382 CLASS AVES. 



M. Vaill. thinks that Up. Fusca, Gm., or Papuensis, 

 Lath. Enl. 638, is the female of Enl. 639- Upupa 

 Paradiscea, Seb. I. pi. 30, is the Muscicapa Paradisic 

 with the bill badly drawn. Up. Jurantia, Seb. I. 46, 

 is, according to all appearance, a Cassique. U. Mead- 

 cana, Seba I. 45, is not from Mexico, as Seba states, 

 in applying to it a passage from Nieremberg, lib. 10, 

 in which a duck only is spoken of. 

 I doubt whether we ought not to place here Promerops 

 Cceruleus, Shaw ; Prom. bleu. ^^ieil. ; Upupa Indi- 

 ctty Lath. ; or whether we ought not to put it near Up. 

 Erythorhynchos. 



The Epimachi. (Epimachus.* Cuv.) 



Have, with the bill of the hoopoes and promerops, 

 scaly feathers, which cover the nostrils, as in the bu'ds 

 of Paradise. They come from the same country, 

 and are equally brilliant in their plumage. The 

 feathers of the flanks are also more or less prolonged 

 in the males. 



The Epimachus, with frizzled ornaments. ( Upupa 

 Magna. Gm. Up. Superba. Lath.) 



Black ; wedged-tail three times longer than the body; 

 feathers of the flanks elongated, reined, frizzled, bril- 

 liant at the edge, and of a polished-steel blue, which 

 also shines upon the head and belly. 



I know not whether we ought to place here, or near 

 to Merops, the 



• The name in Greek of a beautiful bird of India, of an indetermined 

 species. 



