Type. 

 Upupa, Linn. Sijsi. Nat. i. p. 1S3 , U. epops. 



Range, Southern Palsearctic Eegion from the British Islands to 

 Japan, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, the Indian peuinsi;la and 

 Ceylon, the Indo-Chinese region as far south as Tonka in the Malay 

 peninsula, Hainan, and N. Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Primaries crossed by a white band ; abdomen more 

 or less striped. 

 a'. Secondaries black, crossed with four equidistant 

 white bands. 

 a". Transverse caudal band wide, first primary 

 narrow, seldom reaching to the proximal 

 end of the white transverse band of the 

 second primary. 

 a'". Black apical spots of the longest crest- 

 feathers edged inwardly with white .... epops, p. 4. 

 h'". No white inner edging to the black apical 



spots of the longest crest-feathers indicci, p. 10. 



b" . Transverse white caudal band narrow, first 

 primary large, reaching to the distal end of 

 the white tran.sverse band of the second 



primary marghmia, p. 13. 



h' . Secondaries with the basal two-thirds white, 



and with a subtermiual white transverse band, somalejisis, p. 13. 

 h. Primaries black, without a white band ; abdomen 



(in adult) chestnut, unhanded africana, p. 14. 



1. Upupa epops. 



The Hoop or Hoopoe, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 39, pis. 42, 43 



(1738). 

 The Hoopoe, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. iii. p. 282, pi. 345 



(1764) ; Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 167 (1843). 

 La Huppe ou Puput, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 455, pi. xliii. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Upupa epops, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 183 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 466 



(1788); Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 415 (1816); Naian. Vog. 



Deutschl. V. p. 176, Taf 142 (1826) ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 240 



(1825) ; Werner, Atlas, Anisod. pi. 5 (1827) ; Menetr. Cat. rais. 



Cauc. p. 45 (1832) ; Goald, B. Eur. iii. pi. 238 (1837) ; Macgill. 



Brit. B. iii. p. 41 (1840) ; Schl. Sf Susem. Vog. Eur. pt. vii. pi. xi. 



(1847); T/iomps. B. Irel. i. p. 353 (1849); Bj). Co7isp. I y>. 88 

 (18.50); Kjcerb. Danm. Fugle, pi. 13. fig. 1 (1852); Beichenb. 

 Handb. Scans, p. 318, Taf. dxcv. figs. 3032-34 (1853) ; Hewit--: 

 Eggs Br. B. i. ],. 249, pi. 63. fig. 3 (1856) ; Smidev. SvensJ;. Fogl. 

 pi. 19. fig. 5 (185G) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 302 

 (1859) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 27 (Palestine) ; E. C. Taylor, t. c. p. 49 

 (Egypt) ; Si^npson, t. c. p. 268 (Sweden) ; Salvin, t. c. p. 304 (Ain 

 Djendeli); Heugl. t. c. p. 340 (Danakil) ; Tristr. t. c. p. 435 



