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UPUPA EPOPS. 



(HOOPOE.) 



XT-pupa epops, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 183 (1766). 



TJpupa vulgaris, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 433 (1831). 



Upupa bifasciata, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 215, t. 15. fig. 2 (1831). 



XTpupa senegalensis, Swains. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 114 (1837). 



Upupa indica, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844, nee Layard). 



XTpupa maculigera, Reich. Handb. Scansorise, p. 319 (1853). 



XTpupa brachyrhynchos, Brehm, Vollst. Vogelf. p. 77 (1855). 



TJpupa macrorhynchos, id. torn. cit. p. 77 (1855). 



XTpupa exilis, id. torn. cit. p. 77 (1855). 



XTpupa major, id. torn. cit. p. 78 (1855). 



Hoopoe, English ; Huppe vulgaire, French ; Abubilla, Spanish ; Gallo de Marzo (Cock of 

 March), Andalusian (L. H. Irby) ; Put-put, Valencian (Howard Saunders) ; Poupa, Portu- 

 guese ; Bubbola, Bubbula, Galetto di montagna, di bosco, di marzo, di maggio, &c, Italian 

 (Boderlein) ; Bakkuka tal pennac, Maltese [C. A. Wright); Wiedehopf, German; de Hop, 

 Dutch ; Hcerpop, Hcerfugl, Danish ; Hdrfogel, Swedish ; Hwrfwgl, Norwegian. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 52 ; Lev. Promer. pi. 22 ; Gould, B. of Eur. iii. pi. 238 ; Yarr. Brit. B. ii. 

 p. 167; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. Taf. 142; Kjferb. Orn. Dan. Afb. xiii. fig. 1; Schl. Vog. 

 Nederl. pi. 144 ; Bett. Ucc. nidif. Lomb. tav. xxvii. ; Gould, B. of Gt. Br. part xiv. 



6 valde cristata, cristae plumis latiusculis cinnamomeis ad apicem nigris, posticis ante apicem nigram albo 

 transfasciatis : pileo reliquo cum collo et pectore vinaceo-cinnamomeis, interscapulio magis cinerascente : 

 dorso postico cum scapularibus nigro et lactescenti-albo vix rufescente transfasciatis : uropygio albo : 

 supracaudalibus nigris : tectricibus alarum minimis vinaceo-cinnamomeis dorso concoloribus, medianis 

 et majoribus nigris late lactescenti-albo transfasciatis, fascias duas alares conspicuas formantibus : 

 primariis nigricanti-brunneis, primariis sex distincte albo transnotatis, reliquis pogonio interno albo 

 maculatiSj secundariis dorsalibus albo vel lactescenti-albo terminatis et irregulariter transfasciatis : 

 cauda nigra, fascia unica alba lata transnotata, et ad basin rectricis extimse albo maculata. : abdomine 

 albido, hypochondriis nigricanti-brunneo striatis : subcaudalibus albis : subalaribus rufescenti-albis nigro 

 paullulum variis : rostro nigricante, ad basin mandibulaj carneo : pedibus brunneis : iride fusca. 



§ vix a mari distinguenda, sed corpore subtiis minus vinaceo, et lineis hypocbondriacis pallidius indicatis. 



Adult Male. Head with an immense crest of a clear tawny colour; the feathers of the crest conspicuously 

 tipped with black, five or six of the hindermost barred across with white just before the black tip ; face 

 and neck as well as the breast pale cinnamon with a vinous tinge ; upper part of the back greyish 

 brown ; centre of the back and scapulars black, barred across with pale cream-colour : rump pure 



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