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the spring before last, which is now in my collection. I have also two Hoopoes which were shot 

 at Northrepps and Yarmouth in, I believe, 1860, and a third which was shot at the former place 

 on the 21st of May, 1867, by J. Galley, gamekeeper, who saw another frequenting the same 

 rough ground in May of the following year. Mr. Frederick records seven at Eastbourne in the 

 space of a week, in the ' Zoologist' (p. 5476). Mr. Dutton, writing in the same magazine twelve 

 years later, says (p. 9099), 'Hoopoes must have been very common a few years since, as in many 

 of the old houses and inns you see them stuffed.' In April 1852, the time at which Mr. 

 Frederick recorded them as abundant at Eastbourne, many were also killed at other places, as 

 for instance at Deal (Zool. 3512) and in Norfolk (B. of Norfolk, i. p. 300). It is a very 

 remarkable fact, and one not taken notice of by Mr. Stevenson, that this bird has occasionally 

 occurred in winter in Norfolk (Hunt's Brit. Birds, ii. p. 147 ; Newton in Zool. p. 1693). He 

 mentions their abundance one year at Lowestoft ; and Mr. Dawson Turner informed my father 

 that on one occasion after a gale he had so many brought him that the bank parlour was full of 

 them. He believes there were fifteen at least." There can be little doubt that this pretty bird, 

 if unmolested, would more frequently breed in this country. Yarrell writes : — " Latham had a 

 young, bird sent him on the 10th of May 1786. Montagu mentions that a pair in Hampshire 

 left a nest they had begun ; and Mr. Jesse, in the third volume of his Gleanings in Natural 

 History, says that ' some years ago a pair of Hoopoes built their nest, and hatched their young, 

 in a tree close to the house at Park End, near Chichester.' " Moreover, at a meeting of the 

 Zoological Society, held on the 28th of September 1841, Mr. W. V. Guise drew attention to a 

 young Hoopoe being killed on the 8th of September at Frampton-on-Severn, by the gamekeeper 

 of Henry Clifford, Esq., of Frampton Court. The most interesting account, however, of the 

 nesting of the Hoopoe in this country has been communicated to the present work by our friend 

 Mr. Howard Saunders, who sends us the following note: — " In the year 1847 a pair of Upupa 

 epops nested in a hole of an old yew tree in a shrubbery of an old-fashioned garden at Leather- 

 head, Surrey. The proprietor was very anxious that the birds should not be disturbed, and a 

 strict veto was placed upon any bird's-nesting in the shrubbery,- — a severe trial to our boyish pro- 

 pensities ; but we were afterwards rewarded by seeing the parent birds with their young strutting 

 about upon the lawn. As well as I remember, there were five young ones besides the two old 

 birds." 



Concerning the before-mentioned specimen from Spitsbergen, Mr. R. Collett writes to us in 

 a letter dated the 19th of July 1870: — "I give the following note, for the correctness of which I 

 can vouch. In August 1869, Mr. H. Friele, of Bergen (a zealous ornithologist, who has purchased 

 Dr. Printz's collection of eggs), visited Hammerfest, and found there, in the possession of a ship's 

 captain, a specimen of Upupa epops, which he had caught in the summer of 1868 on Spitsbergen 

 in good condition. Friele saw the bird, and talked to the skipper about it ; and I was with Friele 

 this summer and heard all about it." Mr. Collett also says, " In Norway I once procured a fine 

 male in the flesh ; it was shot on the 26th of April 1871, at Laurvig, on the Christiania-fjord." In 

 Sweden, according to Nilsson, the Hoopoe occurs, though rarely, in the southern and central parts 

 of the country. It breeds here and there on Gottland. Near Upsala and in the northern portions 

 of Sweden it is but rarely met with. It arrives in Skane about the 25th of April, and leaves in 

 August or September. It bears a bad name in Scandinavia, and its appearance is, by the peasants, 



