. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. UPUPIDM—HOOPOE. 151. HOOPOE, Yi- reported in most years. There is little or no doubt that it would breed with us oc- casionally, were it not for the fact that its very strik ing exterior causes it to be shot im- mediately on its first appearance. It has been known to breed in Doi- set, Hants. Sussex, Surrey, and else where, but not yet in- Essex, so far as I am aware, though the pair shot by Mr. Par- sons in 1839 would, in all probability, have bred had he not killed them. Merrett says (i. 173) "in the New
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. UPUPIDM—HOOPOE. 151. HOOPOE, Yi- reported in most years. There is little or no doubt that it would breed with us oc- casionally, were it not for the fact that its very strik ing exterior causes it to be shot im- mediately on its first appearance. It has been known to breed in Doi- set, Hants. Sussex, Surrey, and else where, but not yet in- Essex, so far as I am aware, though the pair shot by Mr. Par- sons in 1839 would, in all probability, have bred had he not killed them. Merrett says (i. 173) "in the New Forrest in Hampshire, and in Essexia, sed raro ; Albin figures (3. ii. 39) a hen which he says "was shot in the garden of Mr. Starkey Mayos at Woodford, on Epping Forest, where they had observed it for some time, and used all the means to take it they could ; but it was so shy that it avoided all their traps which were laid for it, which the gentle- man observing, ordered it to be ; Buffon alludes to the occurrence of this specimen. The Rev. R. Sheppard seems to have met with it occasionally at Wrabness, as he notes its arrival there (see p. 42) on May 3rd in 1821, on May 4th in 1822 and on Apr. r4th in 1825. "Two were killed near Harwich about the middle of September [1832]" (Hoy—12. vi. 150). Edward Doubleday, in 1835, records (15) one " killed a few years since about a mile from the town," and English includes it as an "occasional visitor " in his list of Epping Birds. (43. i. 24). Mr. C. Walford (19. 47) records that one was shot at Wickham Bishops and another at Braxted about 1838. Mr, Scruby of Ongar informs me that about fifty years ago, a specimen, now in the possession of Mr. Muggleston of Grays Farm, Ongar, was shot near that place and sent in a box, apparently dead, to Mr. Leadbeater of Golden Square to be preserved. On his opening the box, however, it flew round the room and was caught with difficulty.
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