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Upupa (The Puets, properly so styled). 

 The Puets, or Hoopoes, have an ornament on the head formed of a 

 double range of long feathers, which they can erect at will. There is 

 one in Europe, 



U. epopSfh.', Enl. 52; Naum. 142. (The Hoopoe), A vinous- 

 red ; wings and tail black ; two transverse, white bajids on the co- 

 I'erts of the wings, and four on the quills of the wing. It geeks in- 

 sects in humid earth, lays its eggs in holes of trees oi of walls, and 

 leaves France in winter*, 



U, capensis, Enl. 697. (The Cape Hoopoe), More particularly 

 allied to Fregilus by the anterior, short, and immovable feathers of 

 its tuft, which incline forwards and cover the nostrils, 



Prombbops, Bri89. 



No crest on the head, and a very long tail; the tongue, extensible and 

 forked, enables it, as is affirmed, to live on the nectar of flowers, like the 

 Cinnyris and the Humming'birdsf. 



EpimachusJ, Cu9. 



The bill of the Upupa and Promerops, along with scaly or velvet fea- 

 thers, which partially cover the nostrils, as in the Birds of Paradise ; they 

 are natives of the same countries, and their plumage equally brilliant. 

 The flank-feathers of the male are ako moxe ot less elongated, 



Upupa magna, Gm . ; V. Bitperha, Lath, { L'epimaque a pare, frish, 

 Enl. 6o9; Vaill, Prom, 13,' Black; tail tapered, thrice the length 

 of the body; the feathers on the flanks elongated, turned up, friz- 

 zled; the edges of a burnished §teei blue, whith also glisten on the 

 head and belly §, 



Naturalists have distinguished the square-tailed gpecies, Ptiioeis of 

 Swainson, such as, 



Ep. albust Paradis. alba, Blumeu, Abb. 00; Valll. Ois, de Par, 

 pl, 16 and 17, and better Promer, 17; Vieill, pi, 13, and better 



» Add the Aftkm spesies, Upum mitm, VML Prom, pi, fi, and Gal. pi. I84j 

 VaiU. Prom, U. 



f VieilL Gaier, pL dxsxv, has elwnged Prmerops into FahineUus, Tlie only one 

 *reil known is the Upupa profnerom or Murops mffer, Enl, i(>37, which is the Sucrier 

 du protea, VmW. AtV. 13<>. M. Vaill, is of oi>iniou that the Up.fuxca, Grn., or papu~ 

 ensis, LatL B»L 833, fe tlj« female at the npimaque a parments frhh, Enl. 639,-- 

 The Up. paradism, Seh, I, pi. %yi%, 8, is the Muscirapa paradhl, with an )U-diaw« 

 bjll. The Up. mrantia, Sfeb, I, \%vi, 3, according to all appgaranee a Cassjcus, The 

 pigjckam, Sgb, J, xJv, 3, is not from Mexico as Se})a makes it out, by applying to it 

 0. passage of Nieremherg, lib, %, c, 44, i« which he merely speaks of a Duck, I anv 

 in dovibt wh^her to plaee here th,e Prmneiops cocruleus, Shaw; rrom, bleu, Vieill, f 

 Upupa hidiea, Lath,, or to approximate it to the Up, eryfhrorhynclws, 



X Epimacfim, th« Greek najne of a very beautifnl East- Indian bird, of undeter- 

 mined speeies, 



§ I hardly kno* whether I should place the Pronuirar, Vaill. 8 and Oj— the Pro- 

 merup, Vaill, 1 J and 12, ajid his Protnerop$ s>Jfleur, 10, here, or near the Up. erythw 

 rhyncJws, These beautiful birds of New Guinea, which are very rare in our collec- 

 tions, are usually deprived of tJieir feet, which renders it impossible to cIass tl>em 

 with certainty, 



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