Occasional 
visitant. 
Locality. 
118 ANISODACTYLI. UPUPA. Hooror. 
Hoopoe.—Upupa epops, Linn. 
PLATE 40. Fig. 2. 
Upupa epops, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 183.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 466.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith. vy. 1. p. 277.—Raii, Syn. p. 48. A. 6.—Will. p. 100. t. 24.—Briss. 
2. p. 455. t. 43. £ 1. 
La Huppe, Buff: Ois. v. 6. p. 439. t. 21.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 52.—Temm. Man. 
d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 415.—La Vaill. Ois. de Parad. et Prom. v. 3. pl. 22. 
Gebauduter Werdehope, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. 114.—F isch, Vég. 
t. 43. 
Hoopoe, Br. Zool. 1. No. 90. t. 39.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 283. A.—Wiil. 
(Ang.) p. 145.—Albin. 2. t. 42, 43.—Edu. t. 345.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
t. 54.—Lath. Syn. 2. p. 687. 1.—Id. Supp. p. 122.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.— 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. 123.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 7.—Wale. Syn. 1. 
t. 53.—Don. Br. Birds, 1. t. 9.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 8. p. 135. 
A few of these handsome birds generally visit Great Bri- 
tain every year, during their periodical migrations; and in- 
stances are recorded of their having even bred in this coun- 
try. Montagu makes mention of a pair that had begun a 
nest in Hampshire, but, upon being disturbed, forsook it, 
and went elsewhere ; and Laruam, in the Supplement to his 
General Synopsis, adverts to a young Hoopoe, shot in the 
month of June. 
The specimen in my possession, and from which the figure 
in this work is,taken, was caught, after some severe weather, 
and. overcome by fatigue, upon the sea-coast of Northumber- 
land, near to Bamburgh Castle. It lived but a few days after 
its capture, sickening and dying for want of proper food. 
Whilst undisturbed, it carried its crest in a decumbent state, 
but the feathers were immediately erected upon the least 
alarm.—This bird is abundantly met with in the south of 
Europe, during the summer months, and is also common in 
Holland, in the northern parts of Germany, in Denmark, and 
as far north as Sweden. In the winter, it retires to Asia and 
Africa, where it is also found as a permanent resident, being 
known to breed in the towns and villages of Egypt. 
In this latter country, it has been observed, that the wild 
or migrating birds of this species never associate with those 
