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OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
A Fox Cuasr 1x Lonpon.—On the 15th August a bagged Fox 
contrived to escape from its temporary place of confinement in the Metro- 
politan Market, and making its way along King’s Road, turned down 
Raymond Buildings, and took refuge in Gray’s Inn Gardens. Here, how- 
ever, it could not remain long undisturbed, and a hue and cry being raised 
it was eventually recaptured by the gardeners.—J. E. Harrtine. 
ON THE PRESUMED MENTION OF THE MHoopor, A.D. 13895.—In 
Ainsworth’s ‘ Latin Dictionary’ (Ross’s edition, 1826), I find, under the 
head Upupa, ‘‘ A bird called a Hoopoe, or, as some say, a Lapwing.” May 
not the “vij upupis,” quoted in ‘The Zoologist’ for August (p. 338) as 
costing twopence each, have been Lapwings, and the “ xiiij plovers” at 
threepence each have been Golden Plovers—a bird more delicate for the 
table than the Lapwing, and therefore likely to command a better price ? 
This seems to me more probable than that by the word “‘ upupis” Hoopoes 
were in this instance intended.—J. H. Gurnuy (Northrepps Hall, Norwich). 
EARLY MENTION OF THE Hoopor as A British Brrp.—It has been 
suggested that the meaning of the word wpupa in the document quoted by 
me (antea p. 337-338) is not “ hoopoe,” but “ lapwing,” a bird more likely 
to have been met with at the season, and in the numbers, indicated. Some 
dictionaries, indeed, give “lapwing” for uwpupa, as that of Ainsworth quoted 
by Mr. Gurney, and that of Adams (Edinb. 1814). The only two T have 
by me, however, are in favour of Hoopoe, and make no reference whatever 
to the Lapwing. Dr. Andrews, in his ‘ Latin-English Lexicon’ (1854), 
gives “ Upupa [ero], a hoopoe. Plin. 10, 29, 44; id. ib. 25, 86. Varr. 
L.L. 5, 11, 22”; and Dr. Wm. Smith, in his ‘ Latin-English Dictionary’ 
(1857, based upon the works of Forcellini and Freund), adopts the same 
view in almost the same words. On looking into Cooper’s ‘Thesaurus 
Lingue Romane et Britanniw’ (1578), I find the following quaint but 
appropiate remark :—‘ Upupa, upupe@, Avis, Plin. A birde no bigger than 
a thrush, and hath a crest from his bill to the uttermost part of hys heade, 
which he strouteth up or holdeth downe according to his affection. Where- 
fore it cannot be our lapwing, as it hath.been taken for. It is rather to be 
called an houpe.”* I presume that the inference intended to be drawn 
here is that the crest of the Lapwing was thought not to be erectile. If so 
~ this was a mistaken notion, since this bird, like the Hoopoe, is able to 
* Mr. Turner, of Sherborne, states that these birds were known as ‘‘ hoops” in 
Dorsetshire, 
