HOOPOE. 99 



1.— COMMON HOOPOE. 



Upupa Epops, Ind.Orn.i. 277. Lin.i. 183. Faun. Suec. No. 105. Gm. Lin. i. 4CC. 



Scop.Ann.x. No. 62. Rati 48. A. 6. Will. 100. t. 24. £rw. ii. 445. t. 43. 1. 



itf. 8vo. i. 2S5. Gesner Av. pi. p. 703. Prwcn t. 43. Brw«. No. 43. Muller~Ho. 



103. A>a?n. 337. Georgi p. 165. Sep/). Fog-, t. p. 129. Bor. Nat. ii. 152. t. 22. 



Faun. Arag. p. 74. Sch. el. t. 70. Klein 110. 14. Id. Stem. 24. t. 25. f. 2. a. b. 



f. 3. a.b. Id. Ov. p. 31. t. 11. Hist. Prov. i. 489. Voy. en Barb. i. 274. Bechst. 



Deutsch. ii. 544. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 236. Id. Ed. ii. 414. JW. Anal. p. lxxxv. 

 La Huppe, Buf. vi. 439. pi. 21. PL enl. 52. Ow. £>or. i. (Promer.) p. 7. plate 1. 



Johnst. Av. pi. 42. f. 14. 

 La Bubbola, O/in. Uc. t. p. 36. C<?«. Uc. Sard. 101. 

 Wiedhopf, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 27. Wirs. Vog. 1. 1 5. Naturf. ix. s. 58. 7d. xxii. 



120. Jrf.xxv. 17. SchmidVog. p. 56. t. 43. 

 Hoopoe, Gen. Syn.'n. 6S7. Id. Siy>. 122. Br. Zool. i. No. 90. pi. 39. Id.fol. 83. t. L. 



Id. 1812. i. p.342. pi. 43. Arct. Zool. ii. 283. A. Will. Engl. 145. Pocock's Trav. 



ii. 209. ,4/0. ii. p. 42. 43. £Jiu. pl.345. Gent. Mag. xlvii. pi. p. 313. Bewick. 



i. pi. p. 123. Lewin Birds; t. 54. Wa/c. Birds, pi. 53. Donov. Birds, i. pi. 9. 



Pufr. Z)or*. p. 7. .Bor/as. Corn. p. 246. pi. 24. f. 14. Graves Br. Orn. ii. pi. 12. 



Orn.Dict. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 135. pi. 17. Nat. Misc. pi. 309. 



THE length of this beautiful species is twelve inches ; breadth 

 nineteen, and weight three ounces. The bill is black, two inches 

 and a half long, slender, and incurvated ; tongue triangular, small, 

 placed low in the mouth ; irides hazel ; the crest consists of a double 

 row of feathers *, the longest two inches or more ; the tips black ; 

 the lower parts of a pale orange colour ; the neck pale reddish brown ; 

 breast and belly white; but in young birds marked with narrow 

 dusky lines, pointing downwards ; lesser wing coverts light brown ; 

 back, scapulars, and wings, crossed with broad bars of whit and 

 black; the outer quill feather the shortest; rump white; the tail 

 consists of ten feathers, even at the end, the colour black, marked 



* Twenty-four or 26 in number. — Willughby. I counted only 22 in one bird, but i 

 btlieve the number is not always the same. 



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