Then there was that curiosity, the parti-coloured hoopoe, so tame that it came fearlessly at all hours of the day close up to the castle, sang its "Hu-tu-tu," and then with his crooked sabre of a bill cut the worms out of the grass.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
A hoopoe took deck, or rather rigging, passage for a while, and evoked the greatest interest.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
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 Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne