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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.
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."
Twilight phantoms are they, yet moulded in prophetic grace of structure, slim shapely haunches, a supple tendonous neck, the meek apprehensive skull. They fade, sad phantoms: all is gone. Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa. Netaim, the golden, is no more. And on the highway of the clouds they come, muttering thunder of rebellion, the ghosts of beasts. Huuh!
"Enlighten us, your excellency, enlighten us." "Ah! thereby hangs a tale. You know the holy birds who run up and down on the Prado at Seville among the ladies' pretty feet, eh? with hooked noses and cinnamon crests? Of course. Hoopoes Upupa, as the classics have it.
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