The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . elding a large revenue. TOUP, JONATHAN [Joannes Toupius] (1713-1785), Englishclassical scholar and critic, was bom at St Ives in Cornwall,and was educated at a private school and Exeter College,Oxford. Having taken orders, he became rector of St MartinsExeter, where he died on the 19th of January 1785. Toupestablished his reputation by his Emendationes in Suidam{1760-1766, followed in 1775 by a supplement) and his editionof Longinus (1778), including notes and emendations byRuhnken. The excellence
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . elding a large revenue. TOUP, JONATHAN [Joannes Toupius] (1713-1785), Englishclassical scholar and critic, was bom at St Ives in Cornwall,and was educated at a private school and Exeter College,Oxford. Having taken orders, he became rector of St MartinsExeter, where he died on the 19th of January 1785. Toupestablished his reputation by his Emendationes in Suidam{1760-1766, followed in 1775 by a supplement) and his editionof Longinus (1778), including notes and emendations byRuhnken. The excellence of Toups scholarship was knownto the learned throughout Europe (so epitaph on tlie tabletin the church of East Looe set up by the delegates of theClarendon Press), but his overbearing manner and extremeself-confidence made him many enemies. I02 TOURACOU—TOURAINE TOURACOn, the name, evidently already in use, underwhich in 1743 G. Edwards 6gured a pretty African bird, andpresumably that applied to it in Guinea, whence it had beenbrought alive. It is the Cucuhis pcrsa of Linnaeus, and Turacus. (Aller Schlegel.) White-Crested Touracou {Turacus albicristatus),or Corythaix persa of later authors. Cuvier in 1799 or 1800Latinized its native name (adopted in the meanwhile by bothFrench and German writers) as above, for which barbarousterm J. K. W. Ilhger, in iSii, substituted a more classicalword. In 1788 Isert described and figured {Beohacht. Freundc, iii. 16-20, p!. i) a bird, also from Guinea,which he called Musophaga violacea. Its affinity to the originalTouracou was soon recognized, and both forms have beenjoined by modem systematists in the family Musophagidae,commonly Englished Plantain-eaters or Touracous. To take first the Plantain-eaters proper, or the genus Musophaga,of which only two species are known. One, about the size of acrow, is comparatively common in museums, and has the hornybase of its yellow bill prolonged backwards over the forehead ina kind
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