 
which 
-j~ Plin. nat. hijt. lib. 10. C. 48. Briffon II. 5. + Belon. olf. 17. 
