98 Notice of the Arrival of Twenty-six of the Summer Birds 



Formerly in the cabinet of Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. 

 &c. ; but now we believe in the Andersonian Institution, 

 Glasgow. 



7. A specimen, in Staffordshire: sex, time when, or the lo- 

 cality where killed, not mentioned. — Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. 

 p. 273. 



In the Manchester Museum. 



8. A specimen, at Gipping Hall, Suffolk, in the summer of 

 1821 ?— Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 280. 



9. A specimen, near Thrunton Wood, Northumberland, some 

 years before 1829. — Transactions of the Nat. Hist. Society 

 of Northumberland, vol. i. part iii. p. 247. 



In the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 



10. A male, in Thrunton Wood, Northumberland, 31st of 

 August 1829. — Nat. Hist. Society of Northumberland, vol.i. 

 part iii. p. 247. 



In the cabinet of the Hon. H. T. Liddell, Ravensworth 

 Castle, Durham. 



11. A male, in Tendring Hall Park, Suffolk, October 12th, 

 1831. — Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 280. 



In the cabinet of J. D. Hoy, Esq. Stoke Nayland, Suf- 

 folk. 



12. A specimen, at Spetchly, Worcestershire, in the autumn 



of 1831.— Mag. Nat. Hist, vol. v. p. 379. 



Independent of the above, Latham, Pennant, Boys, Dono- 

 van, Selby, &c. mention others, but have not stated the time 

 when, or the place where, the specimens they allude to were 

 obtained ; and in all probability two or three more may be 

 noticed in local catalogues, or preserved in the cabinets of pri- 

 vate individuals. 



39. Greater Butcher Bird or Cinereous Shrike (Lanius Excu- 

 bitor.) — During the months of November and December three 

 of these birds were obtained in this vicinity. A female, killed 

 on the 24th of November, had been feeding greedily on the 

 larva of Scoiophila porphyrea (6252), and Anarta Myrtilli^ 

 (6390), several of which had been swallowed entire, and with 

 little or no injury; the stomach also contained a very fine 

 specimen of Carahus hortensis (12), two or three of Phosphuga 

 atrata (820), and the elytra of several species of Agonum*. 



119. Hoopoe (Upupa Epops). — On the 4th of September 

 two Hoopoes were observed on the high road near Lingy 

 Closeheacl, a short distance from the village of Dalston ; and 

 on the following day one of them was shot at the above-men- 

 tioned place ; the other we believe made its escape. 



* The figures attached to the names of these insects refer to the num- 

 bers in Stephens's Systematic Catalogue of British Insects. 



