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cEgyptins, Forsk., the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, which is 

 more Hkely to occur, because it is a much more western 

 species. Seaton-Snook is not the place where I should 

 have expected to meet with a Bee-eater, though I remember 

 being shown a bird of equal brilliancy which was found 

 there, a Jacamar, already skinned too. The skin of a 

 Patagonian Penguin was picked up on the " slake " at Jarrow 

 (Fox's Neuc. Mus., 233). It was supposed to have been 

 thrown overboard by a whaler, but I have read of one 

 coming in a consignment of guano, and being picked up in a 

 mummified state on the land. 



Certainly the Cedarbird has no claim to be ad- 

 mitted in a list of Durham birds, if indeed it be 

 right to receive it into a British list. I asked 

 Mr. Heaviside, one of the birdstufifers at Stock- 

 ton, about the examples recorded at p. 3506 

 of the Zoologist, and he remembered nothing 

 about them. 



The other supposed occurrences are one — hitherto 

 unrecorded — in the late Mr. Newcome's collec- 

 tion, said to have been shot at Highgate, teste 

 Mr. Holford. 



A second in the possession of Mr. Batson of Horse- 

 heath, Lincolnshire, Zool., 3277, 3506. 



A third, shot in Fifeshire in 1841, in the late 

 Sir William Feilden's collection. Gray, B. of 

 West Scotland, p. 109. 



Crested Titmouse. 



This is again a doubtful bird, but I give the published 

 evidence for what it may be worth. First, three or four 

 were seen near Witton Gilbert, teste Mr. P. Farrow (Ornsby, 

 p. 197 ; Hancock, op. cit, p. 'j6, note). Second, a male 



