50 BRITISH BIRDS. 



bird as being in the immature plumage. Most British 

 specimens are in adult plumage. A casual observer would 

 take it for a young Starhng. It is beginning to change its 

 plumage. 



Meadow-Buntings. 

 Two male Meadow-Buntings [Emberiza cia) were shot at 

 Ninfield on April 1st, 1910, and were examined in the flesh by 

 Mr. Ruskm Butterfield and the late G. Knight respectively. 

 I believe these are the fourth and fifth British specimens. 



Long-tailed Duck. 



A Long-tailed Duck {Harelda glacialis) Avas shot at R^^e on 

 March 31st, 1911, in transition plumage from autumn to 

 spring. Was not that very late for it to be on the south 

 coast ? 



Cream-coloured Coursers. 



A couple of Cream-coloured Coursers {Cursoriiis gallicus), 

 a male and female, were shot in Pevensey Marshes, near 

 Wartlmg, on May 5th, 1911, and were examined in the flesh 

 by Mr. Ruskin Butterfield. J. B. Nichols. 



BLACK-THROATED THRUSH IN KENT. 



The fifth British specimen of the Black- throated Thrush {Turdus 

 utrigularis) and the second for Kent, was shot at Witter- 

 sham on March 15th, 1911. It was forwarded to Mr. Bristow, 

 of St. Leonard's, for preservation, and he kindly brought it 

 to my house in the flesh. I carefully examined it and found 

 that it was quite fresh, and without doubt a recently killed 

 bird. On dissection it proved to be a male. I afterwards 

 had the pleasure of exhibiting it at the May meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club {vide BuUB.O.C, XXVII., p. 94). 



The Black-throated Thrush is one of those eastern species 

 that may be expected to turn up from time to time in these 

 islands at migration time, since it has wandered more than 

 once to Hehgoland and Denmark, and has occurred A\dth 

 some frequency in Central Europe, while further east it 

 naturally occurs more often still. 



Ten clays j^rior to the shooting of the ^Dresent specimen, a 

 more than usually heavj^ migration of Mistle-Thrushes, etc., 

 was recorded at Dungeness Lighthouse, which is only some 

 ten or fifteen miles to the south of Wittersham ; although no 

 CAddence exists to connect the two, it at least suggests that this 

 bird may have arrived with our returning Mistle-Thrushes. 

 The pre\aously recorded examples of this bird w^ere given in 

 full at p. 379 of Vol. II. of this Magazine. N. E. Ticehurst. 



