culty ensnared, it is very easily shot. It suf- 
fers a near approach ; and, notwithstanding it 
fties in a tortuous course, it's motion is slow. 
In launching ofF, it flaps it's pinions, like the 
lapwing; and when it alights on the ground, 
walks with an even pace like a common hen. 
The Hoopoe, says Buftbn, usually leaves 
our northern climate about the end of August ; 
though one may occasionally be left, which is 
too young, or too much wounded or enfeebled, 
to undertake a distant voyage. ■ This, being 
left behind, may contrive to lodge in the same 
hole where it nestled ; and there pass the win- 
ter, in a half-torpid state, requiring little food, 
and hardly able to repair the loss of feathers 
occasioned by moulting. A single bird being 
now and then found in this condition by seme 
hunter, has given rise to the assertion, that all 
the Hoopoes winter in hollow trees, torpid, 
and diverted of plumage ; as has, BufFon re- 
marks, been said of the cuckoo, with just as 
little foundation. 
