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THE ABYSSINIAN ROLLER. 
(Coractas LEUCOCEPHALUS.) 
Omitted from the B.O.U. List. 
Noticed by Newton. 
Rejected by Seebohm. 
Professor Newton records the occurrence and says 
“Tt7ts a very unhkely bird to have escaped from con- 
finement since Rollers are not often imported alive into 
this Country.” 
Mr. Seebohm says “‘ zt 2s difficult to avotd the con- 
clusion thatthe Parsley bird had escaped from confinement.” 
In Dr. Bree’s ‘ Birds of Europe’ is the account of the 
occurrence. 
It was shot near Glasgow about 1856, and taken in 
the flesh to Mr. Small (whose son was a bird stuffer in Edin- 
burgh) he presented it to the Paisley Museum; and 
stated that the female was also shot at a place about 40 
miles distant from Glasgow. 
The fact that 20 money was made out of the occurrence 
seems to point to its being authentic. 
And if the female were in company with the male it 
would suggest the impossibility of their being ‘ escapeds.’ 
THE GREAT BLACK WOODPECKER. 
(Picus MarrTIUvs.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by Newton. 
Rejected by Seebohm. 
The evidence for the occurrence of ‘ Martius’ is cumu- 
