THE HOOPOE. 



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Italy, at Gibraltar and Ceuta, and in Egypt, where it breeds, as 

 it probably does over northern Africa. It has been seen occa- 

 sionally at Madeira, and is abundant at Trebizond, whence it 



Fig. 184. Hoopoes. 



comes every year to pass the summer season in Europe. At the 

 period of its departure from France that is to say, in . the month 

 of September as its flesh is very delicate in flavour, it is a choice 

 morsel for the table. 



