256 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



flash past on these salt marshes. Curiously enough, two 

 of my notes of this bird fall within a day of each other in 

 consecutive years — November 16, 1902, and November 

 15, 1903 ; but I have also several notes of them about the 

 land-marshes at the time of the year — November and 

 December." 



Mr. E. J. Balston observed them at Capel, Orlestone, 

 and at a pond at Jenky Farm, 1904-5-6. 



Family CORACIID^. 



Genus CORACIAS, Linuceus. 



EOLLEE. 



Coracias garrula, Linnaeus. S.N., i., p. 159 (1766). 



Professor Newton, in the last edition of Yarrell's British 

 Birds, mentions four examples that have been obtained 

 in Kent, but unfortunately without data, and whether 

 the subjoined particulars refer to the four specimens 

 must remain an open question. 



The first is a specimen labelled Kent in the Exeter 

 Museum, bequeathed by the late Eev. Bower-Scott, but 

 without any further notes. 



The second, according to the Eev. J. Pemberton 

 Bartlett, 1844, " is a specimen in the collection of 

 Dr. F. Plomley, who ' informed him that it was 

 occasionally to be met with in Eomney Marsh.' He 

 also states that a good specimen was shot a year or 

 two ago at Wootton." 



The last one was obtained by Mr. W. Prentis at 

 Eainham, Kent, who states, in the Zoologist, 1889 : 

 " The recent occurrence of the Eoller, one of our rarest 



