UPUPA. 



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chiefly, I think, according to whether thpv nv^ fv^oi, 



less incubated when obtained. When qirite fttsh n .?' "T.^l 



byO-6e!ucl '""tl>«»verageof fifty eggs measured is 0-97 



Upupa epops, Linn, Tlie European Hoopoe. 

 "^i^lTlTci'M." •*'■* ''• ''"'■ '• P- •''"''' ""•'"'■ ^""J'^ Draft 

 So far as I know the European Hoopoe, though a con.raon 



uined temples. They appear generally to'make some little net a 

 httle grass and a few feathers being placed as a bed for the els bnt 

 in a nest that I found in a little rain in the valley of the Belf above 

 Mmalee, a quantity of soft hair had been adde^l to the usSl com 

 plement of grass and feathers. " 



_ They lay normally from four to seven eggs, but Mr Brool.s 

 informed me that he took a nest out of a hoffo; willow at Tanu 

 m Ivashmn- on the 16th of May, containing ten deeplvibaleS 



Prom Murree, Colonel C. H. T. Marshall reports .— " Two nests 



n ho esm trees. In one instance we watchkl the cock ^11^ 



food o the hen, whom we afterwards caught on the nest ¥hi? 



would go o prove the theory advanced that the Hoote IH e 



he Hornbill remains on her nest all the time until the e°^s are 



hatched. Elevation 7000 feet." ^^ ® 



Dr. Jerdon remarked in the ' This ' ■ " T^ic tt^^ t. -, 

 very generally in the ^.W. ProWs intle v'^lLd^hTorhtt 

 al UmbS^ '"' " '°"' ^'^^^ ^" '''' ""''''' °^ ^^^ '^'^ ^^^'^^oll 



sav^'--^'Th; Fm^r'''T7'"*^^^ ^''''' ^^''''^'' ^^ Afghanistan, 

 says.— 1 he European Hoopoe arrives during March and mm 



mences to breed soon after.' I have been very unfortmtte Tn 



pi-ocmng eggs although I have many times foiind yo 1^ bf^^^^ 



All the nests I have examined have been in holes in trees "sli' h tk 



cleared out by the birds, and all having an offensive smeH? ^ ' 



, liie only egg I have was obtained in a pecuhar manner but 



in such a way as to leave no doubt of its identity. An A oha 



he cl^t^t '°"''"^ 'i? ?''' 'SS^^ "-^^^^ I^« acciclentd^ bro "! 

 he caught the parent bird which, strange to say, laid another el- 



