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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 

 Kent, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, Corn- 

 wall, 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 lately by the Zoological Society from Tre- 

 bizond. 



B. Hodgson Esq. includes it in his Birds of Nepal, and 

 Mr. Blyth has obtained specimens in the vicinity of Cal- 

 cutta. 



In the adult male the length of the beak, from the point 

 to the angle of the gape, is two inches and one quarter ; 



