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by that accurate observer, Mr. W. O. Hammond." The 

 Blackstart, or Black Kedstart, so named by the "Rev. 

 C. H. Fielding, is included in his Birds of the Mailing 

 Valley. 



Mr. W. Prentis, in his Birds of Rainham, says : " On 

 October 1, 1865, I observed a Black Redstart with white 

 on its wings fly along a wire fence. An immature bird 

 was caught by a bird-catcher in one of the brickfields, 

 November, 1887." 



Mr. S. A. Davies, in his Ornithological Notes from East 

 Kent, states that on October 4, 1895, " I visited Mr. 

 Stm-gess, the Margate taxidermist, who showed me 

 several Black Redstarts from the district," 



Genus CYANECULA, C. L. Brehm. 

 WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT. 



Cijanecula ivolfi, Brehm. Beitrdge zur Vogelkunde, 

 ii., p. 173 (1822). 



Naturalists are indebted to Mr. M. J. Nicoll for the 

 discovery of the first specimen of the White-Spotted 

 Bluethroat in Kent. 



We quote the following from the Zoologist, 1902 : 

 " At a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club held 

 on October 22, I had the pleasure of exhibiting the first 

 authentic British-killed White-Spotted Bluethroat {Cijane- 

 cula wolfi). This example, a fine adult male, was picked 

 up dead close to the lighthouse at Dungeness, Kent, 

 by a man named Gasson, on October 6 of this year, 

 and sent by him to Mr. Bristow on October 8, who at 

 that date brought it up to me for examination in the 



