116 HOOPOE. 



15— CRESTED PROMEROPS. 



Upupa paradisea, Ind. Orn. i. 278. Lin. i. 184. Gm. Lin. i. 467. Bor. Nat. ii. 152. 



Klein, 110. 15. 

 Promerops Indicus cristatus, Bris. ii. 464. Id. Svo. i. 287. 

 Avis paradisiaca cristata orient, alis rarissima, Sebai. t. 30. f. 5. 

 Le Promei'u pe, Biif.v'i. 4C5. Ois. dor. (Prom.) i. p. 21. 

 Le Moucherolle, Tern. Man. Anal. p. Ixvii. 

 Paradise Promerops, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 147. 

 Crested Promerops, Gen. Syn. ii. 691. 



SIZE of a Starling ; length nineteen inches, including the tail, 

 which is alone fourteen inches and a half. Bill thirteen lines long, 

 lead-colour; head, throat, and neck, very fine black ; the feathers of 

 the crown two inches in length, forming an elegant crest; back, 

 rump, scapulars, wing, and tail coverts, quills, and tail, pale chestnut; 

 breast, belly, sides, thighs, and under-tail coverts, pale ash-colour ; 

 the two middle feathers exceed the rest in length very much ; being 

 fourteen inches long, whereas the others are not more than three 

 inches ; legs lead-colour. 



Inhabits the Indies, and said to be very scarce. If we except 

 Seba, no other author has given a figure of this bird, nor are we 

 certain of its existence in any Museum of the present day, neither 

 does Seba mention from what collection he has taken his figure; 

 we may therefore suppose it to have made part of his own superb 

 Museum. 



