62 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Order IV. COCCYGES. 



Suborder COCCYGES AN I SOD ACTYL.E. 



Family UPUPID^. 



Genus UPUPA, Linn. 



454. UPUPA LONGIROSTEIS. 



THE BURMESE HOOPOE. 



Upupa longirostris, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 393 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 69 ; Hume, S. F. iii. 

 p. 89 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 315 ; Inglis, S, F. v. p. 29 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 149 ; 

 Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 202 ; Oates, S. F. vii. p. 41 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 90 ; 

 Gates, S. F. x. p. 199. Upupa ceylonensis (Reich.~), apud David ef Oust. O?s. 

 Chine, p. 79. Upupa indica (Bonap.}, apud Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 578. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead, crown, crest and sides of the 

 head and neck cinnamon-rufous, the crest -feathers broadly tipped with 

 black; chin, throat, breast and upper abdomen rufous-fawn ; lower 

 abdomen whitish, streaked with brown ; vent and under tail-coverts pure 

 white, some of the latter occasionally tipped with black ; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the head ; median coverts black, tipped with white ; greater 

 coverts black, with a bar of white across them ; primary-coverts black ; 

 primaries black, with a broad bar of white across both webs near the 

 tips ; the first primary with or without a white spot on the inner web ; 

 the earlier secondaries barred with white on the inner webs, those nearer 

 the body on both webs ; tertiaries brown, tinged and edged with rufous ; 

 rump and scapulars barred with black and rufous, followed on the rump 

 by a white band ; upper tail-coverts black; back dull vinous; tail black, 

 with a band of white across it. 



Iris reddish brown or brown ; bill dark brown, pinkish at base ; legs 

 and claws dark plumbeous. 



Length 12 inches, tail 4*4, wing 5'6, tarsus '85, bill from gape 2'6. 

 The female is smaller, the bill averaging 2' 3 or so. 



The Burmese Hoopoe is a species which, in my opinion, can always be 

 discriminated from its allies. From U. epops it differs in not having any 

 white on the crest in front of the black tip. From U. nigripennis it differs 

 in being larger, and in having a bill of much greater length. Mr. Hume 

 says that he has never met with U. nigripennis with a longer bill than 2 f l ; 



