. British birds with their nests and eggs . ^ pick up the insects or worms on which they subsist : they nest inholes in trees or walls, lining their very flimsy pretence at a structure with thefoulest and most offensive matter, and lajing greenish-blue or pale bluish eggs. As cage-birds the Hoopoes are not difficult to tame, and it is said that theyhave even been induced to breed in confinement ; they, however, do not show offtheir full beauty, but give much trouble, in a cage, one of their greatest charmsbeing their butterfly-like flight; a small aviary is most suitable for such birds,where c
. British birds with their nests and eggs . ^ pick up the insects or worms on which they subsist : they nest inholes in trees or walls, lining their very flimsy pretence at a structure with thefoulest and most offensive matter, and lajing greenish-blue or pale bluish eggs. As cage-birds the Hoopoes are not difficult to tame, and it is said that theyhave even been induced to breed in confinement ; they, however, do not show offtheir full beauty, but give much trouble, in a cage, one of their greatest charmsbeing their butterfly-like flight; a small aviary is most suitable for such birds,where constant cleansing is UJ o oo X Tin: Hoopoe. 4S Fawilv—] The Ho(jp()E. Upupa cpops, Linn. 1 IN Europe and Asia the Hoopoe occurs in summer as far to the north as about56° lat., but stragglers have been met with even to within the Arctic Circle :to the south it breeds in suitable places throughout Europe and the greater partof Asia; it winters in Madagascar, Abj-ssinia, Nubia, North Africa, and Senegal ;it is resident in the Canaries, and occurs in Madeira and the Azores. To GreatBritain and Ireland the Hoopoe is a tolerably regular summer visitor, butunhappily its striking appearance and its love for open countr\- render it a markfor every gun, so that but few of those specimens which reach our shores everleave them again, much less have a chance of breeding here. Nevertheless theHoopoe has now and again been known to nest in many of the southern countiesof England, and has been met with in nearly ever) count}, as well as in theOrkneys and Shetlands. The male bird has a conspicuous crest of
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