upupan.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 287 The Houpe or Vpupa..is a nasty and filthy bird..but a goodly faire crest or comb it hath.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 177 The Upupa, the Hoopoe, or Hooping-bird.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 254/2 A Upupa..is in our country speech called a Whoophoo, or Whopee, or Hoopoe, and Howpe.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 394 Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa.

1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard i. 48 Then the first ray of sun in days strikes the harlequin feathers of a hoopoe, and I smile. Like many of the foothill birds, Upupa is also a bird of Africa, but I saw one much more recently—last month, in fact—in the mountains of Umbria, in Italy.]