BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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and feet, warm brown. Length, about twelve inches. The 

 adult female resembles the male. The young are more 

 dingy in colour than the adults. 



Iboopoe. 



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The Hoopoe {Upiipa epops^ Linnaeus), which is a visitor in 

 summer to the British Isles and to most of the temperate 

 portions of the Palearctic Region, passes the winter in 

 C.'entral Africa and India. The adult male has the general 

 tint of the plumage pale reddish-buff; crest feathers, richer 

 in tint, and tipped with black; rump, white; tail, black, 

 having a broad white band in the centre; wings, black with 

 white bars; abdomen and under tail-coverts, white with 

 dark brown stripes on flanks; iridcs, light brown; bill, 

 which is slightly decurved, black; base of lower mandible, 

 flesh-coloured; legs, feet, and claws, dark brown. Length, 



