114 HOOPOE. 



springing from beneath each wing among the others, which are 

 longer than those of the common tuft, and it is these that are men- 

 tioned above as exceeding the length of the tail, for the common 

 ones do not reach much beyond the middle of it. 



14— CAPE PROMEROPS. 



Upupa Promerops, Lin. i. 188. Gm. Lin.]. 467. Mill. III. t. vi. A. 



Merops Cafer, Lin. i. 183. Gm. Lin.'i. 462. Spaloivsck. Vog. iii. t.19. Mils. Leskean. i. 



No. 64. t. 1. No. 1. 

 Merops fuscus, ani regione flava, N. G. Petr.xi. 429. t. 14. f. 1. 

 Promerops, Bris. ii. 461. t. 43. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 286. Buf. vi. 469. Pl.enl.637. 



Ois.dor.i. (Promer.) p. 13. pi. 4. Shaw's Zool. viii. 143. 

 Souimanga, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxiv. 

 Le Guepier gris d'Ethiopie, Buf. vi. 492. 



Le grand Suerier, ou le Sucrier du Protea, Levail. Afr.v'u 139. pi. 287. 288. 

 Cape Promerops, Gen. Syn. ii. 692. 



LENGTH seventeen inches, but the body is no larger than that 

 of a Lark. The bill not very stout, one inch and five lines long, 

 and black; irides brownish chestnut; the tongue longer than the 

 bill, and ciliated at the end; general colour of the plumage on the 

 upper parts brown ; rump and upper tail coverts olive green ; throat 

 white, with a longitudinal band of brown on each side ; the fore part 

 of the neck, and breast tinged with rufous; belly white; quills and 

 tail brown ; the former, from the second to the fourth or fifth, with 

 the shafts scarcely webbed for about half the length, then the web 

 grows quite broad, and finishes in a point ; sides pale rufous, mixed 

 with white; the tail consists of twelve feathers ; the six middle ones 

 twelve inches and a quarter in length, the others much shorter, the 

 outer one being two, the next three, and the third four inches ; vent 

 vellow; legs black. 



