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119. CORACIAS GARRULA, Linnaeus. Roller. 



A Lincolnshire specimen of this rare bird (as Mr. 

 Edward Clayton the Louth bird-stuffer informs me) 

 was captured in the parish of Keddington near Louth 

 in the autumn of 1863, and subsequently came into 

 the possession of Mr. Allis, of York, who has recorded 

 the fact in the ' Zoologist' for 1865, p. 9418. Another 

 was shot by a Mr. Marshall at Elsthorpe Grange, 

 near Bourne, early in May 1871. 



120. MEROPS APIASTER, Linnaeus. Bee-eater. 

 Mr. Boulton had a beautiful specimen of this 

 brilliant and rare visitant, which was shot some years 

 since in Lincolnshire. 



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121. ALCEDO ISPIDA, Linnaeus. Kingfisher. 



This, the most brilliantly plumaged of any of our 

 resident birds, is sparingly and rather locally dis- 

 tributed throughout North Lincolnshire and Holder- 

 ness, where it breeds. Is rarely seen in our marshes 

 during the summer, but is often extremely plentiful 

 in the autumn. There are each year in the summer 

 very considerable arrivals of these beautiful wanderers 

 in the east-coast marshes, probably continental birds. 

 These arrive about the end of July or early in 



