white's thrush. 253 



now the property of Mr. Sothertoii Micklethwait, wlio also 

 has kindly submitted it to the Editor's inspection. Lastly, 

 on the 31st of January, 1872, another example was taken 

 alive in Castle Eden Dene, Durham, having been shot at by 

 Mr. Burdon of that place a fortnight before, when the fea- 

 thers of one wing (some of which that gentleman has been 

 so good as to send to the Editor) were cut away, and the bird 

 thus rendered incapable of flight. It survived its capture 

 about three weeks. 



Elsewhere in Europe there is reason to believe that this 

 species has been killed nearly twenty times, though the re- 

 cords in some cases mention it under various names. In 

 Belgium, according to M. C. F. Dubois (Journ. flir Orn. 

 1856, pp. 237 and 505), it seems to have been met with in 

 four or five instances : — at Dion-le-Mont in October, 1842 

 (the specimen being in Baron de Selys-Longchamps's fine 

 collection), at Namur, and at Jemappes andLouvaine in Octo- 

 ber, 1855. The Museum at Metz has long held an example 

 taken in the woods of Rezonville, in September, 1788, and 

 many years afterwards described by Holandre as a new 

 species under the name of Turdus aureus (Annuaire de 

 Verronnais, pour I'an 1825, p. 310). MM. Jaubert and 

 Barthelemy-Lapommeraye figure one killed near Marseilles 

 in October, 1840. A female occurred in the Tyrol in 1861, 

 according to Dr. Althammer (Rev. de Zool. 1861, p. 553). 

 One is said (Isis, 1845, p. 564) to have been obtained in 

 the Vienna market, and Herr von Pelzeln mentions, though 

 under the name of a perfectly distinct species {Turdus 

 dauina), one killed at Aspang in Austria in 1847. Two or 

 three have occurred on Heligoland, one of which, according 

 to Boie (Isis, 1835, p. 251) was killed in September, 1834; 

 and prior to 1838, at least two near Hamburg, one of which, 

 mentioned by Mr. Gould in his ' Birds of Europe,' is still 

 in the possession of Mr. Baker, of Hardwick Court, Glou- 

 cester. In 1849 Herr E. F. von Homey er announced (Rhea, 

 ii. p. 145) that a specimen taken at Elbing in Prussia was 

 contained in the Museum at Konigsberg ; while in 1840 

 Prof. Sundevall communicated to the Royal Academy of 



