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Upura (The Puets, properly so styled). 
The Puets, or Hoopoes, have an ornament on the head formed of a 
double range of long feathers, which they can erect at will. There is 
one in Europe, 
U. epops, L.; Enl. 52; Naum. 142. (The Hoopoe). A vinous- 
red; wings and tail black; two transvérse, white bands on the co- 
verts of the wings, and four on the quills of the wing. It seeks in- 
sects in humid earth, lays its eggs in holes of trees or of walls, and 
leaves France in winter *, 
U. capensis, En]. 697. (The Cape Hoopoe). More particularly 
allied to Fregilus by the anterior, short, and immovable feathers of 
its tuft, which incline forwards and cover the nostrils. 
Promerops, Briss. 
No crest on the head, and a very long tail; the tongue, extensible and 
forked, enables it, as is affirmed, to live on the nectar of flowers, like the 
Cinnyris and the Humming-birds t. 
Erimacnus {, Cus. 
The bill of the Upupa and Promerops, along with scaly or velvet fea- 
thers, which partially cover the nostrils, as in the Birds of Paradise; they 
are natives of the same countries, and their plumage equally brilliant. 
The flank-feathers of the male are also more or less elongated. 
Upupa magna, Gm.; U. superba, Lath.; L’epimaque a pare. frisés, 
En]. 639; Vaill. Prom. 13. Black; tail tapered, thrice the length 
of the body; the feathers on the flanks elongated, turned up, friz- 
zled; the edges of a burnished steel blue, which also glisten on the 
head and belly §. 
Naturalists have distinguished the square-tailed species, Pritoris of 
Swainson, such as, 
Ep. albus; Paradis. alba, Blumen. Abb. 96; Vaill. Ois. de Par. 
pl. 16 and 17, and better Promer. 17; Vieill. pl. 18, and better 
* Add the African species, Upupa minor, Vieill. Prom. pl. ii, and Gal. pl. 184; 
Vaill. Prom. 23. 
+ Vieill. Galer. pl. clxxxv, has changed Promerops into Falcinellus. The only one 
well known is the Upupa promerops or Merops caffer, En). 637, which is the Sucrier 
du protea, Vaill. Afr. 139. M. Vaill. is of opinion that the Up. fusca, Gm., or papu- 
ensis, Lath. Enl. 638, is the female of the Epimaque a parements frisés, Enl. 639.— 
The Up. paradisea, Seb. I, pl. xxx, 8, is the Muscicapa paradisi, with an ill-drawn 
bill. The Up. aurantia, Seb. I, lxvi, 8, according to all appearance a Cassicus. The 
mexicana, Seb. I, xly, 3, is not from Mexico as Seba makes it out, by applying to it 
a passage of Nieremberg, lib. x, c. 44; in which he merely speaks of a Duck. I am 
in doubt whether to place here the Promerops coeruleus, Shaw; Prom. bleu, Vieill.; 
Upupa Indica, Lath., or to approximate it to the Up. erythrorhynchos. 
} Epimachus, the Greek name of a very beautiful East-Indian bird, of undeter- 
mined species. 
§ I hardly know whether I should place the Promerar, Vaill. 8 and 9;—the Pro- 
merup, Vaill. 11 and 12, and his Promerops siffleur, 10, here, or near the Up. erythro- 
rhynchos. These beautiful birds of New Guinea, which are very rare in our collec- 
tions, are usually deprived of their feet, which renders it impossible to class them 
with certainty. 
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