G enus XXVIÏ. HOOPOE.
N* i. Common Hoopoe,
a. Madagafcar H.
j . Crefted Promerops.
4. Mexican Pr.
5. Cape Pr.
N° 6. New Guinea brown Pr.
7. Grand Pr.
8. Orange Pr.
Var. A. Yellow Pr.
TH E characters of this genus are,
The bill long, flender, and bending.
Noftrils final], placed near the bafe.
Tongue lhort*, fagittal.
Toes placed three before, and one behind; the middle one
connected at the bafe to the outmoft.
O f the birds in this chapter, only the firft fpecies is found in
Europe; and in faCt, only this and the fecond fpecies properly belong
to the Hoopoe genus ; yet, as the Promeropes o f other authors
feem to differ chiefly in being defticute of a creft, they may properly
have a place here, according to the example of Linnxus.
The manners of the firft are pretty well known) but, as to the
others, we know very little of them, more than the bare de-
icriptions.
* I fear -this chara&er will not carry Us through the whole of the fpecies ; for
an N° 5. it is as long as the bill, and in N® 7. not much lhorcer. I have not
feen the tongues of any other.
Upupa
ETpupa epops, fi&r, g | | i. p. 183, N° f .— Scy. qnn. i. p, 53.
Muller, p. 13. 103.
£a Hupe, ou Pupnt, Brif. orn. ii. p. 45;. N° 1. pi. 43. f. 1 .— Buf. cif.
vi. p. 439.— PI. enl. 52.
tJpupa, Paii Syn. p. 48. A.6.-^Kratnerelen. p. 337.
Bubbola, Qlin. uccel. p. 36. —r~Wied-hopf, Frifch. t. 43,
Ter-chaous, pr Meffenger-bird, Pococke’s Tra*v. i. p, 209*
Hoop, or Hoopoe, Will. orn. p. 145„— Albin. ii. pi. 42, 43.— i'/w. vii.-
pi. 345.—Br. Zool. N® 90.
Pr. Muf. Lev. Muf.
J CANNOT give a better defcription of this Angular and beautiful
bird, than in copying that pf the Britijh Zoology. “ It
weighs three ounces: its length is twelve inches: its breadth
nineteen. The bill is black, two inches and a half long, flender,
and incurvated : the tongue triangular, fin all, and placed low in
the mouth : the irides are hazel: the ereft confifts o f a double
row of feathers *, the higheft about two inches Iongj the tips-
are black} their lower part of a pale orange-colour: the neck is-
of a pale reddilh brown: the breaft and belly white; but in.
young birds marked with narrow dufky lines, pointing down : the
leffer coverts of the wings are of a light brown : the back, fcapu-
lars, and wings, croffed with broad bars of white and black : the
rump is white: the tail confifts of pnly ten feathers,, white marked^
with black, in form of a crefcent, the horns pointing .towards the
end of the feathers : the legs are fhort, and black: the exterior
Coe is clofely united at the bottom to the middle toe,”
This bird inhabits not only Europe, but AJia, and Africa like-
* Willughly fays, they are twenty-four, or twenty-fix, in number. Orn.
E- Miwife.
COMMON'
HOOPOE-
©BS CRI'PTION,
Blacbs® an»
M anners.