stork ḥasîdah. Tristram (111): white stork, ciconia alba; an unclean feeder (on offal, etc.), its flesh is rank.

heron "anaphah. Tristram (109): the common heron, ardea cinerea: an edible bird, in Europe once highly prized at table; but feeding on, besides fish, many unclean land animals, snakes, rats, etc.

hoopoe dukiphath, A. V. lapwing. Tristram (89): hoopoe, upupa epops.

bat -aṭalleph(cp. ἀττέλαβος, a kind of locust in N. Africa, Herod, iv. 172). In Palestine it haunts caverns and (as in Egypt) sepulchres. There is no doubt that the cheeping and muttering attributed to the dead (Isaiah 7) was derived from the sound made by the crowds of this animal when disturbed in sepulchres.

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