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also numbering six, in early June, and the last, consisting of 

 five eggs, in the following July. In the severe winter of 

 1878-79 a Kingfisher was found frozen to death at Wilstrop, 

 on the iron frame of a sluice, its feet fixed and body leaning 

 forward in the act of taking flight. 



The folk-lore connected with this species is not very 

 voluminous, the only item known to me being that the dales- 

 folk in some remote districts of Cleveland consider it to be 

 imlucky to see a flight of three Kingfishers ; a sight, however, 

 which is probably rarely witnessed. 



The only vernacular name, other than its ordinary appella- 

 tion, is Fisher, a term used in the West Riding. 



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Coracias garrulus (L.). 



Casual visitant, of uncommon occurrence in summer. 



The first mention of this species occurs in R. Leyland's 

 list of 1828, whose remarks are also included in AUis's Report, 

 as fellows : — 



Coracias garrulns. — Roller — R. Leyland informs me that a specimen 

 shot in Fixby Park near Huddersiield, in 1824, is still in the possession 

 of a gentleman at Littleborough ; Hugh Reid reports one killed at 

 Hatfield, which went into the possession of Mr. Joseph Cook of Rother- 

 ham. F. O. Morris mentions the Hatfield specimen, and says that one 

 was shot near Halifax about the same time, and one near Scarborough 

 in 1832, now in the Museum there. 



The wanderings of this brightly plumaged bird before 

 reaching this country are many and devious. It migrates 

 northward in spring, and, crossing the Mediterranean Sea, 

 occasionally finds its way to the British Isles. It has been 

 recorded in Yorkshire on eighteen different occasions, the 

 particulars being as follows : — 



The first is that mentioned by Leyland, and quoted above. 



At Seamer, near Scarborough, one, killed in 1832, was 



