HOOPOE. 103 



This, according to the last named author, is met with at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, but in most plenty at Malemba, in the kingdom of 

 Congo, in Africa. Kolben talks of several sorts of Hoopoes at the 

 Cape, some grey, some ash-coloured, others green, but without any 

 description. And Gerini mentions seeing one at Florence, and on 

 the Alps, which had the crest bordered with sky blue. 



3 —MADAGASCAR HOOPOE. 



Upupa Capensis, Ind. Orn. i. 277. Gm. Lin.\. 466. 



Huppe du Cap de B. Esperance, Buf. vi. 463; PI. enl. 697. 



La Huppe grise, Ois. Dor. (Prom.) p. 12. pi. 3. 



Madagascar Hoopoe, Gen. Syn. ii. 690. Shaw's Zool. viii. 140. 



LENGTH sixteen inches ; breadth eighteen ; weight four ounces. 

 Bill twenty lines, bent, much pointed, and yellowish ; the upper 

 mandible notched near the tip ; tongue divided at the end into several 

 threads ; palate full of tuberosities; the crest smaller, and tends to a 

 point behind, as in the Madagascar Cuckoo; the crest, throat, and 

 under parts of the body, plain white ; the upper parts from the crest 

 to the end of the tail are brown in different shades ; on the wings is a 

 white spot ; the tail consists of twelve feathers, the two middle ones 

 shorter than the others ; legs and claws yellowish. 



Inhabits Madagascar, also the Isle of Bourbon, and the Cape 

 of Good Hope; it frequents the thick woods, feeds on seeds and 

 berries, and in July and August is very fat. In the Ois. Dor. the 

 bird is only nine inches and three quarters in length, 



