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The capture of the Bhie-throated Warbler in Kent is 

 given by Mr. James Green in the Zoologist, 1853 : " A 

 fine old male bird was talcen in a nightingale trap, on 

 May 16, 1815, in the county of Kent. I had it alive for 

 several months, and both Mr. Hewitson and Mr. John 

 Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, saw it while alive. 

 The latter gentleman now has it in his collection." This 

 specimen is omitted from both Harting's Handhooh and 

 Yarrell's British Birds. 



In the Zoologist, 1881, Mr. W. Davies, of Dartford, 

 states that " on September 4 (1881) I shot a specimen 

 of the Bhie-throated Warbler in the marshes near 

 Dartford. I take it to be the Scandinavian form, as it 

 has a decided rufous spot above the blue breast, the same 

 colour as below the blue band." This is the specimen 

 mentioned in the Field, 1881, and also in the Rev. C. H. 

 Fielding's Mailing and its Valley, 1893. 



Mr. G. F. Mathew gives an account in the Zoologist, 

 1890, of the Blue-throated Warbler, observed by himself 

 at Sheerness : " On September 17 I had the pleasure of 

 seeing one of these pretty little birds as it was hopping 

 about among some masses of Atriplex and Chenopodiitm 

 growing at the foot of the sea-bank beyond Marine Town, 

 Sheerness. It was quite tame and allowed me to look 

 at it for a considerable time as it ran in and out among 

 the plants, occasionally snapping at some insect, or flit- 

 ting off to a stone on the adjacent shingly beach, where 

 it sat and watched for a few minutes and then returned 

 to the Atriplex, and went on with its search for flies, &c. 

 It appeared to be a young bird in moult, for I could only 

 see a few blue feathers on its throat, and there was no 

 trace of a white or reddish spot." 



