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ORD: Tl GENUS XI. HOOPOE, 
Birt, long, flender, a little bending. 
Nostriis, fimall, placed near the bafe. 
Toes, three forwards, one backwards; the middle toe clofely united at the 
bafe to the outermoft. 
SPLCIES F HOP O £. 
Pl. 54. 
Upupa epops. Lin. Sy/t. I. p. 183. 
La Hupe, ou Puput. Brif. Ora. Il. p. 455. 
This fingular bird is in length twelve inches, in breadth nineteen. The bill 
is two inches and half long, and of a dark lead colour: eyes dark hazel: on the 
head is a creft, which the bird can ereé& at pleafure, confifting of a double row 
of orange coloured feathers, with black tops: the head, neck, and throat, pale 
reddifh brown: the belly white : in young birds the breaft and belly are mark- 
ed with narrow dufky lines, pointing downwards: fhoulders, and wing coverts, 
light brown: the back and wings croffed with broad bars of white and black : 
the rump white: the tail feathers black, croffed with a bar of white, in form of 
an arch, the ends pointing towards the end of the tail: the legs fhort and black. 
The male and female are much alike. 
In comparifon with many birds of paffage which frequent this ifland, the 
hoopoe is rare with us, coming over in {mall flocks at uncertain feafons: but 
it now and then makes its neft, and rears its young in England, an inftance of 
which is-in the collection of Mr. Latham, who had the fpecimen fent to him, 
fcarcely complete in its feathers, about the end of Auguft. It builds in hollow 
trees, making its neft of foft materials, and lays four or five eges, for which fee 
Pl. XII. Fig. 4. 
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