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UPUPA EPOPS. 
COMMON HOOPOE. 
Variegated with blackish and rufous 
white; beneath, reddish-white; crest, 
pale-orange tipped with black; tail, black 
with a white bar. 
Upupa Epops, Lin. Gme. 
La Huppe, Buffon. 
Hoopoe, Pen. Lath. Bewick. 
Common Hoopoe, Montagu. 
This beautiful bird may be readily dis- 
tinguished from others that visit this 
country, by its singular crest, which it 
can erect or depress at pleasure. It 
measures twelve inches in length, and 
about nineteen inches in the alar extent. 
Both sexes agree in plumage. 
The female is said to make its nest with 
bents, grass, and other soft materials, in 
old decayed and hollow trees. Montagu 
says it lays four eggs of a "blueish-white, 
jnarked with pale brown spots;" other 
