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UPUPA EPOPS. THE EUROPEAN HOOPOE. 



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Upupa Epops. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 183. 



Upupa Epops. Lath. Ind. Om. I. 277. 



Hoopoe. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



La Huppe. Upupa Epops. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 415. 



Hoopoe. Upupa Epops. Selb. Illustr. I. 393. 



Upupa Epops. Hoopoe. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 153. 



Head and neck' light red^ crest-feathers tipped with black ; fore 

 part 'of hack light purplish-red, middle part barred with black 

 and reddish-it'hite, rump ichite, tail-coterts black, barred xcith 

 white ; icings and tail black, the former with several, the latter 

 icith a single band of ichite. 



Male. — This elegant bird, which is an irregular visitant in 

 Britain, is about the size of a Missel Thrush, but of a more 

 slender form, with an elongated attenuated bill, and very short 

 feet. Not having met with it alive, or obtained a recent spe- 

 cimen for dissection, I can only describe it from skins. The 

 generic description already given, will be found to agree with 

 it in every particular, so that here there is only to be added 

 what belongs to the species. The elongated feathers on the 

 head are disposed in several series on each side, the largest 



