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Speaking of the authenticity of the occurrence Mr. 
Seebohm says “‘there seems no room for doubt.” 
My eggs were taken in Spain, 28 March, 1884. They 
are like weakly marked eggs of Europzeus, 
THE BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER. 
(MeErRops PHILIPPINUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by Newton. 
Rejected by Seebohm. 
Professor Newton merely quotes the recorded occurrence 
in a note to the ‘ Bee-eater’ (Apiaster) and says it is the 
sole European occurrence. 
Mr. Seebohm says its district, the Malay Archipel- 
ago, is so distant that the occurrence was probably either 
of a bird which had escaped from an aviary, or the skin 
may have been changed at the Stuffers. 
Is the Bee-eater a bird kept in aviaries ? 
The authority for the occurrence was Mr. Hancock, 
who says, in his ‘Birds of Northumberland,’ that it was 
shot near the Snook, Seaton Carew, in August, 1862. 
Two eggs in my possession were taken at Barmak, 
India, 22 April, 1880, they are like those of ‘ Apiaster ’ 
but considerably smaller. 
The remark of Professor Newton upon the ‘ Abys- 
sinian Roller’ will apply here. 
