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Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

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^ 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 unnecessary.
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UJ o oo X Tin: Hoopoe. 4S Fawilv—IIPIIIID.-)-.. 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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