re, ei ee x, 
~ycanhabits 4fa and Africa, and is faid to be met with in the large 
forelts of Sweden *, and in Ay/tria +; and has been found as far north 
as the Orénies and Lapland, as well as in many of the intermediate 
places between them; at the Cape of Good Hope on one hand, and quite 
to Ceylon t and ‘fava on the other. In Europe it is confidered as a 
bird of paflage, and is faid not to winter even in Greece §. In England|| 
it is far from common, being feldom feen, and at uncertain times: it 
has been obferved in Kent, Surrey, Northumberland, and Moyfton in 
Flint/bire, as well as in feveral other counties. A gentleman of vera- 
city in Effex informs us that one was difcovered laft year in a hole in 
his garden wall, but being frightened away did not return again to 
that place. Among other proofs of its migrating into, and even 
breeding in England, Mr. Latham has mentioned feveral. ‘ The 
~ year 1783 feems to have been more abundant in thefe birds than any 
I have yet heard of; one being fhot near Oxford, on the coaft of 
Suffolk, in May, and another feen near the fame place the 24th of 
June following: thefe no doubt had bred thereabouts. The place 
where thefe were feen was a remarkable barren fpot. In the month 
of September of the fame year two were fhot at Holderne/s, and many 
were feen in various parts of York/bire, and as far north as q Scotland. 
One was fhot the 1oth of September at Cam in Gloucefterfbire, another 
on Epping Fore/?, and a third in Surrey. A few years fince a pair had 
begun to make a neft in Hamp/bire; but being too much difturbed, 
forfook it, and went elfewhere**. The laft year (1786) a young 
bird was fent to me, the 1oth of Adzy, full-fledged, fhot near South- 
\ 
* Fauna Suecica, p. 37+ | + Scopoli. Y Edwards. 
§ The Hoopoe and Roller are faid to come into Conftantinople in Auguf, from the north, 
to return in fpring. Faun. Arab. p. 7. ! 
“ The Hocpoe and Bee-eater come in the 
fpring, and remain all the fummer and autumn.” Rufil. Alep. p. 70. 
| Latham, Gen. Syn. 688.1. — 9] Mr. Zurnftall, #* Ditto. 
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