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flesh. My best thanks are due to Mr. Bristow for bring- 

 ing it to me, and for lending it to me for exhibition." — 

 M. J. :Nicoll. In So77ie Notes of Bare Birds from Kent 

 and Sussex, by Dr. N. F. Ticehurst (Zoologist, 1903), 

 we find the following : " October 6, 1902, a fine adult 

 male of the AVhite-Spotted Bluethroat {Cijanccida icolfi), 

 picked up dead under the lighthouse at Dungeness. It 

 was exhibited by Mr. M. J. Nicoll at the British Ornith- 

 ologists' Club on October 22, and is probably the first 

 authentic occurrence of this race of Bluethroat in this 

 country." 



EED-SPOTTED BLUETHEOAT. 



Cyanecula suecica (Linnaeus). S.N., i., p. 336 

 (1766). 



The Eed-spotted Bluethroat appears to be equally as 

 rare in Kent as the White-spotted Bluethroat. From 

 all the data which we have obtained, only five examples 

 have been procured, and of one observed in Kent we 

 give the following notes : Mr. Morris states that " one 

 was shot at Margate in September, 1842, and gives the 

 name of Mr. Edward Cole as the authority." 



From Professor Newton's Yarrell we subjoin his note : 

 " In September, 1844, two specimens, one old bird, the 

 other a young bird of the year, and both these unskinned, 

 were sent for my inspection by Mr. Gardner. These 

 were said to have been shot in the Isle of Sheppy." 



The above specimens are included in Mr. J. E. Hart- 

 ing's Handbook, 1872 ; in Mr. H. Seebohm's British 

 Birds, 1884; in Mr. G. Dowker's Birds of East Kent, 

 1899 ; and in the Eev. C. H. Fielding's Mailing and its 

 Valley, 1893. 



