PASSERINE. oye 
it. It inhabits the highest ridges of the Alps and Pyrenees, 
nestling there among the cliffs or in the fissures of the rocks like 
the Chocard; it is less common, however, and does not so often 
unite in flocks. It feeds both on fruit and insects, and when it 
descends into the valleys, s snow or bad weather may be ex- 
pected.(1) | . 
Urupa, properly so styled. 
The Hoopoes haye 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.; Enlv 52; Naum. 142. (The Hoopoe.) A vinous- 
red; 3 wings and tail, black; two transverse, white bands on the 
coyerts of the wings, and four on the quills. It seeks insects in 
humid earth, lays its eggs in holes of trees or of walls, and 
“leaves France in winter (2) 
U. capensis; Eni. 697. (The Cape Hoopoe:) More particu-— 
larly allied to Fregilus by the anterior, short, and immovable 
feathers of its tuft which incline forwards and cover the nostrils. 
Fé ° 
af, os. **  . Promenrors, 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 ae is as (3) 
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me) It is impossible to say what combination of the history of this bird with i im- 
he erfect figures, perhaps of some Curlew, gave birth to the ideal species of the 
age ravé huppé or Sonneur (Corvus eremita, L.), a pretended bird of Switzerland, which 
has never been seen by any one since Gesner. But the Corv. affinis, Lath. appears 
/ 4° be a true Fregilus, and we havea totally black Species from N ew Holland. 
(2) Add the African species, Upupa minor, Vieill. Prom. pl. ii, and Gal, pl. 184; 
_Vaill. Prom. 23. rng 
i, (3) Vieill. Galer. .pl. clxxxv, has changed Promerops into Falcinellus. "The only 
one well known is the Upupa promerops or Merops caffer, ¥:nl. 637, which is the 
Sucrier du protea, Vaill. Afr. 139. M. Vaill. is of opinion thatthe Up. fusca, Gm., 
or papuensis, Lath. Enl. 638, is the female of the Epimaque 2 parements frisés, Enl. 
* 639.—The Up. paradisea, Seb. 1, pl. xxx, 8, is the Muscicapa paradisi, with an ill 
drawn beak. The Up. aurantia, Seb. I, lxvi, 5, according to all appearance a 
Cassicus. The mexicana, Seb. I, xlv, 5, is not from Mexico as Seba makes it out, 
_ by applying"to it a passage of Nicremberg, lib. x, c. 44, in w hich he merely speaks 
of a Duck. Iam in doubt whether to place here the Promerops ceruleus, Shaw; _ 
_ Prom. bleu, Vieill.; Upupa Indica, Lath. or to approximate it to the Up. erythro- 
_rhynchos. 
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