690 H' O O P O E. 



negated. Another fpecimen, from the fame place, had the upper 

 part of the back of a deep brown, and the belly varied with brown 

 and white ; but as this was lefs in every refpecl, it moft likely was 

 ayoung bird. 



Befides thefe, Gerini* mentions one which he faw at Florence* 

 and again on the Alps, which had the creft bordered with Jky- 

 bhie. 



2. La Huppe noire & blanche du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. ojf. vi. 



p. 463. 

 La Huppe du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PL ettl. 697. 



MADAGASCAR 

 H. 



.Description. ^ _ T v HE length of this bird is fixteen inches : breadth eighteen: 

 * weight four ounces. .The bill is twenty lines, bent, much 

 pointed, and of a yellowifh colour ; the upper mandible netched 

 near the tip; and the tongue divided at the end into feveral 

 threads : the palate full of tuberosities : the creft is fmaller in 

 proportion than in the common Hoopoe, and tends to a point be- 

 hind, like that of the Cuckow of Madagascar j- : the creft, throat, 

 and under parts of the body, are plain white : and the upper 

 parts, from the creft to the end of the tail, are brown in different 

 fhades: on the wings is a white fpot J.: the tail confifts of twelve 

 feathers, contrary to the common one, which has but ten ; and the 

 two middle feathers rather fhorter than the others : the legs and 

 claws are yellowifh ; the hind claw large, and very crooked. 

 Places. This bird, which differs confiderably from the former, as well as 



* In the Orn. Ital. See Hi/?, des olf. vi. p. 462. 



f See Brif. iv. pi. 12. f. 2. 



X -The wings are faid to have one feather lefs than in the common Hoopoi. 



1 its 



