Then the kindly hoopoes assembled, and flew in close mass above his head, thus forming a shade under which he proceeded on his journey in ease and comfort.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
At sundown the monarch sent for the King of the hoopoes, and desired him to name a reward for the service which he and his followers had rendered.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
And these vast migrations consist not only of hirundines but of bee-birds, hoopoes, oro pendolos or golden thrushes, etc.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert