186 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vi. 



September 24th, 1884, in co. Mayo, and another on September 

 25th, 1896, at Rockabill Lighthouse, co. Dublin. 



I have to-day received in the flesh a third specimen, 

 caught striking at Rockabill, September 17th, 1912. 2 a.m. 



Richard M. Barrington. 



BLACK REDSTART IN SURREY. 

 On September 25th, 1912, I saw a male Black Redstart 

 {Phosnicurus o. (jihraltariensis) wliich A\"as frequenting a 

 barren tract of ground on the North Doaatis near Caterham. 

 The bird showed a decided preference for the bare doAATi-land 

 rather than the hedges and thickets, and Avas noticeably 

 shyer and more difficult to approach than a Common Redstart 

 ■which I had under observation at the same place. There 

 appear to be very few satisfactory records of the occurrence 

 of the Black Redstart in Surrey. Howard Bentham. 



LAPLAND BLUETHROAT IN FORTH. 



The Misses L. J. Rintoul and E. V. Baxter, while examining 

 their series of skins of Bluethroats, were struck by the shorter 

 and less pointed wing and lighter upper-parts of a specimen 

 procured by them on the Isle of May in 1909. After careful 

 comparison Dr. E. Hartert has identified it as an example 

 of the Lapland Bluethroat, Luscinia svecica svecira L., and 

 Misses Rintoul and Baxter now record it in the Scottish 

 Naturalist, 1912, p. 236. This race was not included in the 

 Hand-List, as no specimen had then been identified, and 

 should be added thus : — 



i82a. Luscinia svecica svecica (L.) — THE LAPLAND 

 BLUETHROAT. 



MoTACiLLA Svecica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 187 



(1758 — "In Europte Alpinis." Restricted tj'pical locality; 



Sweden and Lapland). 



Ruticilla suecica (Linnseus), Yarrell, i, p. 321 (part). 



Cyanccula suecica (Linnaeus), Saunders, p. 35 (part). 



Luscinia suecica suecica, L. J. Rintoul and E. V. Baxter, Scottish 



Naturalist, i, p. 236 (1912). 

 Distribution. — Great Britain. — One, Isle of May, September 

 14th, 1909 {ut supra). 



Di.sTRiBUTioN. — Abroad. — Breeds in Sweden, Lapland„ 

 north Russia and the tundra of west Siberia, east to the 

 Yenisei (66*^ N. lat.) ; wintering in north-east Africa and 

 occasionallj^ also western India, and visiting eastern Europe, 

 and Transcaspia on passage. * j 



Authors of the Hand-Lisy. 



