HOOPOE. 59 



FAM. 

 HOOPOE. Upupa epops, L. 



Yarrell, ii. p. 419 ; Hartiny, p. 33 ; Dresser, v. p. 179 ; Seebohm, 

 ii. p. 334 ; Ibis List, p. 83 ; Pulteney's List, p. 5. 



The Hoopoe is an irregular summer visitant, and 

 would be seen much oftener if allowed to remain 

 and breed, which it doubtless would do, but its 

 conspicuous plumage is fatal ; for as soon as it ap- 

 pears, it attracts the attention of every thoughtless 

 gunner. Pulteney says it has been seen at Shroton, 

 Hanford, Cranborne Chace, Aimer, Dorchester, and 

 the neighbourhood of Wareham. Yarrell states that 

 there were three Hoopoes in the collection of the 

 Eev. Mr. Bailey (Bartlett?) at Swanage in 1827, all 

 of which had been killed in the neighbourhood ; two 

 shot at Canford in 1839 ; two at Langton Maltravers 

 in 1850. One seen at Kimmeridge in 1851, and 

 escaped ; one shot at Butterwick, Bishop's Caundle, 

 1854 ; and one at Buckland Newton, the same year, 

 by Mr. W. D. Dugdale ; one seen at Charmouth (Mr. 

 F. Moore) ; two shot at Hemsworth Farm, Witch- 

 amptou, April 1861 ; one picked up dead on Roger's 

 Farm, Bere Regis, September 1876 ; one shot at 

 Branksome Tower, Bournemouth, and another at 

 Longfleet, .Poole, 1878 ; one shot by Mr. Robert 

 Lewis at Ash Farm, Stourpaine. There are records 

 of its occurrence also at Hamworthy, Poole, Win- 

 frith, Studland, and Radipole, near Weymouth. 

 Mr. Harting states (" Our Summer Migrants," p. 



