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•Earl'^ Croome, is Croome Court, the feat and park of the 

 carl of Coventry. The manfion is modern, and the (lyle of 

 its architefture is very plain ; but the elegance of the in- 

 terior makes up for any thing that may appear a deficiency 

 without. The drawing-room is hung with tapeftry of the 

 Gobehne manufafture, of crimfon ground with coloured 

 figures. — Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xv. Wor- 

 cefterrtiire. 



UPULUS, in Botany, the old Latin name for the lupulus, 

 or hop. This word lupulus is not old Latin, but a more 

 modern name, formed on the word upuhs. 



UPUPA, in Ornithology, a genus of birds belonging to 

 the order of Picse, the charafters of which are, that the bill 

 is bent, long, (lender, convex, fubcomprefled, and fomewhat 

 obtufe : the noftrils are fmall at the bafe of the bill ; the 

 tongue obtufe, entire, triquetrous, and very fhort ; and the 

 ■feet formed for walking. In the Linnsean fyflem by 

 Gmelin there are eight fpecies, which are as follow : 



Epops. Crelted and variegated, or the ferruginous 

 hoopoe, with the wings barred black and white, the tail 

 black, with a lunated white bar, and the creit tipped with 

 black and white. This is the upupa of Bell. Gefn. 

 Aldrov. Ray, &c. ; the bubbola of Ohn. ; the ter-choas or 

 melTenger-bird of Pocock ; the hoopoe of Willughby, 

 Pennant, Edwards, &c. ; the common hoopoe of Latham ; 

 and the la huppe of Buffon. It is an elegant bird, generally 

 inhabiting the warmer and temperate parts of the old conti- 

 nent, and migrating occafionally, at different feafons, in 

 different direftions. In our idand it is much more rarely 

 feen than in other northern climates. It is about the fize of 

 a common thrufh. The colour of the head, neck, and 

 body, is pale ferruginous or cinnamon-brown ; the wings and 

 tail are black, the former eroded by five white bars, the 

 latter by a white crefcent ; the rump and lower part of the 

 abdomen are white, and the fides generally marked by a few 

 longitudinal duflcy ftreaks ; on the head is an elegant crefl, 

 which it can either erect or expand, or deprefs and clofe at 

 pleafure, compofedof feathers which are cinnamon-coloured, 

 with black tips, a white bar feparating the tip from tlie reft 

 of the feathers ; the legs are fhort and blackilh. The 

 hoopoe migrates during the fpring from Africa into various 

 parts of Europe, and returns in winter. In various parts of 

 Egypt, however, it is nearly domefticated, building even 

 among the houfes. The flefh of thefc domcftic hoopoes is 

 rank and unfit for eating, but that of the migrating birds 

 is confidercd in many parts of Europe as an agreeable food, 

 particularly in Italy, the foulli of France, and in the Gre- 

 cian iflands. Its ncfl is to be iometimes found in a wall or 

 tree, and is generally faid to have a peculiarly fetid fmell, fup- 

 pofed to be chiefly owing to the remains of various kinds 

 of infefts. The number of eggs is from five to feven. In 

 Egypt the migrating hoopoe never affociatcs with thofe of 

 the towns, but frequents remote and folitary places. Such is 

 generally the difpolition of thofe which appear in Europe, but 

 in Africa they afTociate in great numbers. Their ordinary 

 food confiils of various kinds of infefts and worms, in 

 order to obtain which they follow in Egypt the retreat of 

 the Nile. Thefe birds are generally feen on the furface of 

 the .ground, being very rarely obfcrved to perch on trees. 

 Dr. Shaw mentions as a variety the blue-crefted hoopoe, 

 obferved at Florence and on the Alps, near the town of 

 Rota, and differing from the common hoopoe in having the 

 craft-feathers tipped with flcy-blue inftead of black. The 

 ■upupa minor, fmallcr hoopoe, ferruginous, with the wings 

 ■varied with white, and the crefl tipped with black, the la 

 huppe d'Afrique of Buffon, may probably be another va- 

 riety of the common hoopoe, which inhabits the foutiicrii 



parts of Africa, and is found in the kingdom of Congo, and 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, frequenting low grounds in 

 the neighbourhood of thickets, and not migratory. 



