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and seemed disposed to breed in his outlet, but were frighted 

 by boys, who would never let them rest ; and, ou Tunstall's 

 authority, Latham (Gen. Syn. B. Suppl. pp. 122, 123). men- 

 tions a pair that a few years before (1787) had begun a nest 

 in Hampshire, which being disturbed they forsook ; * as well 

 as a fully-fledged young bird killed in Kent and sent him. 

 May 10th, 1786. Blyth noticed (Field Nat. ii. p. 53) a pair 

 that haunted a garden at Tooting in the summer of 1832, 

 until they were shot ; and Jesse (Gleanings, iii. p. 148), in 

 1835, said that some years before a pair built their nest and 

 hatched their young in a tree at Parkend, near Chichester. 

 The like was reported to Mr. A. C. Smith (Wilts. Mag. ix. 

 p. 54) as having happened at Rodburn-Cheney, in Wiltshire, 

 and the following year the birds built again, but the eggs 

 were destroyed. Mr. J. P. Bartlett recorded (Zool. p. 564) 

 a supposed case of the Hoopoe's breeding near Dorking in 

 1841; and Mr. Saunders communicated a note to Messrs. 

 Sharpe and Dresser to the effect that, in 1847, a pair nested 

 in the hole of a yew at Leatherhead, where, being protected 

 by the owner, they successfully brought up their young, to the 

 number (it was believed) of five, and rewarded him by dis- 

 playing themselves with their progeny on his lawn.f There 

 seems to be no evidence of the Hoopoe being otherwise than 

 a straggler in the rest of the United Kingdom, but it occurs 

 not unfrequently in Scotland from West Galloway to Suther- 

 land — seven or eight times in Aberdeenshire alone, according 

 to Mr. Gray, at least thrice in Shetland and once in North 

 Uist,]: It appears from time to time in all quarters of Ireland, 

 Thompson, in 1849, having given a list of more than two 

 scores of instances, and there is little doubt that it has since 



* This information, given in Tunstall's own words by Fox (Syn. Newc. Mus. 

 p. 61), possibly refers to the Selborne incident i-ecorded by White. 



+ Some other instances in which this bird is supposed to have bred in Eng- 

 land are recorded by Mr. More (Ibis, 1865, p. 1-37) as reported to him. In 

 Johnes's "Birds of Dartmoor," published by Mrs, Bray (Description of the Part 

 of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy, ed. 1, i. p. 350 ; ed. 2, 

 i. p. 305) a nest with four young, taken many years ago at Morwell, near Tavi- 

 stock, is mentioned. 



+ Beside the Scottish counties named already, it seems to have visited Ber- 

 wick, Ayr, Renfrew, Fife, Perth, and Banff. 



