HOOPOE. INSESSORES. UPUPA. 393 



HOOPOE. 



UPVPA EPOPS, Linn. 

 PLATE XL. FIG. 2. 



Upupa epops, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 183 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 466. Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. v. 1. p. 27?. Rail Syn. p. 48. A. 6 Will. p. 100. t. 24 Briss. 



2. p. 455. t. 43. f. 1. 

 La Huppe, Buff. Ois. v. 6. p. 439. t. 21. Id. PI. Enl. 52 Temm. Man. 



d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 415 La Vaill. Ois. de Parad. et Prom. v. 3. pL 22. 

 Gebauduter Werdehope, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. 114 Frisch. Vog. 



t. 43. 

 Hoopoe, Br. Zool. 1. No. 90. t. 39 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 283. A Will. 



(Ang.) p. 145 Albin. 2. t. 42, 43 Edw. t. 345 Lewies Br. Birds, 



t. 54 Lath. Syn. 2. p. 687. 1 Id. Supp. p. 122 Mont. Ornith. Diet 



Bewick's Br. Birds, v. 1. 123 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p l. Walc. Syn. 1. 



t. 53 Don. Br. Birds, 1. t. 9 Shawls Zool. v. 8. p. 135. 



A FEW of these handsome birds generally visit Great Occasional 

 Britain every year, during their periodical migrations ; and Vlsltant 

 instances are recorded of their having even bred in this coun- 

 try. MONTAGU makes mention of a pair that had begun a 

 nest in Hampshire, but, upon being disturbed, forsook it, 

 and went elsewhere ; and LATHAM, in the Supplement to his 

 General Synopsis, adverts to a young Hoopoe, shot in the 

 month of June. 



The specimen in my possession, and from which the figure 

 in this work is taken, was caught, after some severe weather, 

 and overcome by fatigue, upon the sea-coast of Northumber- 

 land, near to Bamburgh Castle. It lived but a few days after 

 its capture, sickening and dying for want of proper food. 

 Whilst undisturbed, it carried its beautiful crest in a decum- 

 bent state, but the feathers were immediately erected upon 

 the least alarm. This bird is abundantly met with in the 

 south of Europe, during the summer months, and is also 

 common in Holland, in the northern parts of Germany, in 

 Denmark, and as far north as Sweden. In the winter, it 

 retires to Asia and Africa, where it is also found as a per- 



