. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 146 BRITISH THE HOOPOE. {Upupa EpopSf Lin.—Le Hiipe ou Puput^ Buff.) Its length is twelve inches ; breadth nineteen. Thebill is about two inches long, black, slender, and some-what curved; the eyes hazel •, the tongue very shortand triangular ; the head is ornamented with a crest,consisting of a double row of feathers, of a pale orangecolour, tipped with black, the highest about two inchesin length ; the neck is of a pale reddish brown ; breastand belly white, and in young birds marked with va-rious dusky lines pointing down
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 146 BRITISH THE HOOPOE. {Upupa EpopSf Lin.—Le Hiipe ou Puput^ Buff.) Its length is twelve inches ; breadth nineteen. Thebill is about two inches long, black, slender, and some-what curved; the eyes hazel •, the tongue very shortand triangular ; the head is ornamented with a crest,consisting of a double row of feathers, of a pale orangecolour, tipped with black, the highest about two inchesin length ; the neck is of a pale reddish brown ; breastand belly white, and in young birds marked with va-rious dusky lines pointing downwards ; the back, scapu-lars, and wings are crossed with broad bars of black andwhite ; the lesser coverts of the wings light bro\VTi; therump is white ; the tail consists of ten feathers, eachmarked with white, and, when closed, assumes theform of a crescent, the horns pointing downwards : thelegs are short and black. BRITISH BIRDS. 147 This is the only species of its kind found in thiskingdom -, and is not very common with us, beingseen only at uncertain periods. The for
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