[162] Some kind of heron or crane, Cuvier thinks.
[163] The Alauda cristata of Linnæus, so called from “galera,” a pointed cap like a helmet.
[164] The fifth legion.
[165] The hoopoe, B. x. c. 44.
[166] Savigny and Cuvier take this to be the Ardea virgo of Linnæus, a native of Numidia.
[167] The suddenness of their appearance, no doubt, was fabulous; but we have well-authenticated cases in recent times of substances growing on the human head, to all appearance resembling horns, and arising from a disordered secretion of the hair. Witness the case of Mary Davies, a so-called horn from whose head is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The story of Genucius Cippus, the Roman prætor, is told by Ovid, Met. B. xv. l. 565, et seq.
[168] A spitter, or second year stag, according to Cuvier.
[169] “Broad-horned.” The Cervus dama of Linnæus.
[170] “Dama.” The Antelope redunca of Linnæus, Cuvier thinks.
[171] No doubt a kind of antelope.