UPUPID^C 



UPUPA 



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primaries and outer secondaries with white bases forming a white 

 patch on the wing, the inner secondaries edged with pale brick, 

 lesser, median and greater coverts with black bases and white tips ; 

 upper tail-coverts white with black tips ; tail-feathers black with 

 a steel-blue gloss, with white bases just visible below the coverts, 

 on the outer web of the outer feather the white is a little more 

 extensive ; below, throat, breast and axillaries brick-red like the 

 upper surface ; abdomen paler with a few darker streaks ; under 

 tail- coverts white. 



Fig. 9. — Upitpaafricana, x \, 



Iris and bill dark brown ; legs grey-brown. 



Length (in flesh) 10-5 ; wing 5-20 ; tail 3-75 ; tarsus -80 ; 

 culmen 2*0. 



The female is like the male, bat duller in colour and smaller in 

 size, the brick-red fading into a dirty brown. 



Wing 5-0 ; tail 3-5 ; culmen 1-75. 



Distribution.— The South African Hoopoe is widely spread over 

 South Africa from the neighbourhood of Cape Town where, how- 

 ever, it is not common, and from Durban to the Zambesi. The 