Capensis. Crefted brown, beneath white, with a white 

 fpot on the wings. This is the Madagafcar hoopoe, white, 

 with cinnamon-brown wings and tail, and loofe-webbed 

 creft ; la huppe noir et blanche du Cap de Bonne Efperance 

 of Buffon. The tail-feathers of this fpecies are twelve in 

 number ; the colour of the creft, throat, and all the under 

 parts of the bird, is white, without any variegation ; that of 

 the upper parts, from the back of the head to the end of 

 the tail, duflty or greyifh-brown, deepeft on the wings and 

 tail ; on the edge of the wing is a white fpot, the tips of 

 two or three of the larger coverts being of that colour : the 

 legs and feet are yellowifh. It is a native of the ifland of 

 Madagafcar, as well as of fome of the African ides, and is 

 faid to feed on feeds and berries. From the ftrufture of 

 the tongue, which is rather broad, and divided at the ex- 

 tremity into feveral fibres. Dr. Shaw infers, that it is nearly 

 related to the genus mcrops, or bee-eater. 



Promerops. The hoopoe with fix tail-feathers, the in- 

 termediate being the longefl. This is the promerops cafer, or 

 brown promerops, whitifh beneath, with rufcfcent breaft, and 

 very long tail. Upupa promerops, or Cape promerops of 

 Latham, and promerops of Buffon. The fizc of this bird is 

 that of a lark ; its colour is rufous brown, fomewhat deeper 

 on the wings and tail ; throat white, with a narrow, longi- 

 tudinal, dufliy llreak on each fide ; under part of the ab- 

 domen whitifh, daflied with duflcy ftreaks, vent yellow, tail 

 very ftrongly cuneated, bill black, and alfo the legs. In 

 fome, probably the males, the breaft as well as the abdomen 

 is fpotted, and the wings are croffed by a narrow grey or 

 whitifh Itripe. A native of Africa, common about the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



Mexicana. The grey hoopoe, with a mixture of fea- 

 green and purple. Underneath yellow, greater quill-feathers 

 blueifli,and the four intermediate tail-feathers longer than the 

 reft. This is the grey promerops with green and purple 

 glofs, blueifh wings, ycllowifh belly, and veryjong tail ; the 

 Mexican promerops of Linnxus, the promerops Mexicanus 

 of Briflon, and promerops a ailcs blancs of Buffon. The 

 body of this bird is of the fize of a thrufli. The bill is near 

 two inches long, and blackifh ; the whole of the upper parts, 

 except the quills, which are light blue, are grey, with green 

 and piiiplifli gloffes. The under parts of the body are light 

 yellow, and a fpot of the fame colour is fituatcd above each 

 eye. This fpecies is faid to be a native of Mexico, fre- 

 quenting mountainous regions, and feeding on various kinds 

 of infe<fts. 



Paradise.^. The crefted chefnut-coloured hoopoe, with 

 the two middle tail-feathers much longer than the reft. This 

 is the chefnut promerops, grey'beneath, with black-crelled 

 head, and very long tail. Tlie avis paradifiaca criftata 

 orientalis rarifiima of Seba, the promerops of Buffon, and 

 crefted promerops of Latham. It is about the fize of a 

 ftarling ; the bill is curved, and of a lead colour, as arc alfo 

 the legs ; the head and neck are a fine deep black ; the 

 crown of the head being ornamented by a very confpicuous 

 lengthened femi-pendant creft ; the whole remainder of the 

 bird on the upper parts is bright brown, on tlie under pale 

 afli-colour. A native, according to Seba, of the Eaft 

 Indies, where, as he fays, it is very rare. 



Fu.sca. The brown hoopoe, underneath grey, ftriped 

 with white and black, the crown of the colour of pohfhed 

 fteel, the throat .ind neck black, and two intermediate tail-fea- 

 thers very h)ng. This is the brown promerops, beneath white, 

 with black undulations, and very long tail. The promerops 

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