ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 55 



BLUETHROAT Cyanecula siiecica. S. page 35. 



Norfolk. — The Bluethroat may now be regarded as an 

 annual visitor to the coast of Norfolk on the autumn migra- 

 lion vide .1. H. Gurnev in Znoloqist, 1900, p. 898 ; 1901, p. 122 ; 

 1902, p. 81 ; 1903, p. 133 ; 190i, p. 203 ; 1905, p. 9Q ; 1906, p. 

 13-t ; 1907, p. 122, and for an occurrence on May LGth, 190G, t.c, 

 1907, p. 128. 



Lincolnshire.— In 1899 {t.c., 1900, p. 20;-!). and 190:} {t.c, 

 1904. p. 291). 



Sussex. -In 1903 {t.c, 1903, pp. 389. 421). 



Surrey —In 1904 {t.c, 1904, p. 262). 



Yorkshire.— 1903 {t.c, 1904, p. 212). 



Fair Isle (Shetlands). — A young male was shot by Mi'. 

 N. B. Kinnear on September 25th, 1905, and about a dozen 

 young and adult were observed during September, 1906 (W. E. 

 Clarke, t.c, 1906, pp. 21 and 237 ; and 1907, p. 75). 



Shetlands, JJnst. — One reported to have been seen on 

 September 25th, and two on September 26th, 1906 (T. E 

 Sax by. t.c , 1907, p. 50). 



Only five Bluethroats have been previously recorded as 

 visiting Scotland. 



NIGHTINGALE Baulias luscima (L.) S. page 39. 



Yorkshire. KnaresborougJi. — A pair reported as having 

 " taken up their abode on the banks of the Nidd " in 1902 

 (R. Fortune, Nahiralist, 1^02, p. 192). Selbij.— Nest and eggs 

 found and photographed by W. S. Forrest in the spring of 

 1904 (^r., 1905, p. 353). 



The Nightingale has very rarely nested as far north as 

 Yorkshire. 



Plumage. — A specimen in moult with the tail and wing 

 feathers latelv renewed was found dead in Sussex on April 8th, 

 1899 (M. J. Nicoll, Bull. B.O.C., XIII., p. 14). 



WHITETHROAT Sylvia cinerea Bechst. S. page 41. 



Fair Isle (Shetlands). — A bird of double passage (W. E. 

 Clarke, Ann. hlat. Scot. Hist., 1907, p. 73). 



Mr. H. Saunders says " its appearance in the Shetlands is 

 exceptional." 



LESSER WHITETHROAT Sylvia currwa (L.) S. page 43. 



Ross-shire. — .\ clutch of eggs taken in 1896 at Inverbroom 

 was identified as belonging to this species (L W. Hinxman and 

 W. E. Clarke, t.c, 1903, p. 71). 



Outer Hebrides, Flannan Islands. — One shot, September 

 23rd, 1904 (W. E. Clarke, t.c, 1905, p. 15). 



Fair Isle (Shetlands). — Frequent, as a bird of double 

 passage, in 1906 (W. E. Clarke, t.c, 1907, p. 73). 



