276 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST, 
egyptius, Forsk., the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, which is 
more ‘likely to occur, because it is a much more western 
species. Seaton-Snook is not the place where I should 
have expected to meet with a Bee-eater, though I remember 
being shown a bird of equal brilliancy which was found 
there, a Jacamar, already skinned too. The skin of a 
Patagonian Penguin was picked up on the “slake” at Jarrow 
(Fox’s Neuc. Mus., 233). It was supposed to have been 
thrown overboard by a whaler, but I have read of one 
coming in a consignment of guano, and being picked up in a 
mummified state on the land. 
Certainly the Cedarbird has no claim to be ad- 
mitted in a list of Durham birds, if indeed it be 
right to receive it into a British list. I asked 
Mr. Heaviside, one of the birdstuffers at Stock- 
ton, about the examples recorded at p. 3506 
of the Zoologist, and he remembered nothing 
about them. 
The other supposed occurrences are one—hitherto 
unrecorded—in the late Mr. Newcome’s collec- 
tion, said to have been shot at Highgate, Zeste 
Mr. Holford. 
A second in the possession of Mr. Batson of Horse- 
heath, Lincolnshire, Zool., 3277, 3506. 
A third, shot in Fifeshire in 1841, in the late 
Sir William Feilden’s collection. Gray, B. of 
West Scotland, p. 109, 
CRESTED TITMOUSE, 
This is again a doubtful bird, but I give the published 
evidence for what it may be worth. First, three or four 
were seen near Witton Gilbert, zes¢e Mr. P. Farrow (Ornsby, 
p. 197; Hancock, op. cit. p. 76, note). Second, a male 
