THRUSHES 349 



Fam. PYCNONOTID^. 



GOLD - VENTED THRUSH. Pycnonotus capensis 

 (Linnceus). 



Hah. South Africa, and restricted to Cape Colony. 



One said to have been shot at Mount Beresford, near 

 Waterford, Jan. 1838: Thompson, "Nat. Hist. Irel. 

 (Birds)," i. p. 153, and Yarrell, "Hist. Brit. Birds." 

 Erroneously identified by Thompson and Yarrell with 

 P. aurigaster of Vieillot. See Ussher, Zool., 1896, 

 p. 161. 



Ohs. On this bird Dr. Sharpe writes: "P. capensis 

 is one of the most restricted of all the species in its 

 range, being, in fact, confined to the Cape Colony 

 below the Karroo country. There is not the slightest 

 probability of its having migrated from the Cape to 

 Ireland." As to the reported or supposed occurrence 

 of Pycnonotus ohscurus (Temm.) at Hastings in 1860, 

 see Gurney, Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, vol. iv. p. 629. 



Fam. SYLVIID^. 



ALPINE ACCENTOR. Accentoi- alpinus, Bechstein. 

 Length, 675 in. ; bill, 0-6 in. ; wing, 4 in. ; tarsus, 1 in. 



Hah. Central and Southern Europe. 



Two seen, one shot, Cambridge, Nov. 22, 1822 : Zool. 



Journ., 1824, p. 134 ; Yarrell, "Brit. Bh-ds." Figured. 

 One seen, Oulton, near Lowestoft, March 1824 : Lubbock, 



" Fauna of Norfolk," p. 35. 

 One, Walthamstow, Essex, prior to 1832 : Pamplin, il/a^f. 



Nat. Hist, 1832, p. 288. In August 1817 {fide Gurney), 



Christy, " Birds of Essex," p. 89. 



