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and seemed disposed to breed in his outlet, but were frighted 

 by boys, who would never let them rest ; and, on Tunstall's 

 authority, Latham (Gen. Syn. B. Suppl. pp. 122, 123) men- 

 tions a pair that a few years before (1787) had begun a nest 

 in Hampshire, which being disturbed they forsook ; * as well 

 as a fully-fledged young bird killed in Kent and sent him, 

 May 10th, 1786. Blyth noticed (Field Nat. ii. p. 53) a pair 

 that haunted a garden at Tooting in the summer of 1832, 

 until they were shot; and Jesse (Gleanings, iii. p. 148), in 

 1835, said that some years before a pair built their nest and 

 hatched their young in a tree at Parkend, near Chichester. 

 The like was reported to Mr. A. C. Smith (Wilts. Mag. ix. 

 p. 54) as having happened at Rodburn- Cheney, in Wiltshire, 

 and the following year the birds built again, but the eggs 

 were destroyed. Mr. J. P. Bartlett recorded (Zool. p. 564) 

 a supposed case of the Hoopoe's breeding near Dorking in 

 1841; and Mr. Saunders communicated a note to Messrs. 

 Sharpe and Dresser to the effect that, in 1847, a pair nested 

 in the hole of a yew at Leatherhead, where, being protected 

 by the owner, they successfully brought up their young, to the 

 number (it was believed) of five, and rewarded him by dis- 

 playing themselves with their progeny on his lawn.t There 

 seems to be no evidence of the Hoopoe being otherwise than 

 a- straggler in the rest of the United Kingdom, but it occurs 

 not unfrequently in Scotland from West Galloway to Suther- 

 land — seven or eight times in Aberdeenshire alone, according 

 to Mr. Gray, at least thrice in Shetland and once in North 

 Uist.+ It appears from time to time in all quarters of Ireland, 

 Thompson, in 1849, having given a list of more than two 

 scores of instances, and there is little doubt that it has since 



* This information, given in Tunstall's own words by Fox (Syn. Newc. Mus. 

 p. 61), possibly refers to the Sclborne incident recorded by White. 



+ Some other instances in which this bird is supposed to have bred in Eng- 

 land are recorded by Mr. More (Ibis, 1865, p. 137) as reported to him. In 

 Johnes's "Birds of Dartmoor," published by Mrs. Bray (Description of the Part 

 of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy, ed. 1, i. p. 350 ; ed. 2, 

 i. p. 305) a nest with four young, taken many years ago at Monvell, near Tavi- 

 stock, is mentioned. 



:,'. Beside the Scottish counties named already, it seems to have visited Ber- 

 wick, Ayr, Renfrew, Fife, Perth, and Banff, 



