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pp. 308, 309) and Mr. Sclater (/dis, 1870, pp. 176-180) that it was 
more allied to the Capitonidx (BARBET), and, in consequence, was then 
made the type of a distinct Family, ndicatoride, The correctness 
of this view was proved by Garrod (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, pp. 930- 
935). In the meanwhile other species had been discovered, some 
of them differing sufficiently to warrant Sundevall’s foundation of 
a second genus, Prodotiscus, of the group. The Honey-Guides are 
small birds, the largest hardly exceeding a Lark in size, and of plain 
plumage, with what appears to be a very Sparrow-like bill. Captain 
Shelley in 1891 ee B. Br, Mus, xix. pp. 1-12) recognized nine 
species and one subspecies of the genus 
Indicator, and two of Prodotiscus. Four of 
the former, including J. sparrmani, which 
was the first made known, are found in 
South Africa, and one of Prodotiscus. The 
rest inhabit other parts of the same con- 
tinent, except I. archipelagicus, which belongs 
to Borneo and Malacca, and J. zanthonotus, 
which occurs on the Himalayas from the borders of Afghanistan 
to Bhotan. The interrupted geographical distribution of this genus 
is an instructive fact. 
InpicaTor. (After Swainson.) 
HOODIE, properly the Scottish name for the Grey or Hooded 
Crow, but occasionally used also for the Black form. 
HOOPOE (French Huppe, Latin Upupa, Greek exroy—all names 
bestowed apparently from its cry), a bird long celebrated in litera- 
ture, and conspicuous by its variegated plumage and its large 
erectile crest,! the Upupa epops of naturalists, which is the type of 
the very peculiar Family Upupidx, placed by Prof. Huxley in his 
group Coccygomorphx, but considered by Dr. Murie (Jbis, 1873, p. 
208) to deserve separate rank as Epopomorphe. This species has an 
exceedingly wide range in the Old World, being a regular summer- 
visitant to the whole of Europe, in some parts of which it is abun- 
dant, as well as to Siberia, mostly retiring southwards in autumn 
to winter in equatorial Africa and India, though it would seem to 
be resident throughout the year in North-Eastern Africa and in 
China. Its power of wing ordinarily seems to be feeble ; but it is 
capable of very extended flight, as is testified by its wandering 
habits (for it occasionally makes its appearance in places very far 
removed from its usual haunts), and also by the fact that when 
pursued by a Falcon it will rapidly mount to an extreme height and 
frequently effect its escape from the enemy. About the size of a 
Thrush, with a long, pointed, and slightly arched bill, its head and 
1 Hence the secondary meaning of the French word huppe—a crest or tuft 
(cf. Littré, Dict. Francaise, i. 2067). 
