A fawn-coloured bird with black and white wings and tail The Indian Hoopoe (123).
Not a year passes but the hoopoe makes its appearance in some part or other of the British Islands, most often in spring, and if unmolested would doubtless stop to breed in them, and a few instances are known in which it has done so.
Pleasing as is the appearance of the hoopoe as it fearlessly parades its showy plumage, some of its habits are much the reverse.
The hoopoe comes in the summer and is, as ever, an attractive and gay neighbour, with his body of bright chestnut, and wings and crest of barred black and white.
Two inhabitants of Huckley wrote to contradict a small, quite solid paragraph in The Bun that a hoopoe had been seen at Huckley and had, 'of course, been shot by the local sportsmen.
The hoopoe appeared and said: "O lord, king of the world, incline thine ear and hearken to my words.
On one occasion the hoopoe (39) was missed from among the birds.
Peisthetairus, an Athenian citizen, dissatisfied with the state of things in his own country, visits the Hoopoe with the intention of securing his assistance in founding a new state, the dominion of the birds.
The Hoopoe here interposes, and claims their attention for the project which Peisthetairus has to unfold.
The hoopoe is again with us; in fact I do not think he really left the ship, but simply sought a secluded perch, secure from prying observation.
A hoopoe took deck, or rather rigging, passage for a while, and evoked the greatest interest.
Hoopoe was considered as prodigiously skilful in defeating the machinations of witches, wizards, and hobgoblins.
And the hoopoe said, "I have considered well, and we desire to have golden crowns upon our heads.
There is a bird which is common in Egypt called the hoopoe (Abou hood-hood), of whose king the following legend is related.
Now there was a certain fowler who set traps for birds; and he put a piece of a broken mirror into his trap, and a hoopoe that went in to admire itself was caught.
Not a hoopoe could show its head but it was slain or taken captive, and the days of the hoopoes were numbered.
Tereus is changed into a crested bird, either a hoopoe or a lapwing.
In Bavaria the hoopoe is said to play the part of attendant to the cuckoo.
The Hoopoe is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
The crest is the feature that distinguishes the hoopoefrom all other birds.
Perhaps it is even more like the uk-uk-uk of the hoopoerepeated very loudly.
The Indian hoopoe (Upupa indica) occurs on the lower ranges, but does not appear to ascend the hills as far as Kodikanal.
The flight of the hoopoe is undulating or jerky, like that of a butterfly.
Normally it remains closed, but when the bird is startled, and at the moment when the hoopoe alights on the ground, the crest opens to form a magnificent corona.
Thus the Cock and the Hoopoe became Solomon's closest companions; but of the two the Hoopoe was his favorite.
Soon he espied the Hoopoeflying swiftly from the south.
Not a Hoopoe could show his unlucky head without being slain or taken captive, and the days of the Hoopoes were numbered.
He robbed the Redbreast of his ruddy vest, the Hoopoe of his crown, and he secured a swallow-tail which he had long coveted.
Soar aloft," commanded Solomon sternly, "and find the Hoopoe that I may punish him.
The Hoopoe said, "He who has no pity for others will find none for himself.
The Hoopoe is an Eastern bird and we do not see him in America.
The Eagle swooped down and would have seized the culprit roughly in his strong talons, but the Hoopoe begged him for Solomon's sake to be gentle.
The Hoopoedid as he was bid, darting off towards the south like an arrow.
And it was all the work of that little Hoopoe with a yellow crown, whom after that we may be sure Solomon loved better than ever.
But the peculiar thing about a Hoopoe is his crown of tawny feathers, a tall crown for so small a bird.
The Hoopoe is the only bird that fouls its nest, and brings up its young in dirt and filth.
In Sweden the appearance of the hoopoeis looked on as an omen of war.
The legend of the hoopoe is thus told by Arrian: "To the king of the Indians was born a son.
The hoopoe drove his cattle on to high barren hills, where the wind plays with the sand, and his cows became thin, and got no strength.
The Bittern and the Hoopoe "Where do you like best to feed your flocks?
Whilst he was now in great despair, there came a hoopoe and sat on another tree and began to cry "Hoop, Hoop.
The cuckoo, who was a good natured and obliging fellow, trusted the hoopoe and lent her the tuft.
When the turn of the hoopoe came, God said to her, "Thy food shall be millet seed.
He had at first given to the hoopoe sweet-smelling bushes and flowering trees to build her nest in.
The hoopoe grew very elated, and thought she had better keep it.
The legend of the Cuckoo, the hoopoe referred to by Grimm, can be read here under No.
But the hoopoe was nowhere to be found; she never showed herself.
There are some beliefs attached to the cry of the hoopoe forming part of that great section of prognostications by the cry of the birds.
And out of gratitude the Armenians call the hoopoeto this very day by the name of cuckoo, for he saved their ancestor by his cry "up, up.
Needless to point out, that in these two tales we have parallels to the famous legend of the hoopoe in the Solomonic cycle.
Like the wagtail, which originally had no tail, the hoopoe had originally no tuft on its head.
But after a time the hoopoe grew ambitious, and told the cuckoo that if he wanted to have peace in the house, he must go to God and ask that the hoopoe should become the head woman of the village.
So God in his goodness gave her barley grains for food, but the hoopoe cannot easily be satisfied.
These two birds seem to be found very often together, and the people believe them to be a pair, the cuckoo being the male and the hoopoe the female bird.
The people like the cuckoo, whilst the hoopoe is detested by everybody.
They were so terrified by the discourse of the hoopoe that a great number died on the spot where they were assembled.
The hoopoe utters its cry in a very curious manner.
The repulsiveness of the menu of the Hoopoeis enough to make one put one's pen through its name and never mention it.
Not a Hoopoe could show its head, but it was slain or taken captive, and the days of the Hoopoes were numbered; then their minds were filled with sorrow and dismay.
To show the truth of this story, it is only necessary to come to Egypt, when the most sceptical will be at once converted, as he will see that every single Hoopoe to this day is indeed right royally crowned as no other bird is.
Time was, it is said, when the Hoopoe had no crest, and he only got one granted by royal favour.
S: And he reviewed the birds, then said: How is it I see not the hoopoe or is it that he is of the absentees?
The Hoopoe nodded so often to the birds that its beautiful tall crest trembled as if a breeze stirred it, and having preened its prettily-barred feathers for awhile, it began to talk as fast as ever it could.
Neither the Hoopoe nor Pelican had ever before seen him, but the Cormorants knew him very well.
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