The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . cietys publications and another edition appeared at 0.\ford in1855. See also Coughs General Index to Parker Soc. Publ.; StrypesWorks (General Index); Foxes Acls and Moniimenls, ed. Townsend;Acts of the Privy Council; Col. Stale Papers, Domestic Series;Nicholss Lit. Remains of Edward VI.; Burnet, Collier, Dixon,Froude and Gairdners histories; Pollards Cranmer; Diet. (A. F. P.) HOOPOE (Fr. Huppc, Lat. Upupa, Gr. otoi^—all namesbestowed apparently from its cry), a bird long celebrated inli
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . cietys publications and another edition appeared at 0.\ford in1855. See also Coughs General Index to Parker Soc. Publ.; StrypesWorks (General Index); Foxes Acls and Moniimenls, ed. Townsend;Acts of the Privy Council; Col. Stale Papers, Domestic Series;Nicholss Lit. Remains of Edward VI.; Burnet, Collier, Dixon,Froude and Gairdners histories; Pollards Cranmer; Diet. (A. F. P.) HOOPOE (Fr. Huppc, Lat. Upupa, Gr. otoi^—all namesbestowed apparently from its cry), a bird long celebrated inliterature, and conspicuous by its variegated plumage and itslarge erectile crest, the Upiipa cpops of naturalists, which isthe type of the very peculiar family Upiipidae, placed by Huxleyin his group Coccygomorphae, but considered by Dr Murie {Ibis,1873, p. 20S) to deserve separate rank as Epopomorphae. Thisspecies has an exceedingly wide range in the Old World, beinga regular summer-visitant to the whole of Europe, in some partsof which it is abundant, as well as to Siberia, mostly retiring. Hoopoe. southwards in autumn to winter in equatorial Africa and India,though it would seem to be resident throughout the year innorth-eastern Africa and in China. Its power of wing ordinarilyseems to be feeble; but it is capable of very extended flight, asis testified by its wandering habits (for it occasionally makesits appearance in places very far removed from its usual haunts),and also by the fact tha^ when pursued by a falcon it v/ill rapidlymount to an extreme height and frequently effect its escape fromthe enemy. About the size of a thrush, with a long, pointedand slightly arched bill, its head and neck are of a golden-buff—the former adorned by the crest already mentioned, which beginsto rise from the forehead and consists of broad feathers, graduallyincreasing in length, tipped with black and having a subterminalbar of yellowish-white. The upper part of the back is of a vinous
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