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Genus Upupa.
About five species of this very singular form are known; they inhabit Europe, Asia, Africa, and
Abou s s y sing
Madagascar.

Vol. Ti REx

60. Upupa EPOpPS
Hoopoe.
An accidental visitor to England, where it generally arrives in May; and its doom is sealed as soon as
it makes its appearance: so attractive a creature immediately arresting attention, it soon falls a victim to

the gunner ; and its mounted skin is found in the houses of the men of Kent and other southern counties.

Family LANIID.

The Shrikes, comprising many species, are very generally distributed over the surface of the globe,
particularly in the Old World. Some of the typical members inhabit Britain and North America, and are
also found in Asia and Africa, but not in the islands of the Eastern archipelago, nor in Australia. They are
all, to a certain extent, destroyers of other birds; but their chief food consists of insects, their larve, and
mollusks. In disposition they are cruel, spitting their victims on thorns or between the interstices of the

branches of trees ; for what precise purpose is not well understood.

Genus Lantus.
61. Lantus Excusrror . : : i : : : : : ' : ‘ Vol. I. Pl. XIII.
Great Grey Surixe.

An accidental visitor, which may occasionally, but does not usually, breed in this country. Its proper

home is the continent of Europe, beyond the boundary of which it becomes more and more scarce.

62. Lanrus mrvor : : : : : : . : Vol. I. Pl. XIV.
Roser-BrEAsTEp SuRIKe,
A native of Spain, Turkey

» and Greece, which has been killed two or three times in England.