THE HOOPOE. 



{Upupa epops.) 



\ M ON GST the large number of migratory 

 -^ *- birds which resort to the British Islands 

 in spring for the purpose of nidification, are a 

 few which come to us accidentally, as it were, 

 or as stragglers from the main body of immi- 

 grants which, crossing the Mediterranean from 

 Africa, becomes dispersed over the greater part 

 of Europe. The Hoopoe is one of these. 

 Not a summer elapses without the appearance, 



