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has also been shot at the Scilly Islands. It has been killed 

 in South and North Wales, in Lancashire, and in Cumber- 

 land. Mr. Thompson, of Belfast, informs me this bird has 

 occasionally been killed in diiferent parts of Ireland. 



South-east, and north of London, it has been killed in 

 Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and 

 Yorkshire. The bird figured by Mr. Bewick was killed 

 at Bedlington on the coast of Durham ; that used by Mr. 

 Selby was caught near Bamborough Castle on the coast of 

 Northumberland ; Mr. Macgillivray, of Edinburgh, men- 

 tions one that was shot near Porto Bello ; it has also been 

 killed in Ayrshire, and at Banff. 



Since the publication of the first edition of this work, 

 examples of the Hoopoe are recorded to have been killed 

 in Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Ox- 

 fordshire, Cornwall, and Glamorganshire. 



This bird in summer goes as far north as Denmark, 

 Sweden, and Russia. Southward thence on the European 

 continent, it is found in Germany, is common in Holland, 

 France, Spain, and occurs in small flocks at Gibraltar. 

 Captain Brown was told by an officer of the 92nd Regi- 

 ment that this bird is met with in great numbers near 

 Ceuta, in Africa, opposite to Gibraltar, during the whole 

 year, and the late G. W. H. Drummond Hay, Esq. sent 

 the Zoological Society specimens from Tangiers, remarking 

 that they were common, and generally seen about dung- 

 hills. Dr. Heiniken included the Hoopoe in his enumera- 

 tion of the birds of Madeira ; it probably inhabits the whole 

 of the northern part of Africa, and is recorded as breeding 

 in Egypt. It is common in Italy from May to September, 

 is found in Corfu, Sicily, Malta, and Crete, was seen at 

 Hushak by Mr. Strickland in April, and has been received 

 by the Zoological Society from Trebizond. 



