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bands across the wing-coverts, and four across the 

 wings of the quill. They seek out insects in humid 

 ground, lay in the holes of trees .or walls, and quit us 

 in the winter. 



Cape Hoopoe. (Upupa Capensis.) Enl. 697* 



Is more analogous to the cranes, because the anterior 

 feathers of the tuft, short and fixed, ai'e directed for- 

 ward, and cover the nostrils. 



Upupa Minor. Vieil. Prom. pi. ii, and Gal. pi. 

 184. Vaill. Prom. 23 



Body, above and beneath, deep brown-black. Length, 

 nine inches, 



The Promerops.* Poriss. 



Have no tuft on the head, and have a very long tail. 

 The tongue, extensive and furcated, permits them to 

 live on the juice of flowers, like the sonimangas and 

 calibris. 



We are well acquainted with the 



Cape Promerops. ( U. Promerops, or Merops Capd. 

 Enl. 637.) 



Brown above; rump, and under tail-coverts, olive- 

 green ; throat and belly, white. Seventeen inches ; 

 body, thin. 



* M. Vieillot, in his Galerie, pi. 185, has changed this name into 

 Falcone/las. 



