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shire in the winter of 1870-71, as I was informed 

 by Sir William Jardine. 



During the spring migration Hoopoes are some- 

 times met with at sea. On the 21st April 1853 one 

 alighted on a mackerel-boat near the Eddystone 

 Lighthouse, and on April 15, 1854, another flew into 

 the saloon of a steamer in mid-channel, both birds 

 being taken alive, apparently much exhausted. A 

 third was captured by the lighthouse keeper at the 

 Isle of May on the 30th April 1898. In Ireland the 

 Hoopoe has appeared in all quarters of the island, 

 but chiefly in the south. Montagu states that 

 a pair began a nest in Hampshire ; and Latham 

 has referred to a young Hoopoe which was shot 

 in this country in the month of June. Jesse 

 has recorded that a pair bred close to the house 

 at Park End, Chichester (" Gleanings in Nat. 

 Hist.," 3rd series, p. 148). In Dorsetshire, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Turner, of Sherborne, the nest has 

 been taken on three or four occasions by school- 

 boys from pollard willows on the river banks at 

 Lenthay. These birds were known to the boys 

 as " hoops." 



Dr. Muffett, who died in 1590, wrote: "Houpes 

 ( Upujpw) were not thought by Dr. Turner to be found 

 in England, yet I saw Mr. Serjeant (sic) Goodrons kill 

 one of them in Charingdon Park, when he did very 

 skilfully and happily cure my Lord of Pembroke 

 at Ivychurch " ("Health's Improvement," 1655, p. 

 101). 



See my article on "Tame Hoopoes" in The Fields 



