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MADAGASCAR HOOPOE. 



Upupa Madagascariensis. U. alba, alis caudaque cinereo-fuscis, 

 crista decomposita. 



White Hoopoe, with cinereous brown wings and tail, and loose- 

 webbed crest. 



Upupa Capensis. U.fusco-mbulosa, crista corpore subtus macula- 

 que alarum albis. Lath. ind. orn. 



La Huppe noir et blanche du cap de Bonne-Esperance. Buff", ois. 

 PL Enl. 697. 



Madagascar Hoopoe. Lath. syn. 



THE Madagascar Hoopoe is described by Buf- 

 fon, or rather by his associate Monsr. Monbeillard, 

 who informs us that its length is sixteen ?* inches, 

 and its breadth eighteen : the bill shorter in pro- 

 portion than in the Common Hoopoe, and of a 

 yellowish colour, with the upper mandible notch- 

 ed on each side near the tip : the tongue rather 

 broad, and divided at the extremity into several 

 fibres : the crest is of a much looser or more 

 fibrous structure than in the Common Hoopoe, 

 and lastly, the tail-feathers are twelve in number. 

 The colour of the crest, throat, and all the under 

 parts of the bird., is white, without any variegation : 

 that of the upper parts, from the back of the head 

 to the end of the tail, dusky or greyish brown, 

 deepest on the wings and tail : on the edge of the 



* The specimen described by Viellot measured but ten inches : 

 he therefore suspects a mistake in the measure given by Buffon. 



