202 Appendix 



Appendix. 



WHEN I was asked to prepare the first volume of this work for the press, 

 I was already busily engaged upon the preparation of two other books, 

 one of which was published about a fortnight before the said first 

 volume appeared, the other being still in hand as I write. It need, therefore, be 

 a matter of no surprise to my readers, that I was unable, for lack of time, to 

 ferret out particulars respecting all the recent accidental visitors to our shores — 

 some of them, doubtless, man-assisted immigrants, or that I overlooked some extra 

 occurrences of visitors alreadj' recorded in British Bird books. Had the admirable 

 articles by the late Howard Saunders, and by Messrs. H. F. Witherby and N. 

 F. Ticehurst been then published, I admit that it would have been better to 

 inclttde all these vagrants (as has been done in the present volume), but, under 

 the circumstances, it was impossible for me to devote the necessary time to 

 elaborate this subject. This has been most ably accomplished in the first volume 

 of that excellent magazine — " British Birds," by the above-mentioned gentlemen. 

 As one reviewer of my first volume considered me very remiss in not bringing 

 the list of chance visitors up-to-date (though each year adds to the list), I propose 

 to remedv the deficienc}' here as far as possible, though it is impossible to keep 

 pace with the constantly published records of occurrences. 



Family— TURDID^. Subfamih— TURDINyF. 



The Dusky Thrush. 



Turdiis dubiiis, BechsT. 



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NE specimen is said to have been shot near Gunthorpe. Notts., on October 

 13th, 1905. 



