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Genus — UruPA. 



Hoopoe {Upupa epops). This very curious bird 

 has occasionally been killed in both counties. It is 

 a summer visitor of uncertain and rare occurrence 

 from warmer climes. 



One was caught alive near Eton some six or seven 

 years since, and became so tame that it would run up 

 its master's legs and come at his call. This interest- 

 ing bird was offered to the Zoological Society, but 

 for unexplained reasons they did not take it. It 

 died about two years afterwards. Mr. Gould told 

 me of another which was shot by a man well known 

 at that time as Shampoe Carter, in a large open field 

 near the Eton Wick public-house ; it was brought to 

 him, and he says that it was one of the first birds he 

 ever preserved : this was forty years ago. Mr. F. 

 Layton killed a good plumaged bird in the autumn 

 of 1864, in a brick-field opposite the Spital barracks, 

 and he once observed a Hoopoe in Windsor Great 

 Park. One was shot at Wallingford about the i8th 

 of June, 1867. This was a fine male bird, and was 

 killed by Mr. J. P. Franklin, of Brook Cottage, 

 Ewelme, near Wallingford, and was sent to London 

 for preservation. Mr. R. B. Sharpe wrote me word 

 of a sixth, which was obtained in the vicinity of 

 Cookham a few years ago. 



My friend Mr. Congreve informs me that another 

 was killed close to Aldermaston, Berkshire, in the 



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