282 BRITISH BIRDS. 



1898, " the twentieth for the county " (J. H. Gurney, Zool., 



1899, p. 120) ; one brought to Norwich, September 2nd, 

 1901 {id., i.e., 1902, p. 92) ; one seen near Thetford, September 

 9th, 1902 {id., t.c, 1903, p. 133) ; a female shot at Gayton, 

 near Lynn, October 22nd, 1903 {id., t.c, 1904, p. 214). 



Lincolnshire. — One seen near Louth. August 29th and 

 September 26th, 1901 (G. H. C. Haigh, t.c, 1902, p. 127). 



Yorkshire. — Several unrecorded examples are mentioned 

 as having occurred before 1899, and one on September 21st, 

 1901, from Acklam-in-Cleveland {B. Yorks., Vol. T, p. 281). 



Scotland. — One shot at Ballinluig (Tay) on October 13th, 

 1903 {Arm. S.N.H., 1904, p. 210) ; one seen May 28th, 1906, 

 at Balnacoil, in Sutherland (F. Gunnis, t.c, 1906, p. 185) ; 

 one shot at Tyninghame, Prestonkirk, September, 1897 

 {Field, 1901, p. 601) ; a female shot near Aberdour, Aberdeen, 

 September 9th, 1905 (G. Sim, ZooL, 1905, p. 466). 



BEE-EATER Merops apiaster L. S. page 283. 



Cornwall. — An immature bird was obtained at Marazion, 

 on October 3rd, 1906 (J. Clark, Zool, 1907, p. 283). 



SciLLY. — Two or three appeared at Holy Vale, St. Mary's, 

 in October, 1901, and an immature male was shot (J. Clark 

 and F. R. Rodd, t.c, 1906, p. 297). An immature male was 

 shot by Captain A. Dorrien Smith, at Tresco, in September, 

 1906 (W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, t.c, 1906, p. 470). 



Sussex. — An adult male was shot at DaUington, May 31st, 

 1905. (N.F.T.) 



Yorkshire. — Three were seen at Bentham and one shot 

 in September, 1905. They were feeding on honey-bees (H. 

 W. Robinson, Zool., 1905, p. 389). 



Shetland. — One was found dead at Symbister, in June, 

 1899 {Ann. S.N.H., 1900, p. 48). 



Channel Islands. — Jersey. — Two specimens have been 

 obtained, the last during the summer of 1892 (H. Mackay, 

 Zool., 1904. p. 342). 



HOOPOE Upupa epops L. S. page 285. 



The Hoopoe is of annual occurrence in the spring in the 

 south of the British Isles, so that only those records wliich 

 seem of most importance are given below. 



Cornwall. — A pair nested between two stones in an old 

 hedge-bank near St. Columb in the spring of 1901. Four 

 young were reared from a clutch of five eggs. " When the 

 young birds emerged from the egg the beaks were not at aU 

 conspicuous, though their gape was enormous. The crest- 

 quills were decidedly in evidence . . . .on the fourth day " 

 (J. Clark, ZooL, 1907, p. 284). 



