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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Order IV. COCCYGES. 
Suborder COCCYGES AN I SOD ACT YLiE. 
Family UPUPID^E. 
Genus UPUPA, Linn. 
454. UPUPA LONGIROSTRIS. 
THE BURMESE HOOPOE. 
Upupa longirostris, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 393 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 69 ; ITume, S. F. iii. 
p. 89 ; Annstro7uj, S. F. iv. p. 315 ; Inglis, S. F. v. p. 29 ; Oates, S. F. y. p. 149 ; 
Hume 8f Dav, 8. F. \l p. 202 ; Oates, S. F. vii. p. 41 ; Hume, S. F. p. 90 ; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 199. Upupa ceylonensis (Beich.), apud David et Oust. Ois. 
Chine, p. 79. Upupa indica (Bonajj.), apud Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 578. 
Description. — Male and female. Foreliead_, crown^ crest and sides of the 
head and neck cinnamon-rufous^ the crest -feathers broadly tipped with 
black ; chin^ throat, breast and upper abdomen rufous-fawn ; lower 
abdomen whitish, streaked with brown ; vent and under tail-coverts pure 
white, some of the latter occasionally tipped with black ; lesser wing- 
coverts like the head ; median coverts black, tipped with white ; greater 
coverts black, with a bar of white across them ; primary-coverts black ; 
primaries black, with a broad bar of white across both webs near the 
tips ; the first primary with or without a white spot on the inner web ; 
the earlier secondaries barred with white on the inner webs, those nearer 
the body on both webs ; tertiaries brown, tinged and edged with rufous ; 
rump and scapulars barred with black and rufous, followed on the rump 
by a white band ; upper tail-coverts black; back dull vinous; tail black, 
with a band of white across it. 
Iris reddish brown or brown ; bill dark brown, pinkish at base ; legs 
and claws dark plumbeous. 
Length 12 inches, tail 4^4, wing 5'6, tarsus "85, bill from gape 2*6. 
The female is smaller, the bill averaging 2*3 or so. 
The Burmese Hoopoe is a species which, in my opinion, can always be 
discriminated from its allies. From U. epops it differs in not having any 
white on the crest in front of the black tip. From U. nigripennis it differs 
in being larger, and in having a bill of much greater length. Mr. Hume 
says that he has never met with U. nigripennis with a longer bill than 2-1 ; 
