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Thrushes not far from it. This is the only one observed 

 in 1905-6. 



Latham (1783) mentions that, " Now and then one 

 is met with in the more southern parts. Such an ih- 

 fated straggler was shot near Dartford." In the Topo- 

 graphy of Maidstone, 1839, it states that " a Eing-Ouzel 

 was shot at Detling about two j^ears since." In his 

 Ornithology of Kent the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett 

 says, " Not uncommon in spring and autumn." Morris 

 says, " It is observed in spring and autumn while on its 

 migration in Kent." There are specimens in the Canter- 

 bury Museum obtained in Kent ; one was shot on the 

 Boxley Hills about 1865 ; and a male and femalein the 

 Maidstone Museum, procured by Mr. G. Simmons in 

 Kent. Another, in the same institution, was shot at 

 Boxley in Kent on May 2, 1884 by Mr. W. Hickmott. 

 Mr. H. Lamb remarks that " this is rather a late date 

 for this bird to occur here, I should think, and at any 

 time I believe it rarely occurs in this district." In his 

 Eggs of British Birds, Mr. H. Seebohm states that, 

 "it has also been known to breed in Kent." Mr. A. G. 

 Butler, in his British Birds' Eggs, says : " 1 have taken 

 the nests in Kent, both under a furze bush and from 

 the edge of a heathery moor under overhanging ling 

 at the top of a steep bank bounding a little-frequented 

 road." He figures the eggs on plate viii. We have the 

 following localities in which it has either been obtained 

 or observed. According to Mr. G. Dowker " the Eing- 

 Ouzel is, however, scarce, especially of late. I have 

 met with it in the Minster marshes and the Stour- 

 mouth district." Nonington, by Mr. W. Oxenden Ham- 

 mond ; Dover, C. Gordon ; Walmer, Rev. B. Austen ; 

 Folkestone, H. Ullyett ; Dover, Plomley Collection ; 

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