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Atkinson as observed in the spring of 1870 on his lawn at 

 Danby-in-Cleveland, which he carefully examined on two 

 occasions with a binocular glass, and mentioned in the Zoologist 

 (1870, p. 2142), and at greater length in " Forty Years in a 

 Moorland Parish " (p. 328), as this species. We may, how- 

 ever, agree with Professor Newton in his opinion (Yarrell — 

 " British Birds," i. p. 252), that " this well-known observer 

 is hardly likely to have been mistaken." 



There is evidence that an example, said to have been 

 shot at Almondbury Bank, near Huddersfield, in 1864, was 

 not a genuine Yorkshire bird. 



In the latter part of November 1878, the late Martin 

 Simpson, curator of the Whitby Museum, received a bird of 

 this species, which had been killed by coming in contact 

 with the telegraph wires near that town {Zool. 1880, p. 68). 

 The specimen is now in the Whitby Museum, where I have 

 seen it. 



During the first week in November 1881, a White's Thrush 

 was shot at Rimswell, near Withernsea, in Holderness, by 

 Mr. W. J. Tuton, who mistook it for a Woodcock as it rose 

 from a low, thick hedge close to him. This individual was 

 formerly in the collection of Mr. R. T. Burnham of Rimswell, 

 who supplied Mr. W. Eagle Clarke with these particulars, 

 and gave him several opportunities of examining his beautiful 

 specimen, which is now in the York Museum. 



One was obtained at Waplington jNIanor, near Pocklington, 

 early in January 1882, by Mr. Frank Leeman, in whose 

 possession it is, being recorded by Mr. J. Backhouse {Field. 

 1882, p. 201, and Zool. 1882, p. 74). 



Finally, on the i8th December 1902, one was taken at 

 Luddenden Dean, Halifax, and brought in the flesh to the 

 curator of the Belle Vue Museum, the late Mr. J. Cunningham, 

 whose opinion as to its identity was confirmed by Mr. A. 

 Crabtree, F.L.S., and the particulars thereof communicated 

 by him to the Halifax Naturalist, February 1903. The speci- 

 men is now in the Halifax Museum. 



A peculiarity of this species which may serve to distinguish 



