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month. Each pair seems to appropriate to itself a 

 certain length of stream, and it is seldom that more 

 than two birds are seen within half a mile of each 

 other. 



FAMILY CORACIID.E.— GENUS CORACIAS. 

 ROLLER. 



CORACIAS GARRULUS, Linnffius. 



An occasional, but rare, visitor in summer. Pen- 

 nant mentions one being shot at Dalton-in-Furness 

 on May 26th, 1827, and in 1836, as I am informed b}^ 

 Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, one was obtained at \Yalton-le- 

 Dale. Byerley (" Fauna of Liverpool," 1856) says that a 

 Roller was shot at Knotty Ash, but gives no date, and 

 Mr. W. Naylor writes me that one is still preserved at 

 Burnley, shot at Marsden near there, on August 25th, 

 1848. Mr. A. Wood, of Simpson Clough, has a specimen 

 killed in June 1860, on Walney Island, and in May 

 1868, one, in poor condition, was shot at Blackpool, 

 being now in the possession of Mr. R. Drummond. 



FAMILY UPUPID.E.— GENUS UPUPA. 



HOOPOE. 



IJpuPA EPOPS, Linnseus. 



A rare visitor from spring to autumn. The following 

 occurrences are noted : One shot at Longton, near 

 Preston, September 23rd, 1841 (John Skaife, Aini.Mafi. 

 Xat. Hist., November, 1841) : One seen at St. Michael's- 



