Clafs II. hoopoe; 195 



Genus XL The HOOPOE. 



I. The H O O P O E. 



JLa Huppe. Belon av. 293. La Hupe ou Puput. BriJJon av, 



Upupa. Ge/tierav. 776. ii. 455. i£'-b. 43. 



Jldr.a'v.n. 314. Upupa epops. Lin.fxjl. 183. 



Bubbola. Olina 36. Harfogel, Pop. Faun. Suec. 

 The Hoop, or Hoopoe. Wil. fp. 105. 



orn, 145. Her-fugl. Brunnich ^'^, 



Raiifyn.a'v./[2,, Widhopf, Kram.2,17- 



The Dung JBird. Charlton ex. Upupa; arquata llercoraria ; 



98. tab.Qi'^. gailus lutolus. ^/f/« 5/f«?,«v. 



FlotCsOxf. I J J. 24. tab. 25. 



^dw. 34;. Br. Zool. 83. plate L. 

 PI enL 52. 



THIS bird may be readily diPcinguiflied from all 

 others that vifit thefe iflands by its beautiful 

 crefl, which it can ereft or deprefs at pleafure : ic 

 weighs three ounces : its length is twelve inches : its Defer, 

 breadth nineteen : the bill is black, two inches and a 

 half long, flender, and incurvated : the tongue trian- 

 gular, fmall, and placed low in the mouth : the 

 irides are hazel : the creft confifts of a double row of 

 feathers ; the higheft about two inches long : the 

 tips are black, their lower part of a pale orange 

 color : the neck is of a pale reddifh brown : the breair 

 and belly white ; but in young birds marked with 

 narrow duil<:y lines pointing down : the leller coverts 

 of the wings are of a light brown : the back, fcapu- 

 lars and wings croffed with broad bars of white and 

 black : the rump is white : the tail confifts of only 

 %%Ti feathers, white niarked with black, in form of a 



crefcenr, 



