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251), that " according . to the observations of Mr. 

 Turner of Sherbome, Dorsetshire, the nest has been 

 taken on three or four occasions by the schoolboys 

 from pollard willows, on the banks of the river 

 Lenthay, and that the birds were known to the boys 

 as ' Hoops.' ' 



FAM. 



KOLLEK. Coracias yarrula, L. 



Yarrell, ii. 428 ; Hart ing, p. 34 ; Dresser, v. 141 ; Seebohtn, ii. 

 p. 329; Ibis List, p. 237. 



So far as I am aware, there is only one ascertained 

 instance of the occurrence of this rare bird in Dor- 

 setshire. In 1868 one passed through Mr. Hart's 

 hands, which had been shot in the neighbourhood of 

 Dorchester. 



FAM. MEROPLD^E. 



BEE-EATER. Merops apiaster, L. 



Yarrell, ii. p. 435 j Harting, p. 34 ; Dresser, v. p. 155 ; Seelohm, 

 ii. p. 321 ; Ibis List, p. 82. 



Like the last named, the Bee-Eater is an irregular 

 summer visitant. One said to have been shot at 

 Chideock, Lyme Eegis, is preserved in the Bridport 

 Museum ; another shot at Swanage is in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. White, stone merchant, of that place. 



