270 BRITISH BIRDS. . : 
Luscinia suecica (Linn.), Sunder. Sv. Fogl. p. 60 (1856). 
Cyanecula suecica (Linn.), (3. cerulecula (Pall.), Newt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 10 
(1862). 
Ruticilla suecica (Linn.), Newt. ed. Yarr. Br. B.i. p. 321 (1873). 
Erithacus ceeruleculus (Pall.), Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vy. p. 308 (1881). 
The Arctic Bluethroat is a far more eastern and northern bird in 
its distribution than the White-spotted species (which is essentially a 
southern and temperate one), and is a summer visitant only to the higher 
and northern portions of Europe. It was first recorded as a British bird 
by Mr. Fox, in his ‘Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum,’ pp. 298, 308, 
and in the ‘ Zoological Journal,’ iii. p. 497, from a specimen obtained on 
the Town-Moor of Neweastle-on-Tyne, on May 20th, 1826, by Mr. Thomas 
Embleton, who presented it to the museum. ‘The second specimen, said 
to have been killed in Dorsetshire, was recorded by Mr. J. C. Dale, in the 
‘Naturalist, ii. p. 275. The next two occurrences are recorded by Yarrell, 
in his ‘ British Birds,’ i. p. 822—one of a specimen killed near Birmingham, 
and in the possession of Mr. Plumptre Methuen; the other, a male bird, 
found dead on the beach at Yarmouth, September 21st, 1841. Mr. 
Morris also mentions, on the authority of Mr. E. Cole, one shot at Margate, 
in September 1842; and in September 1844 two specimens, an adult and 
a bird of the year, were sent, in the flesh, to Yarrell for inspection, by Mr. 
Gardner, and were said to have been shot in the Isle of Sheppey. An 
eighth example is in the Strickland collection in the University Museum 
of Cambridge ; but no particulars are known respecting it beyond those on 
the label, “ Britain, 1846.” Lord Lilford recorded in the ‘ Zoologist,’ 
p. 3709, another example, shot about Sept. 15th, 1852, near Whimple, in 
South Devon. A female, killed at Worthing on May 2nd, 1853, is men- 
tioned by Mr. Stevenson in the ‘ Zoologist,’ p. 3907; and a male bird, 
killed early in May 1856, near Lowestoft (Zool. p. 5149), is now in Mr, — 
Gurney’s collection. Mr. Cecil Smith notices one said to have been taken 
in Somerset in 1856, and now in the Excter Museum; and Mr. H. Pratt 
records in the ‘ Zoologist,’ p. 8281, a male caught at Brighton, on October 
Ist, 1862, and now in Mr. Borrer’s collection. Captain Hadfield gives us 
a series of notes on a Bluethroat which frequented a locality in the Isle 
of Wight from February 1865 to September 1867, and recorded in the 
“Zoologist’ for those years, beg part of the time accompanied by a 
second example. It is doubtful, however, whether this bird was the true 
E. suecica ; for 
bird’s breast was “ pure and spotless blue”’—a characteristic of the E. wolfit 
of Brehm. Professor Newton has also been informed by Mr. Gray that a 
male bird was caught on board a fishing-boat off Aberdeen, on May 16th, 
1872. Mr. G. P. Moore mentions, in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1877, p. 449, a 
male bird, in the possession of R. (. Fowler, Esq., of Gunton, near 
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