APPENDIX. 513 



Jameson, who has since presented me with the specimen. The 

 nest was situated in a hole in a wall. 



THE HAWFINCH. 



CO COOT ERA USTES VULGARIS. 



Page 144. 



Mr George Kirkpatrick has informed me that a Hawfinch was 

 shot near Newton-Stewart in Wigtownshire in January, 1871, and 

 preserved by Mr Hastings, bird-stuffer, Dumfries, in whose hands 

 he saw the specimen. 



THE BEE EATER. 



MEROPS API ASTER. 

 Page 203. 



I have been informed by Mr J. Bell of Paisley, that about the 

 time the swallows were congregating in the neighbourhood of that 

 town, at the close of August, 1869, Mr W. Scott, keeper on the 

 Walkinshaw estate, observed a Bee Eater flying in their company 

 on the banks of the river Black Cart. On communicating a 

 notice of the circumstance to Mr Bell, he described the stranger 

 as a bright green and yellow bird, with a forked tail, and stated 

 that he had repeatedly seen it passing and repassing along with 

 the swallows, and hawking for flies in the same manner. Mr Bell 

 afterwards shewed the keeper the collection of British birds in 

 the Paisley Museum, and was gratified on finding that he at once 

 recognized the Bee Eater as the bird which he had seen. 



THE COMMON SWIFT. 



CYPSELUS APUS. 



Page 210. 



A single Swift was seen on 27th May, 1870, in the Long 

 island, or Outer Hebrides, by Captain Feilden and Mr Harvie 



Brown. 



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