OF THE NETHERLANDS. 



187 



Caprimulgidae. 



193. Caprimulgus europaeus L. [Geitenmelker]. 



We received 8 specimens, 6 adults and 2 youngs in down. 



Macropterygidae. 



194. Apus apus (L.). [Gierzwaluw]. 



Nine specimens, old and young ones, were received from 

 July and August. The latest date we have in our collection 

 is 16 August (1860), being a young male and female from 

 Noordwijk. Last year (1907) these birds left us not before 

 the 26 th of August. 



CORACITDAE. 



195. Coracias garrulus L. [Scharrelaar], 



This species is a very rare straggler to our country. We 

 possess no specimen killed in the Netherlands. 



Alcedinidae. 



196. Alcedo ispida L. [IJsvogel]. 

 We received 8 specimens. 



197. Ceryle alcyon (L.). [Amerikaansche bandijsvogel]. 



Once observed. December 17 th 1899 a male has been shot 

 near de Steeg, province Gelderland (Snouckaert, Tijdschr. 

 Ned. Dierk. Vereen. VI, 1900, p. 267). 



Meropidae. 



198. Merops apiaster L. [Bijeneter]. 



Once observed. A female, caught 4 May 1905 at Tietjerk, 

 province Friesland, is in the possession of the Zoological 

 Garden at Amsterdam. 



Notes from the Leydeo Museum, Vol. XXX. 



