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THE AMERICAN ROBIN. 
(Meruta MIGRATORIA.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
lot noticed by Newton. 
Not noticed by Seebohm. 
.This species whose capture at Dover is alluded to, in the 
B.O.U. List, as having “probably escaped from confine- 
ment;” but whose occurrence 1s not disputed ; was captured 
under the following circumstances: and it appears to me 
that the likelihood of its being a #atura/, and not an 
‘escaped’ occurrence is quite as great as in the instance 
of the Black-Throated Ousel; which, on a single occur- 
rence, is shewn above as admitted by our three authorities. 
It was seen to arrive from the sea, on the coast of 
Dover, in so exhausted a condition, that it was driven 
into a house, and captured alive. 
The first theory was that it had escaped from some 
ship that was bringing birds from America to England, 
but then these arrive at Liverpool; then, when presented 
to the Gardens of the Zoological Society, London, Mr. 
Bartlett found it so came that it was concluded to have 
been a caged bird escaped. But this theory is also shaken 
from the fact, that it had been caged stx months before 
Mr. Bartlett received it. There is an account ofits capture 
in the Zoologist for 1877. 
The well known blue eggs are of unsurpassed beauty. 
tHE DUSKY BULBUL. 
(Pycnonotus BARBATUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by Newton. 
Jot noticed by Seebohm. 
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