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Genus XXVII. HOOPOE. 

 N° 9. Red-billed Pr. N° 10. Blue Pr. 



1. Common Hoopoe, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 687. N° I. — Ar^. Zool. ii. p. 283. A. 



■t- COMMON H. Upupa epops, Brun. N" 43. — Muller, N" 103. — Georgi Reife, p. \6^.—Sep^ 



Fog. pi. in p. 129. — Faux. Jrag. p. 74. — Koli. Caf. ii. p. 157. 



T Believe the Hoopoe * to be met with, and even to breed in Eng' 

 land, oftener than is generally fuppofed, as I have had them 

 feveral times fent to me; and have been able to colleft various in- 

 ftances in fupporc of this opinion, which I can depend on, added 

 to others of lefs certain authority; not that this bird is conftant 

 in its migrations into this ifland, there being in fome years many to 

 be met with; in others, fewer none. The year 1783 feemstohave 

 been more abundant in thefe birds than any I have yet heard of;^ 

 one of them being Ihot near Or/orii, on the coaft of ^z^c/i^, in May^ 

 and another feen near the fame place the 24th of June following : 

 thefe, no doubt, had bred thereabouts. The place where thefe 

 were feen was a remarkable barren fpot. In the month of Sep' 

 tember of the fame year two were fhot at Holdernefs, and many 

 were feen in various other parts of Torkjhire, and as far north aa 

 Scotland \. One was fhot the loth o{ September, atCam in Gloucejier- 

 jkire, another on EppingForeJi, and a third in Surrey. A (tv/ years 

 fince, a pair had begun to make a neft in Hampjhire ; but being 



* In the Synopfis the tail by miftake is faid to be white, marked with black 1 

 wiereas it ftiould have been exprefled exaftly the contrary, 

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