CUCKOO 117 
UPUPA EPOPS, Linn. HOOPOE. 
The species is vaguely recorded by Forbes. 
In his list of 1880 Mr. Kermode states, on the authority 
of the late Mr. Jeffcott, that a specimen of this bird was, 
about 1835, shot on Langness by the late Receiver-General 
Quirk, who had it stuffed. It is omitted in the extended 
form of this list, but in his latest, Mr. Kermode records: ‘In 
a house at Castletown is one shot at Langness about 1866.’ 
He adds that on 20th July 1894 Mr. Strappini saw an 
adult male in Derby Square, Douglas. This gentleman, it 
was at the time said, had in his own country been well 
acquainted with the Hoopoe. 
The Hoopoe has occurred from time to time in all parts 
of Ireland, mostly in spring and autumn, and near the coast. 
From Galloway there are one or two records, and there have 
been a few killed in both Lancashire and Cumberland. 
There are a number of records from Orkney and Shetland 
(especially the former), and it has been found, though very 
rarely, in the Outer Hebrides. It is one of those con- 
spicuous birds whose appearance in Britain exposes them to 
almost certain destruction. In England it has, naturally, 
been most frequently obtained in the counties on the south 
and east coasts. 
CUCULUS CANORUS, Linn. CUCKOO. 
Manx, *Cooag (M. 8. D., Cr., Manx Bible, Lev. ii. 16). (Cf. 
Se. Gaelic, Cot, Cuach ; Irish, Cubhag, Cuach.) One of the 
legendary ‘seven sleepers.” 
The usual time of the arrival of the Cuckoo in the Isle of 
1 In 1894, according to Mr. Ussher, Hoopoes appeared in Ireland in such a 
manner as to suggest a simultaneous movement, 
