82 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
run together into a smear. Varieties of the egg are 
common: I have one nearly white. 
BLUETHROATED WARBLER, Phenicura suecica. 
Since publishing some of these notes in the num- 
bers of ‘ Hyes and No Eyes,’ I find I have to include 
this rare British bird in the Somersetshire lst, on 
account of one specimen in the Albert Memorial 
Museum at Exeter, which was labelled as having 
been killed in Somersetshire. I wrote to the Curator 
of the Museum for further information about this 
specimen, but his answer did not throw much light 
on the matter, all the information he could give me 
being that it was killed in Somersetshire in 1856, 
and formed part of the collection of the late F. W. L. 
Ross, Esq., of Topsham, Devon. 
This is a migratory species, going northward in 
summer, at which time it is common in many 
countries of Europe much further northward than 
England, even as far as Finland; but its usual 
course of migration being to the eastward of Eng- 
land, only a few occasional stragglers appear: speci- 
mens have, however, been noticed in many counties, 
amongst others in the neighbouring counties of 
Devon and Dorset. In the Isle of Wight this bird 
appears occasionally to remain throughout the year, 
and may even breed there.* 
* See notes by Captain Hadfield in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 
1865 and 1866. 
