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acquire a female example of the Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle 
alcyon), which was shot on the banks of the River Allen, a 
tributary of the River Camel, by Mr. F, G. Stevenson, of 
Sladesbridge, in November 1908. This appears to be the 
first known occurrence of this species in England. 
“Two examples of this bird occurred,” says Thompson 
(Aun. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 480, xvii. p. 69, and B. Irel. 1. 
p- 373), “in Ireland about the same time. The first was 
shot by Mr. F. A. Smith at Annsbrook in Meath, Octo- 
ber 26th, 1845; and the second, which was seen some days 
before November 20th of the same year by the gamekeeper 
of Mr. Latouche, of Luggela in the county of Wicklow, 
was shortly afterwards shot, according to Mr. Watters, by 
Mr. J.C. Campion. This last came into the possession of 
the late Mr. T. W. Warren, and was by him left to the 
Museum of Science and Art in Dublin; the other, believed 
to be a female, was bought for that of Trinity College in 
the same capital.” (Cfr. Newton’s edition of Yarrell, vol. 11. 
p. 452.) 
It has also occurred at Santa Cruz, Flores, Azores, and is 
now in the Ponta Delgada Museum (fide Ogilvie-Grant, 
Nov. Zool. xii. 1905, p. 114). 
This bird is an inhabitant of North America, extending 
south to Colombia and Venezuela in South America. 
The Rev. F. C. R. Jourpain stated that when in Iceland 
in 1912 he saw in the Reykjavik Museum a specimen of the 
Belted Kingfisher which had been obtained on the Westmann 
Isles in 1901. 
Mr. E. C. Sruarr Baker exhibited a new subspecies of 
Flycatcher from Siam, and made the following remarks :— 
The Flycatcher which I exhibit to-night was obtained by 
Mr. E. G. Herbert in Siam. It is practically a small replica 
of Cyornis magnirostris, of which it appears to be a local form, 
differing only in being decidedly smaller—wing about 6mm. 
‘Jess—and in having a much smaller bill. The female differs 
