“Perque dies placidos hiberno tempore septem
Incubat alcyone pendentibus æquore nidis.”—Ovid, Met. xi. 745.
[268] κηρύλος, a sea-bird of the halcyon kind.
[269] “Ornithologie Nord Ost Afrikas,” p. 185.
[270] πελαργός, a stork; ὤψ, a face.
[271] Diminutive of Ispida, a Kingfisher.
[272] τανύω, to stretch; πτερόν, a wing.
[273] βούκερως, having the horn (κέρας) of a cow (βοῦς).
[274] Elliot: “Monograph of the Bucerotidæ, or family of the Hornbills,” Part IV.