Gibraltar.' Captain Brown was told by an ^officer- of the 92nd
Regiment that this bird :is met with in great numbers near
Ceuta, in Africa, opposite to Gibraltar, during the whole
year, and Dr. Heiniken included the Hoopoe in his enumerar
tion of the birds of Madeira; dirprobably inhabits the whole
of the northern part of Africa, and is- recorded! as breeding in
Egypt. I t is common in Italy from May to - September,' was
seen at Hushak by Mr.' Strickland in April, and has freje-%
reeeived lately by the Zoological .Society from Trebizond.
In thff adult male the length of the beak,:fropa«0e; point to,
the angle of the gape, is two inches and one. quarter; the dist
tal two-thirds of its length nearly black; the .base flesh colour,
or pale reddish brown ; the 'irid.es brown-; from th^ferehiad;
over the top of therhèadvto.|hepocciput,'are-two parallekrows-/
of elongated feathers," arranged witlid their: surfaces; outwards
towards the side,, forming a .erest; the i n g e s t feathers, ^which
are those- about the middle* have the J>ase*:of a riph buff
colourtowards thffend of the feather, a patch of white tipped
with velvet* black ; the feathers of. that part of the'.crest on,
the. forehead are the shortest of<the^seri_es; .and afe y^hout"
the white patch; the sidpgjof th^head and back offhe^n^ek
pale buff; across'the back, .are three half-cfrculafv"b.ands, inclining
downwards; one band of’white between two pf-black;
the rump white; the upper tail-covefts whrtdat éhe base; and
black at. the end ; thefail-feathers are'black, with a •well-
defined white patch about half way along in the middle feathers,
but. gradually nearer the end in those toward thé outside
of the tail, which givêk to this band the form of a portion
of a circle- when thé tail-feathers are spread-:. both sets - of
wing-coverts are black, with a transverse bar ;of buffy-white';
the feathers on the shoulder and carpal joint pale/brown; the
primaries je t black, with'. one broad bar of white-; the
secondaries and tertials also black, but with four or five narrow
bars of white some of the tertials have'in addition.
edges and tips of pale buff, with an oblique longitudinal
stripe of pale Buff on the ihner web of the last tertial feather;
when the wings are expanded, the. white transverse bars on the
jet black ground are very regular and very conspicuous; the
chin, throat, breast, and belly, are pale buff; under tail-
coverts white: legs and toes ,brown-; the daws black, and
(but slightly'curved.
The whole length twelve inches, and a half. From the
carpal joint-to the'-/end of the wing, five inches and five-
eighth^; the first wing-feather half the5 length of the second ;
the- sM hot rather-loriger than the eighth, and one quarter of
an infl^shorter than tfid^^enth ; ihe third and sixth fe&thers
R u a l iff lehgt^' but a liftle shorter than the fourth and fifth,
which are also equal, and the' longfest in the wing.
The plumage of the female is father paler in colour than
’ thatbP? the male, and tSff buff has much less of the rufous
ting#£ : thefwAite parts of the tertials-are without any of the
. Bhffcolour observable-in the males'.
Tff^dung birds1’ the feathers - on the breast and flanks are
«Cfossed with narrow-dusky lines.
The vignette fe a view of Fulham church; with part of
the Bishop’s'“''Walk,-taken from Putney Terrace.