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Gj»?« XXVII. HOOPOE. 



N* i. Common Hoopoe, 

 a. Madagafcar H. 



3. Crefted Promerops. 



4. Mexican Pr. 



5. Cape Pr. 



N* 6. Nefr Guinea brown Pr. 

 7. Grand Pr. 

 -8. Orange Pr. 



Var. A. Yellow Pr. 



THE characters of this genus are, 

 The bill long, flender, and bending, 

 Noftrils fmall, placed near the bafe. 

 Tongue fhort *, fagittal. 



Toes placed three before, and one behind j the middle one 

 connected at the bafe to the outmoft. 



Of the birds in this chapter, only the firft fpecies is found in 

 Europe 5 and in fact, only this and the fecond fpecies properly be- 

 long to the Hoopoe genus 3 yet, as the Promeropes of other authors 

 feem to differ chiefly in being deftitute of a creft, they may pro- 

 perly have a place here, according to the example of Linnaus* 

 The manners of the firft are pretty well known j but, as to the 

 others, we know very little of them, more than the bare de- 

 scriptions. 



* I fear this character will not carry us through the whole of the fpecies ; for 

 in N° 5. it is as long as the bill, and in N° 7. not much fliorter. I have not 

 feen the tongues of any other. 



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