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% SMALLER HOOPOE. 



Upupa minor. U.ferruginea, alls albo variis, crista apice nigra. 

 Ferruginous Hoopoe, with the wings varied with white, and the 



crest tipped with black. 

 La Huppe d' Afrique. Aud. et Vicll. pi. 2. 



THIS species, if such it really be, and not a mere 

 variety of the Common Hoopoe, differs in being 

 a trifle smaller, with the beak rather shorter, and 

 the legs rather longer in proportion : the white on 

 the wings is not distributed into such regular bars 

 the white crescent on the tail is situated somewhat; 

 nearer the base, and the feathers of the crest are 

 tipped with black only, without any white bar 

 between that colour and the rest of the feather, as 

 in the Common Hoopoe. It is an inhabitant of 

 the southern parts of Africa, being found in the 

 kingdom of Congo, and at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, frequenting low grounds, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of thickets, and is not, like the 

 Common Hoopoe, of a migratory nature. 



