. British birds with their nests and eggs . ^ the bird itself, and consisting of a long tunnel ending in an enlargedchamber in which the pure white eggs are laid upon the castings or ejectedindigestible portions of the food of the parent-birds. This is not strictly correct, as they have beeu seen to pick up insects.—A Bee-Eater i ^ The Bee-Eater. 41 Family—MJ-: A (VV/:>. F. EXTREMELY beautiful as this Ijird is, it is unfortunately neither acommon nor resident species with us. On tlie Continent its distributiondoes not frequently extend so far to the north as Northern Germany, whilst i
. British birds with their nests and eggs . ^ the bird itself, and consisting of a long tunnel ending in an enlargedchamber in which the pure white eggs are laid upon the castings or ejectedindigestible portions of the food of the parent-birds. This is not strictly correct, as they have beeu seen to pick up insects.—A Bee-Eater i ^ The Bee-Eater. 41 Family—MJ-: A (VV/:>. F. EXTREMELY beautiful as this Ijird is, it is unfortunately neither acommon nor resident species with us. On tlie Continent its distributiondoes not frequently extend so far to the north as Northern Germany, whilst inRussia it is not known to breed above lat. 52J, it lias nevertheless stragglednorthwards even to within the Arctic Circle: to the south of Europe, however, itis a regular summer visitor, being extremely abundant in Spain, the Mediterraneanbasin, and North Africa; it also visits Madeira and the Canaries. To Eg3pt itappears to be chiefly a visitor on migration, although a few pairs remain there tobreed : it winters in South Africa. Its Asiatic range extends in summer throughPalestine, Asia Minor, Persia, and Cashmere, and wlien on migration it visitsAfghanistan, North-western India, and Sind. This species has generally occurred in Great Britain and Ireland during thespring migration, and usually in small flocks; it
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