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COCCOTHRAUSTES CHLORis. Greenfinch. 



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Captain Walker, of the S.S. ' Lord Cardigan/ has 

 told me that often, when crossing the North Sea in 

 the autumn, numbers of small birds of various sorts 

 have come on board his vessel. He has especially 

 known large flocks of Greenfinches settle on the ship, 

 and even enter the cabins. Sometimes he has 

 placed saucers on the deck containing crumbs of 

 bread for his little visitors, but could never tempt 

 them to eat any thing. They generally took their 

 departure after a few hours' rest. 



GALBULA RUFICAUDA. Jacamar. 



I have seen in the collection of Canon Tristram, at 

 Greatham, a Lincolnshire example of this brilliant 

 bird, a native of South and Central America. It 

 must ever remain an ornithological puzzle how it 

 could have reached this country. It is a female in 

 perfect plumage, and was shot either in June or July 

 1849 by S. Fox, gamekeeper to the late Sir Hickman 

 Bacon, Bart., on a manor adjoining Laughton, near 

 Gainsborough, flying at the time over a small brook 

 in a wood, apparently in pursuit of butterflies. It 

 borcTno marks of having escaped from captivity ; nor 

 is it likely, from its known habits, that it could have 

 been kept in confinement. 



The particulars of this capture and Mr. Tristram's 

 remarks are given in the ' Zoologist,' p. 3906. 



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