HOOPOE. 



COMMON HOOPOE. 

 PLATE XLI. FIGS. II, III. 



Upupa epops, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



THE nest, built in May, is placed in the hollow of a tree or a crevic< 

 of a wall, and is composed of dry stalks of grass, leaves, anc 

 feathers. 



The eggs vary from four to seven in number, and are of i 

 uniform pale bluish grey, faintly speckled with brown. 



The lower egg on the plate is from a drawing by William Kicharc 

 Fisher, Esq., of Yarmouth, from a specimen in Mr. Doubleday'j 

 collection. 



