BIRDS 169 



Order PICARIjE. Fam. G0RAG11DJE. 



ROLLER. 



Goracias garrula, L. 



Pennant records that a Roller was shot at Dalton in Fnrness, 

 May 26, 1827. Mitchell records another as shot on Walney 

 Island in June 1860. In the year 1868 two examples occurred 

 in Lakeland. Mr. Dickinson recorded one of the two as shot 

 near Thornholm by Mr. J. Dalzell, a brewer of Whitehaven, 

 who described it as a chattering, noisy bird, and not at all shy. 

 I subsequently examined this specimen in the collection of Dr. 

 Lumb. The second bird was shot on the 1 7th of July that year 

 at Carleton near Carlisle. Sam Watson received it in the flesh, 

 and found that its body contained beetles and caterpillars, some 

 of them in a living state. It was subsequently purchased by 

 J. B. Hodgkinson. 



Order PIGARIjE. Fam. UPUPIDJE. 



HOOPOE. 



Upupa epops, L. 



Professor Newton once included Westmorland in a list of 

 English counties which had not to his knowledge been stained 

 with the blood of the Hoopoe. But even when he wrote, the 

 species had occurred in most parts of Lakeland — generally, but 

 not always, during the autumn. Of vernal occurrences may be 

 mentioned a bird shot near Selside on May 1st, 1859, and a 

 brighter-coloured bird killed on Walney Island in the spring of 

 1884. Specimens were shot at St. Bees in 1877, at Calder 

 Abbey in 1851, at Middlesceugh in 1831, at Dalston in 1832, 

 at Nether Denton in 1867, at Allonby and Loweswater. At 

 Dalston two birds appeared together, but on all other occasions 

 the Hoopoe seems to have straggled to Lakeland only as a soli- 

 tary waif. A large flight of Hoopoes visited England in the 

 autumn of 1889, and one or two individuals strayed to the 

 north-west region. Bailie Walcot has favoured me with a 

 printed notice of a Hoopoe which he and some fellow-tourists 



