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This last summer, however , I saw very few Wrynecks only four or five during the whole of the two months I was in the Islands, and hardly heard them at all. It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There are two specimens in the Museum. HOOPOE. Upupa Epops, Linnaeus. French, "La Huppé," "Huppé ordinaire."
This, naturally, disgusted Tereus very much, and he "fell upon" the ladies with a sword, but, just as he was about to stab them to the heart, he was changed into a Hoopoe, Philomela into a nightingale, Procne into a swallow, while Itylus became a pheasant. "Vertitur in volucrem, cui stant in vertice cristae Prominet immodicum pro longa cuspide rostrum; Nomen epops volucri." OVID, Metam. lib. vi.
Typhaeus, stridulating organs of; stridulation of. Twins, tendency to produce, hereditary. Twite, proportion of the sexes in. Ugliness, said to consist in an approach to the lower animals. Umbrella-bird. Umbrina, sounds produced by. United States, rate of increase in; influence of natural selection on the progress of; change undergone by Europeans in the. Upupa epops, sounds produced by the male.
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