ALCEDO ISPIDA. 



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§ 672. Five.— Eton, 1850. 

 Bought of George Hall. 



§ 073. 7^0.— Eton, 1852. 



Blown by one of my brother's pupils. 



[§ QU. Two.— Bavnhmii, Suffolk, 184C.] 



[§ C)75. Four.— Bamhiim, 2 May, 1851. " E. N." 



Out of a nest of five, taken by my brother Edward.] 



[§ G76. Two.— Milton, Berkshire, 1851. From Mr. A. C. 

 Smith's Collection.] 



[§ 677. Two.—St. Neot's, Hmits., 5 May, 1857. From Mr. 

 Rowley. 



Mr. Rowley's note is : — " Taken by myself out of a nest of seven, in a high 

 bank of the river Ouse, at St. Neot's. The hole was quite a new one in the 

 perpendicular bank over a very deep and rapid stream, only to be got at from 

 a boat. The hen bird flew out. The drainage was perfect, as the hole shelved 

 upwards about two feet : the chamber very foul and full of fish-bones."] 



[§ 678. Two.—St. Neot's, 21 May, 1858. From Mr. Rowley. 



These, Mr. Rowley wrote to me, were taken by himself out of a nest of six, 

 quite fresh, from a high bank on the Ouse. He caught the bird in a hand-net 

 as it came out of the hole, and it had a fish-scale on its beak of a size which 

 showed it had preyed on larger spoil than minnows. He let it go again.] 



[§ 679. ^^0.— St. Neot's, 10 May, 1859. From Mr. Rowley. 



Mr. Rowley's note states that he took them himself. The bird was at the 

 time in the hole, which had been occupied as a nest for three years in suc- 

 cession.] 



